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There will be no real functional changes, just UI. There shouldn't be any database changes. In the first page of Nathan's mockup, the comments are shown as a live link, suggesting you can click on the link and view comments. This would be a change. Should we remove comments from the bottom of the portfolio page and add them as a separate page, or should we just remove the live link in the dashboard? Beth will send email to list about it.
We reviewed most of sharing in the new screenshots of the proposed Portfolios tool UI rework by Nathan Pearson. Comments included:
- Screen 1.1: The "Options" column should probably be renamed "Actions"
- 1.1a: Perhaps making the portfolio active or inactive should be an option in the pop-up menu. Under comments, it would be nice to have some way of indicating that unread comments have been added.
- 1: Approved
- 2: The question arose whether anyone has large numbers of portfolio templates, which would make this screen unwieldy. Probably not.
- 3: Comments included:
- Does the screen take up too much room once you put the Sakai navigation in?
- Is the progress indicator misleading, since it would say "Complete" before you are finished with, say, adding all the pages you want. Perhaps it would be better to say "Ready" rather than "Complete".
- Should the Status section be moved to the Sharing page? This would take up less real estate on this page, but would make the Sharing screen more cluttered.
- Nathan explained that it is generally a good principle of UX design to allow multiple ways of accomplishing the same important task, which is why he put in tabs as well as links for actions such as "Add/Edit Content".
- 3a: The question arose of when the Preview button should become available. Nathan thought it should always be there, but show a blank screen with a message like, "No portfolio is ready for previewing".
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- 4: Jan expressed concern that some of the efficiency of the current screen is lost here. For example, the user can't tell how many schools they've added to their resume. Having to click back in to each section would be tedious. Nathan said that he believes we have more of a need for ease of learning than efficiency. It would be possible, however, to indicate how many items of a particular type have been added.
- 5: Since the display name is just for saving the Outline Options form, it would be best just to use script so that it isn't displayed at all. The Presentation Name is from a UM Outline Options form. This screen prompted the question, where do you name the portfolio (the name that will show up in the list of portfolios). It was explained that the portfolio name that has been displayed throughout the screens (Nathan's Resume Portfolio 1) has an edit link next to it to allow the name to be edited. (It remains unclear to the author of these notes when and how the user would be prompted to name the portfolio in the first place.)
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- 6b: There should be a select all button and that button should select all users, not just the ones listed on the first page. Are groups necessary? Yes.
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- 6c:
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We discussed how to implement share by role. If share by role is implemented as "add the users who are currently in the site with that role," then new users added to the site won't be able to see the portfolio. Will Trillich suggested a checkbox saying, "share with all users of this site". This would be more complicated to implement.