Idea - Visualize popup within blocks

Visualize popup within blocks

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Service Studio

When I have a block containing a pop up, that pop up will be collapsed in instances of that block. When I have a placeholder inside that pop up, and I need to add a significant amount of design inside that placeholder, using the widget tree only gets very tedious.

Therefor I would like to be able to display the content of the block, or at least the placeholders.

16 Jun 2023

Dorine Boudry

MVP

Yes,

i think this is an oversight by Outsystems, not intentional.

For comparison, with the else branch of an if widget, they got it right, normally not shown, unless there's a placeholder in it, in that case, the else is shown anyway.

Agree, it is fine not to see the full popup, to at least have the placeholder available to be able to drag things into would be an improvement.

see also this forum post where same thing was discussed.

Dorine

17 Jun 2023

Cristian Quesada Cossio

So, what should we do in this case? If we want our team to use our blocks from the library.

Any solution?

18 Jul 2025