Ivan Masár created DS-1188:
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Summary: collection view doesn't show content by default
Key: DS-1188
URL: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1188
Project: DSpace
Issue Type: Bug
Components: JSPUI, XMLUI
Affects Versions: 1.8.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.0
Reporter: Ivan Masár
Priority: Major
(I was thinking hard whether to mark this as improvement or bug. I decided it's
a usability bug.)
When you open a collection, you don't see the collection contents (items). You
see a list of possible views (Browse by: By Issue Date, Authors, Titles, ...).
For first time users, this is confusing (they don't see content immediately)
and for regular users there's an extra click required every time they open a
collection (!). Confusion of first time users is further aggravated because
they see a list of recent submissions which looks like they're looking at
content, but this not complete paginable content and complete content in this
format (reverse chronological by submission date) is not even available as an
option. The last issue is that it's not even easily visible how many items a
collection contains before selecting one of the views.
I'm sorry to sound so harsh about this, I know it's been always like that in
DSpace so some might consider that a feature. But I've seen first-time DSpace
users confused over this again and again. I think this is a major usability
problem.
Proposed solution:
1) Pick a default (but configurable) view for collections
2) Remove "Recent submissions" from collections
3) Add "By submission date" as a view - complete with pagination and item
count. This can be even made the default view.
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