Actually every view has a "reset" link at the top next to the count of 
items... But I do agree that such a feature is better placed next to the 
search box and facets.

David

David L. Cohen, AICP wrote:
> 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...
>>>     
>>>       
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