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Updating items on sorted list: How affect pagination, items shown. Pros and Cons?
I have a website where people can save and edit documents. The account is usually limited to a single person, but some accounts are shared with someone else (like a family account).
I show the list of ...
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Encouraging users to 'group' very large data sets
We have a product that requires users to import large data sets (100+ rows) and then 'group' those datasets into buckets within the product. This is part of the set-up process so that they can start ...
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When data is grouped in a table, should pagination be based on individual rows or groups?
I have a table of data pertaining to stores. The user has the ability to group the data by Store Name, which will display the Store Names in a collapsed view with a (#) that indicates how many rows ...
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Sorting option between grid and list view
I have a view in our saas product which has a grid of items as cards. In the toolbar there is a dropdown for sorting which one of the options being 'most recent' - this is the most common sorting ...
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Need help with filter grouping
I'm working on filters. I need help on filter grouping. We do have different filter groups that can be applied on given data. The problem here the page looks overwhelming with given options. I cannot ...
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Mixed past and future events in one list?
tldr:
Has anyone ever seen a list of date-specific items, sorted by "distance from today" regardless of whether they're past or future?
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I have a page showing two lists of online ...
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Should filtering and sorting be combined?
I'm working on an application where it requires filtering and sorting. Typically, these two functionalities, albeit similar, are always separated.
However, I came across this article today where they ...
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Ag-Grid filter across pages or current page
When using the Ag-Grid with multiple pages, is it a good practice to filter records across pages or should it be just the current page ?
Also for sorting, is it a good practice to retain the current ...
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Multiple sorting orders in one screen
For the following example shown in the screenshot (mobile app that records public transport trips), when a user visits their journey history screen there are multiple sorting chronological orders.
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Filtering and Sorting a Table that has more than 1 row per user
Imagine if...
you had 6 users. They all drove cars. The table shows which cars they drive and how many miles they have driven each car. It also shows a flag which is just a way to tag a user that is ...
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Filtering and Sorting a Table that has multiple rows per User row
Here's a good challenge for you all.
Challenge: Filter by 2 colors, then Sort by 'Amount' and not replicate the user's name throughout the Name column?
User Goal: To be able to see which is the lowest ...
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Making sorting discoverable on a table with no default sort
We have a table that orders results of clients (can be searched on name, address, email, phone, etc.) based on an algorithm, so there isn't a "default" sort we can mark with an arrow to ...
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Sorting list order with pagination
In a lot of the projects I've worked on, often there's a list of items where the users can manually organize the order, so that they're presented in the desired order in the web page.
Normally these ...
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What's the most intuitive control to sort a bar chart?
I'm designing a feature that includes a bar chart which needs to be sorted in a few different of ways. I'm exploring a few options on what's the most intuitive way to achieve this.
A. Tabs
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Sort a grid with some empty cells
I have an editable Grid/Table where the cells can be edited. In a column, there can be some filled and unfilled cells. The column can be sorted. What is the best way to sort the cells?
I am thinking ...
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Default sorting
Hello UX Stackexchange!
I am working in a data-related company. Most UI layouts are based on tables. By default, any table is sorted by the first column ascendingly. Now comes the situation, where we ...
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How to display recorded webinars AND future webinars in search results
Similar to this issue but slightly different. Sort order when I have events and products
I have a page that shows webinars available for purchase in a card-like format. Users can filter and see ...
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Studies demonstrating efficacy of a top-to-bottom sort order in a multi-column list
I'm working on a UI that has a list of items (a dozen years) in a multi-column list.
I know from past research that users will read list of items across columns top-to-bottom rather than left-to-right....
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Behaviour of Sort in a table where data is grouped
Consider the following table: It's a table of 'food' all split into categories, with each sub-category also containing items. A 3-tier hierarchy.
The table is sortable by name, but... what should ...
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Client side sorting
I'm currently tasked with implementing client side sorting on specific page view for our application.
Below is an example of how the UI for client side sorting works, basically a user can click on a ...
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Sorting VS Row Rearrange
I have a watchlist containing a list of stocks, and one of the popular usages of such a list is rearranging the rows (dragging and dropping selected rows to a favorite user position). Now, let's add a ...
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Filters applied overview - how to distinguish filters with the same name
I'm trying to find the best way, how to display filters applied overview.
The problem is, that some filtering options, may have the same name across different filter categories (also because they are ...
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Product sorting order in the shopping cart
What do you think is the best way to sort products in the shopping cart: newest added on top or at the bottom?
Especially on the mobile version of the website, I think that newest on top will give the ...
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Pros and Cons of Sorting by Number of Reviews
If we say the goal of the user is to quickly find the best product when browsing the product listing page. What are the pros and cons of providing users the option to sort by Number of Reviews? Does ...
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How to handle data addition in data grid when data is sorted
I have data grid in application which has pagination and the latest added record is added on top. If the data is already sorted on a column and another record is added to the table how should the ...
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Dropdown menu that contains more than one topic [closed]
I'm trying to figure out what is the best solution for dropdown menus that contain more than one topic.
For instance, if I want to view and add at one field all the users and the groups created at the ...
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Usability of toggles as a filter or sorting mechanism
I looked up a website (page link here) and noticed this at the bottom of the page (one of the few times that I managed to scroll that far):
It shows a toggle being used to sort the comments added at ...
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Right way to display a list dates from the past, current and future, but show the most upcoming first
So usually when displaying a list of things the answer is ascending or descending order. However as the most important item is somewhere in the middle this doesn't work.
Displaying the list ...
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Should a list of employees be sorted alphabetically by first name? [closed]
Imagine a list or grid of employees, assuming the non-technical user hasn't clicked any column headers yet, do you think they would expect the employees to be sorted by first name or last name or the ...
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Displaying new results currently being filtered out
I'm currently working on a messaging tool and one request was being able to filter the conversations by (Internal Team / Customers / Flagged)
One thing we're running into is what happens when a new ...
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Saved items sorting order
I'm working on a jobs app which allows users to save jobs. Every job on the site has two states, active and ended. When a user saves a job it gets added to their saved area. In this area the user can ...
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Adding asc/desc arrows next to dropdown
We have a sort selection dropdown list with around 6 options. We'd like the user to be able to specify the direction of the sort. Is adding up/down arrows like this intuitive?
In looking at other ...
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Need help for finding a user-friendly item queue component layout and presentation
I'm looking for alternate layout/UX ideas for presenting an item queue component.
The data and behavior I'm to present is a linear queue, a stack of items -- digits, letters, small images. A ...
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Pagination on grouped / multi sorted lists
I'm currently working on a design for data heavy lists. User research showed, that users would group / multi sort those lists. this would result in a list with small header rows in between for every ...
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Highlighting text in a selectable container
We have an issue where a user can click into the cell of a table, and the table will sort based on that selection. But, we also have research that shows users want to be able to select the content of ...
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Loading for a list with ~40 seconds completion time
We have a listing page which the data are gathered by multiple providers. These providers have different response times (min 15 seconds to 1 minute sometimes).
Our default sorting is based on the ...
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How to sort and filter a constantly changing list of data?
I have a web page (although I don't think that's relevant, it could equally be a desktop or mobile app) that displays a list of events. More events arrive all the time, and are added to the top of the ...
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Sort/Search/Filter - In each column or one for the whole table?
What are your thoughts on the use of sort/search/filter functionality within each table column vs. a single sort/search/filter that drives the entire table? When is one preferred over the other? What ...
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Trying to sort color palette by heat
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My company wants to use our own internal styles for our heat maps. Therefore, I have a list of colors that I need to sort by heat (I have hex, rgb, and hsl values to work with). However, I can't ...
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How to show important items at the top in an ordered data table
I am creating an application for a client, it's essentially a large data table with many rows that they use to monitor the status of systems (each row is a different system). Some of the columns track ...
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Why is it often not possible to un-sort a table?
When data is presented in tables, it is often crucial to be able to sort the table rows by one column. Usually this is achieved by making the header of the columns clickable, and showing pointers like ...
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Which of these is the right way to let people reorder columns in a table
I have a data table where I present live sensor data for comparison.
There are atleast 10 columns on the screen at all times and the user can add upto 100 columns by toggling them
Some columns are ...
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Windows vs. Linux file managers: Sorting triangles point in opposite directions?
Windows Explorer's sorting triangles: ▼ Larger and newer files first.
Various Linux file managers: ▼ Smaller files first. ▲Larger files first.
Why is there possibly that distinction? And which one is ...
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Opposing sorting direction
The problem: We have 2 screens in our app where the scrolling chronological is reversed (one page scroll in ascending chronological order and the other descending). From a UX point of view, this seems ...
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How to sort a table which has live data coming in from websocket?
I have a table where I display several columns with numbers in them and people can sort them in ascending or descending order. The one major problem is let's say I had 4 numbers 1 5 2 3 and I sorted ...
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Convention for sorting within a sort on grids
The convention of a sort-able grid seems to be well established. A user sorts on a column by clicking on the header and an arrow appears indicating the direction of the sort. However when the column ...
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Sorting parent objects with multiple children
I'm working with an application for the construction industry which lets users manage and organize their daily jobs. Part of this app is a view in which you can add jobs and assign cost codes (the ...
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Complex filtering
I have a data table that needs complex filtering. It is that kind of interrogation that needs "GROUP BY any-of-the-column" "WHERE any-of-the-column = value" "SORT BY any-of-the-column".
I know ...
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Alphabetical grouping of accented words
We have a list of countries in our UI where the design prototype groups the countries by initial letter. The country names change by language, so the grouping also changes. This also means that the ...
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