Popups: Missing features?

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Hey team - I spent several hours yesterday moving 2 of my popups over to the new project level popup manager and generally I’m very happy :slight_smile: It’s nice to have a global system to manage these.

There are 3 things I noticed while doing this and I’d like to know if these are missing features that will be added, were intentionally left out, or if I’m just missing them. All of these were present on the previous popups:

  1. Z-axis control: The only way I saw this could be influenced is with the ‘click outside to close’, but that just pushes it to the very top.
  2. State variables: With the previous popups, there was a default variable that would show up in the ‘from components in current page’ that would update automatically based on the open / closed state so it was really easy to reference it in other bindings or workflows. I haven’t seen this variable for the new popups so I’ve simulated it with creating my own variable that I update in every workflow that either opens / closes the popup. While this works, it feels like a more bug prone approach and also means I can’t use the ‘click outside to close’ because I have no control over that workflow so I can’t update my variable tracking the state. TLDR: The old system was fantastic and made tracking the state much easier.
  3. Drop shadow: It’s on by default and I’m not seeing a way to modify it.

Overall the new manager is a much better system but these 3 things, particularly the z-axis and state are well needed features. Please let me know if I’m missing how these are implemented on the new system, cheers!

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Hi there :waving_hand:

Thank you for your feedback about the pop up system.

I’m not sure which parts could be developed next for the element, so I’m going to submit your ideas to the tech team so they can review it.

Thanks :folded_hands:

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Much appreciated, thanks for the quick response!

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Hi!

  1. The old modal has a z-axis property which the new doesn’t and will remain to be at the highest z-index when opened. Can you specify what are you trying to achieve with it?
  2. As for variables, the old modal could be open with a boolean, now it uses actions “open”, “close” from workflow :slight_smile:
  3. As for dropshadow, I’m not sure what, but I don’t see dropshadow being applied in the old or new popup. Nonetheless, I think you can reset it :folded_hands:t4:

Hope it helps :slight_smile: