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mitmedialab / MediaCloud-Dashboard

Front-end for the MediaCloud database
https://dashboard.mediameter.org
Apache License 2.0
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change "add media" to a plus icon #266

Closed rahulbot closed 8 years ago

rahulbot commented 8 years ago

With a rollover that says "add media".

anushka1991 commented 8 years ago

There are two issues with this.

1) Can we make 'add media' more visible? (bolding or size)

2) If a user wants to look at U.S. Liberal Sources, they would have to select U.S. Media, and then delete all the sub-collections until only 'U.S. Liberal Sources' remained.

Instead, could we have only U.S. Media show up (with no description or list of sub-collections) with the plus button as is. If we click on the plus button here it will add all sources. Next to the plus button will also be a drop down arrow button.

When you click on the drop down it gives you a list of the sub-collections list; here there is a little plus button next to each.

So basically, a user can either choose to add the whole U.S. collection with the plus button that initially shows up. Or open the drop-down menu and then select the required sub-collections individually.

rahulbot commented 8 years ago

1) Sure, we can make add media bigger and bolder. Splitting off to a new issue (#268).

2) True. If they want just US Liberal Sources they have to type it in by name to the autofill in the dialog. However we can't really do what you want easily... and it raises an important note about our architecture. There is no true concept of "Sub collections"; that "U.S. Media" entry is something I hacked up for the popup sources dialog that was a quick fix (#215). What you're suggesting requires a rethinking of the way we manage collections. Collections right now are made up of sources, not other collections. In the new Source Manager tool you will able to create a Collection by specifying the other Collections is made of, but that will just import all the sources and join them. It will not be a true Collection made of other Collections. There won't be a hierarchy of Collections made up of other Collections.

anushka1991 commented 8 years ago

Ah okay, understood! Is there a way for the code to allow a selection of single collections, just organized in the format of a drop-down menu?

rahulbot commented 8 years ago

Closing this, because the proposal for (2) would involve more UI work than we can afford right now.