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Web interface to iSB and iSC APIs
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Reworking fields button on left pane #155

Open NatalieRaia opened 10 months ago

NatalieRaia commented 10 months ago

The importance of the “fields” button isn’t immediately clear (this dictates what metadata fields get displayed in List and Table view in the central pane, but not what appears in the left navigation pane (even though the “Fields” button appears in the header of this pane?).

Can the “fields” button be more prominent, renamed, or can there be a pop-up when accessing the page for first time in a session that prompts you to select your fields?

When I toggle fields on and off, it would be nice to have an “Apply” button at the bottom right of the list, because it is unclear to me as a user whether I need to refresh (and how to refresh), or whether the fields are dynamically updating (the answer is that it requires a refresh, and I was able to accomplish this in one instance on the fly by toggling from “list” to “table” view and back to “list” in the central pane.

Would like ordering of fields to reflect logical flow of typical searching practices (currently it is alphabetical).

dannymandel commented 9 months ago

@rdhyee ran into this exact issue while working on demo notebooks 😄