Questions tagged [edit]
Editing is the process of changing existing information or data. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, organization, and many other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate and complete work
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When editing info, should the edit page have a back arrow or close tag?
My thinking is the close tag makes more sense, since it minimises the chance of a user accidentally going back and losing progress.
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When editing information, should the previous input data be shown again?
Let's say I have a list of personal data the user has entered such as a full name with an 'edit' pencil icon beside it. When tapping to edit this info, should they be shown with blank fields to enter ...
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Visual Cues for Cancelling Ordered Item and Deleting Added Product
We have a feature under development entitled "Edit Order" and one of its feature is the ability to remove a newly added item and to cancel an item that were already placed. I am planning to ...
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Save as "Save and continue" vs Done as "Save and exit"
Current workflow:
User clicks to edit a page
User edits some stuff and clicks "Done"
User automatically navigates to "Changes successfully published"
Our users want to be able to ...
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Best way to denote that multiple fields are no longer editable?
I have a form where users can input their availability for each weekday in terms of time. However, the following dates should no longer be editable:
Past dates (for obvious reasons)
Today's date
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When performing a bulk edit on a table, how should changing the filter on the table, affect previous selections?
If a user wants to "bulk edit" a table and makes some row selections, then changes the filter during selection, should rows that have been previously selected (but can no longer be seen ...
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What should I do when I have 2 diferent edits for the same "object"
So in my use case I have a list of objects in a sidebar and the rest of the screen is a grid with different elements in there. I can modify them with the edit mode. There is one icon for every object ...
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Which editing options is the best on sys admin application
I m testing new consept of dashboard aplication.
Does anyone know which approach is better Alt 1 or Alt2 and if you can argue through some examples on Web / or give me some advice?
What is simpliest ...
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How to show "Read-only" (un-editable) content in a grid? Has to be a non-color reliant way so can't use gray color
How to show "Read-only" (un-editable) content in a grid? Has to be a non-color reliant way so can't use gray color. FYI, some content in this grid will be editable and the way it works is, ...
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Inline edit icon vs Go to edit page edit icon
I have two pages with a table list of data. In page A, each row contains a lot of extra information, so clicking the edit icon directs the user to a full page info for editing.
On the other hand, ...
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Presenting missing information on card
I have a multi-step form that requires filling in relevant details in each step. On each step we save the data. If a user leaves the form at any time, the draft will be saved and can be accessed from ...
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Edit icon VS Edit CTA while redirecting the user to a different screen?
I need to redirect the user to a form which is on a different page after he clicks edit. So what is the best practice here, to use the pencil icon or edit button or anything else where it is clear ...
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EDIT / RENAME VIEW - what's best approach - keep it together under edit or separate options?
Currently, I design edit flow for saved view (filters that allow being saved under "saved view"). The filter bar consists of 4 dropdowns (multiple and single choice), and radio buttons.
The ...
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Prevent users from changing entity data fundamentally
Entities in a database represent things from the real world (for example products in an e-commerce system). A user should be able to
add a new entity
edit the entity to correct a mistake in the DB
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Edit mode + Side panel/Modal, how to deal with double validation?
I am currently struggling with an edit mode user scenario inside a web application.
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The web application will be used also on mobile, so we can't use “on hover” comportment.
99% of the time, ...
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What is the best method to signal the editing in the form above of an table to a user?
To add an entry to the table, a user must fill out the form above and click the Take it button. He can also edit an existing entry by clicking on the pencil. How can you best signal to the user that ...
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UX guidelines for placing edit buttons?
I am working on finding the best placement for the edit button for a company website already in existence (used for internal staff & clients). This is a review page after a Client has filled out ...
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Should all options appear on a view screen? [closed]
I'm designing screens for a business web app. I have view and edit modes for records, with each mode having its own screen. Should I display all options on the view screens, but with the widgets ...
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Inline edit: Should input fields be Editable by default, or force users to click Edit then Save?
I have a Settings page with various input fields, radio buttons, checkboxes etc.
Currently, all the inputs are editable by default. There are three self-explanatory buttons at the top, RESET DISCARD ...
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How do you do batch editing / creation?
How do you do batch editing / creation? (Desktop web)
Batch editing is when you have multiple records to be edited at the same time but each has different values, even for the same field. For example ...
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Should i use a single or double page to edit a password?
I was wondering about changing a password in an application. Is it more correct to ask as usual, all three (old, new and confirm) passwords on the same page or is it better to ask for the old password ...
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View to Edit Mode *with a Wizard at the end* [closed]
I am working on a web app designed for accountants/agents with multiple companies to take care of. One of the main flows the user does is to enter a company details to modify one or multiple sections. ...
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Edit button in top right corner of screen
I'm currently working on a "details" page for a specific item that is editable. The question is, when you have finished editing the details of the item, would it be more user friendly to put ...
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Information on Duration or Start/End Time
My question has split my team in the middle, so I'm here for more opinions. We have this Gantt Chart where you can extend/shrink tasks by hovering then dragging them from start/end. When this ...
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How to update address of multiple records
I am working on a token generating web application where resellers can buy tokens and sell them to customers.
The business goal is:
one order can have single or multiple tokens
multiple tokens can ...
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Best Practice for placement of Help / Save / Cancel icons
I'm designing a UI where sections will become editable, and there are also quite a few help icons for users to get further information about each section.
Originally, I put the Help icon in the top ...
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Should we require a user to press on EDIT button before allowing him to move/ delete from list of items (collection view)
Currently, in one of my Android apps, I provide an very obvious way, for user to delete/ move from list of items.
"X" button to delete
"=" button to move
Now, I'm porting such ...
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What is the correct placement of actions buttons
I am working on an application where user's data will be frequently added and updated.
In sample 1, I have added 'add address' links in each row per category for quick addition but it is breaking the ...
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iOS Custom video trimmer UI
I'm trying to make a video editing app and for that I need to create a video timeline where I will put different views depending on the amount of videos that are being editing and their longitude.
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Show that input in list is editable
I have a list with items that can be changed.
When the user clicks on the item, it can be edited.
Which is the most intuitive way to show the user, that (s)he can edit the items?
Following options ...
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How to design edit version on a white background?
I'm working on a user profile design for a website. The information (name, email, username, etc) is on a pure white background.
The type of edit feature I want to use involves clicking an edit button ...
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Disabling a modal dialog while waiting for the server
We're making a react web-app for business users
We use a modal dialog for editing data. When the user clicks "save", the data get sent to the server. Usually, the server answers pretty fast (< 200 ...
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Mass / batch - update / edit cells with in a grid
I am looking for some ideas on the UX of allowing a user to edit multiple cells in a grid at one time. These users may have thousands of records and they need to provide data on each record, this data ...
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Authenticated users changing personal details
We have a website where users authenticate with a username/password and also have the option of switching on two factor authentication
One of the options they have in our application is to amend ...
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Should the form used for "editing" a record always echo the fields which were in the form used for "adding" the same record?
I am designing a form for editing some employee records of an attendance marking system. In the system, when a manager is adding an employee, he has to assign the employee to a workgroup.
Later when ...
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Editable Radio Buttons (UX)
I need a way to select a date range and edit the date range. Also when a date range is selected it will show other dependent information.
My plan was to use radio buttons and whichever date range ...
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How do you display pending changes in a form?
I'm currently building a simple web frontend that allows the people from the management department to directly make some changes to our user accounts in active directory.
Changes they can do directly ...
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Most user-friendly collaborative editing way short of real-time?
Arguably, the most user-friendly way for multiple users to edit the same content is what google wave / google docs represents: Users see each-others' work in real-time.
What could next most known way ...
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How to allow batch editing "m to n" relationships (tags on elements)
I have the same "problem" as WordPress, as in I need to allow batch changes of tags. The relationship is m to n; each element can have multiple tags.
Now my main problem is that the elements might ...
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Where to present the functionality of pairing two entities in an Administration System
In this example Administration Platform, you can have users and user groups. You also have a page where you edit the users and a page that you edit the groups. And of course, you need to pair the two ...
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Edit many inputs [duplicate]
I have a problem about UI/UX
Design on mobile. There are 50 users, each user has 4 inputs (name,DOB,address and phone), so confirm step I show all of information of 50 users and put a "edit icon" in ...
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How would I mark that a cell value has been edited in a grid
I have an excel like grid and I want to somehow mark what cell values have been edited (and changed back to normal after pressing the save button)
I was thinking about changing the number/background ...
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What should be the label of Add button?
I have a modal dialog which is having a form of adding or updating employee.
I want to know, what should be the label of my Button when it is opened for adding an employee and when editing the ...
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Draft & Published versions
Does anyone know of a use-case where you can edit a "published version" of an application (or something else), and it duplicates that version in a "Draft version". Once you click save or publish on ...
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Show edit comment information
I'm currently working on an enterprise website to manage internal information about clients. Some parts have comment sections allowing users to write comments about a certain client, I was asked to ...
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Should you conserve space by having a single transforming button instead of two non functional ones?
I’m currently designing a webpage where users are asked to modify the positions of certain elements. Currently I have a single button to allow the users to enter “edit mode” which allows them to drag ...
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What is the best way to convey "This window is non-editable info right now, but you can click here to edit it" on macOS?
I'm looking to create a macOS UI that lists some information about an item. If the user has sufficient permissions (i.e. is an Admin), they should be able to turn this read-only info UI into a read-...
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Go back to the Grid view and show the grid and the subgrid already open
I have this awkward request for the following implementation:
I have one view with a DataGrid and a SubGrid that appears inline everytime I press an ID on the main grid. On this subgrid, I have an ...
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Having multiple relations in edit/create form
In my app user can create something called Package. Package has to have following
Model
Books(which in turn belong to Model. When selecting Model, user can also select multiple Books for Model)
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Add to Edit or editing first time
About CRUD operations in some "Activity Form" that can be associeted with complementary itens (Users, Archives, Comments, Tags, Financials costs).
Ie:
My first activity can have: 3 files, 10 ...
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