Suggestion:20070801 Contact List with Checkbox

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20070801 Contact List with Checkbox

_Δ^Δ_{Δ  Swiers}  18:06, 1 August 2007 (BST)

Suggestion type
interface improvement

Suggestion scope
the contacts list

Suggestion description
I suggest that in addition to the droplist that is currently next to each contact on the contact list, there should also be a checkbox on the same line.

At the bottom of the page, there would be a "master droplist" that is not tied to any character profile. Instead, this droplist's option would (when you click "make changes") apply its effect to all the profiles with boxes that are checked.

This would (for example) make it MUCH faster to delete (or change the color of, etc) 10+ profiles at a time. To do so, you could just click the checkboxes, select "delete contact" (or other desired option) on the "master droplist", and then click "make changes".

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Keep Votes

1. Keep - Is likes its. Its makes its alls easiers ins thes ends.-- dǝǝɥs oʇ ɯɐds: sʎɐʍ1ɐ! 18:50, 1 August 2007 (BST)
2. Keep - Saves time. --Banana reads Scoundrell for all of Yesterday's News, Today! 19:00, 1 August 2007 (BST)
3. Keep - Amen. the one, the only, sushiknight ^{(talk contribs HARD E.N.D.)} 19:05, 1 August 2007 (BST)
4. Keep - Great idea. --Coco1993 19:48, 1 August 2007 (BST)
5. Keep Can we crank up the maximum # of people allowed on the list to 180 as well? --Secruss 20:08, 1 August 2007 (BST)
6. Keep - Yes. 'arm. 20:36, 1 August 2007 (BST)
7. Keep - Why not. --Midianian 20:44, 1 August 2007 (BST)
8. Keep - common decision --~~~~_T^{` `} 21:15, 1 August 2007 (BST)
9. Keep - DEFINETELY worth Kevan's Consideration If it's confusing, which it wont be, Kevan will fix it up. No reason to vote kill.--Wooty 23:56, 1 August 2007 (BST)
10. Keep I can't see a way this can possibly be Killed. --High Gen. Grue Talk 01:26, 2 August 2007 (BST)
11. Keep - For all the reasons given above. --Sara M 02:55, 2 August 2007 (BST)
12. Keep - With all these super complex suggestions, it's good to see simple ones. --Heavy DDR 04:04, 2 August 2007 (BST)
13. Keep - I'll maybe try to do it as an extension, if it doesn't get implemented. _Δ^Δ_{Δ  Swiers}  04:46, 2 August 2007 (BST)
14. Keep - Please. In one day I added over 200 profiles to two of my char's contact lists. --_Ducis ^Dux_Sloth^Talk 07:08, 2 August 2007 (BST)
15. Keep - Nice.--Seventythree 09:29, 2 August 2007 (BST)
16. Keep - Useful... So why not? --JudeMaverick ^{Talk +1 Jobs} 14:21, 2 August 2007 (BST)
17. Ja! - Like it. --The Hierophant 14:45, 2 August 2007 (BST)
18. Keep - Good, simple suggestion. --^T 17:13, 2 August 2007 (BST)
19. keep - I like it. Chill 19:52, 2 August 2007 (BST)
20. Keep - Enormously useful for those of us in huge groups. -- Animi 22:13, 2 August 2007 (BST)
21. It's not a dupe, so I be checking off that box. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 04:59, 7 August 2007 (BST)
22. Keep - Great. I was just waiting for that idea. Got bored from "click-click"--Savant 11:00, 8 August 2007 (BST)
23. LUV IT! - Awesome! That would save a lot of time! --Evildemon989 ^{Talk · Help · W! · P! · SU! · TJ! · Hai!} 01:21, 9 August 2007 (BST)
24. Good, but unimportant - Uhm... this is another minor improvement. Good, but unimportant. BoboTalkClown 03:56, 9 August 2007 (BST)
25. Keep - I like this idea as is but I would personally change it to one interface method. In my head I image the only way to edit things is through check boxes and you have a combobox (master list) except instead of "color - green" "color - red" ect. being in there over and over you have an option called "color" and a seperate combobox that has the different colors in them. This would clean up and make it intuitive as well as allow you to change multiple things at once.--Dipcup 01:17, 11 August 2007 (BST)

    True, there might not be much purpose to keeping the individual line drop-lists, except that people are used to them (and used to hating them, if they are like me). _Δ^‌_Δ Swiers  04:01, 11 August 2007 (BST)

Kill Votes

1. Kill - The current interface is simple and functional. This would confuse it. For example, it's not obvious what would happen if you tried to set a contact to green with the drop-down menu at the same time as setting it to red with the checkbox. In a good interface, everything should be obvious.--  T   21:35, 1 August 2007 (BST)

   Simple to fix. Have two SEPARATE submit buttons. One in the current location, affecting only the individual settings, just as it currently does. And one right next to the "master drop down" that says "change all check marked profiles to match this setting", or something along those lines. Since you can't click both at once, there is no conflict, and the description seems intuitive (if wordy). And hell, that is probably EASIER to code, to boot. _Δ^Δ_{Δ  Swiers}  21:49, 1 August 2007 (BST)

   Yep, that's a big improvement. Kill vote cancelled. --  T   14:22, 16 August 2007 (BST)

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