Show blueprint title in panel editor

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1

Hi there,

Sometimes I’m somewhat confused what kind of page I’m currently editing. The interface is very clean which is great, but the editor looks identical for every blueprint aside from scanning the exact fields specified for each blueprint (and remembering those exactly).

My suggestion is to add a header indicating the currently chosen blueprint. I’ve illustrated a simple solution below:


Note: the red color is for illustrative purposes

This would make it much, much easier to indetify the actual page template, especially when I’m including several blueprints as children of a single page.

See http://cl.ly/dyKz for a larger illustration.

Cheers and Thanks,
Nathan

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You could use the info panel-field to do this yourself.

http://getkirby.com/docs/cheatsheet/panel-fields/info

fields:
  info:
    label: Info
    type: info
    text: >
      You are here: Articles
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3

I think this shouldn’t be part of the Panel core. In the end it doesn’t really matter to the editors which blueprint is displayed, it only matters that the fields are correct. You can already see on which page you are by using the breadcrumb navigation.

4

I would not like to have this (big) info at the top of each panel page because sometimes there’s already not enough space :wink:

I think a nice workaround is to include the blueprint name in your title field like this:

fields:
  title:
    label: Article Title
    type:  text

or to add an additional help text …

fields:
  title:
    label: Article Title
    type:  text
    help: Title of the Article
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5

Well darn it, the info option is most welcome and i’m sure i’ll make good use of it. Thanks a bunch!

6

Well, without this ‘info’ i’m often confused about my whereabouts, especially when templates have subtle differences and it all starts to look the same - to me at least.

Luckily Kirkby was provided with info, so in a sense we both get what we so desire.

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7

There is also HeadlineField: http://getkirby.com/docs/cheatsheet/panel-fields/headline

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