Idea - Creating a form from a structure

Creating a form from a structure

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Service Studio

It would be nice to add the possibility of dragging and dropping a structure to a screen to create a form.
Not having to go by the entity.
The goal is to store the object generated in the form in a local variable.
For instance to be sent out to API.
When we need Outsystems only for the front end of an application (in case of legacy for instance), it could be handy to work with structure instead of entities that will be empty shell creating useless call the a db.

Thanks

24 Feb 2025

Daniël Kuhlmann

MVP

Changed the category to

Service Studio

25 Feb 2025

Brad Pattison

I see how this makes the process easier, but it isn't too hard to do currently.
1 - Create a screen.
2 - Add a local variable with the desired Structure as the datatype to the screen.
3 - Drag a form to the screen.
4 - Drag the local variable into the form.

03 Mar 2025

Sriyamini

This is an interesting idea and can certainly improve the efficiency of API-driven applications where database entities are unnecessary. Having a straight drag-and-drop option for structures will simplify the workflow and prevent the meaningless unit structure. As @Brad Pattison mentioned the current approach is already quite simple, take just a few steps to achieve the same result. Although this feature will be good, this may not be a high priority because the manual process is already effective. However, for cases where developers often work with structures instead of entities, this can be a time saver.

17 Mar 2025