To Do Items

Volunteers are needed to help with the following tasks:

• Complete the table for the rest of the Sakai tools

• Discuss and decide on what the consistent standard for each are should be

• Document what needs to be changed to what where

Gonzalo will implement (working with other Project Teams to implement where necessary)

Sakai Formish Control Consistency Check

Below is a non-comprehensive list of the controls one uses to perform a formish action (add, preview, delete, view, edit, options) in Sakai to get some notion of the consistency issues involved. The problems toward consistency can be summed up as follows:

1. Just lack of consistency - see Chat/options vs. Rec. Annc/options
   • need to decide on wording and apply
2. Actions may not be similar enough to merit the same label - they only have a family resemblance - see the Assignment/add vs Discussion/topic/add
   • need to determine if the same wording will do for both, and if not, enforce some other order of consistency (position in sequence, for example)
3. The inconsistency resides in the nature of the controls - see Announcements/view vs Schedule/view, one set is inputs at the bottom, the other links in the toolbar
   • need to change the lesser case (items in toolbar) to comform
4. The inconsistency is due to context specific modifiers - see Discussion/deleteconf items. Is Save just as good as Save Event in the case of a Schedule/edit? Does it mean the same thing as Announcement/edit?. How about Resources/edit?
   • this may not have a solution - modifiers may always be too valuable - can we emphasize the verb instead?
5. The inconsistency is due to unexpected behavior when pressing the enter key - Most web users expect that pressing the return key when the focus is on a text input field to submit the form (think about logging in). All forms should submit the data.
   • The only case I can think of where you wouldn't want that behavior would be on a confirmation screen where you were confirming that you were going to delete data. The "absent minded enter" in this case should NOT confirm the delete and instead cancel the action.
   • SAK-8452

Note: means that the control has "active" class. Numbers indicate sequential wizard control groups. Unless otherwise indicated the controls indicated are input controls.

	add	preview	deleteconf	view	edit	options	return / enter key target
Annoucements	Add Announcement, Preview, Save Draft, Cancel	Add Announcement, Edit, Save Draft, Cancel	Remove, Cancel	Edit, Delete [as links in toolbar]	Save Changes, Preview, Save Draft, Cancel	Update, Cancel	Currently deletes form data
Assignment/assignment	Post, Preview, Save Draft, Cancel	Post, Save Draft, Edit, Done	Delete, Cancel	Back to list			Currently deletes form data
Assignment/grade	Save, Return to Student, Preview, Cancel	Save, Return to Student, Edit	no delete possible	no view possible	Save, Return to Student, Preview, Cancel
Assignment/take	Submit, Preview, Save Draft, Cancel	Submit, Save Draft, Edit	no delete possible	Back to list	Submit, Preview, Save Draft, Cancel
Chat	Add Message, Clear					Update Options, Cancel
Discussion/categ	Create Category, Cancel		Delete Category, Cancel
Discussion/topic	Add Topic, Save Draft, Cancel		Delete Topic, Cancel	Reply to Topic	Add Topic, Save Draft, Cancel
Discussion/reply	Add Reply, Preview, Save Draft, Cancel	Add Reply, Revise, Save Draft, Cancel	Delete Message, Cancel	Reply to Message, Reply to Topic	Add Reply, Save Draft, Cancel
Email arch			Remove, Cancel			Update Options, Cancel
Home/wsite info						Update Options, Cancel
Rec. Annc						Update, Cancel
Rec. Chat						Update, Cancel
Rec. Disc,						Update, Cancel
Resources	Add, Cancel		Remove, Cancel		Update, Cancel		Currently takes user to the Resources helper to add an attachment
Resources/reorder	Save, Cancel
Schedule	Save Event, Cancel		Delete, Cancel	Edit, Delete	Save Event, Cancel
site info					1) Continue, Cancel; 2)Finish, Back, Cancel
site tools					1) Continue, Cancel; 2)Finish, Back, Cancel
site tools/webcont					1)Continue,Back, Cancel;2) Finish,Back, Cancel
site tools/news					1)Continue,Back, Cancel;2) Finish,Back, Cancel
site tools/mailarch					1)Continue,Back, Cancel
site groups	Update, Cancel				Update, Cancel
site access					Update, Cancel
site participants	1)Continue, Back, Cancel; repeat x2;4)Finish, Back, Cancel
site duplicate	Duplicate, Cancel
site import from site	1) Continue, Cancel; 2) Finish, Back, Cancel
site import from file	Import, Cancel
syllabus	Post, Preview, Save Draft, Cancel	Revise	Delete, Cancel		Post, Preview, Save Draft, Cancel		Currently takes user to the Resources helper to add an attachment
worksite setup	1) Continue, Cancel;2) Continue, Back, Cancel (repeat3x);6)Create Site, Back, Cancel		Remove, Cancel	same categories as site info

Notes

Collecting here 2 classes of things: gross inconsistency in operation on items, classes of actions that are special to a particular tool or tool/view

Announcements

deleteconf activated from list (controls: Update, Cancel) - why is Cancel needed? Not used in Assignments...What are we updating if there are no checkboxes selected?

view item:[as menubar links] Edit, Delete. Should be: input controls

special actions:

1. merge: Save, Cancel

Assignments

deleteconf from list (controls: Update)

missing a delete grade action

missing a delete submission action

Discussion

deleteconf from list

no topic preview?

Email archive

deleteconf from item (as toolbar link) Should be: input controls

Schedule

deleteconf from item (with mailarch only tool where this is so - there is a good reason, though, as a calendar is not a list)

special actions:

1. merge: Save, Cancel
2. import: 1) Continue, Cancel;2)Continue, Back, Cancel;3) Import Events, Back, Cancel
3. fields: Save Field Changes, Cancel

site groups

deleteconf from list (controls: Remove Checked, Back) - and "Remove checked" is disabled till something is picked

Syllabus

deleteconf from list (controls: Update)