Hi,
Great that we are advancing on the Totem. This is a nice improvement to the
Totem to make it much nicer.
One suggestion is to also make proposals for the "Advanced" section in the
"section content editing". There is work needed there not only in terms of
look but to make it understandable what will happen in this advanced
section. The objective of the Advanced section, which is not fully feature
complete currently, is to allow to choose the content from existing XWiki
App Within Minutes applications (or XWiki classes in general). Once you
choose the general source, there is then two ways to select the data:
1/ Automatic way
The content data is automatically selected by taking the last "N" items
sorted by data, using the said mapping of fields
2/ Manual way
The content data is manually selected in the same way as the "Simple" tab.
In that case the mapping still needs to be provided.
The feature of being able to "create" a new entry using a popup should
still work (note that it's possible that for certain apps the popup fails
to properly display the editing system, but for standard AWM it should work
well).
All this represent a lot of choices and it's important to make these
choices understandable by the users.
In general in TOTEM I believe the hints and documentation are very
important.
For example the "Edit Section" could be improved to allow some guidance to
the user in choosing which displayer for his section.
There would be an image for each displayer that gives and idea of what this
choice actually does. Right now it's a list of text (that are not
necessarly well chosen) and the user does not exactly know what it will do.
Ludovic
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <valicac(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
I've created a proposal for improving the UI for Totem Application [1]
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/TotemApplication
Although the proposal is done using Macaw Skin [2], the principles can be
applied also on the current iteration of the application which is using
Flamingo Skin:
- reviewing the translations and hint messages;
- improving the creation inline-form and modal forms;
- adding link for Totem.Items;
- improved display of a totem's sections (borders, drag&drop);
- improved display of config and order forms;
- standardized modals (header, body, footer) for section edit/items/delete
actions;
Thanks,
Caty
[1]
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/TotemApplication
[2]
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/MacawSkin
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