DynamoDS
UX - Editing notes is destructive
Dynamo version
1.3.1
Operating system
Windows 10.
What did you do?
- Double-clicked a note
- deleted all text
- clicked the modal window's close (X) button
What did you expect to see?
The edit note window has a clear Accept button, so when closing the window by using the form's X, I expect the edits not to be saved, as the Accept button was never clicked.
I would like either
- the X does not save edits
- provide a cancel button
What did you see instead?
the note now doesn't have any text and I have to manually undo.
Extras
It would be great to solve this other little thing whilst at it, the modal window simply says Set value.... This is not descriptive at all, we should replace with something that clear tells the user what they are doing, perhaps something along the lines of Edit note text ?
thanks @andydandy74 , definitely didn't know it had been raised before. #threadResurrection
Perhaps this can server as further evidence this is indeed what users would expect - vast majority of modals on both Windows & Mac behave this way after all.
I would argue most users won't understand the value is bound precisely because it's a separate, modal window. Now, if editing the note directly was enabled, that would make it all clear - and everyone happy 😄
True on all accounts. Although I would think that even when editing notes directly in canvas, pressing Esc should cancel the edit.
Yes, altogether that would be much nicer & intuitive UX me thinks. At this point, I'd settle for being able to vertically resize the edit note window 😭
We will take a quick look at this. If it is a small fix, we will try and get it in for the next release. If not, we will make these considerations for the next generation UI.
@radumg notes are now edited without a pop-up dialog box when in a standard zoom state. This still persists at the zoomed out level, but is now a rarer case. We have this logged as per the previous comment.