Inline Edit from Field Manager not applying custom view

[Ashif Malayil]

Hi,

I’m building an extension for inline editing from list view.

I added a button in Field Manager to enable inline edit. However, even after enabling it for a field (Contact), the field was still not editable in list view.

When I manually added this in entityDefs/Contact.json:
"view": "custom:views/fields/inline-varchar"

(it’s a custom view I created), inline editing started working.

My question is:
How can I make the frontend toggle (Field Manager) automatically apply this custom view when inline edit is enabled?

Is there a standard way to bind a custom inline edit view without manually modifying entityDefs?

[Kharg]

Maybe your best bet would be to use View Setup Handlers

https://docs.espocrm.com/development/frontend/view-setup-handlers/