[Registry-dev] Comments on the UI

[Paul Fremantle]

First I want to say how good this is. I think its very very good for 
this stage.

But of course that doesn't mean I don't have a bunch of nitpicks!

1. Should anonymous users be able to update the rating?
2. There is no label for the Average rating.
3. The add buttons are very subtle... maybe we also need a text link 
called Add. Also important for accessibility - e.g. blind or partially 
sighted users
4. When I create a collection It asks for a Media type. I think this 
should be labelled Optional. I'm a little concerned about having Synapse 
specific stuff here only. It makes the registry seem hard-coded for just 
our stuff.
5. I think the / path links at the top of the page need to be made more 
obviously links - e.g. underlining them or changing the colour. They do 
not look like links.
6. When I'm looking at the root it might be nice to have the words 
(root) or (top) or something next to / . It looks very bare.
7. I don't like the word null in the empty description. I think it would 
be better to replace it with (empty). Null seems like an error.
8. When you add a resource the text under the file upload option says:
"Give the url of a file to fetch content (xml,wsdl,jar etc..)". That is 
incorrect. It should say "Choose a file to upload"
9. The option below should say:
"Give the full URL of the resource to import from that URL"
10. The fields that are optional (like name) should be marked so. 	
11. Under Tags it says: "Comma seperate to add multiple tags"
That is a spelling mistake (should be /separate/) but also it would be 
better to say
"To add multiple tags, separate them with commas (e.g. "tag1, tag2").
12. It would be great if the activity tab had the last 20 activities 
listed by default.
13. The activity search could be improved hugely... for example, we 
could have AJAX typeahead lookup of user names and paths, date selector 
components and also we need some way of restricting how many results 
come back.
14. Also it isn't necessarily Recent Activity! If I've just searched for 
activity from the year 2000, then its old.
15. I'm very scared by the ability to change the config via the Web UI. 
It seems like one click of a button and maybe I've switched to inmemory 
and then I lose a bunch of data.
16. Search doesn't work as I would expect. I have a resource called 
synapse-logo.png, with a description "synapse logo". I type "synapse" 
into search and get no results. Also there is no advanced search box for 
description.

Thats probably enough for now :)

Paul


Deepal Jayasinghe wrote:
>> When I build the registry WAR I get the servlet API JAR in the lib path.
>>
>> Surely some mistake?
> Yes I also notice that , but I tried to remove that from the build but
> was unable to do that. I will try to fix that somehow.
> 
> -Deepal
>> Paul
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