Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] re: Mandatory fields, yellow form

[Kelvin Chan <kelvinc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I agree  with Kevin.  Also,
as part of the label string, the asterisk will scale better with the font
size.

Cheers,
Kelvin

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Media Design Studio - IBM Toronto Lab
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Kevin McGuire/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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Hi Eugene, 

Good eye!  Asterisk after the colon is better ("label:*").
Generally the thought was that its easier to just drop it into the label
string. 

As I recall, there was some discussion that using decorator support could
then give you behaviour (e.g. so it says "This field required").
 But the argument was people know asterisk as the defacto standard
in web forms so don't need extra support in the IDE.

Kevin

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Kevin,

 Can you please clarify if asterisk (*) is part of the label or it 
should be drawn by the decoration?

 Also, there is some inconsistency between screenshots on the wiki and
PDE editor screenshot shown below, namely "label*:" vs. "label:*".
So, 
which one is standard way recommended by the Platform UI guidelines?

 Thanks

 Eugene


Kevin McGuire wrote:
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> (redirected conversation from platform-ui-dev)
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> Hi Nico,
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> Mandatory fields can be marked with an asterisk (*) at the end of
the 
> label for the field.  For example, from the PDE editor:
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> The yellow fields were how we did things in 3.2 and earlier.
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> For further information see 
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Field_Decorators_and_Validation
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> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=120238
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> Regards,
> Kevin
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> I've got two questions that have something to do with the Eclipse
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> 1. The Eclipse way of indicating mandatory form fields
> What is the best practice for mandatory form fields?
> a) setting an asterisk next to the label text
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> 2. Yellow form field background
> When creating a new folder or file in Eclipse the fields have a yellow
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