Hi John,
Thx for writing this up...see in-line below.
Mimi
On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:04 PM, John Anderson wrote:
Hi Mimi:
Does this describe what you mean:
Whenever an "Out of the Box" collection is selected, the summary
displays only that collection, no matter which other collections
are checked.
Yup
If so, then what about when you have multiple "Out of the Box"
collections selected? Does the summary view display the last
selected collection?
You can't. The checkbox-rollover / overlay widget is disabled for
OOTB collection.
As an alternative to graying out the checked collections when an
"Out of the Box" collection is selected, how about unchecking them
(unselecting "Out of the Box" collections would restore the
previous checked state).
What is your thinking behind this proposal? Currently when focus
shifts from one pane to another (e.g. sidebar to summary pane and
vice versa), we don't get rid of the selection, instead we dim it out.
Another possibility I've been thinking about is having two separate
tables in the sidebar, one for the "Out of the Box" collections and
one for the user collections. This makes it really easy to put a
divider line between them (other options have a host of messy
complications). At first I thought two tables would be difficult
because they each have a separate selection. However two separate
selections might be just what you want: When the "Out of the Box"
table has the focus the "User collection" table selection is drawn
lighter. Whichever table has the focus displays it's selected (and
checked in the case of the "User collections") collections in the
summary view.
It also makes it easier to deal with reordering collections in the
tables if and when we allow that -- you're limited to reordering
collections within each table but you can't move collections
between tables.
Cool. That sounds like it matches the user mental model.
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