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An open source javascript framework for spatial data and application interfaces.
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Circle and isoline settings review #1627

Open jfitzpatrick17 opened 3 weeks ago

jfitzpatrick17 commented 3 weeks ago

Description

What: The way additional settings for circle and isoline creation (e.g. distance, drivetime in minutes) are accessed needs to be reviewed. The UI is very unclear currently - we could consider separating the settings out into a separate dialog (now we have the UI dialog elements in core).

Why: Many users are not realising they can change the default settings of a catchment by expanding the drawer; your eyes are immediately drawn to the big 'create' button in the current layout. The expand option is easily missed.

Considerations:

Current UI for review:

Screenshot 2024-10-25 at 16 37 23 (2)

Type of Issue:

dbauszus-glx commented 3 weeks ago

Any utility solution must be optional, configurable, and available to any drawer element, to be called from the drawer element method itself.

jfitzpatrick17 commented 3 weeks ago

@RobAndrewHurst, I was just thinking about your comment this morning in regards to how we will know what settings have been applied if these are handled in a separate dialog - we chatted about the possibility of adding it to the Drawing Instructions dialog that appears on drawing interaction, but this could get confusing especially if there are multiple catchments being drawn.

More and more these days we are capturing user inputs for catchments in the database (e.g. see below), so it could be as simple as adding a hover on this field.

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cityremade commented 3 weeks ago

This is not meant to be a utility. These panels have poor accessibility.