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Re: [sequoyah-dev] Improvements for the Device Management View
Is there a precedent for this type of UI implementation? I see an opportunity for confusion to the user because you now have disjoint sets of functionality represented on the button bar and in the drop-down context menus.

I know the buttons across the top are for acting on 1 or more checked instances, but what happens when you have more than one instance checked and choose the drop-down context menu on one of the individual instances? Does it do the selected operation on the one item or does it operate on all the selected items? Do you disable the drop-down menus when more than one item is checked in the list?

A suggestion from looking at this is to add "Select All" and "Select None" buttons to speed efforts for users who wish to do something to every instance. Or, make sure to support Ctrl-A and Shift-click/Ctrl-click.

-E

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Vinicius Hernandes <XRGC84@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,


I'm Vinicius from MOTODEV Studio team. We use Sequoyah in our project and would like to implement some improvements to the Device Management View in the scope of Sequoyah.


The Device Management View basically contains device instances and services attached to each one, based on their type. One feature requested by our users is the ability to run a service towards more than one device instance at a time. In other words, they want to be able to multi-select instances in the Device Management View and apply an action for all the selected ones.


See an screenshot/prototype of our proposal:


Basically, users can select the instances using the check boxes and then apply one of the actions available in the toolbar. The items/services in the toolbar will be enabled or not depending on the selection. A service will only be enabled if it can be applied for all selected instances (in other words, if the instances have the same type).

What do you guys think about this idea? Any suggestions? 

 

Best Regards, 

Vinicius


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Eric Cloninger (ericc@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Senior Product Manager, MOTODEV Studio for Android
Eclipse Sequoyah Project Lead

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