Checkboxes for metadata

[osjonathan]

Metadata editing and display includes checkboxes next to the major items. Checking one of these boxes makes that item disappear (collapses it). However I believe this is counter-intuitive and the wrong way around. The norm is that if you have something checked, it is enabled. If you have it unchecked it is disabled. To carry that on to this, I would expect a checked box means something is displayed and an unchecked box means it is not displayed.

[Fxp]

Comments :

• now checkboxes are hidden by default
• Having lots of checkboxes checked could make the page much harder to read
• Replace checkbox by +/- buttons : could be confusing with existing +/- button in edit mode

[justinrowles]

For the record, my users here think that everything should be folded at first and opened as needed.

Also, the 'unpopulated' items are shown in a much smaller font, which made my users think the data was a sub-element, rather than the same level but not present. Perhaps the same font size but not bold? Something much more similar at any rate.

[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.

[justinrowles]

I think it'd be a lot of work to add state persistence for folded/unfolded.

Perhaps we could consider a config option?

[josegar74]

For RC2 has been restored by default the previous 2.4.X layout for metadata editor without the checkboxes.

About the comment to persist the folded/unfolded state is considered an enhacement

[fxp]

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