Reusable Blocks and Outline
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Below I put forward some thoughts about reusable blocks, group blocks and the Outline tool, for what it’s worth.
In the Outline a reusable block shows a reusable icon (‘Lego’ brick). If I select it then focus changes to the reusable block in the editing part of the screen. There it still shows it as a reusable block. If I then click the edit button I can click on the contents of the reusable block, the paragraph block or the list block or whatever and edit it. Then I can save it. So the reusable block acts like a container.
It doesn’t behave like that in the Outline. It doesn’t show what it contains. However a group block does show what it contains in the Outline when you select it.
I feel that “reusability” is more like an attribute of a block, rather than a real container block. It never has more than one child block. So rather than displaying a reusable block with no hint of what is in it, the Outline could show a, say, paragraph block flagged as “reusable”, either explicitly or in a different font or colour.
The Outline would be a very useful tool if you could use it to navigate to any block on the page or in the post, whether or not it is reusable or part of a group or in a column.
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Hi enkiduonthenet, thanks for that. This feedback is most appropriate for the WordPress.org design / make team, since it involves core functionality rather than any “secret sauce” Automattic is adding. Have you considered contributing it there?
You can get involved here:
Or, look for / file an issue here:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+reusable
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