Add Field Grouping

[benhaynes]

This would allow grouping fields (beyond just dividers), and eventually paves the way for conditional groups.

[davidbwaters]

IMHO this should be high priority in the age of components and seems like it could pretty much be added by allowing fields in a many-to-one and allow 2 - 3 levels of nesting within.

I like the way Strapi has components (field groups) and 'dynamic zones' (sortable lists where a selection of allowed components can be added). It's very flexible and basically changes the experience from filling in a spreadsheet to a flexible 'layout builder' would allow directus to be used to create complex content layouts without messing with the content model.

Strapi stores all instances of a component in a one table per component and they are added to the 'zone' or parent component as references.

[benhaynes]

Yeah! That's exactly what #3474 is ... you can define a field group as a collection of fields, and then inject that (relationally) into any other collection.

[JLKM]

A O2M interface on a form showing related records (with the possibility to add more) is a big wish of mine. Could work like as an embedded list with its own template - filtered on the related parent record. It's just about the only thing I miss on this absolutely wonderful project.

[benhaynes]

@JLKM — could you describe this a bit more? It sounds like the O2M Interface we have now, which lists items and clicking opens their form in a drawer. What differences are you looking for? Something to do with the relational forms bing inline on the page?

[JLKM]

@benhaynes Sorry. My bad. Directus 9 is even more than capable of what I wished for. I got it working by using the "Create Field in Advanced Mode" and create the relations from the M2O-side - including the corresponding O2M-field. It works like a charm. Really impressive with all that templating + fetching fields across tables. Pretty mindblowing, what has to be going on behind the scenes here. Nothing now prevents me from going ahead with my project. Thanks again for this awesome project.

[benhaynes]

Haha, nice! That's great to hear. I'm always interested in how we can improve the Core Interfaces... so I was curious!

[rijkvanzanten]

This has since been added!