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skiadas / PanthR

Statistics front-end and webserver with R connection
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Output navigator #8

Open altermattw opened 11 years ago

altermattw commented 11 years ago

Hideable list of past output. Default order is chrono, but top of list has buttons to switch order to type of analysis (e.g., puts all correlations together) or to DV (puts all analyses of same variable together). Clicking on item brings up a summary of the output. Double-clicking opens the output.

Where to put this on the screen? "Output" button in top right corner expands on mouseover?

altermattw commented 11 years ago

Should also permit arbitrary user reorganization, perhaps using a folder or tree structure, with names for containers that can be modified by the user. For example, A user could create a folder called "homework 2", "climate project", or "memory study" and then put several output elements into the folder. Folders can be nested. The same output element could be placed into more than one folder, with the choice givem to user sof modifying all of them or of splitting a particular copy from the others.

skiadas commented 11 years ago

I am thinking users should use different "workspaces" for different projects, this might make the "folders" redundant. I feel folders might add more clutter perhaps, I don't know.

Another idea is for users to be able to "tag" outputs (i prefer the term 'reports' instead of outputs, but maybe outputs is clearer). And reports could receive multiple tags. Then a user could filter reports by tag, if they wanted to only show reports that need to be turned in, for instance. Or they could ask the system to say save together all the reports with the same tag. I think in terms of organizing parts into a whole, these days tagging might be almost considered more standard, with some of the social networking patterns out there.