Feature request: select values without displaying them

[nathanl]

It would be useful to be able to select values without displaying them.

For example, in a user productivity report, I may want to link to the users. To build a link from the user's name to their profile, I need to select the user's ID. This makes it available in the row so that the name column's formatter can use it to build a link_to.

However, it's not actually useful to display the user ID in the report; the user's name and link is sufficient.

[mattslay]

+1 This sounds like a great feature. Surely could be helpful in using javascript to make calls off to another page based on the id of the selected row. Or something like that...

[jezstephens]

@adamhunter I've spotted your dossier-display repo where it looks like you intended to add the ability to do this sort of thing, though the code isn't there yet.

Do you still think this belongs in a plugin instead of in dossier itself?

[jezstephens]

This feature was added in #53, so I guess this can be closed.