Umbraco Built-in Property Editors Enhancements

[AhmedElmehalawi]

Suggestions for Enhancements to Built-in Property Editors in Umbraco

I suggest the following enhancements for the Built-in Property Editors, such as Dropdown and Checkbox List:

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1. Adding Both Name and Value for Each Option

Currently, when adding options, only a single value is provided, which is treated as both the name and value. It would be more beneficial to allow users to add both the name (display label) and value separately for each option.

Example:

Option Label (Name)	Value
Umbraco-CMS	1
.NET9	2

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2. Adding a Default Value for Dropdown

Enhance the Dropdown property editor by allowing the selection of a default value. This would improve the user experience by pre-selecting a common option.

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3. Adding Support for JSON-Based Option Lists

Introduce the ability to define option lists using a JSON structure. This approach would simplify managing larger lists and enable developers to configure options programmatically.

Example JSON Format:

[
  {
    "name": "Umbraco-CMS",
    "value": "1"
  },
  {
    "name": ".NET9",
    "value": "2"
  }
  // Additional options can be added here
]

[Luuk1983]

I think it's a good idea but I have two 'issues' with it:

1. I think you can achieve this with contentment already, so definitely check that out
2. If you want to have a label, it should support multi language

[bjarnef]

Contentment package is definitely a great package, but it would be great if it was supported OOTB.

Regarding multi language the label should support dictionary item as properties on document types using #.

"Label" is better the "Name" not to confuse with name (group) attribute in dropdown, checkbox/radiobutton lists etc.

[AhmedElmehalawi]

Hi @Luuk1983,
Yes. I have already used "contentment" in my projects and it provides what i have suggested, but after upgrading my project to V15, i faced these issues and there is no stable release from "contentment" till now.

So I suggest doing this in the built-in property editors, cause this is really important.
And it is not about the multi-language website, it is about not depending on the label of the option as a value.