[MGNLUI-2476] JCR browser: natural order of properties Created: 03/Jul/13  Updated: 10/Mar/21  Resolved: 10/Mar/21

Status: Closed
Project: Magnolia UI
Component/s: configuration, content app
Affects Version/s: 5.0, 6.2
Fix Version/s: 6.2.6

Type: Improvement Priority: Neutral
Reporter: Tom Wespi Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Obsolete Votes: 0
Labels: AdminCentral, Tree, ux
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 Description   

At the moment, properties are re-ordered after renaming.

So if you have a lot of properties and change "aaa" to "zzz" the field is not visible anymore (out of the window view). Even if is still selected.

In my opinion there is no ordering of properties necessary anyway. Leave them there where created.



 Comments   
Comment by Andreas Weder [ 04/Dec/13 ]

Renamed "nodedata" to "property" in the description and title. I'm assigning this to 5.x maintenance to have it discussed.

At first glance, I see this option to fix this:

  1. we keep re-ordering properties, but make sure that the currently selected item is always visible (this has been reported as usability problem already)
  2. no longer sort the properties, i.e. keep the sort order the user chose.

While 2) sounds like a nice thing to have, we have to keep in mind that, especially with large lists of properties, not sorting them also makes it hard to find a specific property. Of course, you could use search for that.

Comment by Tobias Mattsson [ 04/Dec/13 ]

Moved ticket to MGNLUI project.

Comment by Jan Haderka [ 10/Mar/21 ]

Properties are being sorted in order to make it easier to find them in longer lists.
After renaming, items are no longer selected, hence selection doesn't move out of the view even if renamed property does.

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