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Settle on aesthetics for supplementary text messages and help #135

Open aazaff opened 1 year ago

aazaff commented 1 year ago

We've talked about hover-text etc. as ways to show our help tips. We will need to settle on a specific and consistent style for showing additional text information.

The general options for this are the six options below and combinations thereof. We should have a semistandard policy/philosophy for this.

  1. in-line help text
  2. outside label text
  3. popup
  4. hover
  5. on-click info button
  6. placeholder text
ecurrano commented 9 months ago

What is the difference between popup and on-click info button? Our preference is for one of these, but we want to make sure we understand the difference.

aazaff commented 9 months ago

Do you want it to open a new window? This is good for really long tooltips and instructions, but may conflict with people's popup blockers

Or

Do you want there to be a button that activated a kind of accordion action so that the instructions are shown/hidden within the form itself

Or

Do you want the instructions to simply be permanently displayed at all times?

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ecurrano commented 9 months ago

At the top of each page, we'd like a link to the full help-sheet for that form. The hope is that this would open the instructional sheet in a new tab.

Then, there is a need for quick reminders for some entry fields. We like the idea of hover (like what we already have for the PBDB search button), but will this work for our design given that the field names are within the entry field?

aazaff commented 9 months ago

I see no problem with the former, but I don’t know what the implications are for the latter. Will have to redirect question to Doug.

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At the top of each page, we'd like a link to the full help-sheet for that form. The hope is that this would open the instructional sheet in a new tab.

Then, there is a need for quick reminders for some entry fields. We like the idea of hover (like what we already have for the PBDB search button), but will this work for our design given that the field names are within the entry field?

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ecurrano commented 9 months ago

Sounds good. If it makes a difference, we would plan to use hovers judiciously. Not every field would have one. Just the critically important information (like enter your GPS coordinates in decimal degrees, WGS84!).