Tabbed Metadata view (originating from ​Nationaal Georegister)

Date	2009/09/03
Contact(s)	​Heikki Doeleman, Thijs Brentjens
Last edited	Timestamp
Status	draft
Assigned to release	2.5
Resources	The work may be done in the NGR project

Overview

Metadata can be very big, resulting in a display where it's not easy to find what you're looking for and that has not much structure. In NGR this is tackled by displaying sections of the metadata in separate tabs, creating a much more user-friendly display.

Proposal Type

• Type: GUI change
• App: GeoNetwork
• Module: GUI

Links

• Email discussions: on geonetwork-devel: ​Proposals to include NGR functionality to GeoNetwork trunk
• IRC discussions: ​September 1st, 2009 on GeoNetwork's IRC channel

Voting History

• None as yet

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Motivations

The motivations for these changes are :

1. Better usability

Proposal

Metadata can be very big, resulting in a display where it's not easy to find what you're looking for and that has not much structure. In NGR this is tackled by displaying sections of the metadata in separate tabs, creating a much more user-friendly display.

Tabs are realized in Javascript, CSS and by some minor HTML changes. For NGR tabs have been created using ExtJS, but other Javascript libraries could be used as well.

In ​the IRC discussion it was suggested to extend this implementation also to the view in the Editor. The NGR solution does not provide tabs yet for the editor. Implementation of tabs in the editor probably is relatively easy. Therefore this proposal comprises both tabs for showing a single search result (metadata record) and tabs for the editor.

Backwards Compatibility Issues

none

Risks

Participants

• As above