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Couple of ideas for enhancements to component messages (e.g. errors);1) Currently, clicking a message removes it from the DOM.  The challenge with this is that often times users wants to copy/paste the message text but are unable to because the message dissappears as soon as you click on it.  Would like to see an “x” icon on the right side of the message for dismissing and the click handler removed so that the message remains displayed unless you click the ‘x’.  Additionally, there could be a “dismiss all” feature for quick dismissal of all messages.2) Would like to see a feature added for customizing messages.  This would require the full details of the message (e.g. field, row, etc.) be provided so that the message could be customized.  I could see this working as either an overriden “formatMessage” method or some type of callback.  There is a post at 

tabshow event has a property called “timeStamp”What’s up with the camel case? timestamp is one word!I’m just joking around, but my failure to look closely at the event properties and notice the camel case did cost me 5 minutes of confusion.

A simple idea:When we click the “create model” button, the default “NewModel” text in the model id should be automatically selected so we can just start typing the model’s name without clicking on the field.

For those who don’t know me, I’m the Director of User Experience here at Skuid. I’m doing a some user research and I could use about 10 participants.It’s painless (I think) and will take about 10-15 minutes of your time. All you need is a web browser.If you’re interested, send me an email and I’ll send you the link. I’m shannon at skuid.com!I’ll accept participants until Friday, April 8th, 2016 or until I get 10 sign-ups - whichever comes first. (I’d like to limit it to one person per organization initially, so I get a range of people.)Thanks for participating in our community, and helping us make Skuid better!

Would like to see the following enhancements for Queues:1) Update “Panel” - This would be a combination of the drawer concept and update page include concept.  In short, instead of expanding a drawer below the queue item, allow for designating a “panel” where the contents are displayed.  While useful, drawers are rather cumbersome when navigating lots of records (table or queue).  The drawer functionality is great, just would like to be able to target where the drawer should go.  Page includes are also useful in their own right, but when dealing with “lists” and “details about list items”, handling navigation, model changes, etc. between the parent page and the include page is challenging.  an “Update Panel” action would bring both of these concepts together.2) Add global actions - Akin to table global actions3) Add row actions - Akin to table row actionsHere’s a demo of all 3 concepts:

Currently, to use the FORMAT_DATE function, you must specify the format to use.  In a globalized application, date/time formats are not always the same.Would like to see support added for the following:1) FORMAT_LOCALEDATE(date) function2) FORMAT_LOCALEDATETIME(date) function3) Expore skuid.utils.userLocale in Global merge variablesThank you!

Hey Skuid friends! As you think about increased accessibility it would be great for the date-selector field type to respond to keyboard arrows.   Right now if you click “enter” it selects today’s date, which is great. It would be awesome if you could also navigate around the little calendar with the keyboard arrows, to easily select days like “tomorrow” “yesterday” and “one week from today”Thanks!

With the new in-line field errors, it would be nice to be able to disable visiblity to error messages in the page title (and any other initiating component).Adding something like a “Do not show errors” property would do the trick.Thanks!

Custom Action support has been talked about for a long time (here, here, here and others).  About 1.5 years ago, in this post, it was mentioned that custom actions are exposed for custom components although as far as I know, it still has yet to be documented how to officially accomplish this. Encountering the need for this constantly lately, I decided to dig in to see what could be done. Below is a demo of what t

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Probably not possible, but just in case someone found a way…Now that we are using skuid, I have no more utility for SF Standard sidebar , except for 1 crucial ItemOur Dialer (CTI) in part of the sidebar and we need to keep it open for call disposition…Would there be any way to have it directly in a skuid page, thus allowing us to completely stay away from it being open at all times?Thank you 

On a project I’m working on I had to embed a gantt chart. After some research I found a few JS gantt libraries, which didn’t turn out of much value. Until I found the DHTMLX Gantt Chart library. It’s for free and a pro-version can be bought (I just used the free version, it offers all the functionality I needed). In order to embed the gantt chart you will have to do the following: Download and unzip the DHTMLX Gantt Chart (you can get it here) Upload the libraries and the css you need to use (in my case dhtmlxgantt.css, dhtmlxgantt.js, ext/dhtmlxgantt_marker.js, ext/dhtmlxgantt_tooltip.js) as static resource (if you want you can also upload any theme from skins/ but then you don’t need the standard css).

I know this is something than can be done using Apex Triggers, but who actually uses, nevermind likes, Apex?I’d have set it up in the same way triggers are managed in Salesforce, but using action framework and snippets. Then loaded dynamically based on objects actually on page.Especially useful for Before triggers since Salesforce Workflow, Flow and Process Builder is good enough to use for most things needed for an After trigger.

I realize there are third party apps for digital signature but all that I have seen require the emailing of a link and opening of the document in a third party app. Though I understand the reasoning for this (using the email address as verification of identity), it is now a requirement of a legal esignature. Real-time digital signature is used at grocery stores, pharmacies, hospitals, Apple terms and conditions, etc… It seems there should be an easier way to collect esignature inside a Skuid page. I picture an esignature component where the signature is captured from a tablet or signature pad, converted to an image which is attached to a record using a modified version of the Skuid uploader. It essentially would be the Skuid uploader, but with an added setting to capture signature. If selected, instead of the user seeing a drag and drop to upload, they would see signature box with a submit button. Pressing submit would upload the signature image as an attachment just as the uploader

Right now when selecting the fields to add into a model, there are tabs for All Fields, Selected Fields, and Child Relationships. I think it could be helpful to have another tab or a filter option to see only required fields by that model. Its not a huge deal, but something that could add some value and same some time when working with models you are unfamiliar with.

What if, instead of reinventing the wheel on column configuration on a table, you instead tweaked the tool you already have. Skuid page builder can already reconfigure columns. What if you created a new type of permission that would allow a user assigned that permission to access a mini page builder only to reconfigure a specific table or field editor and then save the updated page as a “personal page” that overrides the page assignment only for only that user. They wouldn’t be able to build or change models or add components or add CSS… They would only be able to update which fields display and what order they appear in tables and field editors. Maybe a button on live page component that, when clicked, opens up only that specific component in a “mini” Skuid page builder. Upon pressing the save button in the page builder, it would clone the whole page, add the changes from the component they updated in the “mini page builder”, save the updated clone page with the same name appended

It would be sweet if we could create ui-only picklist and multipicklist fields where the picklist entry options could be generated from rows in a model.(apologies if this is already an idea… I didn’t find it in a brief search)

I’d like to move to using Skuid’s navigation component, but there’s a handful of wishlist items I’d love to see first:Allow an item source of Model. We have configurable menu items stored as data, so this would allow us to reuse them.Collapse horizontal navigation down to a hamburger menu on smaller screen sizes (as per Craig’s post).Allow a drop down menu to simply have an icon as a label.Allow icons in navigation items to be larger. Doing it with custom CSS is pretty fiddly.Bonus: some sort of highlighted state to show that a navigation item is “active”. This may be a little tricky given that selecting an item can fire many actions. Perhaps there’s an action to highlight a navigation item as active?

I try to be as lazy as possible. And one opportunity for me to be even more lazy would be if SKUID had a way to clone a component that is on the page. Right now I go to the XML, find the unique ID, copy the relevant code, find the spot where I want the component (in the XML), paste it, modify the (duplicative) unique ID and then save. I’d love for there to be a clone button which I can press that would do all this for me. Cloning both the component and all the elements within the component (aside from assigning new unique IDs).

Hi, I’d like to be able to modify the size, padding, etc of the Row Action icons in a table. This would solve these issues: https://community.skuid.com/t/make-row-action-icons-smaller and https://community.skuid.com/t/shrink-table-row-height

I think this has been suggested before.Basically, I’d like to create a ui-only formula field that has conditional IF, AND, OR operators/functions that compare it with other ui-only formula fields.What is the best way to accomplish this currently? Or what is the workaround to this that people are currently using? Or is my only solution to use a series of nested IF statements?Thank you!

I have a page with tabs for products and bookmarked products(custom object).It would be great if the row action (bookmark) could be conditionally rendered based on the result of a subquery ie. if the product has been bookmarked by the current userI currently use a product model that uses the result of a subquery to only retrieve Products that have not been bookmarked