Work-flow issues

Robby Stephenson robby at periapsis.org
Mon Oct 27 08:22:24 MDT 2008


On Monday 27 October 2008, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> >     3. The amount of clicks needed to do a bulk search-and-add are
> >        excessive: wand icon -> multiple isbn search -> edit list ->
> > okay ->  select item -> CTRL-A -> add entry -> close. It would be
> > really nice to be able to do all of that as one step from something
> > like a double-wand icon that just pops up the entry field, and adds
> > everything it finds when I close the dialog without canceling.
>
> So you want to collapse the "select item -> CTRL-A -> add entry -> close"
> into happening when you click the close button? That seems rather
> unexpected from a user perspective. It doesn't seem like excessive
> clicking when you can add 100 new books with what, 6 clicks?

Since ISBN results would certainly tend to be more certain, with a single 
result per value, maybe if there was a button to "Enable auto-add" or 
something to that effect. Such that when a result is found for an isbn 
search, it's automatically added?

Robby


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