Feature Request / Bug: Grid Element, Cell Autoplacement

[striata]

The Grid element allows to place cells in grid in the user interface. Whatever one does there applies to the current breakpoint.

In the other breakpoint, the manipulated cell will retain its autoplacement. Then, you can go to a different breakpoint and adjust the placement of the cell there, and of course it can be different than the 1st breakpoint you have worked on. Then, when I realize I don’t like it for this breakpoint, and rather return to the autoplacement, I can right-click on the cell, and the context menu will offer exactly that option: “Use Auto Placement”.

Problem: this will apply to ALL breakpoints, I will loose the carefully constructed placement on all other breakpoints! This may be intended behavior, but I find it very non-intuitive, and it actually looks more like a bug to me.
Feature request:
Option 1: Apply the “Auto Placement” only to the current breakpoint.
Option 2: Offer 2 context menu entries [Use Auto Placement (this breakpoint)] and [Use Autoplacement (All breakpoints)]
Option 3: Single menu entry, but have a pop-up that lets the user chose between those 2 effects.

I personally would prefer Option 2.

[christian]

Hey @striata,

Thank you for your feedback. Have you tested the Responsive Breakpoints of the Grid Layout option (see screenshot below?

If you’ve tested it, would you mind telling us the difference or could you compare it to your feature requests because it looks like the same thing?

That feature has been added since the Grid element came out. You can see it used in the following video tutorial

Grid Element: Auto-Responsive Cells (Intermediate)

Check out more tutorial videos on our Youtube Channel.

Thanks.

[striata]

Thank you, @christian. I am not talking about the grid layout itself. I was referring to the properties of individual cells within the grid layout. If one cell has explicit positions in different breakpoints, and you want to change that cell back to be auto-placed, but only in one of the breakpoints, then you cannot do this through the context menu. It will make this cell be auto-placed in every break point. This is true for the context menu when you click on the cell in the preview area, and also when you right-click on the Cell Layout area:
Chosing “Use Auto Placement” will apply auto placement to each breakpoint. Not just the current one.

[tristup]

Hi @striata,

If you make the cell alignment Auto, it will be implied to each and every breakpoint and there is no such option to set any explicit positions for any specific breakpoint. I would suggest you go through the options available for the Cell Placement Controls in this article: https://theme.co/docs/grid#cell-placement-controls

Hope it helps.
Thanks

[striata]

Yes, you have just reiterated what I said. Hence my feature request.

[prakash_s]

Hello @striata,

Thanks for your suggestion. We would keep it in mind for future development.

Thanks for understanding