[kepler-dev] Simple Search

[Laura L. Downey]

Sample attached.

Laura L. Downey
Senior Usability Engineer
LTER Network Office
Department of Biology, MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001
505.277.3157 phone
505.277-2541 fax
ldowney at lternet.edu
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Bowers [mailto:sbowers at ucdavis.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 2:05 PM
To: Laura L. Downey
Cc: 'Chad Berkley'; 'Matthew Brooke'; kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org
Subject: Re: [kepler-dev] Simple Search

Laura, can you quickly give a pointer to a screen shot of how the five
buttons 
should be placed.

-shawn

Laura L. Downey wrote:
> Sorry I meant to copy my response to Matthew to the list.  He was using an
> old design as a reference.  The current design does away with the text and
> concept checkboxes and contains actually five buttons:
> 
> Search
> Reset
> Cancel
> Source
> Advanced Search
> 
> So no I don't recommend that we get rid of the Reset button.  This is
> something that came directly out of some simple user testing in which the
> users couldn't reset things back to the original "browse" or pre-search
view
> that Chad mentions.
> 
> Laura L. Downey
> Senior Usability Engineer
> LTER Network Office
> Department of Biology, MSC03 2020
> 1 University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001
> 505.277.3157 phone
> 505.277-2541 fax
> ldowney at lternet.edu
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad Berkley [mailto:berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 1:48 PM
> To: Matthew Brooke
> Cc: Laura L. Downey; kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org
> Subject: Re: [kepler-dev] Simple Search
> 
> Currently, the reset button is the only way to reset the search results 
> to the pre-search view.  If you do away with that button, you need to 
> figure out some other way to get the tree back into the normal view.
> 
> chad
> 
> Matthew Brooke wrote:
>> Hi Laura -
>>
>> Can you please clarify one of the proposed changes to the Simple Search 
>> box (top left in kepler UI) -
>>
>> specifically, some of the powerpoint slides show the search box with no 
>> reset button (see attached example), whereas bug #2108 ("changes to 
>> simple search") mentions removing the "text" and "concept" checkboxes, 
>> but does not mention removing the "reset" button.
>>
>> So should the reset button stay, or should it go?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>>
>>
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