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Non-developers should be able to make custom components on the Builder website builder

Similar to how developers can create custom components, non-developers should also have this ability directly on Builder. Right now, non-developers can either: Create a template Convert template to symbol However, neither of these options actually...
Daniel Marcus almost 3 years ago in Visual Editor 0

Preview URL should be able to take in a value, like an object mapping locales to the URL format

For instance, say one were to use the URL format of mysite.com/usa/en, this would mean that the site is localized to follow the format of /{country}/{language}. This means that for each page or section model, you have to duplicate your code of thi...
Daniel Marcus almost 3 years ago in Visual Editor 0

Text type built-in Builder component should be able to accept a file as a link

If I were making a custom component, then I could create a prop that accepts a file as custom field. Similarly, I would like the built-in Builder text component to accept a file.
Daniel Marcus about 3 years ago in Visual Editor 0

Make all Link text inputs "longText"

This one should be super simple to implement. Sometimes, we can get pretty long URLs with dynamic content. It'd be so nice to be able to see the entire URL at once, so could you PLEASE make the Link URL fields be textareas instead of inputs?
Jason Clark about 3 years ago in Visual Editor 0

Ability for view current draft to live across the entire site according to that snapshot

Similar to how JAMStack deployment services Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Netflify, etc., have preview deployments on pushes to branches on Github. Preview deployments allow the ability for QA to just test a snapshot of a specific branch that could be...
Daniel Marcus about 3 years ago in Visual Editor 0

Copy to Different Space should copy associated Symbols

First, the Copy to a Different Space functionality is really nice to have so I don't have to download/upload JSON, but it'd be even BETTER, if it would either ask or automatically copy any associated Symbols too. I know that may be a huge lift, bu...
Jason Clark about 3 years ago in Visual Editor 0

Allow naming of Connected Data items

When connecting Data from Builder CMS Data Models (using Connect Data in the Data tab in the Visual Editor), the names are automatically generated using the name of the Data Model and then appending an incrementing digit (i.e. Pricing, Pricing 1, ...
Jason Clark about 3 years ago in Visual Editor 0

Ability to setup colors from Application code

Would be nice to have a way to setup colors to be used in Builder Editor, from the application code. Like we register Custom Components to be used, we should be able to setup Custom Colors in the same way. This would enforce usage of pre-defined c...
Adrian Mouly about 3 years ago in Visual Editor 0

Custom Targeting: Allow for Boolean Logic in Symbols

This is potentially an edge case, but I just had a need for it arise, so I thought I'd submit it. What I'd like to see is the ability to exclude targeting parameters like URL Path. Example: I have a Section (an Announcement Bar) that I'd like to s...
Jason Clark about 3 years ago in Visual Editor 0

Add dashboard/visual editor localizations for Chinese and Spanish

This could be a dealbreaker for us, since we have teams all over the world. Builder is nearly perfect other than this!
Guest about 3 years ago in Visual Editor 0