On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:00:59 -0400, Bill Steele <ws21@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>In article <e69lv352nlkh3baa2d7qb6m1in6j3mep6l@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> FastWolf <wolfsofast@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> The layout has buttons for resorting, your idea to make the text
>> labels themselves buttons is an elegant one which I have tried using
>> elsewhere. Often, however, users don't realize they're buttons and
>> keep bugging me for functionality they already have. Getting people
>> to read (and FOLLOW) the simplest instructions is about as easy and
>> teaching a corpse to tapdance.
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>Good point. I have a small group of users and can lean on them.
>
>If you have room, you could put "Click column headings to sort"
>somewhere on the top of the page. I also have an "Unsort" button.
What I did was pre-sort certain columns that were obvious (numeric and
alphanumeric identifiers), then created buttons to sort the rest as
described above. I put "Click to sort" in a tooltip, mouse over the
button to see it, cleaner that way. The deadline for this beastie
isn't until next week so I won't get any feedback till then. He's
already okayed the alpha version so I'm just doing a few
bells-and-whistles. Users love little tooltips and crap like that. It
never ceases to amaze me how im****tant that stuff is, not only to
selling a solution, but also getting people to use it.
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FW
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