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Wizards could show context for user actions #5

Open danyill opened 11 months ago

danyill commented 11 months ago

Some (at least one) user of my distribution are reluctant to use the Communication plugin to edit IP addresses.

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Partly they are fond of the interface I provide to rename IEDs:

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Partly, I think they find the number of button clicks to change the IP address a bit laborious.

I am not especially sympathetic to this point of view, except in one regard:

When I open an item in the wizard I "lose context" and sometimes I have a moments doubt, "Which of the S1" access points did I click?

This could be seen as an issue more with the communication editor because it "closes the window" before opening the wizard:

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Nonetheless I can't help but think it would be nice if each wizard showed some information about the parent element or context to assure the user (e.g. directly below the title).

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Happy for this issue to be closed if this is just fluff 😉

JakobVogelsang commented 11 months ago

There is something to it that's for sure. I am more than happy to add this context to the wizard. I will play around with it and propose some changes. You can of course do the same.

danyill commented 11 months ago

Until we have some source code (#1) I guess I can't directly address it in this repo.

Although I am unsure about the use of identities in UI, the only thing that comes to mind is to have a second line with the identity of the parent element in it and the max-width limited to some value (for those rare cases when the identity explodes e.g. ExtRefs).