This document keeps track of all the work and tasks to build a powerful DataForm component capable of rendering all kind of forms and panels used to edit data. Document inspector in the editor, quick edit panels, settings forms...

DataForm is based on the same Fields abstraction that powers the DataViews component and support grouping fields, layouts, label positioning, conditional rendering, validation.

Tasks

• DataForm: implement first prototype using duplicate page action #63032
• DataViews: Bootstrap Quick Edit #63600
• DataForm: Add a simple story for the DataForm component #63840
• DataForm: migrate order action modal and introduce form validation #63895
• DataForm: add author to quick edit page/post list #63983
• DataForm: move validation logic to the field type definition #64164
• DataViews: formalize text field type definition #64168
• DataForm: replicate DocumentInspector in QuickEdit #64519
• Data Views: Implement selectItem callback #66338
• Layout flexibility DataForm: enable fields to declare a different layout #66531

Next Steps

• Implement Form Validation tools
• Strong conditional rendering
• Grouping fields in cards, tabs, field sets (needs design)
• DataForm: make it work nicely with bulk editing #65685

Low priority

• DataForm: Consolidate render function argument #66616
• Data Form: define props to differentiate field layouts #66336
• Featured Image Field: Improve layout #66332