Hi All,
We recently implemented a similar feature in our local geonetwork
instance (a version of the BlueNetMEST) prior to these changes being
made in trunk.
We applied our changes to the metadata viewer only. We felt that adding
a collapse/expand function in the editor,
a) would be confusing - it already has +/- editing icons
b) would be detrimental when creating metadata as you want to see all
the things you need to update (the template performs the narrowing of
focus function)
c) is not as important as having this function in the viewer which is
used by a lot more people
We store the expansion/collapsed state in cookies on the client and it
is applied on a group basis to other metadata that you may view.
I've included a screen shot showing our icons in view mode.
For information/discussion only, I'm not suggesting you should use our
approach.
Cheers,
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Craig Jones
eMII Infrastructure Programmer
IMOS e-Marine Information Infrastructure Facility (eMII)
Ph: +61 3 6226 8567
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:15 +0000, GeoNetwork opensource Developer
website wrote:
#283: Checkboxes for metadata
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Reporter: osjonathan | Owner: geonetwork-devel@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: v2.6.0 RC2
Component: User interface (web) | Version: v2.6.0RC1
Keywords: |
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Comment(by osjonathan):
Personally I think everything should be as exploded/collapsed as the
template was saved at. For my purposes I'd want everything exploded
because all of the stuff I have on my templates is relevant and should be
filled in.
The downside to starting collapsed is that the user has to know the
template. If they don't they won't know what there is to find so will have
to explode everything or miss lots of stuff off. For my users, most of
them won't be using it that often so they'll likely forget what's actually
there.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/ticket/283#comment:3>
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