Usability improvement: adding assignees/subscribers
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michelangelo
on Feb 5. 2008. 2:51 pm
it would be great if there was a place on the form where you list the people on a project with check boxes next to each so i could quickly add them to a discussion, task, etc. i think this is how .71 used to work. as it stands now, i have to click a button or menu, wait for dialog to appear, then select, then click done. it doesnt sound that hard but its a lot of extra steps and most of my clients (actually all) dont see the button to add subscribers so people never get added to discussions unless i go in and add them.
saulcozens
on Feb 7. 2008. 12:01 pm
Actually I think it's more significant a problem than that - I just wrote a long comment and thought I should check and amend the subscribers before posting. Unfortunately, changing the subscribers list lost my un-submitted comment - arrggg!
So this change would be a real annoyance remover!
cheers
saul
So this change would be a real annoyance remover!
cheers
saul
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Ilija Studen
on Feb 7. 2008. 12:21 pm
saulcozens:Unfortunately, changing the subscribers list lost my un-submitted comment - arrggg!
Can you please explain how that happened and where? Also, witch browser are you using?
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saulcozens
on Feb 7. 2008. 12:45 pm
I'm using:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.11 (Ubuntu-feisty)
and I was adding a comment to a discussion.
I am an administrator and the author of the discussion, but not the project owner (am I using the right terms?)
I can try and recreate the behaviour if you think this is a bug rather than just an enhancement request!
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.11 (Ubuntu-feisty)
and I was adding a comment to a discussion.
I am an administrator and the author of the discussion, but not the project owner (am I using the right terms?)
I can try and recreate the behaviour if you think this is a bug rather than just an enhancement request!
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Ilija Studen
on Feb 7. 2008. 1:10 pm
That would be a bug if I understood what happened (I'd need steps for reproduction in order to confirm this). You should not lose comment content (or any content to be more specific) when changing list of subscribers / assignees.
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saulcozens
on Feb 7. 2008. 1:18 pm
on /public/index.php/projects/10/discussions/282
typed in the reply area
clicked 'manage subscriptions'
got sent to /public/index.php/projects/10/objects/282/subscriptions and see a list of 'Subscribed People'
no where to go, no option to change the list (so do I have permission to change the subscribers?) so I hit the browser back button
returned to /public/index.php/projects/10/discussions/282 with reply text gone!
Does this help?
typed in the reply area
clicked 'manage subscriptions'
got sent to /public/index.php/projects/10/objects/282/subscriptions and see a list of 'Subscribed People'
no where to go, no option to change the list (so do I have permission to change the subscribers?) so I hit the browser back button
returned to /public/index.php/projects/10/discussions/282 with reply text gone!
Does this help?
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Ilija Studen
on Feb 7. 2008. 1:27 pm
You left the page where comment form is displayed. When you leave any web page content of its forms is discarded.
Regarding options on subscription page - can you post a screenshot to support@a51dev.com? If you are administrator you should have all the permissions.
Regarding options on subscription page - can you post a screenshot to support@a51dev.com? If you are administrator you should have all the permissions.
activeCollab Team Member
saulcozens
on Feb 7. 2008. 1:34 pm
screenshot attached.
That's why I thought it would be an enhancement. It is a sensible user expectation to want to change the subscribers before submitting a posting and there is no indication whether the subscriber management will be done with a AJAX layer thingy like it is in other places or with a page change (as it is done here).
cheers
Saul
That's why I thought it would be an enhancement. It is a sensible user expectation to want to change the subscribers before submitting a posting and there is no indication whether the subscriber management will be done with a AJAX layer thingy like it is in other places or with a page change (as it is done here).
cheers
Saul
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Therefore it should not be necessary to leave the page to change :P :)
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blackwoodmg
on Feb 26. 2008. 5:32 pm
It would also be nice to be able to select people who are always subscribed to new discussions instead of having to do it every time. I have clients that can't get the concept of subscribing down and I have to check constantly to see if they have submitted something new and it would be nice if I or they could be subscribed automatically to every discussion.
