CMS Dream of every Webflow user.

Hei,

First of all, nice to have this platform, Webflow is really standing out from others in the market. I got super excited looking at all the cool features at first.

But now I can see there are some serious limitations in CMS if I go for a long term plan here. Design tools are rich, I admit.

But the CMS dashboard is so limited for big ecommerce or course websites.

I listed below the things are missing from CMS. Other platforms like shopify, wordpress wins over these features. In fact, I never seen a CMS without these features, I can tell, anyone using webflow for long term purpose feeling it.

Collection dashboard feature request,

  • Duplicate multiple selected items, Currently can duplicate one by one.

  • Bulk edit option: Bulk edit selected items. example, change linked collections, thumbnails, dates, numbers field values etc. of multiple items at once.

  • Sorting: Ability to sort via linked collections.

  • Table Settings: Ability to select or deselect on what columns to show on collection table. Columns such as, dates, linked collections, small thumbnails.

  • Filter Option: Ability to filter via linked collection, date, published, draft items. Unfiltered items should be hidden from the list.

  • Collection Color Identifier: Add a color identifier option for collections. So when linked collection is visible with color on table, items can be easily identified.

  • Collection field prefix/suffix: Currently it asks for unique field name for different collections. Its possible to add current collection's unique slug/id/name as field prefix to avoid conflict during field creation. That way we can use same field name throughout different collections. WordPress has it. why wont you :P

  • Collection Media gallery/assets library: Have to upload images every time if clicked on collection image field. Please add, upload image from assets option.

Import and export update request

  • Its asks for mapping to existing field in every import. I think its possible to detect if there is an same field name available and not ask for it. Maybe ask for 1. Make changes before import or 2. Import directly option at the beginning. Since this is the only import option, we can create collection matching up with the csv headers or vise versa.

If you guys can make these features working, this will be a dream come true for us.

Thank you

  • Tanvir Maker
  • May 27 2020
  • Reviewed
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  • Peter Villevoye commented
    28 Dec, 2020 10:19pm

    Seems to me that a lot of the mentioned features have been fulfilled :-)

    I also would like to be able to shuffle and juggle with some fields upon importing, e.g. to specify the CSV delimiter, or prepare date and value formats and sequences for less common (read: American) data input.

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