After I selected some tables and hit save I cannot backup all tables because at least one item in the select list stays selected

http://screencast.com/t/Z7KY4sAb4Ss

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ronan’s picture

ronan commented
Version: 6.x-2.x-dev » 6.x-1.x-dev
Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Cool! I've never gotten a screencast in an issue before. That is a really great way to show a UI issue.

Unfortunately that's really a factor of how multi-selects work. I'm not really at liberty to change how your operating system handles multi-select boxes. I'm a Mac user and the only way to deselect in a multi-select on that OS is to click an item (so that only one item is selected) and then command-click the selected item to deselect it. I'm not sure what OS you're using, but there should be a modifier key to do discontinuous selections in a multi-select box. Let me know if I'm mistaken about this, and you know of some attribute I can give the select item that would change it's behavior.

I could add a select none javascript link if you think that would greatly improve the user experience, but the 1.x branch is feature stable. So it would probably only be in the 2.x branch (which already has a 'view as checkboxes' feature which would probably solve this issue for you).

Thanks for the feedback.
Ronan

buckley’s picture

buckley commented

I discovered afterwards that I can use the control key to deselect individual options (I'm on the win platform). It took me a while to remember and I program a lot of web gui's.

As you say it would be a could idea to introduce a "none" or "all" first option that can be selected.