Re: UMO Edit screenshot, take two

[Anatoly Volynets <av@total-knowledge.com>]

Some more. "Translate" button is above "Select a Language" drop-down.
They have to either trade places or even better be joint in "Translate
to:" drop-down, which would start translation as soon as language selected.

Generally, order of 4 controls "Publish", "Translate to:", "Save" and
"Delete" has to be well thought of. Probably "Delete this Object" button
has to be placed somewhere aside, say - in very top right corner. Also,
we had specified (I think) something like "Unpublish" (could be also
"Peer review", etc. options, so that "Publish" would either be an item
in a drop-down, or in option button).

Two controls "Language(?)" and "View" can also be joint in drop-down
"View in:" which acts on selection.

Anatoly Volynets wrote:
> Below is the same message as the previous one with few corrections.
> 
> The UI presented looks like if we agreed that _any_ UMO can have as a
> child and be a child of _any_ UMO. For example a Problem can have a
> Course child. I conclude this because example presented contains DOT
> (Dialogue of Texts) as a child of Topic, while there initially were 3
> top level UMOs: Course, DOT and Through Problem. I don't actually mind,
> but am not sure that was meant to be so from technical point of view.
> 
> I don't think a field title (Language, Description, Action) needs to be
> copied with every single UMO. Its content is intuitive, thus title can
> be either omitted or stated one or two times - at the top and bottom of
> the corresponding column. General names like "Explanation" need not to
> be there, because they are repeated in "Explanation 1" etc. names. If
> column titles used, it can be "Object Type" there.
> 
> Functionally the page is fine. Graphic design bothers no one as of
> today... I think.
> 
> Alexey Parshin wrote:
>> Now - with lemon juice! Oh, sorry - with request language support.
>>
>> Description:
>>
>> By default, UMO content and title are shown in user preferred language, or
>> in this UMO default language - whatever is available.
>> The new feature, request language, allows to select view language from
>> available (translated) languages in this UMO' content. Once selected, this
>> language is passed to any operations performed on this UMO from UMO Edit
>> page such as:
>>
>>    - Save
>>    - Edit child UMO
>>    - Publish
>>
>> Translate UMO operation also changes the request language to the language of
>> translation, so Translate operation shows UMO in the correct language.
>>
>> Since last time unrelated screen elements caused some confusion, I've cut
>> off everything but the work area.
>>
> 

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