Proposal new function for ContentBlocks (Show / Hide Element)

visions · August 29, 2018, 3:12pm

Hi Mark

some customers have worked with Contato or other CMS solutions before working with MODX and ContentBlocks.

CMS Contao works in a similar way. You can also add elements (Text/Images). With Contao, however, you also have the option of hiding / show a single element.

You can currently delete and create new elements on a MODX page. But you don’t have the possibility to hide an element.

It can be very practical, for example, if you prepare a text but do not want to publish it yet.
Maybe it is also a need for other ContentBlocks users. It would be a suggestion for improvement.

Just an idea. Maybe you like the idea? i don’t know how complicated it is to program, but it would probably be an improvement.

mhamstra · August 29, 2018, 3:15pm

It hasn’t been built yet, but I’m like 95% sure this will be in 2.0

jdaehne · February 4, 2021, 12:29pm

I would love to have that for “Layouts” also - to disable/hide a whole “Block”.

visions · July 15, 2021, 1:32pm

@mhamstra there already news or a time window for the realization?

@jdaehne Of course, it would also be helpful with layouts.

mhamstra · July 15, 2021, 1:33pm

Nothing to share unfortunately.

sebastian-marinescu · February 17, 2022, 9:43am

I just wanted to share that I implemented something like this by myself some time ago, which isn’t as user-friendly as an - icon, but get’s the job done.

All my elements have a “visibility”-option:

And all my layouts have a “state”-option (show/hide):

Maybe this helps someone

Frischnetz · February 17, 2022, 10:33am

Good idea. You could improve it further by using the multi-select setting as an input type. Then you can set a number of visibility classes independently in one line. I use it for margin- and padding-settings for layouts. And I will now include also a visibility setting.