Ability to rename a groups and custom sections

[uwagz]

After playing around in customiser for a while, "Group" & "Custom section" can become repetitive. Is it worth allowing these to be named and potentially even saved as a pre-defined groups/custom sections that can be reused?

[uwagz]

Something like this I guess. I think giving merchants a way to name groups might help navigate their way through their changes but still show the original section name/group keyword

[andre-ani]

Great idea. One alternative would be to use the existing block naming scheme https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/architecture/blocks/theme-blocks/schema#showing-dynamic-block-titles-in-the-theme-editor

Obviously only works for blocks. A little weird on some blocks because there might not be a relevant field. Some blocks naturally have a heading or text field that work well to name the block as well.

What I do for group blocks is use an 'internal name' field just for naming the group. It feels a little redundant but it's the same thing I do for metaobjects and it feels necessary.

[PaulNewton]

We can now rename blocks and sections in the visual theme editor
https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/rename-blocks-and-sections-in-the-online-store-editor

Still not a way to create a "group" on the fly however in the visual theme editor either as an actual section-groups or just a labeled set of sections&blocks .

But there is also now copy and paste to band-aid that specific need
https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/copy-and-paste-when-editing-your-website

So what one can do is make a pattern library in special templates similar to making a dedicated template to act as a style-guide of settings etc. Can take some customization to hide those templates from showing up on the frontend to customers or search engines.
Better done with seperate themes but I haven't tested the copy&paste across separate themes; either duplicates of the same theme or different themes.

[stephanie-shopify]

Hi all, Great suggestion. We're working on a feature to allow renaming and also to allow preset names to be reflected in the sidebar

[mxstbr]

This shipped! https://changelog.shopify.com/posts/rename-blocks-and-sections-in-the-online-store-editor