topic Re: Couple of usability points in Alfresco Archive

Couple of usability points

mikeh — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:29:55 GMT

Hi guys,Just a couple of things I've noticed whilst playing around with the web client. This is version PR5 by the way…1 - The radio button/link "space picker"I know this isn't your favourite control :wink: and may be being replaced, but in the meantime it would be useful to alter it's behaviour so

Re: Couple of usability points

davidc — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:05:41 GMT

Thanks Mike for your comments. I'm not the UI expert but I can respond to point 6.

We're just in the process of developing support for asynchronous actions. This means that rules can be setup and run in the background without locking the user interface. This covers all actions including transformation via Office. Also, we'll support multiple actions and compensating actions. This will allow for actions to be invoked on success or failure of the background process e.g. send e-mail.

Re: Couple of usability points

kevinr — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 07:58:34 GMT

Thanks for the comments. We are aware of most of the issues you raise, I'll comment on each one individually:

1. Yes the Space Selector needs work! We'll be getting to that before the October release timeframe.

2. Definitely agree - it's something I'd like to find a elegant solution for on every page.

3. Yes that would be a good idea.

4. Also agree.

5. Unfortuntely this is a limitation of the mix between the JSF technology and the JSR-168 portal environment we also support. It leads to a tricky situation when you need to mix servlets and ordinary HTML forms with the JSF world. So for now that will stay like this.

6. Dave has already commented on this.

7. Yes I think we will make the clipboard items live - as currently the node is just shown as text and icon which are not clickable - but it would only be a very small change to make the links point to the download location for the item.

Cheers,

Kevin