Properties Pane: change properties for selected widgets

By Harry de Boer on 9 Feb 2012

I'd like the posibility to select multiple widgets and then in the properties pane the properties that are not unique to a widget can be edited. For example, when selecting multiple radiobuttons I want to set the destination and style once for all radiobuttons.

Richard Pearson25 Sep 2013

Currently you can only set the Public property on 1 item at a time.

I've just imported an icon set of over 100 items which I'm putting in it's own eSpace purely for reuse by other applications.

I'm going to have to manually set each icon/image to public. This may take me some time!

It would be good if I could just multi-select all the items and toggle their Public attribute in one go!

Cheers,
Richard

Merged from 'Multi-Edit Public Property' (idea created on 2013-09-25 13:42:18 by Richard Pearson), on 2013-10-17 14:39:55 by Miguel Melo

Richard Pearson25 Sep 2013

Okay so I switched to an IconSet containing 3500 images. I've decided only to make the ones public that I need :-)

But this would still be a good idea.

Merged from 'Multi-Edit Public Property' (idea created on 2013-09-25 13:42:18 by Richard Pearson), on 2013-10-17 14:39:55 by Miguel Melo

José Antunes25 Sep 2013

Hi,

Similar to http://www.outsystems.com/ideas/Idea_View.aspx?IdeaId=1032

Cheers

Merged from 'Multi-Edit Public Property' (idea created on 2013-09-25 13:42:18 by Richard Pearson), on 2013-10-17 14:39:55 by Miguel Melo

José Antunes25 Sep 2013

Richard Pearson25 Sep 2013

Good spot. Probably. Better suggestion too - more generic. Like added to that idea.

Cheers

Merged from 'Multi-Edit Public Property' (idea created on 2013-09-25 13:42:18 by Richard Pearson), on 2013-10-17 14:39:55 by Miguel Melo

Jaime Marin4 Feb 2013

I would like to be able to select more than one object getting the common properties and edit them.

Merged from 'I would like to be able to select more than one object getting the common properties and edit them.' (idea created on 2013-02-04 14:02:30 by Jaime Marin), on 2013-10-17 14:40:28 by Miguel Melo

J.5 Feb 2013

similar as http://www1.outsystems.com/ideas/Idea_View.aspx?IdeaId=1271

Merged from 'I would like to be able to select more than one object getting the common properties and edit them.' (idea created on 2013-02-04 14:02:30 by Jaime Marin), on 2013-10-17 14:40:28 by Miguel Melo

Miguel Vieira5 Mar 2013

Would be usefull indeed.

Merged from 'I would like to be able to select more than one object getting the common properties and edit them.' (idea created on 2013-02-04 14:02:30 by Jaime Marin), on 2013-10-17 14:40:28 by Miguel Melo

J.11 Jan 2013

Hi,

I would like to see the following.

when you select a couple of, input-widgets in a screen, the "properties" block will become empty. Which is not very handy.
I would like to alter their css in 1 go, or set the same width. you name it.
every property that could be set the same should be editable.
ofcourse with and extra option "keep" where the specific property is kept

The alternative might be search and replace, but that won't be sufficient, because you don't want to change everything (and you cannot search on specific widget-types)

Merged from 'Multi-selected widgets and their properties' (idea created on 2013-01-11 14:43:34 by Statler & Waldorf and the amazing flappy tweedles!), on 2014-03-21 09:40:44 by Davide Marquês

Kilian Hekhuis15 Jan 2013

+1 from me. I've often wondered why that wan't possible.

Merged from 'Multi-selected widgets and their properties' (idea created on 2013-01-11 14:43:34 by Statler & Waldorf and the amazing flappy tweedles!), on 2014-03-21 09:40:48 by Davide Marquês

Bert Koot21 Mar 2013

Would be very useful when I have to set the mandatory property for several attributes in an entity for example.

Merged from 'Multi-selected widgets and their properties' (idea created on 2013-01-11 14:43:34 by Statler & Waldorf and the amazing flappy tweedles!), on 2014-03-21 09:40:48 by Davide Marquês

Nuno Palhinhas20 Mar 2014

Ability to edit common properties of multiple selected objects.

E.g. Select several containers and edit their style at once, instead of having to select each individually to do this.

Merged from 'Edit common properties of multiple selected objects' (idea created on 2014-03-20 14:59:43 by Nuno Palhinhas), on 2014-03-21 09:41:11 by Davide Marquês

Dinis Carvalho30 Oct 2015

Bump on this!
Would be a big time saver :)

João Costa10 Oct 2012

When you selecte several elements, the <Style> dropdown list is disable.
The idea is that you can apply a Style to several elements in on click, instead of selecting one by one and applying the style.

Merged from 'Applying a style to several screen elements' (idea created on 2012-10-10 11:07:36 by João Costa), on 2016-10-27 08:00:43 by André Vieira

Martin den Braven28 Jan 2016

It would be very nice edit multiple objects at once. For example to edit the width or left spacing for multiple containers or inputs.

Regards,
Martin

Merged from 'Edit multiple objects shared properties' (idea created on 2016-01-28 13:08:40 by Martin den Braven), on 2016-10-27 08:00:57 by André Vieira

Fantato28 Jan 2016

This is a great idea. Not only for containers or inputs, but for all kind of elements. For instance, I usually need to set roles for several pages, set mandatory atrributes to true or even a lot of actions to be public.

I guess this will be a good improvement if implemented.

regards
Fabio

Merged from 'Edit multiple objects shared properties' (idea created on 2016-01-28 13:08:40 by Martin den Braven), on 2016-10-27 08:00:57 by André Vieira

J.28 Jan 2016

idea has been proposed a couple of times for sure...

Merged from 'Edit multiple objects shared properties' (idea created on 2016-01-28 13:08:40 by Martin den Braven), on 2016-10-27 08:00:57 by André Vieira

Andre Klopper19 Aug 2015

What about the ability to select 10 containers and be able to change al the properties at once.

Will safe a lot of time to go to each and change...

Merged from 'Changing Properties on Multiple objects' (idea created on 2015-08-19 13:29:14 by Andre Klopper), on 2016-10-27 08:01:12 by André Vieira

Jimmy Vankerkhove26 Jul 2016

Good idea but not only for containers. I would extend it to entity attributes for instance.
If I select some entity attributes I would like to see the common properties and have the possibility to change them.

Merged from 'Changing Properties on Multiple objects' (idea created on 2015-08-19 13:29:14 by Andre Klopper), on 2016-10-27 08:01:13 by André Vieira

robert stephens4 Feb 2016

Would be nice to change common attributes at once for a selected group.
E.g. Setting the icon for a group of selected actions.

Merged from 'Change attributes of multiple elements (like actions)' (idea created on 2016-02-04 00:04:28 by robert stephens), on 2016-10-27 08:01:19 by André Vieira

J.4 Feb 2016

Idea has been proposed multiple times (and probably missing a couple)

https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/1032/properties-pane-change-properties-for-selected-widgets

http://www.outsystems.com/ideas/1227/applying-a-style-to-several-screen-elements

http://www.outsystems.com/ideas/2293/edit-multiple-objects-shared-properties

https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/2113/changing-properties-on-multiple-objects

Merged from 'Change attributes of multiple elements (like actions)' (idea created on 2016-02-04 00:04:28 by robert stephens), on 2016-10-27 08:01:19 by André Vieira

Robert Hantink26 Oct 2016

Select multiple items in Service Studio with CTRL-Click and get to adjust their shared properties. For instance i need to add a CSS class to 4 items on screen. Instead of just clicking one item adding the class and then clicking the next one and then adding the class, I simply CTRL-Click all the items that need the class and in the property window (bottom right) I see their shared properties. One of the shared properties would be 'Style Classes' and i can set them all at the same time. This feature would save a lot of development time and it surprises me Outsystems does not support it yet.

Merged from 'Select multiple items in Service Studio with CTRL-Click and get to adjust their shared properties' (idea created on 2016-10-26 09:51:23 by Robert Hantink), on 2016-10-27 08:01:37 by André Vieira

Robert Hantink28 Oct 2016

This stuff is working really well for other frameworks, like Oracle APEX for instance.

Tjaart Swanepoel10 Mar

I want to be able to change multiple widgets at once

Example:

When I want to assign a style to multiple expressions, but not all, I would like to be able to select the Expressions and set their values to the CSS or make them bold etc. I would like to essentially be able to have access to the properties that the widgets share, be it, Visible, Margin left, Margin Top, width, Style classes, etc.

I think you get my point. Would this be possible, are you working on it, if so how soon can we look forward to it in our toolboxes?

Merged from 'Changing of multiple selected widgets' (idea created on 2017-03-10 07:40:35 by Tjaart Swanepoel), on 2017-03-13 08:55:02 by André Vieira

indra budiantho30 Nov 2016

If i choose 3 attributes ("Name", "Surname", "DateOfBirth") and all have some values, say the attribute "Is Mandatory" and by default they have values "No". Now i want to change all the three values to "Yes". By selecting all the attributes, the value can be changed all at once, not one by one.

thank you.

Merged from 'Change Common Properties all at once' (idea created on 2016-11-30 03:57:16 by indra budiantho), on 2017-03-31 17:18:21 by André Vieira

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