What do people want to see from an extension perspective?

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There’s a lot of hype around the new back office and how people are going to get creative with it. I’m really interested to hear from people about what they want to see from this.

For those who don’t know, an extension is a custom piece of functionality you can add / replace within Umbraco. For example, adding new items to the right click menu, creating a content app, new sections, new dashboards etc!

So, as a starter:

  • Are you looking for a specific extension?
  • Do you create your own custom property editors?
  • Are you using anything in a previous version of Umbraco that you really want to see in the new version?
  • If you want to make something, do you know where to start?
  • Anything else?!

Thanks community :slightly_smiling_face:

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In older version I would say most of my smaller extensions where utilizing SendingXNotifications

To hide/show or make readonly

  • menu items
  • properties
  • DocType permissions

etc

Since 16 I have done more TipTap extensions especially as it handles table much cleaner that TinyMCE.

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I think the @MattW is spot on: I think the removal of the SendingXNotifications are really important to explain. I managed to get everything working with alternative appoaches in the end, but they are not always fool proof because it only affects the UI and not the backend.

I used the following extension points so far in our packages:

  • Workspace / workspace context / workspace action
  • Workspace view
  • Property editors
  • Dashboard
  • Custom section / sidebar app with menu
  • Sidebar menu app added to existing Umbraco settings section
  • Localization
  • Custom conditions
  • Custom condition on an existing extension (removing the delete button in certain scenario’s

I haven’t used it yet, but I think the creation of a tree in a custom section seems to be very hard with a lot of scaffolding. I guess that could be easier.

If I come up with something else, I’ll post it here!

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