Batch Update Layouts enhancements - Mendix Forum

Batch Update Layouts enhancements

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This tool (App -> Tools -> Batch Update Layouts) is very handy, but still is not sufficient for centralized layouts management. It would be sufficient if:

  1. The "Current layout" dropdown has an "All" option
  2. There is an interactive review screen after clicking "OK", where I can
    • see a grid of all for found update candidates
    • use additional filters (e.g. by Name, Module, Type etc)
    • use sorting (e.g. by Name, Module, Type etc)
    • select/unselect them from the list for the final replace.

I consider the following (quite common) use case:

The app has to have consistent layouts usage, e.g. we need to have all "regular" pages (opened in Content = non-popup layouts) to use the same layout.

It would be nice to have this tool even for pages developed in our app-specific modules, but especially for Marketplace modules that are used in the app (e.g. Setting for MxModelReflection, [User] Administration, Excel Exporter and Importer, Email Connector): we want to set all of them to "our" layout after importing them and after each re-importing for version upgrade.

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