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Filters on top or on side of the table

I have 2 options to show filters for a table. One option places filters on the top and the other on the side of the table. For both options we'll give users the ability to hide the filters (by ...
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Adding paging, sorting and filtering toolbars to a table

I have a bunch of report views, which essentially are tables. They should enable the user with sorting, paging and filtering capabilities. My idea is to add those features via menu-bars. Paging ...
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Better to Show Empty List or Default List?

This is a web application for people to manage a large database of stuff. When the user clicks on the a button/link to "View Their List of Stuff", is it better to present them with a populated list or ...
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Grid - Inline Editing and Sorting - How to handle the features together

The Dilemma: You have a grid/table with sorting (and/or multi-sort) and inline editing. The user modifies a value that should modify the sort order. What do you do? An Example: Lets take ...
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Adding a state to a control that indicates a row hasn't been saved yet

I'm working on a web application that users use to approve a bunch of items from a list. Imagine, say, an expense report that someone has to approve every item that's listed. Currently, the system ...
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Numeric data input in a web based scientific software

(Note: I'm more a backend developer, so please forgive my lack of UX terminologies. Don't hesitate to edit the text or the tags) We are working on an online scientific software with specific ...
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Too many checkboxes in a table?

A user should be able to change the settings for 5 different options for each day of the week at the same time. I was thinking of something like this, but it seems a bit messy... Too many things ...
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Method of showing that a row has been edited and will be changed upon “Save”

What paradigms exist for denoting that a row of data has been modified and that a Save action on the view will change them in the data store? Which paradigms are recommended? A few that we've ...
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display a table of data with action to add new row

i am making a dashboard for an app system that plays songs from soundcloud. How would you recommend adding more songs to the list? I was thinking of having the form as another row at the bottom but ...
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Use hover effect on a non-link item. Is it advisable?

I have a list with many items, something like a row, some icons and text are clickable but not the entire row. Would a hover effect confuse users ? EDIT: Actions on the row are edit and delete.
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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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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 ...