Online editing problems and comments

[njarboe]

Checking out the new online editing system.

Important to add
Delete a row function
Label to indicate the tables can be edited

Other useful features to consider
Standard undo and redo of edits
Links to controlled vocab lists
Pulldowns for vocab lists when appropriate

[rminnett]

Is this sufficient for deleting rows?

[rminnett]

What about removing the Experiments counts and adding "Preview Data:" for published contributions and "Edit Data:" for private contributions:

[njarboe]

I think these will work well and you should implement them.

I think not everyone will know to right click to add rows, columns, etc. I would add a line of text stating that. Maybe "Right click to add or delete columns and rows"

I also don't seem to be able to invoke the insert column option.

[njarboe]

There is also excess whitespace around the Contribution name and tabs. This should be reduced to as little as possible. Same for the column headers and row data, if possible. Many people (especially students) mainly use laptops with small screens.

[rminnett]

I'll see what I can do about the whitespace. The insert column is intentionally disabled for now because it needs a mechanism to choose what the new column's field should be from the data model.

[rminnett]

These changes are deployed, but I'll leave this issue open until the "Other useful features to consider" list is also deployed.