Questions tagged [multi-selection]
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How can I display 13 selectable items on a "Mobile First" responsive webpage?
I have a 13 selectable elements list to be displayed in a Mobile First" responsive webpage.
The elements are pure text of about only one line. I have been struggling with my mind to find a solution ...
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How to let a user choose from a list of menu options
I have the following task: Design a website which offers menu options for a week, whereas on each day you basically have 2 options to choose from (Soup is always fixed):
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Menu 1
Menu 2
Now I ...
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In a multiselect dropdown; add/remove item to/from selection through checkbox only or include label
We have a discussion between UXers and developers:
UX:
In a multiselect dropdown one should add/remove item to/from selection through checkbox and clicking the label. When one wants to remove all or ...
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Selecting Multiple USA States from List
I'm trying to figure out the best way to display a list of USA States where multiple items, or all, can be selected.
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The obvious UI element that exists for this sort of thing is the ...
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Should a dropdown have a value (or be visible) when the associated checkbox is unchecked?
We have users that can be assigned to different groups with an associated role on that group. For example, a user may be a "Contributor" on the "Human Resources" group, but an "Admin" on the "How To ...
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Usability problem when using multiple selection combobox
I have a screen where user can select multiple values from the database. This screen follows a standard used in every screen with similar cadastre, where de data being edited or created is shown on ...
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intuitive multiple directory (like file input) selection design (pic)
Anyway, I'm a developer by trade, but do most of my own design work. The program I'm currently developing requires that the user "configure" several directories in which several 3rd party executable ...
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Selecting categorized items from a long list, while knowing a list of preferred/recently used items
I have a long list of items a user should select from, and need a good ui for that selection. Here is some info:
The list contains currently 300 items, but may grow to 1000 items or more.
The items ...
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Ordered Multi-select control in HTML
I'm developing a highly customisable SaaS application. It has at several places a multi select, for some cases additionally to selecting the items, the user can define an order, for other cases it is ...
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Sollution for user's location input?
So I have a form with two inputs. The first one is for a product search and another for choosing its location - city. As I'm predicting, 80 percents of the time, the location will be user's current ...
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Interface for defining BNF and CNF formulas
I'm developing a web app and need to make a web page that should allow my users to make BNF or CNF formulas like the following:
Some colleagues suggested that I make the page in this way:
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Adding an item to a pop up list
I have a form in which a user can select multiple tags via a pop-up window (multi-select with check boxes). The tags are maintained in admin/settings section. It is not a good experience if the user ...
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Best way to select multiple items on a list using groupings
First post here, so bare with me if I do something wrong.
Here is my issue:
Imagine that you have a list of students in a class. You want to be able to select all of them but you also want to be ...
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How to show multiple states on a single button or knob
The software I am designing has properties panel and some selectable objects. When selecting a single object, its a straight forward design since the knobs and buttons will show the value of the ...
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how to show multi delete in a list view in an ios app
i want to delete multiple row in a list view. how should it be designed? Swiping the row and showing check boxes is a good idea?
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What is the most appropriate opposite of “Select All”?
Is it more appropriate to use "Deselect All" or "Select None" or some other phrase to indicate the opposite of "Select All"?
Context: A toggle button in an iOS app UIToolbar that will select all ...
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Modifying many permissions of many users at once
I’m trying to set up a system where an admin can edit the permissions of many users in an app. There may be 1000 users in the app and there may be 10-20 permissions. Permissions would be things like:
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Assign every item in a list to a category on a smartphone
I'm currently trying to implement an OPML-Import in my rss-reader.
However, opml-files don't give any information about the "category" every item should be assigned to.
Therefore I got the problem ...
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What's the best option to reset a filter?
I'm currently working on a faceted search and I'm wondering what is the best way to reset a filter. Please see my sketches below for a better understanding:
1. Add a 'All' checkbox at the top of the ...
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multi select option in iOS app - how to design the multi select button
I'm currently working on an app that offers multi selection (see attached image). Now I am wondering how to design the multi select "circle" in the toolbar.
Should it be not marked while the user ...
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Can a drop down have a list of items where only a few can be multi selected and the rest only selected once?
I am design drop down list for a business application that has about 15 items and of those 15 items about 4 of them have 1 to many relationship, meaning those 4 can all be selected at once. However, ...
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selecting multiple items from a short list, and marking one of them as "leader"
Several forms in our B2B web app allows users to choose multiple items from a shortlist of items. Here's one example:
Now I need to figure out a pattern to allow users to choose a "leader" ...
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How best can I lay out a selection of options in a hierarchy - and let people select at any level?
I have a large three level hierarchy of industry types and would like to allow users to select from the lowest level, or any of the three levels above.
Commercial Retail Licensed Premise
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Massive select options for filtering
I need some advice on how to allow a user to select options from a multiple select box that has over 25k options.
Currently, I have 3 select boxes that filter the MAIN select box. If no options ...
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Multi-Select enum for every day in calendar
I'm currently trying to solve an organization problem inside of my calendar.
My requirements:
I have a list of possibilities.
You can add these possibilities to every day of the month.
It should ...
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Instruction to select none, one or many items?
I have a form for a meeting room booking app, similar to a calendar/scheduling app. The user needs to choose:
One room
None, one or many assets (projectors, whiteboards, etc)
I am having some ...
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Ways to select a group or individual items from fair sized list
Let say I have a list of 20 Employees of a company and they are grouped into a handful (5) Departments. I need to select one or more Employees or Departments. What are some approaches to do this?
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What are some creative patterns for viewing and selecting individual items in a large non-hierarchical list?
As part of a profile flow, I need to allow the user to look through and select individual items to add to their profile.
This list of items can be upwards of 300 items (the represent company ...
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What's the clearest way to show partial status of multiple selections?
I'm working on an administrator interface--nothing new, it's been done thousands of times before--that will be used by both the IT administrators of an organization as well as some more advanced users ...
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Display Complex List Details to the User
I am wondering if anyone can help me figure out a way to best display complex levels of details for a Tax Rate setting within our software, which is communicated to a point of sale. All this is being ...
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How do I display an 'all' option to users in a multi-select box?
I have a combo box that lets user choose airlines. Below is the (draft) snapshot.
I want to keep an icon infront of it (right now I have a tick mark which has to be replaced with an appropriate icon)...
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Long select lists on mobile web app
I know long lists on mobile have been discussed on here before.
But there are some differences in my problem - and I have yet to find a solution I am fully satisified with.
This is for a responsive ...
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What is the best multiselect picker where you think a high percentage of use cases will select a lot of options?
I need a multiselect picker where in many cases the user will select most of the options. The current list has about 20 items in it and in many cases people would be choosing 15+ items so i want to ...
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Selecting multiple folders
I'm in the process of improving folder selection process of a backup software my company has developed. The goal is to have the user select the folder(s) he/she wishes to backup.
This page describes ...
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Combining pagination and selection
The user sees a paginated table of items. For each item/row there is a checkbox to the left that lets the user select that row.
Below the table a button: "Compare selected".
The user can select ...
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Multi-selection experience
We have a form that allows a person to indicate a curriculum, level, subject and price, but we're trying to figure out the most intuitive way of doing it. There's a few challenges though:
The ...
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Best practice around selecting items for an action - how persistent should the selection be?
We have a web application for managing large numbers of digital files (referred to as assets). We have recently added the ability when you are browsing the files, or on a search results page, to be ...
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Multiselect with Checkbox Strafing
Background
A number of problems exist with multiselect list boxes:
Existing Solutions
Some solutions suggest combining checkboxes, such as:
Problem
Nearly every (jQuery) implementation I've ...
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Checkboxes with several options
This section is part of our form, here the user can request courses and workshops, for schools and camps. The user can select multiple activities and on some of them you have several options, We aren'...
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Icon to show a checklist where only some of the items are selected?
Another designer and I were having a discussion about the best way to show a list with checkmarks where only some of the selections have been chosen. This particular interaction will have multiple ...
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Interaction patterns for consecutive/linked multiple selects
I have a web app and need to add a page where the user must select 1+ sets of 2 groups of items: Animals and Colors. In other words, they should be able to select 1+ Animals, and 1+ Colors. But, the ...
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What's the most efficient way to allow users to add items to a set?
The context for this question is a web application. Let's say we've got 400-500 widgets. Users can create an unlimited number of sets to group related widgets in ways that make sense to them. Each set ...
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Multiselect treeview of checkboxes on a mobile device?
What is the best way of implementing something like this on a mobile device?
Which is an example of a multiselect dropdown box with a hierachy implemented in JQuery UI: http://jsfiddle.net/3jr2v/2/...
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Menu with multiple checkable items
I'm a developer and that means that I cannot do UX. I would like some feedback on something I am trying to do, look at this:
Now, this is a menu item with sub-items. I would like to be able to do 2 ...
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Need to display multi-select menu component with limited space
I am looking for a solution to display a multi-select option. Currently, we have a drop-down menu, but that is not very intuitive if user has to make multiple selections.
Any suggestions on how to ...
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Multiple selection filter
I am working on a design, however, I have hit a bit of a roadblock on a multiple selection filter. The list of filter values will not be very long.
I assume that users will not know all the available ...
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Multiselect value into a table
I apologize in advance if I am unable to explain this requirement more efficiently.
The context:
User is creating a client Profile. First option is to select of type account. User can either select ...
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How to make mass mutation intuitive?
We are redesigning an existing application in which the user has a typical master-detail view with basic CRUD operations for a certain entity type. (Actually, the majority of screens are of this type.)...
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Selecting large numbers of items from a large list [duplicate]
Selecting an item from a large number of items is a very well-solved problem. However, there doesn't appear to be a good solution for selecting large numbers of items, ie. when the user needs to ...
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29 checkbox on a screen of a mobile app
I have a strange challenge of showing 29 multiple select options as part of a question which user needs to answer in a mobile web app for Android and iPhone.
Does anyone has had a similar problem ...
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