Idea - Allow Blocks to be bound to Label widget

MVP

Allow Blocks to be bound to Label widget

New

Frontend (App Interfaces)

Several of the patterns provided by OutSystems UI can be used as replacements for native widgets (e.g. Input or ComboBox), but since they are not native HTML elements they cannot be bound to a Label and take advantage of the Is Mandatory text decoration nor the focus switch when the Label is clicked/touched.

It would be an interesting language development if any Block could optionally define one of its widgets as the default widget for this purpose though! Blocks with a default widget defined would then be available for selection on the Label's Input Widget dropdown.

OutSystems UI and any other pattern library could then make use of this and integrate seamlessly with the existing Form behavior.

Idea sparked by this post : https://www.outsystems.com/forums/discussion/64101/outsystems-ui-dropdownsearch-is-not-a-valid-label-input-widget/

27 Aug 2020

Emma Thurlow

Perhaps what we need is a real way to define a custom form control, like a web block but with support for other form widget things:

- IsValid attribute (exposed to the consumer)

- ValidationMessage attribute (exposed to the consumer)

- Value input attribute with 2 way binding (like the Input Value attribute)

30 Apr 2021

Sara Skov

Champion

Outsystems, is this something you are working on?

You could easily add a label inside the block and have an optional parameter for the label text.

It could be really helpful if you did...

06 Dec 2022