search

siemens / ix

Siemens Industrial Experience is a design system for designers and developers, to consistently create the perfect digital experience for industrial software products.
https://ix.siemens.io/
MIT License
208 stars 67 forks source link

Option to avoid toast duplicates #1504

Open TobiasToS opened 1 month ago

TobiasToS commented 1 month ago

Prerequisites

Suggestion / feature request

Hello,

it would be useful if there could be an option to avoid multiple toast messages with identical content.

Use case: In my case, Info messages will be closed by auto close, which is fine, but error messages have to be manually closed by the user. If we got a (for example) communication problem, there will be an error toast every few seconds which will spam the UI over time.

Workarounds (failed): Workarounds with a "Acknowledge Button" within the toast" aren't working, because ist not guarantied that the user will press them, or just press the "x". A "Don't show this hint again" Button doesn't work either, because the users aren't 24/7 at the system and during these absence time, there could be already dozens or hundreds of toasts...

A manual build up "current showing toasts"-list aren't possible, because there is no return if a toast is closed or not.

thanks in advance Tobias

This topic was already posted at https://community.siemens.com/t/avoid-toast-duplicates/1432

matthiashader commented 1 month ago

Hello @TobiasToS - thanks for your insights. I have passes this as a requirement to our UX-colleagues, they will come back to you. Despite not being possible with the component, you can still achieve similar functionality programmatically, i have prepared a small example here: https://stackblitz.com/edit/v69cas-ks2zmw?file=src%2Ftoast-position.tsx

TobiasToS commented 3 weeks ago

Hello Matthias,

thanks for your answer and your example. Unfortunately, the example would only allow exactly one toast at a time, but I actually meant that duplicates are filtered (in a nice expansion stage possibly provided with a small counter, such as "already occurred x times"), but other toasts are still displayed.

Of course I could expand on your idea and build lists etc in the background, but I don't think I want to put this work into a workaround ;)