Improvement of panel management required. | Wix Studio Community | Page 1

frail patrol Sep 16, 2025, 6:54 AM

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Right now, every widget in a block requires it's own panel design, and panel code, etc etc...
This makes the app break the DRY principle, and is extremely unproductive.
Every change or development in the app requires the change of multiple panels, which can occumulate quite badly.

We should be able to design panels, and apply them to the widgets we like.
This way we can have 20 widgets working with 3 panels for example.

Btw, this problem also occurs with Props, altho the effect is less drastic.

keen pilot Sep 16, 2025, 8:03 AM

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You can use default panels from Blocks which you don't need to customize, that's there.

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In practice, I doubt that you'd be able to reuse 3 panels for 20 working widgets with no customisation

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https://dev.wix.com/docs/build-apps/develop-your-app/frameworks/wix-blocks/editor-experience-panels/about-panels-in-blocks#default-panels

About Panels in Blocks

Blocks allows site builders to customize your widget when they install it. A large part of this customization takes place through the widget's action bars. The site builder adapts the widget to their site through using the action buttons. Learn more about action bars. Panels are a key part of the customization process. When your widget is instal...

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I wouldn't use it though, most of the work is on the widget for a blocks app, it would not be the best idea to not have a good experience on the settings part

frail patrol Sep 16, 2025, 9:03 AM

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keen pilot You can use default panels from Blocks which you don't need to customize, that's...

The default panels are useless for my use-case.
And I very much need to use the same panel in all my widgets.
With no exeptions really.

All my widgets use the same source code but have different design elements. They act as design templates for the same app.

keen pilot Sep 16, 2025, 9:05 AM

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Maybe look at a multi-state

frail patrol Sep 16, 2025, 10:31 AM

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Interesting

frail patrol Sep 16, 2025, 10:55 AM

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Might not work in the editor

frail patrol Sep 16, 2025, 12:15 PM

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so far all code i tried to run in the editor failed to run, so multistatebox is a probabe no go

keen pilot Sep 16, 2025, 2:31 PM

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It works... you can create multiple widgets / designs under the same blocks widget, every widget as a state in the multi-state. You add the template selection in settings panel. On load you check the current selection and switch to that state.

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The multi-state shouldn't be selectable in the Editor, you handle all state switching using code from the custom settings panel

frail patrol Sep 16, 2025, 6:08 PM

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This won't do, the user should see the template,and also edit it to their liking, connect to data, and more.
I need a potential to have 50 templates for example. All editable and able to connect data.

keen pilot Sep 16, 2025, 7:01 PM

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"This won't do, the user should see the template,and also edit it to their liking" --> Should work... I don't know about connecting it to the data directly without code, but I don't see a problem.

frail patrol Sep 16, 2025, 7:46 PM

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keen pilot "This won't do, the user should see the template,and also edit it to their likin...

You can't change states in multistatebox in the editor, so that's an issue.
also, i suspect such a huge component will be very inappropriate

keen pilot Sep 16, 2025, 7:47 PM

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You can, using code

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Anyway, we're using this in a lot of apps, maybe you want to re-try

frail patrol Sep 18, 2025, 7:24 AM

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I think I can use a dashboard page as a panel, for settings etc...
Can we still only have one dashboard page?
There I can use a multistate though

short ibex Sep 18, 2025, 8:18 AM

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@frail patrol There shouldn't be a limit on dashboard pages

frail patrol Sep 20, 2025, 10:24 AM

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short ibex <@374657722227884042> There shouldn't be a limit on dashboard pages

Dashboard pages seems hopeless, can't use navigate(), can't pass or receive data, so i don't see a way to control settings for multiple widgets installed on a website. As they will have to share the same settings..
might be a way to use cms, but i don't see how yet..

frail patrol Oct 3, 2025, 12:17 AM

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@keen pilot
How do you determine which state is shown in each design preset?
When I change stat order it changes all my states.

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Oh I see you asnwered this already, though the panel.
So you can then use a single panel to adjust the props in the different widgets theoratically? (or practically for you maybe)

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Honestly I would rather those widgets not have props.
So I only have a single set of props.
need to see if i can access the #IDS on the inner widgets tho

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or i'll have props revealing the #IDs I need in them, for the main widget to use 🤔

frail patrol Oct 3, 2025, 8:52 AM

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@short ibex I am trying this idea to hold many inner widgets in a multistatebox.
So far everything I tested works except one thing.
I can't recognize with code which Widget is inside a state.

Is there any way to find the id of a child that is a widget?
Or any miraculous way to make this available?
$w('#multistatebox').currentState.children[0] returns an empty object

Only workaround I can currently see if maintaining a manual list of state & widget child

short ibex Oct 5, 2025, 6:37 AM

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@frail patrol Have you tried nested widgets for your use-case? >>

https://dev.wix.com/docs/build-apps/develop-your-app/frameworks/wix-blocks/site-widgets/add-nested-widgets-in-blocks

https://dev.wix.com/docs/sdk/host-modules/editor/widget/get-nested-widget

Add Nested Widgets in Blocks

Blocks lets you embed one widget within another widget. This is useful in various cases, such as: Reusing a widget in several places in your app. Creating widgets that are elements, such as buttons. In the product image shown below, the counter is a separate widget with its own logic, embedded in the main widget. When users install this app on a...

getNestedWidget()

Gets the Widget API scoped to an inner (nested) widget. Use this function in the widget's custom panel code. This function lets you use Widget API functions on inner (nested) widgets. It receives a selector of an inner widget and returns a promise that resolves with an object representing the scope of the inner widget.

frail patrol Oct 5, 2025, 9:01 AM

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short ibex <@374657722227884042> Have you tried nested widgets for your use-case? >> https...

Yes I am talking about nested widgets.
the getNestedWidget() requires an ID,
And what i'm saying is, igetting the id via code is impossible

frail patrol Oct 5, 2025, 9:19 AM

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@short ibex
By the way,
Nested widgets elements (like repeater slider) do not scroll on Wix-Editor (they do scroll in studio).
This makes for very tricky editing of repeater items (or warrants use of CMS).

short ibex Oct 5, 2025, 12:43 PM

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I believe the widget's ID should appear in the editor when you click on it >>

short ibex Oct 5, 2025, 12:44 PM

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frail patrol <@1345668344552095824> By the way, Nested widgets elements (like repeater slid...

I will open a feature request for this

frail patrol Oct 5, 2025, 12:48 PM

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short ibex I believe the widget's ID should appear in the editor when you click on it >>

Yeah, i know.
Please note I am saying you can't get the ID - Programmatically.
As a work-around for panel not being a reproducable element, I am using a single widget with many nested widgets representing design templates.
Each nested widget is kept inside a multi-statebox state container.
When a user changes state, I need to know which widget is inside the selected state.
I can't get this id in the regular programmatic way $w('#multistatebox').currentState.children[0].id

My current workaround for this is maintaining a manually sustainable object pairing states with nested widgets

const stateToWidget = {
    Baseline: $w('#70SSlider1'),
    LogoList: $w('#clientLogos1'),
    Three: $w('#threePlus1'),
}

short ibex Oct 5, 2025, 12:52 PM

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I see, sorry for the confusion, I will need to ask if there's a way to do this programmatically, do you mind opening a ticket about it so we can follow up on this? >>

https://www.wix.com/support-chatbot?nodeId=25a57397-ccf7-4376-8b74-48d51edf7159&referral=devRels

frail patrol Oct 5, 2025, 12:54 PM

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Sure thing, but I have to go out now for some errands so i'll only be able to do this later on.
Do you guys work on Sukkot/Hol Hamoed?
Just trying to estimate when to expect an answer.
I'm trying to get the app's new major version ready before the holiday sale.

short ibex Oct 5, 2025, 12:56 PM

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We work at limited capacity 😬

But ping me here with the ticket # and I'll push it

frail patrol Oct 5, 2025, 12:56 PM

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great thanks

frail patrol Oct 6, 2025, 1:38 AM

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ticket submitted

frail patrol Oct 6, 2025, 10:09 PM

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@short ibex i've no idea how to get the ticket #
but honestly there's a Much worse issue i also submitted a ticket for, that forced development to be halted until fixed.
There's no work around or any way to proceed.
Here's a link to the thread in discord https://discord.com/channels/1114269395317968906/1424565712143519915

#Improvement of panel management required.