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GUI for brightway2
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re-implement the "Activity Browser experience" #95

Closed bsteubing closed 5 years ago

bsteubing commented 6 years ago

Forward-backward buttons to re-implement the "Activity Browser" experience The original version of the AB had nice buttons to navigate through the browsing history very quickly. This idea originally inspired the name Activity Browser - to quickly explore LCA data.

Link- (or key) based navigation Each activity in brightway has a key. In addition to the search function, this key provides an alternative way to directly accessing an activity - by providing the link so to speak (the key). This was already present in the original AB and should be re-implemented. Also as the AB is a tool to work smoothly together with brightway2.

haasad commented 6 years ago

Where would you put the navigation buttons? If you plan on putting them in the toolbar, we can close #81 . Otherwise I'd like to hear your opinion on the necessity of the toolbar.

bsteubing commented 6 years ago

please see my answer in #81

haasad commented 6 years ago

Bernhard's answer in #81 with additional ideas for the toolbar. #81 was closed in favour of this issue:

I think the toolbar still has a value and could feature other things. The original version of the AB had a number of functions there, see here:
image From left to right:

  • search
  • search by brightway key
  • random activity
  • history (tab could appear once the user presses this button)
  • back and forwards buttons for "activity BROWSER" type navigation
  • edit activity
  • calculate LCA results (with functional unit and LCIA method as defined in LCIA tab)

Further, from the modular LCA extension:

  • new module
  • save module
  • open modular LCA database
  • add database
  • save database
  • close database

Graphing:

  • show module as graph (type defined in drop-down menu)
  • show modular system (several connected modules)

Similar buttons could be used to display a supply chain graph relating to the current activity.

btw: although the current search function using woosh is advanced, having a second search field to search within search results was really useful in the original version to quickly find desired activities...

bsteubing commented 5 years ago

I think with the recent advancements we can drop this for now.