Thanks to all for the great replies. One key piece of the puzzle that I omitted (apologies) is that the key use of the tree will be to browse or scan large hierarchical data sets *without* the user knowing an appropriate filter or search phrase to use. That is, they really need to be able to scan the data to find what they want. Does that make sense?
This is why we can't rely on filtering/search (although we do provide it). Thanks again. Russ Russell Wilson Vice President of Product Design, NetQoS Blog: http://www.dexodesign.com On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Bryan Minihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whoops...an errant less-than sign truncated my reply, here's another > go at it (continued from "Root Node" above): > > Root Node > ---- Node1(300 items) > ---- Node2(5200 items) > --------[New Record] !!!You are here!!! > ---- Node3(12000 items) > > I think you only need to display as much of the tree as necessary to > indicate the above three states. Any more and it may confuse your > data-entry people. > > If you're trying to tackle how to display the tree to folks who are > *browsing it*, that's a different story. Factiva and other search > engines represent large organized taxonomies with filters and > navigators that represent the meta "tree" in the right column with > a small widget, while they display the individual items as a > paginated search-results view in the main body of the document. > > Separating the item-display from your taxonomy navigation helps avoid > those UI problems where you're 15 levels down in a > stair-case-displayed tree and you've run out of room for more than > 20 characters for each item. > > As mentioned, my assumptions above may be WAY off of what you're > trying to do. In case they aren't, I hope the above helps. > > -- Bryan > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35117 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
