Editing process - Yellow color in cells

[romicolman]

Problem description

When the user deletes content from a cell/range, the ODE highlights those cells in yellow, as a "warning sign" (empty cells).

Steps to reproduce it

• The user opens the ODE.
• Go to ADD --FILE and selects a file
• The ODE will preview the file (main screen).
• Select one cell or a range and delete content (on Mac: fn + backspace).

Additional comments

Question for the UX specialist:

• Should we highlight the cell/range in yellow every time the user deletes content? I think it would be better if we do this but after the user clicks on the SAVE button:

• The user deletes content.

• Clicks SAVE

• Empty cells are shown in yellow

[roll]

@romicolman Yellow == any changed cells (that can be reverted or saved)

Empty cells are not highlighted themselves

[romicolman]

@roll thanks! Adding additional context here. You are right, @roll it's not an error to have a blank cell in my tabular file. However, I think the the best option in terms of UX is to remove the yellow color whenever a user makes a change. This is not a common practice in other tools and the yellow may be sending the message that "something could be wrong" even if that is not the case. For instance: I opened a csv and edited a number in one of the cells, I just typed a different one. The data type is ok but the yellow color may create some confusion.

[romicolman]

One more thing. @Faithkenny: Maybe what we can do if keep the yellow just for those cases when the user types something that goes against the the data type in that column.