Can we set Stereotype as a dropdown menu?

[hyzx86]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Now , the Stereotype is a text box, which is not user-friendly when making changes.

For example, I can't always figure out if it's UserCustomSettings or CustomUserSettings 🤣

Describe the solution you'd like

Maybe we have some way to get all the Stereotypes that are currently supported by the system, and then list them.

[Piedone]

The issue is that stereotypes are by convention, and there's no list of the ones available currently. We could have a combobox suggesting the usual ones like you mention (or at least have them documented in a hint below it), but those values wouldn't always do something (since they depend on the currently enabled features).

[hishamco]

I was thinking about that in the past, @Piedone even the are by convention we can populate the once that we use in the source and well documents, also we could add ability to register a new one

If this might be helpful which I think I can submit a PR

[hyzx86]

@hishamco , Great! this PR is also waiting for an autofill component interaction, I can copy your homework when you're done!🤣

#15636

[sebastienros]

We could have a list of string in a content manager options object where feature can add custom values for supported stereotypes. Maybe even a class with a translated description. Keep the textbox though, and some autocomplete for hints.

[hishamco]

My idea is to add a textbox with autocomplete as Seb mentioned, I didn't think about translated description but it's good addition

[hyzx86]

@hishamco
How do you plan to implement this AutoComplete component? I'm in need of a similar UI component for another PR : #15636 ，I know there are a lot of beautiful and powerful 3rd party UI components out there, but what are the requirements for us to introduce these front-end components?

@Skrypt I've noticed that you guys do a lot of VUE-related contributions, are there any plans to release such a component library?

Here's a low-code framework from baidu. It uses json to build pages，
But it has a larger dependency package，It's really not cost-effective if we only use one of its autocomplete components

https://aisuda.bce.baidu.com/amis/zh-CN/components/form/input-text#%E8%87%AA%E5%8A%A8%E8%A1%A5%E5%85%A8

[hyzx86]

Well, HTML comes with an autocomplete feature.
It is currently supported by most major browsers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datalist

[hishamco]

Exactly, my aim is to use a textbox with autofill using datalist element

[hishamco]

BTW @hyzx86 I noticed a draft PR, while I assigned this issue to me, so to save time and avoid duplicating the work if you want to handle this let me know so I can unassign myself from this issue

[hyzx86]

@hishamco , I have created a PR at here #16005

[hishamco]

You mean #106025, but I hope the second time you check if the issue is assigned by someone else or not to save time

[hyzx86]

但是还没完成，关于如何添加模块中已定义的 Stereotype ，我想听听你们的建议

I noticed that there is a default implementation here, but it's based on the types that have already been created, and the list is blank if it's a new tenant

https://github.com/OrchardCMS/OrchardCore/blob/main/src/OrchardCore.Modules/OrchardCore.ContentTypes/Services/StereotypeService.cs

I plan to tweak this function to internally generate a HasSet to avoid duplicate values, and then add an implementation of IStereotypesProvider to a different module such as CustomSettingsStereotypeProvider , CustomUserSettingsStereotypeProvider.

I'm just wondering if it's worth it. Why not use IOptions just to add a string?

@MikeAlhayek , I see that you added this feature. Do you have a better suggestion about the realization of this?😊