Hi Andreas, Sure thing. For ease of use, I'm using a button which pops up a search interface currently, like what Add WMS does. We can work on the unified interface later on, as you suggest, where this comes in as another option when loading a WMS.
Thanks Mifan On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 11:43 +0200, Fischer, Andreas wrote: > Hi Mifan, > I just had a look at your weekly report Nr. 2 and I'm sorry that I didn't > respond to your question concerning how the user should get to the CSW dialog. > Sure, it is possible to make another button to get to the dialog and it is > probably the fastest and most simpel way to implement the new feature. The > only thing is, that in this case we have about three buttons, that offer > similar oportunities to get a WMS e.g. loaded to the mapframe. > > To reduce the amount of buttons in the gui and keep it clearly layouted in my > opinion it could make sense, to merge similar topics and offer just one > button to reach a more complex dialog. In this dialog the user could choose > first different opportunities: > 1. get a WMS from different lists (WMS in alphabetical order, lists with > different topics e.g. tourism, nature conservation) > 2. get a WMS by typing in the onlineResource > 3. get a WMS (or anything else) by using the catalog interface > Take a look at http://217.78.131.130/lukas/initParams.do and choose "Themen > hinzuladen" (Load another theme ). This is pretty much what I have in mind ... > > But in order to get this implemented in a similar way, a lot of work has to > be done that might be a little of your main topic. There are probably > different opinions in "the best way" of designing a user gui too. So I would > suggest to implement the functionality first und keep in mind that some > improvements could be done in order to get a better/different usability or > look & feel. > Best regards > Andreas > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > Im Auftrag > > Andreas Fischer > > Kreis Unna - Der Landrat > Zentrale Datenverarbeitung > Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 17 > 59425 Unna > > Fon 02303 27-4416 > Fax 02303 27-2896 > [email protected] > www.kreis-unna.de > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]im Auftrag von Mifan > Careem > Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2009 20:32 > An: Mapbender > Cc: [email protected] > Betreff: [Mapbender-dev] GSoC09 Report -Mapbender CSW Week 2 > > > Hi Lists, > > Report of the 2nd week is as available here: > http://www.mapbender.org/CSW_report_week_2 > > Regards > > Mifan > > > _______________________________________________ > Mapbender_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev > Diese E-Mail wurde beim Ausgang auf Viren geprueft. Wegen der potentiellen > Gefahr auf den Uebertragungswegen wird zu einer Vireneingangskontrolle > geraten. Eine Haftung für Virenfreiheit wird ausgeschlossen. > _______________________________________________ Mapbender_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev
