Re: Feedback on database designer (1.15 Dev)

On 02/07/2012 01:54 PM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:

>> Another suggestion 1: in the dialog boxes where you select
>> tables/columns from among many to form a new set, users are accustomed
>> to being able to double click one item and have it automatically perform
>> an action such as join the set on the right or go back to the set on the
>> left.
>>
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here.
>
>

OK practical example:
1. open pgadmin, drill down thru databases to a sample schema
2. open DD, select "File -> import tables" from menu
3. info screen, select next
4. select your schema, next

The next window has two lists in the left and right panels. You are
building the right list by selecting tables from the left list. There
are two clicks involved, select the table, then click the arrow to send
it over to the destination list.

Where the click action is unambiguous, in this case clicking one table
name in the list, send it to the right list. So much quicker is a double
click which both selects and sends the table to the right list.
Ctrl+click is different, you are selecting one of many. It's not so much
the amount of time it saves as that user expectations have been raised?

Ideally also the green arrows will be dynamic. If there are no tables in
the right list then both the single and double green pointing left are
not required. Also green arrows pointing right are not required until at
least one item has been selected in left panel.

Very good that multiple items can be selected and moved in a block, and
that items do not appear in both panels at the same time!

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Colin Beckingham
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