The object dropdown widget in workshop lets you display object properties in the dropdown widget when filtering and selecting objects. It would be awesome, if we could get that option also directly in action types, since it greatly improves user experience and would avoid too much customization in workshop e.g. via partially hidden inline action forms where the nice dropdown widget would be replaced by some workshop input.
Best,
Florian
Great point. I’ve generally moved away from Action Forms, for reasons like this. The user experience is simply not good enough, once you want to do anything relatively simple, beyond selecting values.
The best solution for a fast prototype is currently a modal in Workshop. But this still requires a lot of work, in terms of setting up backing variables, functions, etc.
So +1 on this one!
To build on what @jakehop is saying, the default action form is really intended to just be that, a basic default.
If you want more customization you can configure Workshop widgets to gather all the values needed for an action (or possibly just a subset before providing those to an action form) and pass those values to a action configured with those values as defaults and to submit without showing the form if the action is valid to submit.
One of the advantages of the built-in Action form is that it comes with validation. Is there a simple way to provide the same validation for a custom form?
Not to forget conditional overwrites…