Reference

Glossary

The PropUI terms used across these docs, in one place. Most of these also appear as hover tooltips wherever they're mentioned.

The editor: The PropUI workspace where you author entries and build a panel. Not to be confused with Editor Settings, which configure the editor itself. See The editor vs. its settings.
Entry: A single control you author — a value, button, label, or link. Entries are the building blocks of everything PropUI generates.
Entry List: The source list of entries you author. Hierarchical and organized your way; independent from where those entries end up in the output.
Selected Entry: The editor section that holds the settings for the active Entry List item.
Generated Layout: Where entries appear in the output panel — rows, shared rows, row boxes, and sub-panels. Independent from the Entry List.
Row: One line in the generated panel. Rows can hold a single entry or be shared by several.
Shared row: A row that holds more than one entry side by side, optionally with column weights (Full edition).
Row Box: A box drawn around a contiguous range of rows inside a single container.
Sub-panel: A collapsible nested panel inside the generated panel (Full edition).
Output Setup: The editor section for generation, UI variants, generated-UI lifecycle, panel visibility, and storage.
Generate UI: The action that writes a standalone Blender panel from your current setup.
Apply Properties: Creates or updates the managed custom properties on the storage target without generating a panel.
Generated UI: A standalone Blender panel produced by Generate UI — stored inside your .blend as a Text datablock, or exported as a portable .py file. It keeps running with the editor closed.
Property Storage: The default Blender data owner that receives the managed custom properties.
Storage Target: Any Blender data owner — Object, Bone, Scene, data-block, and more — that can hold managed custom properties. See Storage targets.
Display Link: An entry that redraws another entry's value a different way, without creating a new value of its own.
Dynamic Label: A label that changes based on a value: its own, another entry's, or dynamic text.
Condition: A rule that controls when an entry or panel is visible or available, based on values or selection.
UI Variant: A saved snapshot of the entire editor state, letting multiple panel designs live side by side in one .blend.
Operator Button: An entry that runs a Blender operator when clicked.
Editor Settings: Preferences for how the editor itself looks and behaves — display, confirmations, saved defaults, and reset tools. See Editor settings.
Editor Layout: The tool for reordering and hiding editor sections. It only stages and applies visibility/order — it never deletes data.
Editor Location: The Add-on Preferences setting for which sidebars or Properties tabs the editor appears in. See Finding the editor.