Hello, IxDers, I need to indicate that specific cell in a read-only datagrid contains not one, but multiple values. Putting the cell in focus would reveal the values in it.
The project team have suggested displaying "Multiple..." link in the cell. Clicking the link would open a popup showing the values. There are several problems with this approach, which I am not going to dwell upon at the moment. I think a better way to do this would be to display the first value in the list as a link with an indicator of total entries, if there are more than one. A column of values would look like this then: Lorem ipsum Dolor sit amet Consectetur [+5] Adipiscing elit [+1] Cras lectus Neque [+3] Each row in this example represents a cell in a large datagrid. Clicking the cell with multiple values would open a dropdown list displaying all entries (6, 2 or 4 in the example above). Are there better ways to indicate that the cell has multiple values in it and to view the values? This is for frequently used application, not a website. Thanks, Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm ________________________________________________________________ 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
