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Deselect All Button
This button lets the user deselect all rows in the grid or reference set selector.
Common properties
Class
The class property allows you to specify one or more cascading style sheet (CSS) classes for the widget. The classes should be separated by a space. The classes will be applied to the widget in the browser and the widget will get the corresponding styling. The classes should be classes in the theme that is used in the project. It overrules the default styling of the widget.
Styling is applied in the following order:
- the default styling defined by the theme the project uses
- the
Classproperty of the widget - the
Styleproperty of the widget.
You can see which widgets in a page have styling applied via the class or style property by clicking the Show styles button.
Style
The style property allows you to specify additional CSS styling. If a class is also specified, this styling is applied after the class.
For example:
background-color:lightblue; color:red;
will result in red text on a blue background.
You can see which widgets in a page have styling applied via the style or class property by clicking the Show styles button.
General properties
Caption
The caption defines the text that will be shown. The template can contain parameters that are written as a number between braces, e.g. {1}. The first parameter has number 1, the second 2 etcetera. Note that to use template parameters the widget must be placed in a context of an entity, e.g. inside a data view or list view. The parameters will be replaced by the values of the attributes.
Tooltip
The tooltip property determines the text you will see in the tooltip that appears when you hover over the button. The tooltip text is translatable. See Translatable Texts. If the tooltip is not specified, no tooltip will be shown when hovering over the button.
Image
This property indicates which image will be shown in front of the caption of the button.
Icon
The icon property determines the icon that will be shown in front of the caption of the button. There are three options: no icon, a glyph icon or a (bitmap) image. Glyph icons come from the Bootstrap Halflings collection. The advantages of a glyph icon over a bitmap image are that glyphs are scalable, look sharp on high-resolution screens and their color can be changed by changing the font color. The advantage of an image icon is that it can have multiple colors.
Button Style
This property applies a predefined styling to the button.
Is default button
This property indicates whether this button is the default button of the grid or reference set selector. A grid or reference set selector can only have one default button. The default button is triggered when clicking or double clicking a row. Whether a click or a double click triggers it depends on the ‘default button trigger’ property of the Data grid, Template grid or Reference set selector.
The default button is marked with a “[default]” suffix in the Modeler, so that you can easily spot it. In the screenshot below the Edit button is the default button and the Delete button has a button style ‘Warning’.
Default value: False
Visibility properties
Visible
By default, whether or not an element is displayed in the browser is determined by how the page is designed and the user’s roles within the application. However, the page can be configured to hide the element unless a certain condition is met.
Context
The widget can be made visible only if the object of the data view that contains the widget satisfies the specificied criteria.
A practical example would be a web shop in which the user must submit both billing and delivery information. In this case, you might not wish to bother the user with a second set of address input fields unless they indicate that the billing address and delivery address are not the same. You can accomplish this by making the delivery address fields conditionally visible based on the Boolean attribute SameBillingAndDeliveryAddress.
Based on Attribute Value
When selected, this shows the widget while a particular attribute has a certain value. Only boolean and enumeration attributes can be used for this purpose.
Based on Expression
Added in Mendix 7.1.
When selected, this shows the widget while a provided expression evaluates to true. The object of the containing data view is available inside an expression as a $currentObject variable.
Note that the expression is evaluated in the browser, and hence, we advise against using “secret” values (like access keys) in it. In particular, we disallow usages of constants. Also, client-side expressions currently do not support all the functions that are available in the microflows. Please refer to an autocomplete list to know what functions are supported in your version.
Module Roles
The widget can be made visible to a subset of the user roles available in your application. When activated, this setting will render the widget invisible to all users that are not linked to one of the selected user roles.