Is assignment an issue or displaying list items?
For your display - Did you consider showing selections the other way around; small lists to include large lists? In your example it would be B1 - A1, A2, A4, A6 - A28 B2 - A3, A4, A6 - A28, A30 - A49 B3 - A30 - A49, A51, A 52 .....and so on Here are two examples on assigning items: Solution 1: not the best of the lot, but makes selection easier (cherry picking items). Tedious as you have to make multiple selections from a huge list quite a few times. Solution 2: Makes selection a lot easier, users can manually type in List A items for each List B item; similar to printing pages in a Word doc (printer settings). If you are concerned about typos etc, you can also provide a feature that will allow users to cherry pick items (list selection box). Thanks, Amit -----Original Message----- From: IxDA Digest [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IxDA Digest] assigning multiple items to multiple items Six comments by Michael Tuminello, et al... Started September 8th at 12:44pm View the thread online: http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=32756 Comments in this digest: 1. Michael Tuminello - Hi - I'm looking for a way to assign a small... 2. Hugh Griffith - Hi Michael, I'm not sure I completely... 3. Michael Tuminello - wow - thanks everyone for your responses. I... 4. Eric Scheid - How about something a little more... 5. Michael Tuminello - what's more interactive than a checkbox? ;-)... 6. Eric Scheid - In Russia, checkbox click you! e. ... Note: To subscribe to followup digests for this particular thread, reply with the word 'follow' in the body of your e-mail. I x D A D I G E S T assigning multiple items to multiple items Started September 8th at 12:44pm 1. Michael Tuminello - Monday, 12:44pm Hi - I'm looking for a way to assign a small number of multiple items (say 1-5) to a large number of multiple items (say 150). So I might want to assign small list items 1 to big list items 1-50, small list items 2 and 3 to big items 51-100 and small list items 1 and 2 to big list items 101-150. Then you can ostensibly go back and select item 49, or items 49-67 and change their assignment of items in the small list. looking at a list menu and a list of checkboxes right now, but wondering if anyone has dealt with a similar problem and come up with a nice solution for it. thanks - MT 2. Hugh Griffith - Monday, 2:38pm Hi Michael, I'm not sure I completely understand you. Is this what you're trying to describe? Let's say you have two bookshelvesA and B. You want to be able to take books from shelf A, and place them in shelf B. You want to be able to move multiple books at one time. You also want the ability to rearrange the books on shelf B. If so, I tried to solve this problem once too. You can read about my solutions here http://interactionhero.com/articles/create-and-sort-a-list. Hope that helps! Hugh On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Michael Tuminello <mt at motiontek.com> wrote: > Hi - > I'm looking for a way to assign a small number of multiple items (say 1-5) > to a large number of multiple items (say 150). > So I might want to assign small list items 1 to big list items 1-50, small -- Hugh Griffith User Interface Designer 3. Michael Tuminello - Monday, 6:48pm wow - thanks everyone for your responses. I didn't expect so many so fast. all the responses were interesting. I guess my explanation was not very clear. I'll try again. I have a long list of items (list A) each of which can use a short list of items (list B), either singularly or more than one. the problem is assigning one or more items in list B to one or more items in list A. and then you have to account for going back and selecting multiple items in list A and indicating which items in list B belong to them even when they may have different assignments. I am now leaning toward displaying all the items in list B for each item in list A with checkboxes even though there is a lot of redundancy in the display, like this, because at least there is no confusion about which items in list B belong to list A and it is still relatively quick to select list B items even though you can't make multiple assignments at once. Item A1 [checkbox] item B1 [checkbox] item B2 [checkbox] item B3 Item A2 [checkbox] item B1 [checkbox] item B2 [checkbox] item B3 Item A3 [checkbox] item B1 [checkbox] item B2 [checkbox] item B3 Item A4 [checkbox] item B1 [checkbox] item B2 [checkbox] item B3 ... 2nd runner up was a checkbox display for the items in list B that would show [-] when incompatible selections were made (selected for some) rather than [x] (selected for all), or [ ] (selected for none). Anyone who has read this far gets a gold star! Anyway, if anyone has any OTHER suggestions, let me know... thanks again to everyone who responded so far. Michael 4. Eric Scheid - Monday, 7:37pm On 9/9/08 11:48 AM, "Michael Tuminello" <mt at motiontek.com> wrote: > Anyway, if anyone has any OTHER suggestions, let me know... How about something a little more interactive? On the left hand side you'd have your list of container items, and on the right hand side a list of your component items. Put them into a select lists, scrolling if necessary. In between you'd put a button to add the selected component items on the right into the selected container items on the left, and a button to remove the selected components from the left. If multiple components are selected when the user hits the 'add' button, they all get added, if multiple containers are selected when they hit 'add' then the selected component(s) get added into each of the containers (multiple into multiple, woot!). Dynamically disable the add/remove buttons depending on whether they have selected appropriate things (including looking for already added items and also inappropriate items). This would be a variation on this pattern: http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=parts-selector Start the widget off with at least one container item on the left selected, let them select multiple on either side, and for the love of dog please do some usability testing ;-) e. 5. Michael Tuminello - Monday, 10:13pm what's more interactive than a checkbox? ;-) thanks On Sep 8, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Eric Scheid wrote: > How about something a little more interactive? On the left hand side > you'd > have your list of container items, and on the right hand side a list > of your 6. Eric Scheid - Monday, 10:38pm On 9/9/08 3:13 PM, "Michael Tuminello" <mt at motiontek.com> wrote: > what's more interactive than a checkbox? ;-) In Russia, checkbox click you! e. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ IxDA Thread Digest Upgrade to full e-mail ..... http://www.ixda.org/upgrade Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe
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