Number of items rotating and which one you're on
mshaver - September 4, 2008 - 20:31
| Project: | Views Rotator |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | postponed |
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Description
It would be awesome if we can display the number of items rotating and which one is being viewed. Can this be done at the theme level? It's always nice to give context for users, especially since they wouldn't necessarily know there were rotating items being displayed to them unless they actually saw the transition.
#1
Counting the number of items and letting you know which item you're on could be a good feature. I'm going to bounce it off some usability guys at the Detroit DUG tonight. My biggest concern is how that would work with the random ordering which is on the short list of features to commit. Being random on the js side would be great with page caching since the images would still be random.
#2
I don't have time immediately, but could find some samples out there on the web. I've seen this type of feature implemented more on the Flash side of things, but it seems to make as much sense for Javascript as Flash.
I can see how some people would want it to be random, but there are probably an equal amount that would like it structured. Think about if you wanted to rotate a list of:
- top 10 winners in order
- features on a web site you're highlighting in the order you want
- products ordered by ratings
my 2cents
#3
It will be an option to have the rotation be random. You can have it in a static order or random. This was the plan from the start and should accommodate both sides. The issue of usability comes on displaying where you are in the rotation when the rotation is random. Do you still show it for random rotations? If not, what does the settings page look like? Is this a high priority feature?
#4
Good points! I didn't consider this for the random version as it doesn't seem to apply as much. Seems like since you are displaying a random set, that even knowing how many nodes you are cycling through doesn't matter.
As for the static order, I do think it's a high priority feature from the usability perspective. Without this feature, the static order essentially feels like the random order. The user has now way of knowing there is an order, unless the nodes themselves have this information.
#5
I'm going to postpone this until the 2.0 release. There are a number of features to get in, a 1.0 release, and then I'll revisit this feature request.