I'm going to go with Nils, here, and say let's just live with this for the time being. (I'll keep it in mind going forward though.) Thanks for the suggestion, Greg.
Judy On May 5, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Nils Birnbaum wrote: > I would only comment that this is only an issue for testing and QA. There's > no University across different time-zones. I guess we have more important > problems in the UI than this. Yes it's a PITA in the QA Season but that's not > that important I think. > > Nils > > On 05.05.11 02:21, Judy Stern wrote: >> Hi, Greg. >> Multiple time zone administration was previously considered an edge case >> (thus these issues were not prioritized, and sometimes not even documented), >> but I am happy to re-focus on these issues if they're causing problems in >> production. It's timely in that we're doing somewhat of an overhaul of the >> Scheduling UI to deal with multiple distribution channels. Just confirm that >> it's a real issue (and not just a theoretical one). >> I do want to say that while I'm not opposed off hand to re-ordering the >> items it the Capture area of the Scheduling UI, there are actually a number >> of usability problems when dealing with multiple time zones (not just the >> location of the agent dropdown). Just moving the selector might be a bit of >> a band-aid and might have other usability implications that haven't been >> thought through. >> >> Judy >> >> On May 3, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Schulte Olaf A. wrote: >> >>> +0 (we don't have that many time zones in Switzerland) >>> >>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>>> Von: [email protected] [mailto:matterhorn- >>>> [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Greg Logan >>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Mai 2011 15:19 >>>> An: Opencast Matterhorn >>>> Betreff: [Opencast Matterhorn] Admin UI Suggestion >>>> >>>> Hi Folks, >>>> >>>> I'm doing some integration testing with the Epiphan CA, and I've noticed a >>>> little >>>> oddity in the admin UI: When the device is in a different timezone the >>>> start time's >>>> hour component will change when you select the device. Since the device >>>> selection dropdown is at the bottom of the page my workflow typically >>>> looks like >>>> >>>> Insert metadata -> select time and date -> set duration -> select agent >>>> -> fix start time -> schedule. >>>> >>>> Instead we should move the device selection dropdown to the middle of the >>>> page, >>>> above the date selector. This would change the obvious workflow to >>>> >>>> Insert metadata -> select agent -> select time and date -> set duration >>>> -> schedule. >>>> >>>> I'm not a UX person, but the latter seems far more intuitive and less >>>> error prone (it >>>> took me a couple of tries to understand what was going >>>> on) than the original. >>>> >>>> G >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Matterhorn mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe please email >>> [email protected] >>> _______________________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ >> Matterhorn mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn >> >> >> To unsubscribe please email >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Judy Stern Educational Technology Services, UC Berkeley [email protected] _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
