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Description
We've heard it many times over that an editor wants to focus on writing an article and gets distracted by having to fill in loads of data before he can actually start writing the story. Nevertheless usually there is quite a lot of meta data to be entered (such as dates, names, places, channels, miscellaneous checkboxes, other options and i.e. also the definition of tags/categories etc.).
This story is about introducing a dynamic panel/box in which meta data of an article can be collapsed or expanded. The reasons are obvious:
- Editing meta data is a straight forward linear process that you normally do one time either at the beginning or the end of creating an article. Once they are entered you're done with it. (In comparison to writing the actual story which is a dynamic non-linear process).
- The list of meta data can use up a lot of space on the screen which consequently moves more relevant information out of focus and forces the user to scroll up/down unnecessarily.
- It's up to the editors choice whether he wants the meta data visible or not.
Please note that Design Guidelines for the panel are defined in the general Visual Design: ARTEDIT-27
Introducing a collapsable and expandable panel
1. Panel collapsed
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2. Panel expanded
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Introducing dividers to structure form fields within the panel
A lot of different types of meta data require a visual element to structure/group form fields that belong together. It gives the user more clarity and guidance for editing the possibly long list of fields. We introduce a simple light grey line as a divider that can be positioned inbetween.
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The type and amount of meta data is customizable
Outlook: With the first release we will provide a basic set of form fields as shown above but eventually the aim is that the customer can compose his own set of meta data according to his requirements. Here an example how it could look like.
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Define previews for collapsed bar
When the panel is collapsed some of the important meta data could be summarized in the title bar, i.e. author name, author place, publication date. Showing this information as a preview also has similarity to a "real" article where you typically see this data somewhere in the top section of an article.
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CONTEDIT-27 First take at visual design for Article editor UI
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- Closed
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