Open sandcha opened 6 years ago
To me #80 should first be implemented to see if this is still legit afterwards.
I second the need, I find it very annoying that the Explorer provides so little structure when visually scanning with a desired result among many.
A caution however is that the design space is quite large. We might want to distinguish variables, entities and parameters; we might want to tag variables and parameters with additional categorization data, and show these tags; we might want to provide a "browse" entry point indexed by categories, or search filters, or… To weigh among the many options by cost/benefit I think it would be wise to cheaply investigates various options with some user research, @renardpal can help here.
I always supported parameters and variables are very different.
The important point about variables is how they are related to other variables in the system. So being able to travel through the network of variables depending or that depend on a chosen variable is crucial.
We received the following email asking for categories in legislation explorer:
Possible solutions:
Models
section in swagger for variables linked to specific entityentity: individu
to find all variables linked toindividu
entityrevenus/activite/
foropenfisca_france/model/revenus/activite/salarie.py
This could be implemented: a. In OpenFisca Web API (Legislation Explorer would be updated to read it) b. In Legislation Explorer c. ...