Advanced groups in slices

Last quarter, we introduced an improvement to Prismic, allowing you to build slices with multiple repeatable groups of content. Our next step was to develop “advanced groups,” enabling the addition of nested groups within groups.

In the process of designing the solution while talking to developers like you who use Prismic, we realized that groups within groups are complex and do not align with our vision of creating the simplest page builder for marketing websites.

To enhance the editing experience, we decided to focus on the concept of groups and challenge ourselves: can we cover common website elements (80% of use cases) without the complex concept of groups? What if we can bring you specific, out-of-the-box solutions for these common cases instead?

We are starting by focusing on buttons as the first elements. Our aim is to identify improvements that will facilitate easy button creation for both developers and marketers.

After addressing these simple cases, we will revisit the topic to explore solutions for the remaining advanced cases.

Hi everyone,

The team has made significant progress toward releasing new enhancements to the slice modeling capabilities. These improvements will enable you to create more complex slices with deeper levels of nested content.

Our research interviews have provided valuable insights, guiding us in designing the upcoming release, which includes:

• A revamp of the group field concept to better highlight its repeatability.
• Enhanced understanding of Prismic fields output with Page Builder sneak peeks.
• Introduction of repeatable group templates to help new users grasp the potential use cases of repeatable groups.
• The ability to add a repeatable group within another repeatable group.

Stay tuned, the release is close! 🔥

Hey there! Here are a few updates about what the team is cooking for the advanced groups (it’s how we’re calling this capability right now, but we’re working on a more intuitive name too).

• We are finishing a round of interviews with developers who are not using Prismic to understand their mental model when it comes to creating slices with Prismic. Thanks to these interviews, we are gathering insights that help us create a great experience for creating simple slices out of complex designs with a deeper level of nesting.
• In the meantime, the engineers are finishing the foundational work to get ready for a public release that we target for the first half of next quarter. What this means for you? Soon you will be able to create slices out of complex designs such as tabs with cards in an intuitive way with Prismic.

Some really cool updates are coming soon, stay tuned!