Dynamic List → Collection List (and other UI content tweaks)

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If you’ve used Webflow CMS, chances are you noticed a few … inconsistencies with naming and UI labels.

Like how a Dynamic List is the element that lets you put Collection content on pages … and how we really never referred to the CMS in the Designer UI until very recently … and other headaches.

So we updated a few things to more consistently refer to the CMS and Collections. Same great functionality, new (hopefully) clearer naming.

Here’s a few of the more prominent changes:

  • The Collections Panel is now the CMS Panel

  • The Dynamic List is now the Collection List

(And that section of the Add Panel is now labeled “CMS”)

  • The elements of the Collection List have been renamed in the Navigator

  • Dynamic Style Settings are now Collection Style Settings

  • And Collection Template Pages are now, more simply, just Collection Pages

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Hopefully these changes make things clearer for everyone (including us!), but as always, we look forward to hearing your thoughts.

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You all r00l! :slight_smile:

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I like it!! Will be much clearer to everyone. Thanks for the update!

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Nifty little change and it does make more sense. Good work this month some much needed improvements overall.

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Yup, much easier. Even though I think we all understood it before, it was more of a mental leap initially. This will make it simpler for people learning the system, I think.

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Yeah, that’s the main goal. I know most of you are past masters of that mental leap by now :slight_smile:

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I’m with @tubes’ explanation. Makes it much easier to understand for newbies.

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Nice! However, why not call the “Collection Pages” the “CMS Pages”, if you chose to call the “Collection Panel” the CMS Panel now … you know, for keeping stuff consistent ? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Solid idea, @T-Fab! Going to consider that.