usnationalarchives / OPAProd

Tracking enhancements to OPAProd
1 stars 0 forks source link

Advanced search multiple-select boxes should be check boxes or highlight-select #85

Open DominicBM opened 9 years ago

DominicBM commented 9 years ago

This is not the most user-friendly way to handle multiple-selection:

screen shot 2015-01-13 at 2 44 01 pm

These fields could be checkboxes, so it's a clearer visual cue that multiple list items can be selected. This would match the data source selection. Or, alternatively, we could go with highlight-selection, like the refinement sidebar in the search results. e.g.:

screen shot 2015-01-13 at 2 50 00 pm

WaxCylinderRevival commented 9 years ago

The Getty Research Institute has checkboxes for "Include" and "Exclude" in search refinements (for use with multiple selections; the default is non-selection for these options) that could be very interesting to incorporate in our advanced search.