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List view filters are inconsistent #8

Open crystalenka opened 2 years ago

crystalenka commented 2 years ago

This issue has been created after some discussion around #5 .

Problem we're trying to solve:

Depending on the component, the filters available are inconsistently ordered. This leads to frustration both for experienced users and new users, because one must look carefully which filter they need before selecting. They are also inflexible (it's not possible to filter by multiple categories, for example).

Possible solutions include:

Things to remember as we discuss this issue:

brianteeman commented 2 years ago

Depending on the component, the filters available are inconsistently ordered.

Please could you point out which ones are not consistent. They should be as I spent quite a lot of time ensuring that the order of the filters matched the order of the columns

crystalenka commented 2 years ago

Depending on the component, the filters available are inconsistently ordered.

Please could you point out which ones are not consistent. They should be as I spent quite a lot of time ensuring that the order of the filters matched the order of the columns

They are consistent with the columns in most cases (though I think maybe not with workflows enabled), but they are not consistent with each other:

Screenshot of a spreadsheet showing different filter orders in joomla components

One of the questions I raised above is that since the filters follow column order, the columns are ordered inconsistently across components too when compared to each other. Should they be more consistent? I don't know the answer, just keeping track of the different things we're looking at as a team right now. :)

brianteeman commented 2 years ago

but they are not consistent with each other:

How can they be if all the views have different columns

crystalenka commented 1 year ago

Relevant past issue: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/28056