What is the most common UI you are using

[Mherwege (Mark Herwege)]

@rlkoshak

@Mherwege

No explicit import, but if you go to the code tab, you could simply paste the content of your sitemap file when you create an new empty sitemap in the UI. All sitemap syntax should be supported. This then behaves exactly the same as a sitemap defined in a file.

Excellent feature and good to know. I wish it were more consistent with “create Item from text definition” but it’s better than nothing.

Yes, agree. There are too many slightly different ways in MainUI to get text definitions of settings in:

• Items:
  explicit import function for items
  copy in text definitions generates the items, channels and metadata, only import
  code tab shows YAML
• Sitemaps:
  ability to copy textual definition into code tab
  switching to code tab shows textual definition and JSON, no YAML
  textual definition is generated from UI definition
• Things:
  no import possible
  code tab shows YAML
• Transformations:
  only show textual definition of transformation, format the same is in file definitions
  no code tab
• Persistence:
  no import of textual definitions
  code tab shows YAML
  persistence strategies defined in text files are visible read only in code tab as YAML, and can be copied in the code tab to create pure UI definitions (open the persistence definition, copy the YAML, remove the persistence file for the persistence service and create the persistence strategy for the service in the UI, copying in the YAML)

This is something that may be candidate for some standardization also in the context of RFC: YAML configuration · Issue #3666 · openhab/openhab-core · GitHub.