[cellml-discussion] CellML Tracker beingtested athttp://bowmore.elyt.com/bugzilla/

[David Nickerson]

> Do you like the new template I just put up, which adds in "Choose the 
> area of the CellML project to which this relates:" as a paragraph above 
> the list of products?

except now that I know to look in the page title bar its just 
duplication of information :-) isn't there some way to remove the 
"choose a product.." text from the title bar?

>> If I then choose, for example, CellML core specifications I get a bunch 
>> of stuff and a big red banner telling me " There are no duplicate 
>> statistics for today (2007-07-20) or yesterday." followed by "Please 
>> press Back and try again." and what looks like the standard footer 
>> navigation bar.
>>   
> This is an iframe with the list of duplicates (which doesn't come up 
> with anything at the moment) not the main page.
> 
> The template on which this in is configurable (I copied the IFRAME code 
> from the bugzilla.mozilla.org submission temlate). The idea of the 
> iframe is that embedded in the main page is a sub-page that lets you 
> search for duplicates so you don't have to go elsewhere to check for 
> duplicates and then come back. However, you are the second person to be 
> confused by it, so perhaps it isn't worth it?

I'd definitely say its not worth it.

> 
>> I press Back and try again with the same result. How should I submit a 
>> new tracker item?
>>   
> Just ignore the iframe (or ideally, use the search box below it which 
> will update it to search for the terms you enter), and once you are 
> finished just scroll down past it.

except, possibly by bad chance, that iframe ends exactly at the bottom 
of my browser window and all I can see is the big red error message, the 
message telling me to press back and try again, and the standard page 
footer - apart from the looking at the scroll bar there is no clue that 
there is anything else to look at on the page.

> However, I think we are going to have to change this - I am just not 
> sure how to make it less confusing - perhaps once we have at least one 
> duplicate in statistics for the database it won't be as confusing?

for our intended use of the tracker I would completely remove this, 
especially since it is so confusing. There should be little onus on the 
causal user to check for duplicates - it is up to the product developers 
to do so.


Andre.