Why has the cellFormatter been removed from the content manager list view

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  • Strapi Version: 4.11.5
  • Operating System: macOS 13.4.1
  • Database: MySQL
  • Node Version: v18.14.1
  • NPM Version: 9.3.1
  • Yarn Version: 1.22.19

Dear Strapi Community,

with the following commit the cellFormatter function has been removed:

Since we are using this in our production code, I would like to know why and what would be the alternative to format your cells in a custom column?

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Looks like it was related to this PR:

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Thanks for the answer. I just don’t see how one is related to the other. Why would you make Strapi less flexible without a good reason to do so? How is the requirements process? Can we create merge requests of our own or can we ask for code changes somewhere?

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I’ve opened Add cellFormatter support by markkaylor · Pull Request #17347 · strapi/strapi · GitHub to fix the issue.

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Thanks a lot @markkaylor this will greatly simplify things for us!

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@markkaylor @codekultur In Strapi 4.12.x, the ListView Component does not use TableRows anymore, so I patch with packages/core/admin/admin/src/content-manager/pages/ListView/index.js