Always Hide Fields

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Phong To

I use fields to drive and control triggers. It would be nice to allow setting in fields to always hide in the UI. I know there is a Hidden when empty option, but would be nice to be able to hide always no matter what.

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  • Matt Clifton

    Would really value this functionality too!

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  • José Raúl Garijo Gómez

    +1 for this idea!

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  • Jeff Dougherty

    @Sara - Podio would it be possible to move this from the "long-term roadmap" to the "Near Term Roadmap??" This is a critical feature to be able to create clean, concise, user friendly apps?

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  • Frank Dirks

    Please implement this feature. Shouldn't be too difficult I guess and it's extremely valuable!!!

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  • Maurice Muli

    We have a number of apps with calculation fields and yes it'd be of great benefit to hide such from the App UI. I'd like to see recommendations by @Elliot Fleet implemented.

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  • Jay Patel

    +1 this would help bridge the gap by allowing us to build workarounds to many other missing features.

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  • Patrick Steil

    We have noticed a "hidden" and "visible" attributes when adding fields to an App.  They don't have any effect, but if we could just use that for this purpose that would at least help us that use the API.

    We need this for PodioTools as well so we can store the name/email of the reply-to email so we can expose this in GlobiFlow.

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  • Dorothee Bienefeld

    +1

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  • IT Help

    +1 Critical to creating cleaner, easy-to-use App views

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  • Bill Carovano

    We can definitely use a Podio enhancement that enables a field to be hidden from the normal app view.  That being said, I've found a number of cases where I'd want a hidden field that is still accessible/viewable in the following places:

    - Globiflow.  For calculations and other data manipulations.

    - Webforms.  Example here is a data capture form, where the data is captured into a field that won't be visible later because it is transformed/manipulated (either by Calculations or Globiflow) before it is shown in the normal app view.

    - Reference Badges.  Sometimes 5 fields is not enough and you concatenate multiple fields together so they are viewable in a Reference Badge.  Or you create a "Quick Reference" field in the app that you only want to show in the reference badge but not in the normal app view.

    - Tiles.  For dashboards and reporting (and similar to reference badges) you may want a "Quick Reference" visible in a Tile but not the normal app view.

     

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  • Sara Høeg Højlund-Rasmussen

    Thanks for the details @Bill. Will add it to our internal planning notes!

    Follow up question - would you expect the field to be hidden by default in Table Layout and Badge layout - or option to make it visible here?

    /Sara

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  • Bill Carovano
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    I don't personally see a need to show hidden fields in badge or table layout.

    One other comment: it would be useful to look at the need for read-only fields (writeable only by calculations, Globiflow, or a workspace admin) at the same time as hidden fields.  That way the need for "Quick Reference" fields (computed from other user-entered data) is addressed in a comprehensive way.

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  • Rainer Grabowski

    I fully aggree with Bill's last 2 posts.

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  • Justin Grow

    +1 

    We really need the invisible fields for our big applications. 

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  • Bram Andersen
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    +1

    Maybe:

    - Always Hidden

    - Hidden for users

    - Hidden if empty

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  • Bill Carovano

    This feature was just released to beta testers today, and it looks good!

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  • Mitch Ogden

    I want to beta test please

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  • Tom Urbanowicz

    Just released to beta testers.... Can I get in on that please?

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  • Sara Høeg Højlund-Rasmussen

    If anyone is interested in joining the beta for this feature please let me know via sara@podio.com - you can send message on Podio to this email to reach me via Podio chat.

    Thanks!

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  • Frank Dirks

    Thx Jacquelyn. really appreciate the you girl and guys at Podio are listening to us! Great feature.

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  • Rodrigo

    Great!!! Thanks

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  • Gary & Lilla

    Anyone know how to toggle the hidden fields to visible? I press the H key but all I get is a line near the bottom of the record that says Show Hidden Fields that goes away if I click on it.

    PS: You have to log out and back in before you can use the Always Hide feature.

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  • Sara Høeg Højlund-Rasmussen

    Gary & Lilla , unfortunately you cannot toggle to see the always hidden fields on items - they are hidden all the time.

    If you like to see this possible, please create a new fresh feature request and explain the use case for this! Thanks for sharing your feedback.

    //Sara - Podio

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