Revo: Plugin properties issues / questions

I’m working on my first plugin for Revo, and would like to use the Properties grid but coming up a few problems / questions:

1) Is it possible to define categories of properties, as in the system settings?

2) How do you define which values are used when the user presses the "Revert all the default" button? It doesn’t appear to do anything, and I can’t see anywhere to specify default settings.

3) Does the "import properties" button at the bottom work? I can export properties OK, but when I come to re-import them, it just gets stuck on a permanently cycling "Saving" progress bar.

4) Is there a way of forcing the property values for lists to display consistently when not being edited? Sometimes they show the "value" of the selected option, sometimes they show the "label". Other times they get confused and every property which is a list-type incorrectly displays the same value. Feature or bug?

Quote from: ncrossland at Mar 10, 2011, 09:55 AM

1) Is it possible to define categories of properties, as in the system settings?

No, not at this time.

2) How do you define which values are used when the user presses the "Revert all the default" button? It doesn’t appear to do anything, and I can’t see anywhere to specify default settings.

It reverts them to the properties on the Element. This really only applies when working with Property Sets.

3) Does the "import properties" button at the bottom work? I can export properties OK, but when I come to re-import them, it just gets stuck on a permanently cycling "Saving" progress bar.

It does; however, Chrome (and sometimes safari) seems to have an issue with transmitting files via ajax.

4) Is there a way of forcing the property values for lists to display consistently when not being edited? Sometimes they show the "value" of the selected option, sometimes they show the "label". Other times they get confused and every property which is a list-type incorrectly displays the same value. Feature or bug?

Bug, can you report it?

Thanks for quick replies

Quote from: splittingred at Mar 10, 2011, 10:05 AM

3) Does the "import properties" button at the bottom work? I can export properties OK, but when I come to re-import them, it just gets stuck on a permanently cycling "Saving" progress bar.

It does; however, Chrome (and sometimes safari) seems to have an issue with transmitting files via ajax.

Not working in Firefox either - it’s showing a JS error "missing ] after element list" in ext-all.js (line 7) - minified so not sure exactly what the problem is.

4) Is there a way of forcing the property values for lists to display consistently when not being edited? Sometimes they show the "value" of the selected option, sometimes they show the "label". Other times they get confused and every property which is a list-type incorrectly displays the same value. Feature or bug?

Bug, can you report it?

Will see if I can get steps to reproduce - just been happening occassionally.

Tidying a few things up, then going to attempt packaging...

Reported that as #4025
http://bugs.modx.com/issues/4025