Inconsistent category selection behavior

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When the user clicks on most categories, like “ATMs” or “Coffee”, the 
user is immediately presented with a map of campus with location icons 
superimposed.  But when the user selects “Buildings” or “Supplies”, FIN 
presents a list from which the user must select just one item.  This is 
especially odd in the case of supplies, which delivers the same result whether 
the user chooses “Blue books” or “Scantrons”!  

Having the single-selection function is fine, but FIN should also give the user 
an “All” option (at the top) and if that is chosen show all supplies 
locations / buildings on campus just like the other categories behave.  (Also, 
each supplies location should then also display what supplies are sold there.)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lawyerd...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2011 at 11:54

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We understand the concerns, but there are a couple things going on here:

1) We are adding more categories to the supplies list, like printing.  These 
WILL be in different places (a printer is not always with a bluebook, and even 
a bluebook is not always with scantron forms oddly enough).  So keeping them 
separate is mainly a function of the fact that people usually are looking for 
only one of them at a time.

2) It is actually not delivering the same result for the two sub-categories, 
but rather they happen to both be there, and as of now we have a single icon 
for it

3) An all option is a good idea, but is a little beyond the architecture of our 
system at this time.  The way the database is structured doesn't particularly 
lend itself to this.

We agree the suggestions are good, but for the final release, we're going to 
WONTFIX this bug and potentially reopen it after the final.

Original comment by raftysworld@gmail.com on 1 Mar 2011 at 6:23

• Changed state: WontFix

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Original comment by raftysworld@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2011 at 5:00

• Added labels: Milestone-1.0