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GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT)
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[Data mapping] Switch layout "DwC terms / Source columns" #1561

Open sylvain-morin opened 3 years ago

sylvain-morin commented 3 years ago

Currently, in the Data mapping, we start from the list of DwC terms (left column).

We could offer a "switch layout" button, so we will start the mapping from the source columns instead. The left column would be the list of source columns, and for each, the combobox (second column of the layout) would suggest DwC terms (preferably filtered by column type - see https://github.com/gbif/ipt/issues/1560)

The list would be shorter, since usually there is less source columns than DwC terms.

MattBlissett commented 7 months ago

I think to make this more user-friendly, we could have a traditional spreadsheet-like view of the first 50-100 rows of the data table. Just under/above each column heading there can be the combobox showing the available terms.

It's a little unusual to have a horizontally scrolling table on a webpage, but it keeps the view close to Excel etc.