CMS Definable Fields

[mspacemedia]

It would be great to have a way to build sets of fields in the settings tab, for use in the CMS - thus allowing admins to specify fields to store and editors to fill them in based on their initial choice when creating a new record.

[phptek]

When you say "fields" are you referring to "Form Fields" or "Database Fields"?

[phptek]

TBH, I'm still having trouble envisaging what this enhancement would do. Can we start with a super-high level description of the benefit to the user of this feature? If you know how to write user-stories, that would help immensly - for example (off the top of my head):

As a CMS Content Editor
I would like to be able to add multiple, arbitrary form-fields to a JSONText "aware" database field
So that I don't need to insruct a developer to edit PHP or YML do increase/decrease the available fields

[mspacemedia]

Form fields - sorry!

[mspacemedia]

As a CMS Admin
I would like to be able to add multiple fields using a title to define a set, arbitrary form-fields to a JSONText "aware" database field. So that I don't need to insruct a developer to edit PHP or YML to increase/decrease the available fields

As a CMS Content Editor
I would like to be given a choice of records (via DropdownField using each sets title) held in the settings when creating a new record, the modeladmin would then populate the getCMSFields using the fields defined earlier by the admin and save the results as a JSONText string for future editing and querying.