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Currently, Hubspot CMS allows developers to choose from a given set of available module field types which already span a large number of usecases. However, with every website/theme project, developers come across multiple occasions where having the ability to create your own custom module field (UI) would be extremely benefitial.  To understand it a bit better, let's start with separating the "UI" of a custom field with its underlying field data type. We've noticed, when developing react modules, that the "fields sidebar" seems to be build up out of react components already.  It should be possible to allow developers to create their own react components that inherit from a base component or in another way are held to a contract and that then can be used as a module field. Quick example use case: the hubspot icon field is only usable if you want to use font awesome. more often than not, a customer wants to have a custom icon set and an intuitive way to "pick" an icon from this set.  if we would have the ability to develop our own icon picker module field UI, we could give content editors this functionality. The possibilities are numerous. A "map" location picker. A custom image picker with image cropping and optimization built in. A selector for data from another business system, better blog post picker, ... For inspiration, I'm looking mostly at the implementation of this idea by Contentful. More details here: https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/extensibility/field-editors/ ...read more

Developers are limited to using version 5.14.0 and can't update themes to version 6.   Who: developers creating themes and marketers using themes What/goal: ability to use the latest icon sets Value: adds backwards compatibility   If the theme was created with 5.0.10 it is not possible to update to 5.14.0 because 5.14.0 is not downward compatible with 5.0.10. Updating the icon_set would break the icons on existing website pages where 5.0.10 was used.   Fontawesome introduced downward compatibility with version 6, but since HubSpot doesn't allow version 6, it's not possible to update existing themes.   Editing to include that without this update, users can't select TikTok or the new Twitter X icons.   Editing to include the icon field now supports v6.4.2 which works for all new themes or custom themes (doesn't resolve backwards compatibility issue). ...read more

Hey team,   Is it possible to check if a template is used anywhere ?   Thanks in advance ! ...read more

The Case Study Beta feature is amazing. However, if HubSpot could provide access to create a child theme from the Elevate theme or allow us to create templates for the Case Study listing and details pages within our own theme, it would be great. ...read more

Currently, the Memberships option in Content Hub does not work for HubDB-powered dynamic pages. So if you try to gate a dynamic page with a listing + x amount of dynamic pages based on how many HubDB rows you have, it simply does not work. What happens is, you create a password, sign up and are logged in. The moment you try to change a page you are logged out and taken to the sign-in page. The membership feature is available for regular pages as well as blogs and knowledgebase articles, so I do not see why it would not be available for HubDB-powered dynamic pages. My specific use case was a trade night show where exhibitors have physical and virtual stands. The virtual stands were a HubDB row with all the details for that stand (business). This is just one example but it can work for any kind of dynamic page setup. ...read more

Currently, all major browsers support the WebP format. Which is a great format performance-wise. Now I know that HubSpot converts other formats to WebP serverside, but we should expect users to upload the WebP format as well. One of the most powerful HubL functions is the 'resize_image_url' function, which allows you to resize the served image without having the client resize the image themselves (which is great, because clients never do this 😜). HubSpot also offers the option to clone, crop and resize images, which is a great feature of the file manager. The problem: The WebP format does not work with the 'resize_image_url', also, passing the name, width and height in the image URL does not seem to resize the image at all. So this is a major issue performance-wise. Furthermore, it currently is not possible to clone and resize a WebP image from the file manager. The solution: Make sure that the 'resize_image_url' and the file manager functionalities also work with the WebP format. ...read more

Thew new menu system is completely cluttered with links that my team does not have access to and never will.   UX 101 pretty much says, if a user doesn't have the ability to access something, don't show it.  Please fix this so the navigation menu can be a little more userful. ...read more

Description: It would be great if there was a read-only unique value generated for each entry within a module field group.  Right now, there isn't any truly unique value differentiating items within a field group.   Who benefits: Mainly developers, but with this new value, more complex features, especially ones that rely on identification, can be built for clients.   Goal: Think of this like how the hs_object_id operates in HubSpot objects: this value would be a unique identifying value, which could be used in many of the same ways in HubL.   Added Value: Right now, if the code is needing a unique value for these field group items, someone has to be contrived in HubL, like the slug determination of a user-provided value within that field group item, but since that derived value is ultimately determined by a user-changeable value, that supposedly unique value can change.  By adding this generated read-only unique value to each field group item, the problem of relying on user-input for uniqueness goes away.   Example: Let's say you need to keep track of user progress through a set of groupings in a field group.  In this scenario, you will need some kind of unique identifier to determine where the user left off at in going through those items in the field group.  Since values within the field group can be changed at will, right now, there's no truly reliable means of figuring out where a user left off, if any of the items in the field group have been modified. ...read more

We have had numerous issues over the last year or two with Hubspot CMS lacking the ability to flush the cache (and force the refresh of some files).   We have recently made some changes to our site CSS to get around on iOS issue not rendering text.    WordPress' Admin COnsole has an option to flush the cache. It would be awesome if we had this ability on the Hubspot CMS as well.   Cheers,   AndrewinKC ...read more