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Re: [Gnumed-devel] organizations
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Jim Busser |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnumed-devel] organizations |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:12:19 -0700 |
On 2011-08-20, at 3:11 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>> Search for matches among existing addresses and Save a selection, or Add a
>> new address.
The above tooltip may help.
but I still find awkward
Save Add Manage
"Add" is variantly implemented, relative to
Person addresses
Person phone / channels
Org phone / channels
all of which accept multiple-per-person/org. If an organization might have two
addresses (say, a single branch has both a physical address and a distinct
postal or delivery address) the user might imagine themself to be "adding" a
second address, but they cannot do so.
With "Add" we do not really add to *this* org's addresses, we are actually
adding to the *pool* of addresses from which zny one address can be attached to
the current (and, if appropriate, other) branch locations.
A few ideas:
for any branch, once created, it will be its phone numbers / channels which
will change more often than will its address, so I would flip the positions of
the address and the channels and that will also permit a tidy horizontal
alignment of the tops of the tables.
Alternatively, do the channels require all of the width currently assigned? If
only one address is supported per branch anyway, then maybe the address would
be better incorporated into a wider Org / Unit category / # table and the
address could be managed inside the same widget where one creates or edits or
removes a branch.
The implementation -- of selecting from among existing addresses -- anticipates
a workflow where many branches (after the first) can re-use the same physical
address. Suggest
1) when an input string would match an existing address (via phrasewheel), the
selection is achieved by press of enter or a click within the phrasewheel and
upon making such a selection it becomes possible to save it. But we can make
more clear to the user (without dependence on tooltips) that they may not
simply type in an address and Save it, if we would change this Save button to
Confirm
(tooltip: Confirm an address selection from among existing addresses)
and change
Add
to
New
(tooltip: create a new address which can be assigned to this unit and
others)
and
Manage
tooltip as currently worded: Manage all known addresses (can be slow).
*** but Manage does not do anything… I mean, it provides a list of addresses
any of which can be set in focus, but a double-click does nothing and the only
buttons available (OK and Cancel) both escape the user back to the org manager.
Is there supposed to be a new button Edit and should it come with a warning or
confirmation dialog
Warning: change this address for all organizations and people already
attached to this address?
-- Jim
Re: [Gnumed-devel] organizations, Jim Busser, 2011/08/07
Re: [Gnumed-devel] organizations, Jim Busser, 2011/08/20