IdeaJam(tm) feed for Slawek Rogulski

re: automatically return to idea view after voting on idea

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:56:50 +0000

Author: Mika Heinonen
Comment: I've have suggested a similar idea earlier, when posting a comment returned you to the home page of Idea Jam. But votes on this too.

re: Show me how I voted in the view listing ideas

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:25:52 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: Slawek,

As Stuart has explained votes are shown in the idea form at the bottom. Maybe in the future we will add some type of visual indicator letting you know how you voted.

Domino Designer / : Changes to hidden fields on a document in edit mode should not put it in dirty state

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:32:20 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Tags: UI
Idea:

When you open a form to create a new document and the form sets some hidden fields up, say to provide values to drop downs, as far as the user is concerned they have not done anything. But if they cancel they will be prompted with save dialogue. It can be confusing. Similarly if I happen to change a field but undo the change the document should go back to an unmodified state.

So in order to prevent this, exclude back end changes from being tracked. Allow a manual setting of the "dirty" flag. Or provide a way to store various utility values in memory (as opposed to in temporary fields or environment variables) and make that memory accessible from script and formula anywhere on the form (maybe even in embedded elements). This memory access would be useful in other situations as well.

This could be a property on the form to only track changes in visible and editable vields. And you should still be able to mark the document as dirty if you think it makes sense at some point in the interaction.

re: Changes to hidden fields on a document in edit mode should not put it in dirty state

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:34:40 +0000

Author: Richard Schwartz
Comment: I like your last suggestion of a form property to only track changes in visible/editable fields.

Notes Client / Core/Frameworks (Incl. sidebar, rich text editor): Movable and resizeable layers / modal-less dialogs

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:45:45 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Tags: UI dialog
Idea:

Layers that can be moved by dragging and resized. Such layers would have a border and could be rolled up like the properties box by double clicking on the title bar.

Essentially these would be like modal-less dialog boxes and as such there could be more than one open(made visible) at a time.

If not layers cannot be extended with thiws additional functionality then can it be a new design element that will act like a modal-less dialog box with the ability to roll it up and have multiple open at a time.

re: Changes to hidden fields on a document in edit mode should not put it in dirty state

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:37:18 +0000

Author: Matt White
Comment: As long as the default is to act as it currently does I think this is a good idea.

re: idea summary - give indication of when the idea description will no longer be shown in the view

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:14:05 +0000

Author: Ben Langhinrichs
Comment: Of course, you can also go back and edit your idea if it doesn't work out well.

re: idea summary - give indication of when the idea description will no longer be shown in the view

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:30:48 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Comment: Ben,

It's a nice to have feature but it would help make the view more usable. I mean if you want to absolutely be able to get the gist of all the ideas from the view only then you need to make sure that the summary is adequate to the task.

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The whole interaction could happen in the view really, with a bit more "Web 2.0" scripting. You want to see the discussion click on a button and a section below the idea will expand showing the discussion. You want to see who voted and how again click a button to expand a section below.

I am not saying this is the way to go but it is a possibility. All in the name of efficiency and maintaining context.

re: idea summary - give indication of when the idea description will no longer be shown in the view

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:34:08 +0000

Author: Matt White
Comment: Slawek,

Actually in an early beta we did have functionality that allowed you to see the ideas and comments from the views and the general concensus was that usability suffered. I guess that's our fault for the implementation and I'm sure we'll re-visit in future versions but for the moment we want to get a good solid base in and working.

Matt

Domino Designer / : add a grid view design element

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:15:22 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Tags: ui xml multi-value
Idea:

I am thinking of your stock standard grid view control/widget. In Notes this design element could be used for displaying and editing multiple documents. So instead of embedding a catgegorized view showing only one of the categories this element could do the same but also allow easy editing of the documents, creating new documents and deleting existing documents; or should I say rows. I would also like this element to display and edit XML that could be stored in one of the fields on the document, or on another document, or retrieved from an ODBC data source. Now that DB2 is part of the picture I woud also like to be able to show data from DB2 in this element.

Naturally, I would like multiple such elements to be usable on one form.

The grid should have vertical and horizontal scrolling, sortable columns (in case of data coming from a category of a view field names could be used as default column names). It needs to be able to take up 100% (or less) of the hight and width of the container it's in, including table cells.

I may also want to join two or more data sets and then display in the grid. This functionality does not need to be part of the grid per se.

re: Do not notify me about my own comments

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:16:04 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Comment: test comment to see if I get notified

re: Allow replying to a particular comment, not just the main idea

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:07:51 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Comment: Thanks.

Do you have a non-binding version of the release plan somewhere public so that we could get an indication of what is coming. We could then vote there for ideas on improving the IdeaJam. Now I do not want to take away from the IdeaJam itself. Would it then mean that we can organise ideas around the projects to which they belong? Perhaps. Although I think that the idea space could be extended. What would be needed is similar feature to a release management system although I would not want to build it into IdeaJam fully. Take it as me thinking out loud.

PS. I like the comment notification emails.

re: automatically return to idea view after voting on idea

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:07:15 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: I like this idea and am going to promote. The good thing is that we have it recorded in Idea Jam and can always refer back to it :-). We are currently in feature lockdown and will be shoring up some of the V1.0 code base over the next few weeks. Keep the feedback coming. Thank you again Slawek.

re: automatically return to idea view after voting on idea

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:00:21 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: So after you vote when reading an idea (not in a view) you want to be brought back to a view?

re: automatically return to idea view after voting on idea

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:02:46 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Comment: Yes. I have read the idea, have no comment, just a vote. So once I cast my vote I would like to go back to the view I came from.

I realize that there would perhaps need to be some indication that voting will have the additional behaviour of returning to the view.

re: Do not notify me about my own comments

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:16:51 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Comment: doh!

re: Do not notify me about my own comments

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:16:42 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Comment: yep, I do ...

re: return to unvoted page when I click on the "Back to all Ideas" button

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:57:06 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: Slawek,

After you vote the idea should be removed from your unvoted list. Is it not doing this?

We will be working on enhancing navigation over the next few builds.

re: Allow replying to a particular comment, not just the main idea

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:59:04 +0000

Author: Bruce Elgort
Comment: Slawek. Slated for a future release. We are currently focusing on basic functionality at this time. However keep these ideas coming - they truly help us tremendously.

re: return to unvoted page when I click on the "Back to all Ideas" button

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:13:16 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Comment: When I am in the unvoted view and vote on the idea it is removed. That works nicely.

However, when I open an idea while I am in the unvoted view and then vote on it while opened, when I return to the view I am not taken back to the unvoted view but to the all ideas view.