[kepler-dev] Simple Search

Shawn Bowers sbowers at ucdavis.edu
Thu Nov 3 13:20:01 PST 2005


Looks good.  What does the "source" button do (it isn't immediately obvious).

-shawn

Laura L. Downey wrote:
> Sample attached.
> 
> Laura L. Downey
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> -----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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