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What's the best way to select from two options if both can be selected and at least one must be selected?
I have encountered a scenario where the user can filter a dataset of inventory based on two location designations (internal stock vs. external stock). The user can filter for internal stock, external ...
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Tree - select all child nodes or select only few
I have a multi-level tree structure and the user would want to select only a particular parent node or all child nodes below it.
There can be multiple trees with multiple levels one below another
The ...
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Select a lot of items (checkboxes)
I'm working on a game where users can have a lot of items (50-100k). The items are stored in a database, they are all unique because they have metadata (achieved time etc.).
We would like to allow the ...
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How to make users choose at least one option in a list but allow additional selections
We know that radio button groups are used to limit user input to just one selection in a list of items, and that checkboxes are used to let users select from 0 to a set number of options from a list ...
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Autoselect lower options - effective design patterns
I have series of options that I currently render as checkboxes. However, the options themselves "stack" in the sense that selecting one, should auto-select all the options below it.
ex. If we have ...
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What is the most accurate opposite of "all selected"?
This post addressed the menu action which most closely opposed "select all," but I am looking for the filter criteria that most accurately represents "none selected," or the opposite of "all selected."...
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Using Select All with button checkboxes
I like the usability enhancement that button checkboxes provide -- nice big click targets, plus we can add a little sliver of color that's used elsewhere in our application to impart a status ...
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Is there a good way to communicate choose at least one?
I am wondering if there are any known good ways to concisely convey to users that they must must choose at least one option.
Check boxes convey that the user can select 0 or more items.
Radio buttons ...
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Input a lot of data with select vs checkbox
I want to input some sets of data. Let's say it's like an assignment for a member on a team in some task. I want to apply several members in the task but how is the best experience to input these ...
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Using accordion lists with radio buttons
I am designing a UI for a popup that would allow the user to share a post with one class at a time and select which class. They should also be able to drill into each class and select all or certain ...
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Usage of switch box, checkbox or radio button for a visibility flag
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I have a visibility flag against document attached to a student profile. Administrator is the persona of Student profile. Administrator manages student profile and in the student profile we ...
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How to handle when user is only allowed to check e.g. 3/6 check boxes?
Let's say we have six options, six check boxes. The user must select three options to proceed, no more and no less. What happens when the user tries to select a fourth option? Should it even be ...
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Sortable Checkboxes for Ranked Options
A user profile form has a set of checkboxes that determine which departments the user belongs to. The data is stored in a comma-delimited list.
We now have a new requirement: order the comma-...
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Should I clear checkbox upon disable?
In this form, a user can ether select the checkboxes or the radio buttons, but not both. If the user selects a checkbox and afterwards selects a radio button, I then grey out the checkbox.
Should I ...
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How to display a checkbox modal
I'm updating a legacy(12 y/o) system and one of the requirements is a cta that opens a model which lets the user make multiple selections, aswell as, typing an input that then gets added to a summary ...
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Nested Folders selection
I'm working on a selection in which I have a list of folders. This is the structure:
Let's say I want to select a folder. The folder, its children, and future children will be selected.
First ...
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Checkbox list click behaviour
We're talking about a dialog in a Windows desktop application:
The user types in one of the text fields, then grabs the mouse and clicks on an item in the checkbox list.
What should happen? Should ...
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Conditional checkbox [closed]
I have a checkbox with two possible things underneath it.
If the box is not checked, there will be a dropdown with different default options.
If the box is checked, the user will have to assign two ...
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Expectations for checkboxes in (multi-select) list views
I'm currently rewriting some parts of a Windows application and we have a list view (report style) where a user can use checkboxes to select/deselect items.
The issue I'm having is when a user ...
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Should a "Select all" checkbox become selected if all checkboxes are selected?
This is the scenario: "Select all" checkbox selects all checkboxes, and unselecting that checkbox unselects all checkboxes.
If all checkboxes are selected individually, should the Select all become ...
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Better way for users to select a range in a table like structure
I am struggling to find the best UI for contiguous row selection.
Each row comprises of a start time, text and an end time.
Do you think click and SHIFT + click is still a valuable option for non IT ...
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Button labels: Select versus Selected? or Deselect?
I was recently request to change all our action button labels from 'Add' to 'Select', simply because the action happens after clicking “Done” on the screen footer.
So, I was wondering… while “Select” ...
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Selecting single/multiple rows in a table
I am building a software where a lot of the information is placed in tables.
Selecting a single row from the table loads a section with the most important information about the entry. There are also ...
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Select maximum of two options to display summary info cards
I am trying to devise a mechanism whereby a user can select only two options at a time in order to display summary information for their selections.
It looks like this at present (actual content ...
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Is the use of checkboxes discouraged in mobile UI?
See Google Material Design (http://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/selection.html) where it is mentioned that "Using checkboxes (or custom analogs) to initiate selection is an explicit anti-...
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How can I prevent the user from deselecting all the checkboxes?
I need to have solution for selection/unselection of 3 items.
By default all 3 are selected. The user may unselect up to two options, but cannot deselect all three ('none').
I used 3 checkboxes and ...
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How to select a tab first to reveal the details?
Scenario: A customer calls in to a store and places three separate orders using a single account/number. Now he wants to cancel two of them and calls in the store. The store owner picks up and to ...
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Helping users understand that two, and only two options must be selected
I have a drop down checkbox where there are 8 items to check. Two are selected by default.
I am trying to think of an intuitive way to let the user know they have to deselect the existing ones ...
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Should clicking on a checkbox and a table row produce different actions?
I'm working on an implementation of a "checkbox grid" in ExtJS. It's just a table with a checkbox on each row, and the user can act on multiple items at once.
There's a simple version of what it ...
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What is the best practice for checking a series of checkboxes?
I have a large table (some 100 rows) for setting user permissions. Each set of permissions has a set of 4 possible items, which in many cases will all be checked but not by default. For efficiency we ...
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Selecting many elements from a long list
I have a scenario where my 'create user' dialog has a very long list of options, of which the user needs to select many. The project manager has suggested a 'dual list' approach: a long (scrolled) ...
