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May 17 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 9 |
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Dropdown option order best practices when not using alpha sorting @JohnGB Hows the rewrite? |
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May 9 |
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Dropdown option order best practices when not using alpha sorting @VGR My issue with that, is the order can be random, and therefore harder to find. More frequently used doesn't help me find the option I am looking for. Your suggestion makes sense in some cases, and usually a hybrid where you list the top items at the top (perhaps in an opt group) and then again in their logical order. e.g. US companies putting United States at the top of a country dropdown while listing the rest in alphabetical order (and listing the United States a second time in it's correct place). |
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May 9 |
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Dropdown option order best practices when not using alpha sorting Simplifying question |
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May 8 |
asked | Dropdown option order best practices when not using alpha sorting |
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Apr 30 |
accepted | Grid - Inline Editing and Sorting - How to handle the features together |
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Apr 8 |
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Grid - Inline Editing and Sorting - How to handle the features together deleted 2 characters in body |
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Apr 5 |
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Grid - Inline Editing and Sorting - How to handle the features together Correct it won't be confused, however if two edited rows are next to eachother you lose the zebra striping. If this is the only visual "border" between rows, it becomes hard for the user to track across the screen. |
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Apr 5 |
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Grid - Inline Editing and Sorting - How to handle the features together That said, I agree with the sort icon changing color, I had the same idea, however I did not think of the row changing color to match. It is interesting, but I fear what the grid starts to look like with heavy edits, and if the grid has banding, now you have the potential for 5 colors (regular banding (2 colors), changed row banding (two colors), selected row (1 color). It visually could get messy, but a good idea. Just needs good visual design. |
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Apr 5 |
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Grid - Inline Editing and Sorting - How to handle the features together John, the issue with hitting it twice to get back is that, if the data set is large I may be waiting a while as the back-end tries to deal with my two requests, causing me to wait longer. Additionally its seems just a tad bit odd of an interaction. The likely hood that I want to sort in reverse order in this situation is greatly reduced, so why are we doing an action we are pretty sure the user didn't intend. Lastly, if I have done a multi-sort, I now have to re-select all the columns I want. (Assuming you are doing a Shift click-esq solution to multi-sort) |
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Apr 5 |
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Grid - Inline Editing and Sorting - How to handle the features together deleted 36 characters in body |
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Apr 5 |
asked | Grid - Inline Editing and Sorting - How to handle the features together |
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Oct 5 |
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Is a drag and drop UI usable for organizing/categorizing items? @Brian So I think we are actually in agreement. As the number of items and/or complexity of the user needs go up, you need to provide additional functionality to streamline those workflows, such as cut and paste. That functionality also has the added benefit of being accessible (as long as it is coded correctly). I would even argue, that large bulk operations would want to be done via file so that they can be checked tested before applying to the live system. It really depends on the system. Ultimately drag and drop is one of the best options for organization. |
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Oct 4 |
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Is a drag and drop UI usable for organizing/categorizing items? To add to my previous comment, adding a filter, greatly improves this interaction (when moving bulk users that share a common search filter). ie. say I want to move all the students that were Juniors to a group for Seniors. I could filter on "is Junior" shift click, and move all of them at once to the new location. Additionally filtering the folder side as well would allow me to quickly find the target I want without scrolling. What it comes down to, is that as the system gets larger, you need more than single drag and additional controls to make bulk movement as easy as moving one item. |
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Oct 4 |
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Is a drag and drop UI usable for organizing/categorizing items? @Brian How do you figure it is painful? This is the design for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS file systems. It may be painful to drag and then go to the bottom of the folder side to scroll and find the folder you want. But this usually leads users find their target before starting the drag. Mac OS improved (then took away) the spring loaded folders to deal with this issue as well. |
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Oct 4 |
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Is a drag and drop UI usable for organizing/categorizing items? I have to say, this is a good consideration, but does not rule out drag and drop for this kind of action. As @chester comments, If moving the whole list, clicking the first item, scrolling to the bottom and shift clicking the last item allows me to move all 1000 at the same time with out taking my hand off the mouse (assuming you use your second hand to hold shift). Additionally, you may want to provide keyboard short cuts to move for those who want to stick to keyboard (or must due to accessibility reasons) which must go through a less optimized flow for selecting the folder to move them to |
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Oct 1 |
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Phrase for a view dropdown for showing items that are both missing and ready but with warnings So far "Needs Attention" is the best I we have come up with, but something about this isn't sitting perfectly, I think it is the fact that depending on the context (ie. how many days out from the event you are) the missing ones don't really need attention as they are expected to be missing at this point. |
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Oct 1 |
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Phrase for a view dropdown for showing items that are both missing and ready but with warnings The issue with "With Warnings" is that I am reserving that to only show items that have warnings. So regular missing items would be filtered out. This provides a "check list" view of items I need to follow up with people to make sure the are aware they need to resubmit. |
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Sep 29 |
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Single 'Edit' link or two 'Edit' & 'Add' links for insert/update/delete operations A little More info, Does each item in the dropdown list have its own edit button, or does editing effect the whole list? Is the flow for editing/deleting/adding different or the same? |
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Sep 28 |
asked | Phrase for a view dropdown for showing items that are both missing and ready but with warnings |
