UI for Umbraco configuration

[leekelleher]

Idea summary

NOTE: The original idea was to have a friendlier UI for common options in the umbracoSettings.config file. However with .NET Core, Umbraco v9+ the configuration has moved the appSettings.json, requiring a web-app restart for the updated configuration to take affect, I'm less sure how it'd potentially work.

With a UI for Umbraco configuration, we could have things like...

• A text field for the email notifications
• Content Pickers for the <error404> page
• Checkboxes for various on/off switches

More details about the umbracoSettings.config file are available on the Our Umbraco documenation.

Which categories would the idea fit?

• Back-office
• Developer Tools
• Front-end
• Starter Kits
• Misc

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[huwred]

I haven't tried this with Umbraco, but I will have a play as it does look like you can reload settings without a restart

https://www.coderschmoder.com/reload-changes-in-appsetting-json-without-website-restart/

[huwred]

Well, as long as you access configuration settings using IOptionsSnapshot<GlobalSettings> changes made to appsettings.json are reflected immediately on change without requiring a restart. While this is great, it would probably require Umbraco changes to work as intended, internal Umbraco code would also need to access them using IOptionsSnapshot<GlobalSettings> instead of using IOptions<GlobalSettings>