Problem
Participants found it difficult to find content once it had been created. Participants attempted to use the create content link to try and find existing pages - expecting more from the link.

Solution
Create both a quick link to manage content and surface Content Management in the left-hand administrative menu.

After creating a page, show a link where it is located (just like any other CMS does).

Comments

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Bojhan commented
Title: UB Usability : » UB Usability : Finding content, created.
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Bojhan commented
Priority: Normal » Critical
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Gurpartap Singh commented
Priority: Critical » Normal

Don't you land on the node view page after saving a new one?

Don't think it's going to be critical, since it doesn't seems the be breaking drupal 6.2

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catch
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Version: 6.2 » 7.x-dev

This is critical. As soon as you leave the node/view page, the only way back to it is via admin/content/node - and if you don't have administer nodes permission, then you're proverbially....

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Bojhan commented

Catch, could you try to do this solution. After creating a page, show a link where it is located (just like any other CMS does), so when you submit the page the page you land on after that, has the green bar, in which the text is : The *content type* : *link of just created page* or something in that fashion?

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webchick
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IMO the 'real' way to fix this is to make pages use a separate workflow altogether. For instance, making a path/menu navigation entry required.

Or, for a radical approach, the only thing you can create is a Page. You then relate content such as a contact form, blog listing, or article *into* pages.

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Bojhan commented

Well ideally you would indeed have a workflow, that when you create a page and you make it findable. However I do see scenario's where you don't want to link to it in navigation. So just giving feedback its created, should do just fine for users who are already familiar with Drupal, however for new people putting the link in navigation could increase the usability, but would strike some issues down the road. Wouldn't it be cooler to just have the welcome page, change upon what the user does(if he is a beginner)? A more extensive, zero-content idea ( zero content - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanjadebie/465456925/).

I am not sure how the radical approach, increases usability.

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alpritt commented

@#7: Sounds like the dashboard idea again. Every day I'm becoming more convinced we need to go this route.

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Bojhan commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

In Drupal 6.2 you land on the page, however this issue is ideally to focus on finding content after you created it. So, after you leave the page, how to find it again.

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alpritt commented

g.d.o discussion on the admin/content/node pages at http://groups.drupal.org/node/12618

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Gurpartap Singh commented
Title: UB Usability : Finding content, created. » UB Usability: Finding created content.
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yoroy commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (duplicate)

Marking this duplicate. Although this was posted earlier, a solution with a functional patch for review is over here:
#301902: Allow more users to see the node admin page