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Sue Kunda commented on DS-1188: ------------------------------- I agree. This has always been an issue for us and our users. People tend to think that the "Recent Submissions" are the only items in the collection. Showing content on the collection home page would be a great improvement. Sue > 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: 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0 > Reporter: Ivan Masár > Assignee: Kevin Van de Velde > Priority: Major > Fix For: 4.0 > > > (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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel