Combobox - quickcreate
From a UX perspective it would be great if the combobox would provide a quickcreate functionality similar to the quickcreate in the section "Tags" when working with user stories in Mendix Project Management.
This could be implemented
- by allowing developers to hand over the search criteria as primitive parameter to a microflow/ nanoflow when "On Enter Event" (or other events) are triggered. E.g. include boolean "Include search value as parameter" when a event is configured.
- by adding a functionality in the widget itself which can be configured to have a item/ button at the end of the result list called "Create {entered value}. Instead of selecting the item it would create a new object (matching the configuration) when clicked and fills in the selected attribute of the display value (similar to Tags in Project Management).
Hi Yvar,
you are right. This feature was not available when I suggested the idea but got introduced in V 2.8.0.
Would be great if Mendix could reapply this old functionality back in the modeler
Hi Levin,
I am pretty sure you can already do this using a combination of the "On filter input change" event of the combobox (https://docs.mendix.com/appstore/widgets/combobox/#events) which lets you store the filter input in some helper object (use a primitive string parameter with "Filter Input" as parameter argument).
And the "show footer" option.
Show footer gives you a widget area that will display below the search results of the combobox, here you can add your create new button and pass the helper object as parameter.
It is a bit more convoluted, and I think having the filter input available as parameter argument in more places, like the footer directly, would be nice (skipping the need for a helper), but what you are trying to achieve should already be possible with the standard combobox.