Actually, unless I'm missing something, the views you get to are
exactly the same as the views you get by switching App areas -- at
least that's the way the code works. We use the same view code for
both situations, which is why it was so easy to implement. Of
course you can have more than one view of the same type as you
navigate between different collections.
I don't understand. Currently in the View menu, there is Calendar,
Dashboard and Table as well as Week View and Day View.
I'm concerned about confusion around: What is the difference
between Dashboard and Table? What is the difference between
Calendar View and Week or Day View?
The "Week View" and "Table View" don't actually change the underlying
view. They only change what is shown when you are in Calendar View.
You'll notice that they are grayed out when you are not in Calendar
view. If I'm not mistaken, they are no different from clicking on the
Week or Day header in the calendar view. I think they are useful,
though, because people won't know to click in the Week and Day header.
"Week View" and "Table View" are a bad choice of words if we also
allow switching between Dashboard, Calendar and Table views.
Likewise "Use sections" doesn't change the underlying view, it only
changes what is shown when you are in Dashboard view. It doesn't gray
out when you aren't in Dashboard view like "Week View" and "Table
View". It probably should if we keep the item. But it's probably not
worth keeping since the disclosure triangle in Dashboard view is
pretty obvious, unlike the clicking on the Week and Day header in
Calendar view.
2. There's isn't an intuitive way to get back to the Search
results view, once you've switched away from it using the View
selector menu items.
By changing the view I don't think of it as "switching away" from
the results, but instead just viewing the same results in a
different view. If the results are originally displayed in a Table
view and you change the view of the results to Calendar view, you
can get back to where you were by choosing Table view from the menu.
I don't think search results is a table view right now. If I select
Table view in the View menu, the Rank column goes away and I can't
get it back. Although the #s in the sidebar seem to stay, which
they weren't doing last time.
Good point. I was wrong about this.
After looking into it, I remembered that search uses a table view,
but a different one than the Table view you get from the view menu.
As it turns out it's easy to have a different Dashboard or Table
views, each with different columns.
So I think you're right -- we need a way to get the Table view used
by search back if we allow the view to be changed when search results
are shown. I'll give that some thought.
John
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