Hi Fawad, hi all,
Hi all,
I just gave a try to the latest code, well done with the Solr queries and the search integration in the user interface, that's cool!
Thanks Stephane. :)
Imho the most convenient UX is the following for these widgets, something
similar to this map:
http://carte.preference-commerce.fr/cci-fr/
That is:
- The facets can get activated from a button. When they get activated, they
show up in an overlay panel on top of the map, without hiding the list.
- The list gets displayed under the search input, in an overlay as well, and can be completely hidden on request
Just to clarify things, the facets here refer to the "Refine your search" area, the
search input refers to the "Search in map" text input and the list refers to the map item
search results. Is that right?
Yes indeed,
If so, I believe, given the nature of XWiki's design with widgets to both the
right and left (for the default flavor), the space is a little cramped for
overlaying anything on the map. For the implementation of full screen maps, we
can overlay search and facets but for the normal view, the map will become very
small.
Here is a mockup I prepared based on my understanding of your suggestions:
https://up1.xwikisas.com/#SB7B5mLNnfnUVAogWTLarw
Let me know what you think?
I think it's an efficient way to layout the widgets indeed. I agree the map may look
cramped in case there are panels on the left and on the right, but the user typically
would have an option to hide the results, ideally. There's one change I would suggest,
that would be to layout the filters either as an overlay or as a replacement of the list,
and to move the filter button closer to the search input. Regarding the filter position:
the Airbnb search illustrated below behaves quite nicely imho (when you hit "More
filters", you get a new panel on top with all the filters), what do you think?
https://up1.xwikisas.com/#zNABtIwH-Z-hSSUgFx-y4Q
As for the information associated with each point or area, we have several
options: either place it in popups on top of the map like Airbnb, or have it in
the search result area, like what Google Maps proposes, or display it in a
lateral panel like GoGoCarto. I would opt for popups by default, and if
possible later on, leave the option to display it in the search area in case of
large content, what do you think? Ideally, the panel for displaying this
information would be a template that could be easily styled and customized for
each map?
I have also come up with an idea to generalize the museum maps import and
export you created, Stephane. We could have a standard form of wikidata query
with some extra custom parameters for each location like the MuseumClass in the
Museums' case. These extra parameter will be checked in JSON and classes will
be created if required so that objects can be associated to each map item and
then later facets can be used based upon these newly created classes.
WDYT?
I think that'd be a nice feature generally speaking to ease the import of
Wikidata into XWiki indeed, I have a side project on which I'm considering such
developments as well, not sure yet about the outcome. If you feel like it will
be useful for generating more demo maps, I'd say that'd be good indeed, but
with the caveat of not digging too much in that direction for not hampering the
map development of course.
Also, due to unprecedented circumstances within college, my exams have been
delayed for this week and will start from next week. So I will be working this
whole week on the project as opposed to what I told earlier.
Ok, thank you for letting us know.
I'd say at this stage that'd be great to keep progressing on functional testing
automation and to finalize and release 1.0, I guess we're in tune but, as you
did since the beginning, don't hesitate to raise questions about the priorities
and the next steps of course.
Wishing you good work days ahead,
Cheers
Stéphane
Best,
Fawad
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:04 PM Stéphane Laurière <slauri...@xwiki.com
<mailto:slauri...@xwiki.com>> wrote:
Hi Fawad, Caty, all,
> Hi all,
> Hoping that everything is going well.
>
> Stephane, I was able to do implement most of your suggestions except the
search results list.
I just gave a try to the latest code, well done with the Solr queries and
the search integration in the user interface, that's cool!
> I am not too sure where I should place it. As per the latest build, the
filter widget appears to the left. Do you think it is practical that we replace
this widget with the search results when the user wants to see the search results
and show the widget back again when the user clicks on the widget control? I am
not too sure what approach I should choose here in terms of UX.
> Ecaterina, your views on this would help a lot. Thanks. :)
Imho the most convenient UX is the following for these widgets, something
similar to this map:
http://carte.preference-commerce.fr/cci-fr/
That is:
- The facets can get activated from a button. When they get activated, they
show up in an overlay panel on top of the map, without hiding the list.
- The list gets displayed under the search input, in an overlay as well,
and can be completely hidden on request
It's rather close to what Google Maps proposes as well, except that the facets
replace the list in that case (when hitting "Autres filtres"), which is a bit
less convenient in my opinion, but not a big deal:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/Restaurants/@48.865957,2.352974,16z
What do you think?
> Also, do you foresee the map to take full browser height and width as is
seen in all the examples you gave me?
That would be a nice feature to have a button on the map to turn it
full-screen indeed, similarly to what happens with the XWiki text editor.
Cheers
Stéphane
> Regarding the release, I will try preparing everything by tonight so
that it is available for your review, including the demo tests that Vincent
suggested.
>
> Best,
> Fawad
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:59 PM Stéphane Laurière <slauri...@xwiki.com
<mailto:slauri...@xwiki.com> <mailto:slauri...@xwiki.com
<mailto:slauri...@xwiki.com>>> wrote:
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