On 03/22/2011 05:26 PM, Luca Anca wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got some suggestions that the current way of editing the dashboard > is not really intuitive (Edit -> Inline Form), and mainly because users > wouldn't necessarily look under "Edit" for a method to change the > dashboard. Also, other users that I've observed, forgot that they need > to go in some edit mode before changing things. > > I also agree that without documentation no user would figure out that > editing a dashboard is under Edit -> Inline Form. While editing will > still remain "in inline mode", from the technical pov, we need to > provide a easier way for users to discover this. > > Let's look at the following options:
One important thing to keep in mind is that most users don't have a submenu under Edit, just the one top menu entry. > 1/ Add a "Customize" menu entry under edit, in the page menu, as > proposed in the mockups from Cati, a long time ago: > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/GadgetsDashboard . Doesn't work for simple users. > 2/ Add a "Customize this dashboard" button in the dashboard in view > mode, in the top right corner, something like > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/GadgetIntegration/oldDashboardCustomize.png > but styled better to integrate with the current dashboard. Best thing from a discoverability PoV, but stands in the way of a clean UI. > 3/ Define and implement a mechanism to allow the inline form edit to be > triggered for a document without that document having to include a > document which has an object in it. E.g. as Vincent proposed at one > point, trigger inline mode when an object is present in the current > document. > > I should note that solutions 1 and 3 still assume that the user will go > to "Edit" to try to customize the dashboard, which can also be > problematic (I cannot figure it out for sure right now, we need fresh > users or proper UX expertise which I don't have). Well, everything in XWiki should be editable this way. Users should learn this. Eventually they will look for an "Edit" link or button, and they will click on it. How does this fit with the idea that every user should have his own dashboard? The main homepage is problematic since it includes a dashboard defined somewhere else. It's wrong, IMO, to even offer to edit a dashboard that's somewhere else in the context of another document, using the edit mode of that document. It's like allowing to edit the {{include}}d documents. In conclusion, it depends on what is going to be edited. If the dashboard is supposed to be defined in the current document, then it should be edited inline using the normal edit button. If it's required to be able to edit dashboards that are just living inside a document, while their data resides someplace else, then the inline edit mode is completely wrong. It will mess with the rest of the page. In this case, a button inside the dashboard UI itself is best. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
