a means of organizing content into rows and columns, often but not always in a grid based layout where columns and rows have distinct relationships.
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What is the standard on displaying wide tables on mobile devices?
We need to display wide tables (10+ columns) on our new mobile website. Is the standard to:
Scroll Horizontally without any indication that the visitor can scroll to the right (like Google Docs) ...
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3answers
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how to provide a good user experience for drilldown/click on a grid to external divs
My interface has a table (a nice, sortable table with 3 or 4 columns), which represents the summary of some data. Each row represents an important piece of data.
At the moment if users click on a row ...
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1answer
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Presenting comparable data series with varying frequency
I've a data design challenge that requires the presentation of data where the data is comparable (can be plotted or presented as a table) but who's data points are inconsistent.
Inconsistency occurs ...
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1answer
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Long content in Tables
What is the best way maximize readability when displaying variations of long/short text within table?
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2answers
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Improving readability by aligning elements in rows
What's the best way to improve readability, when you have elements that change length like a name moving other elements, creating misalignment
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2answers
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Mouseover to reveal more data in a table
I have a table containing users like so:
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In the system, users can associate multiple emails with their account. When the ...
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1answer
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How can I design a UI for iOS with a diamond shaped drill down interface?
I have a basic drill down interface for iOS devices.
A -> B -> C -> D
The problem is that the following interface would work equally well:
A -> C -> B -> D
What I need is some kind of diamond ...
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2answers
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How to display wide table on the report
I have two datasets with 50 columns and 1-100 rows.
I need to display comparison of these two datasets in a report (standard letter).
So,
say my first dataset is as follows:
Name Price Qty ...
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Defining relationships between many users in one UI?
We have a UI on a web-page, where relationships between users can be defined by admins. Users are divided to two roles, in this case "Lorem" and "Lorem ipsum".
Right now a relationship between ...
2
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3answers
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Interface Question for Showing Tabular Data?
I am writing a report generating system where result is shown in a tabular data. The Result appear in a table with information like
Hierarchy | Title | created | updated | Available |Accessed | ...
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2answers
567 views
What do UX guidelines say about dropdown boxes in table cells?
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I have been trying to look at Apple Interface Guidelines and Windows UX guidelines about what standard behavior for drop ...
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1answer
254 views
When to save data?
When should i save data in an business application. We have a lot of applications and currently they have not all the same behavior. I am not very experienced with UX and would like to know when I ...
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1answer
284 views
How to accept multiple types of input to a table cell?
I have a problem with a column in a table in which the cells may receive
data in multiple ways:
You may write a number, say 1.0. If you write you can only write numbers.
Place an object in the cell, ...
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7answers
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How to make it obvious the contents of one table are based on the selected row of another?
Given a dialog with two grid-style tables, what's the best approach to visually showing that the selected row of the left table is what populates the right table? The best I can think of is an arrow ...
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votes
3answers
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Option for switching between a table or a list view necessary?
I have noticed that a lot of web sites that contains product category pages give the user an option to toggle between a list view and a table view of their products. Usually the only difference ...
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4answers
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Is moving columns in a tree table automatically bad for UX?
I have a tree table that allows the user to group columns arbitrarily. Is it bad UX for me to move the grouped by columns to the front of the table right next to the tree controls? Would it be more ...
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votes
3answers
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Min. opt. and max. value of a small field
I've a three digit input field which has a predefined upper and a lower bound, all within a table. The field also has an optimal (requested) value. So there is a min. an opt. and a max.
What is a ...
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4answers
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How should times be aligned in a column
I have a data grid of three columns of type [Time, Decimal, Decimal]. All records in the decimal columns have the same number of decimal places. I have right aligned these as they're numeric.
But I ...
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2answers
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When is a table the proper way to present data?
UPDATE: added mockups
We are in the process of designing a web application interface for administering an online store. In such an interface there are pages for managing products, orders, customers, ...
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7answers
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Research behind row height within a table?
There appears to be a trend in web-based table design to use a lot more space for each row in the table. In particular the new gmail default of "comfortable."
I'm also seeing it in the height of the ...
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votes
2answers
508 views
Best way to do 'bulk edits' on a table
I am building a web application for managing a list of products (using jqgrid).
I need my users to be able to perform several 'bulk actions' on whichever products they select. I have copied Gmail ...
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0answers
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Displaying table contents on small devices [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Table data in Mobile phones
This so far is the only solution I found on how to design responsive table content so that it gives you a meaningful overview of the data on ...
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votes
1answer
213 views
Interface design for managing overlapping date periods
I am trying to design an interface to manage which team a person belongs to at any point. I would like it to be really easy to make small changes (e.g. fix a start date for a previous team ...
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votes
5answers
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What is the best way to hint that a table cell is editable?
I have a table with data, with several columns. This is a table used mostly for reading, with the possibility for a user to occasionally adjust some values. Most columns are informative only, and some ...
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votes
3answers
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Best way to show and sort by dates when the item may be repeating/recurring?
Currently this website has a list of FooBars, which may be sorted by date:
I am adding functionality to allow a FooBar to be repeated, or a recurring FooBar
e.g.
Weekly on Mondays and Tuesdays
...
4
votes
1answer
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Interactive table - with many levels of information
I have a table that users need to interact with (insideweb application), at the most basic level they need to place a checkmark which shows that an item is available on a product. If it were so simple ...
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votes
3answers
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Best way to display more table columns than I have room for? [duplicate]
The web development office I work for is working on a fixed-width web site. On one page, we have a table inside of the fixed 960px space available. So far, this table has worked out great for us, but ...
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3answers
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Table data in Mobile phones
I want to display a table with 4/5 columns and possibly 100 rows (as in desktop app right now) in smartphones. The table cells are also editable. Now we want to port this desktop app to smartphones ...
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votes
1answer
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Diagonal Scrolling rationale [closed]
I m trying to find rationale for implementation of horizontal scrolling on a mobile web browser for a table. The following are the one's I could think of, if you have any other rationale in mind or ...
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1answer
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What is the most intuitive way to force users to enter certain cells first in the new row of a data grid?
It was suggested that I post to this site the first half of a question I posted on StackOverflow.
Paraphrased…
I have a data grid (in my situation, Microsoft's .NET platform using WPF) wherein I ...
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vote
3answers
262 views
Data table multi value column
I have a table containing incoming invoices. I have to show additional information about the sender of the invoice. So I figured out that I can nest Sender name and his Tax ID in one row with quite ...
5
votes
1answer
296 views
empty cells in accessible html tables
For an html data table in which each row represents an item (such as an email) would screen-reader users prefer empty table cells to be empty or to have a placeholder like a dash?
In my brief ...
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9answers
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How should large table columns be handled on a responsive design?
Related to This Question, I'm interested in what I should do with a responsive design theme where the users have control over the columns which are displayed in a tabular, data rich page. Users are ...
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votes
6answers
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Appropriate icon for: Activate [closed]
In an application were developing there is a window containing a table holding 2-5 rows.
A metaphor for the context could be that the table identifies a gearbox of a car and each row is a gear in the ...
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votes
1answer
191 views
What's a good pattern for edit in place with hyperlinks?
I have a datagrid with many columns that I want to be able to edit in place. Some of the values in the table are hyperlinks. I want to be able to follow the hyperlinks and also edit them. The row ...
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votes
3answers
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Identifying multiple sort criteria
I have a table view with some data and I'm allowing users to sort on multiple columns. I wonder what are the options for indicating sorting precedence?
The obvious is to display a number right ...
0
votes
1answer
102 views
Clearly show count and amount in the same table cell
What would be a clear presentation of something that the user counts and values at the same cell?
for example, on a users table I want to show how many accounts and its total worth:
| User | ...
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votes
1answer
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Alternative to a popup table
I need some advice please.
I currently have a screen and the plan is to completely redesign it. But first, to tell what is does.
It is a screen for managing orders, much lick a standard order form, ...
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votes
1answer
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Specifying default sort
I want to add the ability to specify a default sort to this interface. Currently it allows users to specify the order of the columns display and the default size. I am revamping it into a table form ...
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vote
3answers
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How to provide keyboard navigation in editable table that includes drop downs?
I'm designing a business application.
When the user enters the main data entity in the application part of the form is tabular. Since some of the users will have an intensive usage of this ...
3
votes
4answers
709 views
How do I make a table row on a web page look clickable?
I have a simple web-based report presented as a table:
Some rows are clickable, others are not (it can be seen with the third column. Greater than 0 means the row can be clicked and expanded in a ...
3
votes
2answers
708 views
Better ways to display/interact with tabular data
Let's say for an example you display a list of category records or any type of records for that matter in a web page. Is there better ways of showing that list of records other than in a table? Or are ...
2
votes
4answers
657 views
Displaying a large data set in a table cell
What is the best way to display a large data set, e.g. 50 words, in a table cell? I am thinking maybe a linkable piece of text such that when clicked, displays a popup box with the full text. ...
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votes
2answers
825 views
Column header alignment
What is the best practice to have a column header alignment, should it be left or center aligned? On click of the column header the columns can be also sorted. Numeric values will be right aligned by ...
3
votes
1answer
367 views
HTML table cell wrapping issue
One of the problems in a tabular representation of data, is text wrapping inside cells. There are some options available, like:
Fixing the width of the columns, and enlarging the rows height to ...
2
votes
1answer
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Ideas on displaying and editing 'Hours of Operation' for a service provider
OK--you've got a translator in Bolivia, and you need to know when she can provide her transportation services. And you need to store this in a system, for others to see and possibly edit.
My ...
0
votes
2answers
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What's an alternative to data tables for key/value pairs?
I have a list of 8 key/value pairs I'm displaying in a sidebar using a table element. I'm using a th and td element on each row. However, the td content is often too long and has to be truncated. I ...
2
votes
1answer
521 views
iPhone button on screen with table view: last row or outside table?
I have a table view that's showing attributes of a record, very much like Edit Info screen in the iOS Contacts app.
Also like that screen, I'd like to show a "Delete Record" button at the bottom.
It ...
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votes
4answers
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What is a good field separator that can coexist with colons?
I am currently migrating a bunch of data from several Excel files of similar formats into a more structured format.
Imagine Tabular data like this in File 1:
Customer | Cabinet : Device : Port | ...
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votes
3answers
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Examples of nice looking html tables [closed]
All tables on my app look like sh*t, it's making me lose hair, I've been trying to make them look better but I end up making them look worse, do you have any examples of nice looking tables? ...
