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The PCIC Data Portal - Server software to run the entire web application
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Point selection behaves confusingly differently than polygonal selection #75

Open corviday opened 6 years ago

corviday commented 6 years ago

Francis Zwiers wanted to download data for a single point on the BCCAQ portal.

What he did:

  1. Select a point using the point selection tool
  2. Click "OK" on the "Would you like to download the following subset of data?" dialog box.
  3. Select the dataset of interest
  4. Select ASCII format
  5. Click the download link

What he expected: To download an ASCII format file containing data from the previously selected point.

What happened: The selected point was not preserved, so he attempted to download an ASCII format file containing data for the entire spatial domain and ran out of space on laptop.

These actions would have the expected results if he'd been using the polygon tool, but points selected with the point tool are unset after the dialog box closes. Francis suggests having the spatial filter of a selected point persist so others don't have the same confusion.

jameshiebert commented 6 years ago

Great suggestion. We should have caught this use case when originally developing this feature.