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What is the best method to show selected filters from very long lists?
I need to find a solution for displaying flagged items from a very long list.
The following pics shows the filter panel of the iPad App.
Users can select all the items or search for specific items ...
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“Important” Items Box versus Pinned Items
I am designing an application which has panel with a list of items. The items in the list can be re-ordered by drag and drop:
The number of items in the list has the potential to be very large.
In ...
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How to paginate alphabetically grouped items?
I am in the process of creating an interface for browsing contacts in a CRM. I have the contacts displayed in alphabetical groups. like so:
A------------------------------
Andrew Bloggs
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What are some good patterns for displaying large lists on the web?
I'm creating a web application which will contain a large list of ingredients. You can see my current approach below:
However as the list grows it starts to take too much of the screen estate. Here ...
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Single 'Edit' link or two 'Edit' & 'Add' links for insert/update/delete operations
I have a dropdownlist and the user has the ability to delete and edit the selected option, or add a new option by clicking a hyperlink which brings up a popup with a form.
Would an 'Edit' link be ...
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How can I describe what checkboxes do in a long list of items?
In my web app, I have a long list of items on one side of the screen and a shopping basket list on the other.
Here is an example:
The app works by checking the boxes next to items and then clicking ...
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List Selection mechanisms - OK to mix?
I have a window with multiple tabpages. On one tab, I have a set of controls designed to allow the user to "include" or "exclude" any of a set of pre-defined items from some consideration. You've seen ...
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Displaying millions of records usably
I'm playing with millions of records where I fetch 100 records per page with pagination and a search panel to help user if he wants some unique record.
But the questions are:
1: Do I really need to ...
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Quickly and intuitively entering quantity and item
I am trying to find an intuitive input control to create a list of QUANTITY x ITEM lines. The items already exist in the database and the simplest way to do this would be:
In order to make it ...
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Displaying selections from a Dropdown Check List
First of all, I apologize for my Englsih and will try to be as clear as possible!
I'm currently having a problem with a Dropdown Check List.
I have, on the left of the search results, a Dropdown ...
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How to indicate which section you're in, in a flat list?
Think of a smartphone style flat list with items that can belong to one of three priorities: High, medium and low. Each priority is separated with an inline header.
Now suppose we have a small ...
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Update list when a user is viewing the list without annoying them
We have a list of items that the user will be interacting with frequently during sessions. Each session will last a minute or two and during that time they are changing state on items and updating ...
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What is the best graphical interface for inputting a list of pairs?
I want to create a graphical interface for inputing skill build orders for an RPG game. A skill build is an ordered list of (skill, number) pairs, like this (see footnote):
(A x1) -> (B *) -> ...
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4answers
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Top list of the most down-voted items. How to avoid user confusion?
Context: web application.
I have a list of items, each one with up and down arrows (a la reddit) but my list doesn't shows the most up-voted items, but the most down-voted (technically it's ordered ...
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Select item from a list to be added to another list
I have an application implemented with Java Swing. The main view of the applications is divided in a left side and a right side. The top of the right side contains a SearchField, and a list of search ...
