UI Presentation Concepts

Status: Under active development.

Availability: Behind the StackPacks 2.0 feature flag. Refer to Custom Integrations Overview on how to enable the feature.

This documentation describes the current design intent and high-level configuration surface.

Note: no behavior and capabilities have been implemented yet.

As this feature is under active development; behavior, schemas, and capabilities may change as the model evolves.

This is a summary of the most important concepts related to UI presentation and should be enough to get started.

ComponentPresentation

The central concept of the UI Presentation model is the ComponentPresentation.

A ComponentPresentation defines how one or more matching components are presented in the UI, depending on the active context. It focuses exclusively on presentation concerns, such as naming, icons, tables, overview and highlight pages, filters, and menu item placement.

At a high level, a ComponentPresentation:

  • Selects components using a binding (a simple STQL query).

  • Applies within a specific mode (for example, observability).

  • Defines one or more presentation aspects (such as overview tables or highlights).

  • Can partially define presentation properties and compose with other matching definitions.

Multiple ComponentPresentations may apply to the same component. In such cases, their definitions are combined to determine the final presentation.