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You can see here I’m using a template component to add a html comment to my page. I need to add quite a bit of documentation to finish up this application… and I prefer to add it directly into the code… or in this case, into the page designer. This works, but I really don’t need to see my comments in the rendered page… only in the designer. Could you add a “comments” field to all controls that would appear in the design pane and be stored in the page xml ?

Today I wanted to add a Recent Items list to my Skuid page. It doesn’t display the standard Salesforce sidebar, so I was resigned to building it out in Visualforce and Apex. But then I thought … I wonder if Skuid has thought of this? I created a model, typed “rec” into the sObject Type and bingo! There’s a RecentlyViewed object there to be used (which I think Salesforce only made available in Summer '13). Now I can just put a table over that model and what would have taken hours or days takes 5 minutes. We like. A lot.

While watching the filters and conditions video I had an idea. It would be very useful if when you were creating filters… you could “preview” the records the filter would select… maybe in a popup form.

Just created my first pseudo rollup summary using child relationships based on this tutorial (Page Not Found — Skuid v15.1.6 Documentation). In my case it was to create a summary of benefits and their amounts rolled up onto a parent insurance policy. I’m used to having to do that sort of thing with Apex triggers, and that has some benefits. But this method is so simple and adds the huge benefit of being able to adjust the formatting in the template without having to mass update records (because it calculates at runtime). Love it.

I have a tabset and the options for rendering the tabs (top, left or right) don’t quite work for my need. (I need left navigation, but I also need other stuff in that left pane.) So I think I want to render the tabset without the tab labels and create a side nav bar in a separate template to act as pseudo tab labels. To get rid of the tab labels and not leave empty white space, I figure I’ll find their CSS class and set display:none on them. Then to activate the side nav bar, it looks like I need to use the aria settings. Is this the right approach? And is there any documentation on the aria stuff? Thanks heaps.

I am just putting the finishing touches on our first implementation of Skuid in our shiny new Salesforce instance. While developing our calendar functions, I thought of a few functions I believe would greatly enhance the calendar: Idea: Allow users to choose # of rows for time increments on Weekly view Reason: Currently, every 15 minutes has its own row. It would be great if I could specify if only every half hour or hour got its own row, because our calendar is uncomfortably tall to look at in a glance for the week. Idea: Highlight the current time on daily and weekly view Reason: From the weekly view or daily view, it would be great if a little orange line could indicate where we are in the day. It just helps our back-office staff who are constantly being interrupted to check the calendar see where they are quickly. Idea: Support all-day events on the calendar Reason: It might be difficult to implement, but these would be a great addition to the calendar. Birthdays, vacations, confer

I found myself wanting to create a blank hidden table today just to use the export to excel function. Is there a way to create a button to export all the fields from a model using the same functionality as the table export? (just without the table)

Currently, the table layout provides records as rows, and fields as columns. This is obviously pretty standard and works 95% of the time. However, there are certain instances when screen real-estate would require the opposite. There are also situations where it would be more intuitive for the user to work this way. (e.g. a few records with lots and lots of fields) How hard would it be to make a table component treat records as columns, and fields as rows?

popups are cool but creating them is a pain in the “popup” size window could you include a control, like the one that video viewers have, that lets you expand the popup to “full screen”, that is, as big as the area taken by a normal form when you are working on it thanks

Queues are great! One thing that would make them even better would be the ability to add/delete records directly from a queue (like in a table). So far, I have a button for a popup to create a new record, but inline deleting is harder. I guess there is a custom way to do this, but if you could build this into the standard functionality of Skuid, that would be awesome. 🙂

Hi All I’m trying to conditionally display fields based on a checkbox, per the documentation here Page Not Found — Skuid v15.1.6 Documentation The only issue is, I’d like to completely hide the appropriate “section” if the checkbox is not selected. Even if I put no value under the true argument, the field label together with the empty space shows up. Doesnt look good and is also a bit confusing… Can this be done using a custom skuid component and a bit of jquery .show() and hide() ?

Hi Ben … yep, 2.48 fixed the issue. And I like the new links to select the days in the week that the month view shows. Very neat. Can I add a couple of items to the wishlist for the calendar month view? - The navigator at the top has the month name, but not the year, so if you click through to the next year it’s not apparent. Maybe instead of “September” you could go for “September 2013” or “Sep 2013”? - One benefit of going for the Sep 2013 approach is that the label would then always be the same width. This would help when you want to click the right arrow multiple times to go forward several months. At present, when you do that, the arrow moves position depending on the width of the month’s label. Note: This topic was created from a reply on the Need 5 weeks in calendar month view topic.

it would be great if the “advanced” tab for fields gave access to some event hooks, even just “after update” I know you can write a custom field renderer and write the event hook into the javascript of the field… but lots of time you just want to run some javascript on a known event and it would make it conceptually a lot easier for user’s to handle (or I guess, users like me who are used to database environments that are event driven) so the “event hook” would basically allow you to enter some Javascript that would be placed in the appropriate event on the rendered control.

It would be really nice if the “advanced” field properties allow the user to set the font, font size, font color, background color for both the field and the label i know they could add custom css to do this… but in the real world that’s a chore a lot of user’s won’t tackle it goes against the “web” mindset to do individual overrides of properties like this, but lots of time its really helpful on a database form to add emphasis or group fields together visually

We have 6 date fields that are filled in with workflow when a task is completed in our custom object project management org. I want to show these dates on the Calendar Component when they are filled in. We also have custom objects in this same org that has fields that show estimated completed date depending on when the record is created. I’d like to show these on the calendar too. I can’t seem to get the calendar to use a date field.

Thanks Ben, What I need to do is provide a way for the users to filter the records based on the values in the child relationship fields, rather than put a permant filter on them Note: This topic was created from a reply on the Combine records from detail objects topic.

hello We use a lot of priority lists ( in projects , phase, steps/tasks and in general views ) , Whilst Skuid works very fast in editing, it would be very welcome to reordering items in a list by dragging&dropping For instance if I have a tasklist ordered on the Duedate and I wil drag&drop an item from that same list inbetween two other dates. The item will then get a date inbetween the two Or if I order the same list on PRIORITY and drag an item from URGENT to MEDIUM it automatically adjusts the priority field and shows the newly ordered list instantly regards Edwin

Check out this wonderful video that John Nelson made (designed by our very own intern Grant Thomas). It’s really fun and explains Skuid in a way that people can actually understand. 🙂

I read through the tutorial Using The File Component to Attach Files to a Record (Page Not Found — Skuid v15.1.6 Documentation). It all makes sense and it works fine to upload a document. But for viewing, it would be ideal to be able to make use of the way Salesforce previews Chatter Files, as it’s visually more appealing than opening an attached document in a separate browser tab/window. But am I right in thinking that that’s not possible because you’re storing the file in the old Attachment object, rather than the Chatter Files data structure? And is that the longer term plan?

Currently Skuid processes Mustache Merge syntax in Action/Button Labels and URLs, but not in Icons. If Skuid did process merge syntax in Icons, then different icons could be rendered depending on URL Parameters, Model data, etc. For example, the following would result in different button icons being displayed depending on whether or not a “fs” parameter exists in the URL query string: {{^$Param.fs}}ui-silk-arrow-inout{{/$Param.fs}}{{#$Param.fs}}ui-silk-arrow-in{{/$Param.fs}}

I’m developing a mobile implementation and the instant search on a Product table is clunky. Could there be a way for us to toggle search via a button press?

I’d like a button on any field editors, tables, or headers/titles that allows the user to put the section into full edit mode. I like my pages to default to read mode, but the user should be able to put the page into edit mode when they want to, similar to standard SF UI.

I have a page with many models on it, and a “save all” button at the top. When there is a permission problem saving one of the records, the message a user gets at the top of the screen is “You do not have permissions to insert this record.” It would be way better if it says which model or object the error was related to. (Of course, in trying to troubleshoot this, users just give me the screenshot of their error, and not tell me everything they did on the page.)

Thanks Anna. That looks very promising for the “fancybox” type of need. Great for modal inputs. Are there other effects in the pipeline too? I’d love to see the ability to dynamically resize sections. e.g. when you’re working with a list, you want it to be wide, but when you select a record to view its detail, you want the list to shrink and the detail section to expand. The same impact could also be achieved by having the detail section overlay the list section (as you often see in iPad apps like Salesforce Touch). Note: This topic was created from a reply on the Does Skuid support animation effects? topic.

I’d like to be able to do a calculation and use the result of that as the value of a model’s condition. For instance, pass a date into the page via URL, get another date from another model, compare the two and create some result, then use that result as a condition for another model on the page.