Stack Contents - Adding several blocks (not one or all)
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When I add an existing stack to an area, if only I could add individual blocks (plural).
Adding full stack or individual block is fine, but if I could add more than one block a stack would play the part of a library or prescribed content SO much nicer than say file-sets, page lists for this content or even pasting from clipboard.
My use case would be say a site has a bank of ten call to actions, of which you may only want to display 3, or even a slider that contains varying slide types (image with text, image with video, just text, just video etc etc).
Is this even possible? Can anyone suggest a way to make this work?
My best bet so far is to have a master stack, and in stacks you duplicate then remove as required, or utilise clipboard - but selecting multiple blocks from a single stack is so much nicer and having a single stack to work from cleaner.
Has anyone experience of getting this to work, or alternative methods?
Adding full stack or individual block is fine, but if I could add more than one block a stack would play the part of a library or prescribed content SO much nicer than say file-sets, page lists for this content or even pasting from clipboard.
My use case would be say a site has a bank of ten call to actions, of which you may only want to display 3, or even a slider that contains varying slide types (image with text, image with video, just text, just video etc etc).
Is this even possible? Can anyone suggest a way to make this work?
My best bet so far is to have a master stack, and in stacks you duplicate then remove as required, or utilise clipboard - but selecting multiple blocks from a single stack is so much nicer and having a single stack to work from cleaner.
Has anyone experience of getting this to work, or alternative methods?
have you considered breaking that one stack you have into multiple 3 item stacks and displaying them that way? Seems about the simplest solution not breaking away from the way you're doing it now...
@enlil - yeah I have come full circle with stacks, I'm in a love/hate relationship with them.
I think its a good idea - especially if the data sets came in obvious groups of three ... but my real life case was much too loose, so to create all the possible multiple combinations of three in separate stacks would have been a step too far.
I do think in more straight forward cases just having a bank of stacks, rather than a bank of blocks in a stack - is the better way to handle it, but it still pains me that a single stack can't do the job already.
I'm actually now just living with the necessity to go to dashboard (frustrating as this is) to create a new stack and making more us of the clipboard to populate it with existing content blocks. There just too useful to dismiss though right?
Lewis
I think its a good idea - especially if the data sets came in obvious groups of three ... but my real life case was much too loose, so to create all the possible multiple combinations of three in separate stacks would have been a step too far.
I do think in more straight forward cases just having a bank of stacks, rather than a bank of blocks in a stack - is the better way to handle it, but it still pains me that a single stack can't do the job already.
I'm actually now just living with the necessity to go to dashboard (frustrating as this is) to create a new stack and making more us of the clipboard to populate it with existing content blocks. There just too useful to dismiss though right?
Lewis
