research-software-directory / RSD-as-a-service

This repo contains the new RSD-as-a-service implementation
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categories should not have a lenghty text? #1341

Open bakhshir opened 2 weeks ago

bakhshir commented 2 weeks ago

I am currently testing categories feature of RSD.

Currently, the input form for a (sub) category has three fields - short title, title and provenance:

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The short title is then used for the RSD page, but the title is used when a user would like to choose a category. If title is very long (i used very descriptive language for one of the categories), the displayed text from the available list of (sub) categories becomes very crowded. For example,

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Would it be an idea to either user short title for this list or add another field (e.g. description) to the input form? Any thoughts?

dmijatovic commented 6 days ago

I would be in favor of using:

In addition, it seems that on same pages we show short name and in others name. I would prefer to always use name and have description shown on mouse over or under info icon.

As this feature is created by our partner, I would like to check the motivation for using current values/names/labels. @cmeessen Do you have more info about the category labels and any objections to change them?