Re: [orion-dev] Type in a name for the link

[Susan Franklin McCourt <susan_franklin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John, would you mind adding your suggestions to this bug?

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=334190

I was hoping to get something a bit easier to deal with in for M5, we'll see...

susan

"John J. Barton" ---01/26/2011 08:47:09 AM---On http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/How_Tos/Running_0.2_M4

From: "John J. Barton" <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Orion developer discussions <orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/26/2011 08:47 AM
Subject: [orion-dev] Type in a name for the link
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On
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/How_Tos/Running_0.2_M4
We read:

Log in and click the "Link Folder" or "Link Project" button on the toolbar.
Type in a name for the link, and in the Server path: field, enter the path to the folder you want to link to (it must be a subdirectory of one of the paths you supplied in Step 2). Then click OK.

I find this confusing because the input field label is "Folder Name". As a new user I have no idea what you mean by "folder". The next line is "Server path" then a check box Create if doesn't exist. I just don't know what to do with these fields.

I think the UI would be much clearer if you don't use dialog boxes at all. Instead, put [new] right after Name in the navigate-table page. Or have a blank entry at the end of the Name column with gray "add link to filesystem". Then add a Path column to the UI holding the value of the server path. This way the user knows directly what the UI operation will do, to the extent they understand the naviagate-table.

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