Hm, Gmail uses something like that in the Inbox view, however the indicator does not open a dropdown, it opens a message instead:
Oleh, Jennifer (5) [IxDA Discuss] Indicators for cells with multiple values in a datagrid -- Oleh On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Oleh Kovalchuke <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks, Jennifer, for food for thought. > > We indicate this kind of links in data cells by changing text color (no > underlining). The entire value in the cell would be treated as a link > (including number of entries). > > Both nested datagrids and Expand All action could be good options > potentially. Unfortunately they are not technically feasible around here. > Also there could be quite a few randomly located cells within the grid in > different rows and columns -- expanding/collapsing grid might feel somewhat > jittery. > > Removing "+" sign and displaying total number of entries might be a good > option. > Like so: > > ------------------------------------------ > Column One Column Two > ------------------------------------------ > Lorem Ipsum [2] 1,240 > Dolor sit amet 2,005 > Consectetur [3] 1,234 [6] > Adipiscing elit 2,111 [2] > Cras lectus 32 > Neque [5] 1,221 [4] > ------------------------------------------ > > > 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
