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Arctos is a museum collections management system
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Feature Request - edit button for catalog record/curatorial or move remarks to other panel #5701

Open DerekSikes opened 1 year ago

DerekSikes commented 1 year ago

Issue Documentation is http://handbook.arctosdb.org/how_to/How-to-Use-Issues-in-Arctos.html

When in a catalog record, like this one: https://arctos.database.museum/guid/UAM:Ento:204163

If one wants to edit the Remarks field that is in the Catalog Record/Curatorial panel one has to know to click the 'edit' button for a different panel - the Record Attributes panel.

It would be best and far more intuitive if the panel one wants to edit (the catalog record/curatorial) had an edit button.

OR.... move the 'Remarks' that is in the Catalog Record/Curatorial panel to the Record Attributes panel since that's the edit button that access that field. (Because if the first solution is implemented then these two edit buttons would be partially redundant since both would allow editing of the same fields - which isn't good design either).

OR... make a new page for editing remarks that is not the same page as Record Attributes... then make an edit button for the Catalog Record/Curatorial pane that accesses that page.

OR... make a new panel for remarks, all by itself, with its own edit button.

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dustymc commented 1 year ago

The 'panels' seem entirely ephemeral to me, and lots of things in them can't be edited from catalog records, but they're easy enough to change (if not to fit - this is a place where the full depth of Arctos must be considered).

The edit screens (also panels?? overlays?) are more difficult to change, but still approachable.

I think we've already got way too many pigeonholes, but splitting something probably isn't much more difficult than changing. (Except finding a place for the button, perhaps!)

Merging is probably also just another change.

Rebuilding a few of the edit 'subforms' is somewhere on my list, and there's never been a better time for radical change if that's what's needed. I think starting from a blank slate is reasonable, and the end product doesn't necessarily need to look or work anything like anything that's there now - someone get out the crayons!

DerekSikes commented 1 year ago

"I think starting from a blank slate is reasonable, and the end product doesn't necessarily need to look or work anything like anything that's there now"

I disagree - there is enormous value in the massive number of unconfused seconds users of Arctos with years of experience spend using what they have experience with. Any change that might benefit new users needs to be weighed against the cost of disgruntled experienced users who no longer can rely on their years of knowledge.

But adherence to simple design rules like consistent terminology, lack of redundant buttons, buttons adjacent to the things they allow editing of, etc should be appreciated by all.