[Design Patterns] pattern for marking changed items before save

[Barbara Glover]

Hi Eli
Thanks for sharing this.  It's quite interesting.  I like the idea as  
well for times when you may want to think about something before it's  
actually committed.

The little red triangle is an interesting cue marker as well.  And  
this allows the person as they work on the data to keep track of  
cells they've changed.  This approach might be especially good for  
large data sets like shown here.

One thing I found difficult was determining how to save.  It took me  
some time to notice the Save icon in the upper left corner.  I had  
been looking in the lower right.

I think this could be another inline edit "pattern".

Barbara

On 10-Dec-07, at 12:15 PM, Eli Cochran wrote:

> I stumbled an interesting twist on inline editing. Most of the time  
> that I encounter inline editing the pattern is to save the data  
> immediately after it's edited. But this example marks each edited  
> item and then the user has to explicitly save the data. The design  
> has a lot of problems but I like the idea of it, and I like the way  
> that they mark the changed bits.
>
> Double-click a cell to edit (like I said, there are issues).
>
> http://creamarketing.net/jqgridview/demos/demo5/
>
> For complex data where you might want to edit things that are  
> related to each other or think about your changes before committing  
> them this is a great pattern.
>
> It brings up an interesting question though. Can you mix a save on  
> edit pattern (which is great for lightweight data) with this edit  
> and then explicitly save pattern and have it make sense?
>
> - Eli
>
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> Eli Cochran
> user interaction developer
> ETS, UC Berkeley
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