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Change the default behavior of the warning panel when users try to close the new data package wizard. #1041

Closed mbjones closed 6 years ago

mbjones commented 6 years ago

Author Name: Jing Tao (Jing Tao) Original Redmine Issue: 5999, https://projects.ecoinformatics.org/ecoinfo/issues/5999 Original Date: 2013-06-07

Here is the emails from Kristin:

Dear Morpho Developers,

A student here noticed an odd Morpho behavior that I thought you might want to be aware of, because it is a little frustrating when a data package disappears.

She created a new data package, and then used the "Save For Later" button in the lower left corner. Later, she searched for the package in the list of available data packages and opened it. Deciding not to make changes at that time, she 'X'ed' out of it (hit red X in corner of window). This evidently erases the saved package, because it no longer appeared in the list of packages and we couldn't find it on her computer. I tried this same sequence of actions, and had the same result.

Kristin Vanderbilt

Hi Jing,

Yes, I did see the warning message this time. I don't know why I didn't see it the other time. I suspect that I saw it, and intuitively thought that hitting cancel wouldn't result in any information lost. Since two students and I both made the same mistake, I think you may want to render the warning in words that won't be overlooked: READ THIS BEFORE EXITING!! or something like that. Or make the default behavior be saving the package again as a temporary package.

Anyway, Morpho is working right. The users just don't read as well as they should!

Thanks for looking in to this!

Best wishes, Kristin

mbjones commented 6 years ago

Original Redmine Comment Author Name: ben leinfelder (ben leinfelder) Original Date: 2013-06-10T18:52:21Z

Changed the wording to be a bit more helpful. Switched to Ok/Cancel instead of Yes/No.