Issue
- In Portal 6.2, there was a Select button to change the structure of a web content article in the Edit view. This button is no longer there, and there are no other ways to change structures for existing or new web content articles.
Environment
- DXP 7.0+
Resolution
This was removed intentionally by our product team because being able to change the structure for an existing web content article leads to other problems, both from a user and development point of view:
- Confusing UX behavior during editing: users were unsure what data is lost and what is kept
- Confusing UX behavior during viewing: users could see drastic changes
- Confusing backend behavior: the saved data may be inconsistent, leading to data corruption or conflicts, versioning issues
- Changing the "class of an object" may interfere with Workflow, Staging or just the Abstraction Principle
- Conflicts with other new features
This means that if you would like to have this functionality in your environment, you have the following options:
- customizing your Liferay
- contacting your Liferay representative to get in touch with our GS team to assist with the customization