Conditional formatting rules on “hidden” columns

Hey, this is a great improvement! I’m curious about one limitation - the list of “condition” fields is limited to just those that are shown in the widget, meaning we can’t set up formatting rules based on “hidden” columns. Is this intended behavior or something that can be easily addressed?

For example, in the above video, the first two rules are based on the presence of a specific string in a text field representing status:

These rules depend on that exact text appearing in the “Status” field. But if, for example, the app needs to be multilingual, these rules would fail and need to be duplicated for every language. For this kind of case, our team would use an integer ID for each different status so we could build rules that would work regardless of user language.

Since the user doesn’t care about the status ID, we would rather not show that column in the app - but this limitation in conditional formatting forces us to include it in the list of “fields” and just place it horizontally beyond the viewport of the widget so we can use it in a rule like this.

Curious of your thoughts on this - please let me know if I should make a separate feature request post, thanks!

Second this. Love the conditional formatting but it would be really great to be able to perform evaluations against columns not included in the widget.

It would also be really great to be able to compare columns to columns, not just in conditional formatting, but also in table widget filters.

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Hey @aaronbroussard and @eric.alwine ,
Thank you for the feedback! Only being able to do conditional formatting for visible fields was part of the initial implementation. We definitely hear the feedback and the use case, and will consider non-visible fields to be included as well in further enhancements. It would be more beneficial for us if you could create a separate feature request post and folks interested could upvote that one. This would help us prioritise amongst other initiatives.

For comparing columns to columns - this is coming soon :slight_smile: Stay tuned!

@aaronbroussard @eric.alwine I went ahead and made this a separate feature request, go ahead and make sure to vote!

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