DataViews, DataForm, et al. in WordPress 7.0

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Previous iteration: WordPress 6.9.

This is an iteration issue that tracks improvements across DataViews, DataViewsPicker, DataForm, and the Field API planned for WordPress 7.0. It's a live issue: plans and ongoing work will be consolidated as we progress. Subscribe for updates.

Field API

• Types: Field API: prepare to register 3rd party types #73548
• Formats: Field API: display formats #73154
• Validation:
  • Field API: Validation #71500
  • Field API Validation: signal when optional #74417

DataViews

• Activity layout (new, to be used in Global Styles revisions). #72780
• Table layout
  • Dataviews: Tables without a title field display big gap after checkbox #73727
  • DataViews table layout flickers when interacting with sort/filter/search #74074
  • DataViews: Right-align number fields in table layout. #73365
• List layout
  • Add density picker and related styles to DataView layouts #71050
• Styling
  • DataViews: Improve spacing for primary action buttons #73385
  • DataViewsPicker: Improve appearance when used in a Modal component #72336
• Misc
  • DataViews: Add onReset prop for view persistence reset #75093
  • DataViews: Add groupBy.showLabel config option to control group header label visibility #74161

DataViewsPicker

• Add a generalised PostPicker component to allow selecting post(s) from a modal #71128
• DataViewsPicker: Improve appearance when used in a Modal component #72336
• Add table layout view to DataViewsPicker. #72914

DataForm

• Validation:
  • Display validation messages in layouts other than regular. #72321
  • DataForm: mark fields as required or optional automatically #74430
• Layouts
  • Details layout (new). #72355
  • Panel layout:
    • Update panel trigger (whole row + dedicated edit button): DataForm: update panel trigger #75290
    • Introduce edit variant (edit button always visible) DataForm: add edit variant #75462
• Edit components
  • DataForm: allow controls to be set as disabled #73673
  • Add new adaptiveSelect DataForm control #74937
  • DataForm: add combobox control #74891

Related components

• WP MediaEdit #72614

Screens / Usage

Site Editor > Pages, Templates, Pattern

• Pages: author field in edit control is not updated #73462
• Display number of notes in Site Editor > Pages #73606
• Pages: make the QuickEdit experiment stable.
  • Site Editor Pages: QuickEdit as a modal #75173
  • Site Editor: make QuickEdit stable + change template to select #75565

DataForm for PHP-only blocks:

• PHP-only blocks: Generate inspector controls from attributes #74102

Backlog

These have been punted for a future release.

Field API

• Types:

  • array: support any kind of field as part of the array #71789

• Extensibility

  • Field API: support registering custom field types #74858
  • Field API: support registering custom field controls #74856, implemented at #74942
  • Field API: make getValue and setValue declarative #74900
  • Field API: add support for object type #74409

• DataViews Field API: async elements #70834

DataViews

• Display data hierarchically #74072

DataForm

• Enable operation with dynamic list of data. #71789
• Edit component: Richtext #73180

Screens / Usage

• Enable 3rd parties to add more fields Register fields for entities in the server #74865
• DataForm in BlockFields (content-only controls): Block Fields: fully adopt the DataForms API #73261