12/16/07 David:
A related issue and requested feature for facet slection, especially for the timeline component of Exhibit, is a page reset function. This would take you back to the original state of the Exhibit page without having to click on the browser reload function. This would be helpful for navigating an Exhibit and going back "home" to the Exhibit as first presented. -- David L. Cohen, AICP Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:29:27 To:General List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Facet selection inverter? Vincent, Ray, thanks for your suggestions! Actually all of these conversations on this mailing list have been tremendously helpful to our team for figuring out problems and solutions for our users. It seems like there are 3 modes that you commonly want - any of the selected choices (this is currently supported) - a OR b OR c OR d ... - all of the selected choices (this mode has been requested) - a AND b AND c AND d ... - none of the selected choices (this is what you are asking for) - NOT(a OR b OR c OR d ...) Those 3 modes do not support more complex boolean expressions, such as, say, filtering for movies in which Tom Cruise stars with either Nicole Kidman or Penelope Cruz: Cruise AND (Kidman OR Cruz) Can you think of any *realistic* case where those 3 modes above don't suffice for you? David Vincent wrote: >> From: David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:49:12 -0500 >> Subject: Re: Facet selection inverter? >> >> There's no support for that yet, although there have been similar >> requests in the past. The challenge is not in the query implementation, >> but rather in the user interface. >> Right now I don't have any good >> solution for supporting negation without making the facet look too busy >> and confusing. Do you have any suggestion? >> > > Since an exhibit facet has a global checkbox that appears > as soon as any of its individual checkboxes is checked, > I imagine that a small icon may also appear just next to > this global checkbox. > This icon, when clicked, could just invert the selection, > or if one wants implement other facet-specific features, > it could pop up a menu with several items, among these > items being the "invert selection" function... > In the first case, the icon could be some kind of > black and white symbol, as seen on > http://images.google.com/images?q=invert+selection&gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&sa=G&imgsz=icon > > (Note that I suggest the thing above, but in fact, I rely far > more on *your* expertise than on my vague ideas to keep an > uncluttered but feature-rich UI in my exhibits...!!! > Indeed, I think one of the main advantages > of Exhibit is that it has natively a very well designed > User Interface, and its evolution is in the hands of people > that are not only expert in code development, but also and > perhaps more importantly, are also expert in User Interface design.) > > >> By the way, if your exhibit is public, please feel free to share its URL >> with us (or put it up on our wiki as an example). We're always on the >> look out for variety in the use cases of our tools. >> > > Presently, my exhibits are only on an enterprise intranet, > but if one of them is made public, I'll share the URL. > > Thanks for your answer. > > Vincent > > >> Cheers, >> > > >> David >> > > Vincent Borghi wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> First I must say that Simile Exhibit is a great tool, so >> congratulations to David Huynh (and others involved) >> for this really brilliant work! >> >> I have just a little question: >> Is there a feature in Exhibit that would allow a user to invert >> the current selection in a given facet with a single click (on an >> icon or something)? >> >> (For example, if a facet has entries A, B, C, D, E, F, and if the >> current selected values (box checked) are A and B, I would like with >> a single click deselect A and B and select C, D, E and F.) >> >> Any suggestion? >> >> PS: >> I use Exhibit at work to display trouble tickets, and also to show data >> from a directory of employees. I think Simile is versatile and I see >> many other uses in the future... >> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
