Idea - Conditional Visibility Property for Widgets

Conditional Visibility Property for Widgets

New

OutSystems UI

Currently in OutSystems, developers often need to wrap widgets inside a Container or an If widget just to control their visibility. This makes the UI tree more complex and adds unnecessary nodes.

Proposed Solution

Add a “Visible ” property directly on all widgets.

Accepts a Boolean expression
No need to wrap the widget inside Containers or If widgets
Works for all widget types (Text, Input, Button, List, etc.)
Automatically hides/shows the widget based on the expression

Example

Visible : User.IsAdmin = True

The widget is only visible if the expression is true — without adding a Container.

05 Dec 2025

Tiago Ribeiro

Champion

While I understand where this is coming from, from my experience having a explicit IF in the UI is much more maintainable than Visible properties.

In most teams I've worked, it's considered an anti pattern to use the Visible property of containers.

11 Dec 2025

Mustafa Emad Shaker

I agree with @Tiago Ribeiro here.

I find it easier for a developer, who did not contribute to the code before, to detect a conditional visibility in the Widget Tree when there is an IF used.

The visibility parameter in any widget, and specially containers, is hard to detect with the naked eye.

08 Jan