On Nov 1, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Dan Steinicke wrote:
Currently the display order of summary table rows can change
immediately after a user completes an edit on an item. I think
this is undesirable behavior. I think the table view should only
re-order when the column headers are clicked, or in response to the
passage of time.
Dan, are you speaking from a testing perspective? I think the idea is
that most of the time, users are sorted by Triage, so this isn't as
much of an issue.
As part of recording a test script I wanted to select each item in
the table from top to bottom and add a 'X' at the beginning of each
title. I found this operation difficult to do because regardless
of which column I sorted on (I tried Title, date, and task) at some
point the table would re-order in response to my edits. I find
this automatic re-ordering very annoying behavior and find it hard
to believe most users would want the table to behave this way.
This would work if you sorted by Triage Status, no?
I think this also ties in to the end user confusion around the
"Triage" button. I have always thought it would be much more
intuitive to just have the triage column header button do what the
"Triage" button now does. In my understanding the main function of
the "Triage" button is to prevent row reordering when you change
the triage state. If rows only re-ordered when the headers were
clicked then it would seem we would be able to simplify this work
flow as well.
I think we can make the column header do the same thing as the Triage
button.
The disadvantage of having *only* the column header as the way to
Triage is that users will want to 'Triage' often, but not reverse the
sort order often. I think we'll run into people not wanting to click
on the column header because they don't want DONE to be at the top.
Are there users out there who like the automatic re-
ordering in response to edits? Are there users out there who are
annoyed by the dashboard re-ordering in response to edits?
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