I’ve created this feature request after the recent release of collapsible fields. I’d love if editor could set the default state collapsed/expanded for a (collapsible) field. Some fields are niche, only relevant to some audiences, only relevant in uncommon situations. For example, we can now have …

In general we avoid such things for three reasons This complicates settings. There should be an option for a field somewhere to set this state For a user it is very easy to collapse the field and it will be in this state unless she uncollapse it again. This is a good enough workaround for this cas…

The main value I was pursuing was to build a better default user experience for new users. In our use case, I have a template to create entity of type “wiki page”, such as “Engineering wiki”, “Marketing wiki”, “System A” wiki, so we can target search results, and get some basic permissions. So the …

Let creator set default state of collapsible field

Ideas & Features

Oshyan November 26, 2022, 12:37am 4

I am still hopeful that Individual Layouts for a node, hide fields etc will eventually get implemented. I think it would address this need and many others.

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Let creator set default state of collapsible field

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