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There are plenty of times when I’m building that I’ll have an orphaned or unused model or field. Mostly on fields. I’d like to be able to see a list of everywhere each is used in the page. That way I can better manage changes to their names in Salesforce and how to fix the page accordingly. I know it’s relatively easy in XML, but working with XML isn’t all that elegant. Also, once I’m done building a page, if their are fields I never ended up using, I could then remove them from the model to make loading faster. A bracketed (#OfTimesUsed) beside each would be awesome. Taking this another step further, it would be nice to be able replace orphaned fields with the new field name. I expect this to be a little tricky since the XML doesn’t dynamically update itself based on the name in the model. Further to that, doing a find and replace in the XML would require find and replace on both quoted “Field_Name__c”, templated <<#Field_Name__c>> and who knows what else.

So I’ve been thinking about custom components… And I had the following idea. A lot of us use specific configurations of components a lot of times. For example, some of us will always want a table with the same panelset and page title, or a tabset with the same tabs, etc. To keep recreating these configurations can get a little repetitive/annoying. I would suggest that there be a page builder for custom components! It would look pretty much the same as the current edit page screen but as a separate page called “Component Builder”. Users could drag and drop standard components into a specific configuration that is used very often, and save that configuration. Skuid would then make this saved component show up in the standard Components tab to be able to be dragged into the page! The tricky part will be what models/fields should the users see in this new Component Builder page, and how will they associate the components with different models? I would say that they shouldn’t see models or

Basically I’d like to be able have two row actions that open and close a drawer and dynamically show action. Same thing as any folder structure system that shows a different icon when related records are displayed.I would use a field to store on the drawer status, but then things get really messy real fast.

At Dreamforce,  Salesforce introduced a new UI platform called Lightning.  CEO Ken McElrath writes frankly about how Skuid and Lightning will revolutionize the usability and design of the Salesforce Platform.  Read more … 

I’m trying to default the input text box to be open on the search box for a Skuid Mobile Deck. I can get in and edit anything else in the CSS fine through resources, but I can’t figure out how to default that text box to display. Can anyone help or point me in right direction?Thanks!

Salesforce has a pilot for headless flows. It is the ability to trigger flows from workflow without any need for screens. Essentially programming declaratively.Has anyone done anything with this? I’ve on the pilot and just starting to use it this week.

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I have discovered a new way using multiple actions to iterate over data and change the value of a field until a condition is not met anymore thus ending the batch process.Requirement:  Update all stock quantity values from 0 to 1One Model = StockDataModelA) First set Model Actions:2 Model Actions Settings for StockDataModel = 1st action = When Model Saved then run one action Action = Query Model (Behavior = Standard, completely replace data)2nd action = When Model re-queried then run 2 actionsAction = Update a field on row(s) field:Quantity value:1Action = Save Model StockDataModel.B) Create a Button (on Page Title) action type = multiple actions1st action = Update a field on row(s) field:Quantity value:12nd action = Save Model StockDataMode3rd action = Query Model (Behavior = Standard, completely replace data)C) Set Model Condition:field:Quantity is not = 1condition set to = is always onThis way the update will be invoked when the user clicks on the button.The multiple actions on the

For those of you who missed it Skuid demoed an amazing new feature at Dreamforce 14. The ability to have dynamic charts and graphs right in your Skuid pages. Very, very cool!! It was dynamic, extremely functional and of course the UI was gorgeous. It was my favorite new feature at Dreamforce 14 and was at the top of my wish list for new features… Skuid, you are doing amazing things! The stuff you are coming out with deserves its very own keynote! If people really knew how Skuid allows them to tap into and interact with their data and display it beautifully they would be amazed. Thank you for all your innovation and efforts! We all appreciate it!

Are there any plans to separate default values from conditions? Currently you can set a Model’s fields default values with conditions, but there may be times when you want to apply conditions so that a query returns a set of records that match criteria, but you want fields on those records to get a default value that the field doesn’t already have, and therefore can’t be added as a condition as it’d mean records may not be returned.There are ways around this of course, but I think separating the two functions out will help make it clearer as to the responsibilities of each.

I’ve been using Skuid on and off over the last few weeks. I’ve not delved too much into the Javascript side of things, as I’ve been trying to explore how far the declarative features can go.Whilst I like the tutorial, use case focus of the current documentation, I’d really like to see some more material around what Skuid is really doing under the covers. Sometimes Skuid can feel a bit of a black box and figuring out why things aren’t working as expected isn’t easy, and I find myself having to imagine what Skuid is doing, and then testing those ideas to see if I can confirm them one way or the other. There’s also the added element of ‘Is this a bug?’ (I guess the corollary to this is perhaps documentation of best approaches to debugging, or even new debugging tools?)Irritatingly, I don’t really have any examples to hand as I think of this - the only thing I can grasp towards is something like ‘order of execution’ - for example, I’ve been caught out by the order in which models are liste

I know that you can add child objects and their fields to a table, but once you add these fields you cannot use the search feature to find records with child objects with a certain text.

Check out this video about the brand new Skuid Actions Framework, available now in Skuid Summer 14.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Wbh3oBJ5E

In places like templates and field editors, there is a picklist in the builder for aligning buttons or values “Left” or “Right”. I’d love the option to align “Center”, too! For instance, if I have a template displaying icons/images, I’d like the image to be centered in the field/column instead of on one side or the other in the editor/table in which it is displayed.

As Rob would say, these are definitely have your cake and eat it too types of items but would love to see the following features:1) Custom Actions - Similar to custom components with a builder, would be very useful to write custom actions that would appear in the list of available actions within the action framework.  This can all be done via snippets so the functionality exists today, however having custom actions would enable a declarative approach to more common actions that take place once the custom action is written.2) Action Conditions - Similar to rendering conditions, would be very helpful to have one of the below.  For situations where a large number of actions are invoked based on a triggering event (e.g. button press), there could be a slight deviation of which actions should trigger based on some condition.  This is possible currently by having two buttons each conditionally rendered based on that condition.  However, in the case where a lot of the actions are in both butt

what needs to be entered in the ‘One-click URL’ field of the table view properties in order to view the image as a popup, rather than a new web page?  Or is this not doable?

Drag and Drop Opportunity Wall is a hit and Summer 14 Release, with multiple actions, a number one on the top of the charts!https://github.com/skuidify/SamplePages/blob/master/ActionRecipies/OpportunityPlanningWall.xml

Is there a sample available or can one be provided for building a custom component that is context aware?  Ideally, this would allow for the “Context” tab to appear in the builder.An example would be the map component in the tutorial section where the map only displays locations related to a parent item.  When placed in a drawer, the map would display all locations that are related to the parent row that is the context of the drawer.Thank you!

Is it possible to create a row action that closes a drawer, say if the user wants to cancel editing info in that drawer? Pretty much the same as closing a popup in the event of a cancel action, as below:Perhaps this is one of those “the more you guys deliver, the more people ask for stuff” moments.

Have the ability to search within a table using special characters for an advanced search such as " " for exact match (so you don’t have to turn off tokenize search), using to search for one or the other, <-> to exclude a word or phrase.

For those of you wondering how to add an event handler to a skuid popup for any event (i.e. “close”, “beforeClose”, etc) here’s a simple line of code you can run once the popup opens. skuid.$(".ui-dialog-content").dialog({<br>"beforeClose" : function()<br> {<br> //put your event-handler code here.<br> console.log(arguments);<br> }<br>})

Currently, you define a series of actions and assign them to one trigger event. If you need to do the same actions for another trigger event, you need to either put all of the logic in a global snippet that can be assigned to both or define all of the same steps again under the second trigger event. For example, maybe you want to requery model data, reset conditions, hide/show buttons or messaging after a few different trigger events, such as A) a successful save, B) Identifying interim changes by another user that trumps your save or C) Capturing a data change in a reference list. It would be more efficient to create a global action series like “Refresh Parent Account” that has all of your steps related to displaying messages and buttons dependent on the parent account. You could add it as a single step to each separately defined trigger event, as part of their unique action sets.

I’m really liking Skuid’s excel import feature! Quick question, we would like customize some parts of the process. There are 3 points we would like to play with: The title of the page. The photo The most important part… Can we change the temp file which gets downloaded, to a template that we specify? Since this page is a VisualForce page in the skuid managed package which gets the download file from the StaticResource it seems like we can’t change anything. Is there any way we can get the file to change other than recreating the entire process (apex controller, VF page, etc.)?