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Ability to set internal names for components

Rob Tomlinson

If a page has multiple copies of the same component on it, it would be nice to be able to tell them apart from glancing at the Page Outline. If we could assign a name that was only visible in the Page Outline, that would be helpful.

August 14, 2025

Mark Kennedy

It would also be useful if the components had a unique id dynanmically assigned to them. Even if the id was dynamically assigned within the page context. This would enable those components to be targetted on the front-end in page navigation.

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Ability to rename used components in the Outline side panel

Steven

Having the ability to rename used components in the outline panel will allow us at a glance to see a more suitable title in order to understand the content its displaying. At the moment we might have several of the same component type and its not clear until I click on each one, which is the correct one I want to edit.

May 11, 2026

Ana Hoseit

Completely agree with this suggestion 100% - the template in the details screen applied what type of component it is. However, the container name always just defaults to 'Component'. It would be good if the Container name also reflected they template type.

I had to manually go in and change the container name as seen in one of the two screenshots.

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