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Petr Skoda made changes - 24/Apr/07 05:30 PM
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Petr Skoda added a comment - 24/Apr/07 05:32 PM
I hope that there will be enough time to rewrite the file manager sometime this year, it will be required by any ioAPI/repository changes anyway. We are getting dangerously close to Moodle 2.0
 It should be easy to change the order of the columns and its a first step to better usability.
Yes, but we can not do that in the middle of stable release branch
Petr Skoda made changes - 21/Apr/08 03:56 AM
David Horat made changes - 08/May/08 05:02 AM
David Horat made changes - 08/May/08 03:49 PM
I agree that there are some rooms for improvement here for the moodle file management system
Wen Hao Chuang made changes - 22/May/08 06:59 AM
Before the change, the action colum was in the fourth column. The size and modified column, were the 2n and the 3rd respectively. Now the order has changed as it can be seen in the screenshot.
Laia Subirats made changes - 30/May/08 04:42 AM
This is a screenshot of the page before solving the usability problem.
Laia Subirats made changes - 30/May/08 05:32 AM
Hi Laia,
thanks for this change. Can you add a second table in the action area and set the fields 'Choose' 'Unpack' 'List' 'Rename' in separate columns? This is the patch. I don't understand the purpose of the fields 'Choose' 'Unpack' 'List' 'Rename' of the second table.
Laia Subirats made changes - 11/Jun/08 03:46 AM
Hi Laia,
in different contexts yo'll find additional actions ('Choose' 'Unpack' 'List' 'Rename' ) in this column. Choose this file as link on a file. I think that it's already done. I don't know if you mean to change the order of these columns.
Laia Subirats made changes - 17/Jun/08 07:22 AM
David Horat made changes - 28/Jun/08 11:55 PM
David Horat made changes - 30/Jun/08 04:41 PM
maybe a delete link for each file could also be added
Laia - For me the real usability issue here is not so much the order but the fact that there are two ways of acting on the files. Users can either click on the action for the individual file or select a single or multiple file and use the drop down box. As for the order, my vote would be:
checkbox, filename, action, modifed, size I do not see a reason why the delete function could not be added; however, I wonder if these should be images in order to be consistent with the way that we handle the editing of course resources and activities. That would also save space but we need to make sure that we keep it accessible (which is distinct in my mind from usability). I think these improvements should be part of the file repository improvements for 2.0. It would be help to discuss these changes on the forums with the key questions being: 1) Most logical, consistent ordering of columns (how can we be consistent with other file management systems?) Another improvement would be the ability to click on the column headings to sort the files by username, file size, and modified date. Peace - Anthony There is a very usable solution here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=87044
 which has taken a lot of the grief away from the file manager by bypassing it in most cases. I studied in http://docs.moodle.org/en/Student_projects/Usability_issues/FileManagementSystem
the most logical, consistent ordering of columns which resulted name, size, modified and rename. I also found some icons which could be used in this context, and that have been previously used at Moodle. The ability to click on the column headings to sort the files username, file size, and modified date should definitively be added. |
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