More dynamic default content types

[mwpowellhtx]

Hello,

Started in the gitter.im, looking for a way for the default agency content types to be more dynamic than the static items they are out of the box, if at all possible.

I have not explored yet, but perhaps this is a function of Creatable, Listable and so forth?

I'm not sure that is readily evident through the description in terms of what to expect, i.e. Determines if an instance of this content type can be [created|listed] through the UI.

[devlife]

Because those content types (Service, Project, etc) are not listed as Creatable or Listable because the Landing Page uses the BagPart instead of a Content Item Picker. With the BagPart you create the ContentItems inline in the container by clicking the blue Add Item button. In this case, the page. If it used a Content Item Picker then you would create the ContentItem via the Content Items -> New button and then select those ContentItems from the page.

[mwpowellhtx]

Okay, so this is the reason they are what they are out of the box. So if we wanted to support a more dynamic use case than static bagged content, we would need a sort of Content Item Picker? Then of course enable some of those options, Creatable, Listable, etc. Might be closer to what might be more productive, I think. But to be truly dynamic, I think we might also want to support formatted input, perhaps JSON or XML, let's say, feeding the maintenance side of things.

[mwpowellhtx]

Also sort of tangential to that, how do we know what css is involved in the picture? Is this documented somewhere? i.e. fa-shopping-cart, fa-laptop, fa-lock, and so on. Not finding the css references anywhere in the admin configuration, per se. We can define our own css styles? Perhaps I overlooked it.

[mwpowellhtx]

I explained what is "not working", the caveats, etc. It 'works', better if you use the picker, at least you have an idea what you are getting, short of a css tag cross reference. However, the source appears to be obsolete, archived, last update perhaps 2-3 yrs ago at the latest.

[Skrypt]

I will try with The Agency theme. Maybe it's an issue that is only related with the FlowPart.

[Skrypt]

Ok, I get it now. The FontAwesome IconPicker javascript library has been orphaned by its creator.

https://github.com/itsjavi/fontawesome-iconpicker

But, it's been archived there and the documentation doesn't point to a proper URL.

https://itsjavi.com/fontawesome-iconpicker/

[Skrypt]

I think at some point we changed the documentation to point to a fork and then the fork doesn't exist anymore.
It's not a big deal if the Icon Picker still works ... at least for now.

[Skrypt]

There seem to be a new one with an active contributor here : https://furcan.github.io/IconPicker/
But, I personally prefer the old one. More options to work with.