visibility of IMDI fields in Arbil
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visibility of IMDI fields in Arbil
Posted by
alekoe
at
2010-04-19 10:43
It seems that IMDI newbies could get confused by the fact that not all available metadata fields are immediately visible when you
create a new session. Actors, for example, have to be added explicitly, so you kind of have to know they are there. I think this is a possible pitfall for new users that should be taken into account in the documentation (and maybe even in the user interface).
Re: visibility of IMDI fields in Arbil
Posted by
petwit
at
2010-04-19 11:38
I agree and this has been raised
before. One suggestion was to incorporate some sort of wizard to guide
first time users through the initial process.
There are a number of ways to achieve this: I have at one point experimented with incorporating a javascript like interpreter into Arbil which would be very useful for advanced users, however this is quite a bit of work to do. A simpler approach is add some hyperlink actions (create corpus, session, actor etc.) into the help text so that simple html can be used as a wizard script that guides the user through the process of creating a session with actors etc.
Peter
alekoe-2010-04-19 10:43:24
There are a number of ways to achieve this: I have at one point experimented with incorporating a javascript like interpreter into Arbil which would be very useful for advanced users, however this is quite a bit of work to do. A simpler approach is add some hyperlink actions (create corpus, session, actor etc.) into the help text so that simple html can be used as a wizard script that guides the user through the process of creating a session with actors etc.
Peter
alekoe-2010-04-19 10:43:24
It seems that IMDI newbies could get confused by the fact that not all available metadata fields are immediately visible when you create a new session. Actors, for example, have to be added explicitly, so you kind of have to know they are there. I think this is a possible pitfall for new users that should be taken into account in the documentation (and maybe even in the user interface).
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