Collections Content Tree Interface seems not intuitive

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Collections Content Tree Interface seems not intuitive #74

Open manonthegithub opened 1 year ago

manonthegithub commented 1 year ago

I think this could be discussed... I think the new user can be completely lost in the interface... it seems to me that it is not really clear what is going on there what kinda things are added and how to really do it... maybe some hints in the interface could be useful

holycrab13 commented 1 year ago

Low hanging fruits:

Add hint in the root element for usage of "Enter Databus Resource URI"
Make Databus nodes expanded by default, so the search prompt is visible
Create tutorial video

holycrab13 commented 1 year ago

Made Databus nodes in the hierarchy expanded by default. This will expose the field with the interaction hint "Search Databus for resources to add" right at the top. Could give users a clearer starting point

manonthegithub commented 1 year ago

I think the main point of confusion for me was the correspondence of the icons to group, artefact , version

manonthegithub commented 1 year ago

Maybe on the content tab we could add a short caption describing what is going on there

holycrab13 commented 1 year ago

More ideas:

Add a search field to every node to search in children
Store current setting of expanded / minimized nodes in session storage

Moving this to a later milestone

manonthegithub commented 1 year ago

It's is not really intuitive from the interface that the artefact can be clicked and expanded with more filters.... It took me a few minutes this time to find the filters, even though I knew what I wanted to do and where it should be....