Hi,
first off, this is just a brainstorming idea, don't judge me :-)
Sometimes for persistent entities you want to show certain fields only under certain conditions, like if the user pressed a button or selected a certain value.
Often one would achieve this goal by adding a boolean attribute to the entity and restrict the visibility of ui-elements via this exact boolean attribute.
But if the object gets committed, the value of the boolean also is. It would be nice if we could define a single attribute "non-persistent" to prevent it from beeing committed to the database.
I know there are many workarounds to achieve similar results, but I think the overhead which is necessary for that is just to much.
Let the discussion begin :)
This would be indeed very useful.
@Jan: Ctrl+clickproblem is off topic in this forum-idea but since it is a good idea: https://forum.mendix.com/link/ideas/1108
If we can use that non-persistent attribute also in a list, I'm in. That give you the option to mark some records and do something with it. The Ctrl-Click option for multi select has some limitations and if you select records and forget the ctrl button one time, you should start all over again.