Always Hide Fields

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  • Official comment
    Jacquelyn May

    Hey everyone! We've just released the option to always hide fields. Read about it here:

    http://blog.podio.com/2017/02/23/the-power-of-apps/ 

    Hopefully this will help keep your apps more clean and efficient :) 

    /Jacquelyn - Podio 

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  • Greg Zimdahl

    I use calcs as variables that will drive larger calcs later. I second this functionality.

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  • Samson Burton

    This seems like it would be such an easy addition to implement. Could we please see something done here?

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  • Colin Brown

    +1 for this idea!
    As an admin, i have a ton of fields that I use for sensitive calculations or other things that the 'regular' members on my team don't need or want to see. This can mean my apps get cluttered up and less user friendly for regular users. Ultimately, it makes my colleagues not want to use podio at all, and I think about ways of getting users OUT of podio (in terms of our day to day company workflows).
    Since Podio makes money on per-user subscriptions, this strikes me as a very important matter, and something worth elevating on your product roadmap.

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  • Elliot Fleet

    I'd like to second this request. 

    The system I am building also uses calculation fields as methods of incorporating extra functionality and references often using javascript.  It would really help to be able to hide the fields from the app UI. 

    What would be really useful would be the options for each field

       -  hide if empty (already exists)
       -  hide from print
       -  hide from app

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  • Scott Shelton

    Ditto! Apps become long and confusing.

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  • Helge Seekamp

    Es wäre hilfreich, wenn dieses Feature vorankommt. Denn damit lässt sich neben mehr Ruhe ins Bild bringen auch Programmierung verstecken.

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  • Simon Duke

    Any update on this. I really need to hide away fields that contain data. For example, I use a workflow to pull in the google address information (JSON) from a location field, and then calculate the other address field so that I can separate these into specific fields (Street Number, Street etc). The issue is that the Json field is multiline and is long. This means that the app is a mess unless I can hide the JSON multi-line text field. 

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  • Kirk Waechter

    I request this as well.

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  • Marco Rossi

    I need the same! Could you please able us admin to create "hidden only" fields?

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  • Marco Rossi

    @Sara Personally I have many fields that contain IDs or other info which I use to connect my Podio data with other external apps / procedures we have. Eg:

    - Online / Offline status

    - Contact ID vs my public website ID

    etc...

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  • Guido Sondern (cL)

    +1

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  • Frederic Lumiere

    Yes, that would be great!!!

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  • Volker Drewer-Gutland

    +1

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  • Conrad Muller

    +1

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  • Dallas Farrell

    +1

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  • Jeff Dougherty

    +10

    Have a button in the in the Field Settings to "HIDE FIELD" so you can turn it on or off depending if you want it to be seen by others??

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  • Mitchell Ogden

    I absolutely need this functionality to clean up my items for end users.

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  • Cédric Orteu

    +1

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  • Eduardo Guevara

    I'd love this.

    I use some fields to help trigger tasks through workflows and would love to keep from changing them by mistake.

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  • Marijn Achterkamp

    Yes this would be really useful. For a remote API call I store data in the app but this should not show up to regular users. Hiding this make Podio much more friendly to use

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  • Jodie Cardoza

    please please add this functionality! will keep my apps from looking over complicated while getting maximum use of the calculation fields.

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  • Rodrigo

    Please!!! we really need to hide some fields for end users

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  • Mitch Ogden

    I have to create a please ignore section in so many apps because this doesn't exist.

    http://screencast.com/t/m4vMqo3z4lr

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  • Gary & Lilla

    A badly needed feature due to many reasons already voiced here.

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  • Matthew Ringel

    +1

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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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  • 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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  • Bill Carovano

    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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  • Bill Carovano

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

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