Navigation missing, please, add breadcrumb
AlexisWilke - June 22, 2009 - 06:38
| Project: | Webform |
| Version: | 6.x-3.x-dev |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs review |
Description
As a user, when I fill out a webform, I get to a page that takes me back to the form. There I can then view a list of the forms I already posted. On that page, I have a link "Back to the form". Good, although a breadcrumb would be better!
Then I click on View to look at what I wrote in that form. At that point, I have no way to come back without using my back button. Even if most people know about their back button, again, using the breadcrumb is a better solution.
It is very simple to use and I have attached a patch that makes those two sets of pages work with the breadcrumb.
Please, pretty please, patch your code so we can all benefit! 8-)
Thank you.
Alexis Wilke
#1
Eventually, the actual patch... 8-)
#2
Okay... Actually the Edit adds a path at the "wrong" place... Grrr!
Also, the Delete uses yet another function so we need to patch that one too.
Now that should be complete for the user standpoint.
Thank you!
Alexis
#3
Speaking of that, when I go to the form and I already did submit that form, I get a link at the top saying:
You have already submitted this form. View your previous submissions.
Did you decide to use that technique instead of a Tab because that way you can hide the message if there is no submissions?
For consistency, I would think a tab would make more sense. But I agree that having a tab when there is nothing there i not very useful (maybe the permissions could be used to hide the tab when no submissions are available?! Hmmm...)
Thank you.
Alexis
#4
A couple reasons on the tab situation:
- Tabs are not usually recognized by visitors to the site. And a tab with just one word on it is not descriptive enough for users to know what it means.
- Many sites don't render the tabs at all for their visitors, it's consider more of a "administrative" tool than one used by visitors.
- If we did make it a tab, then an administrator would have a tab for "Submissions" that is for all users and a tab for "My submissions(?)" just for themselves.
#5
quicksketch,
The tab on the nodes for admins is "Results". So we could have had "Results" + "My submissions".
But I just wanted to get a feel for why there would not be any tabs. I don't mind the message. However, I do have a problem with the navigation which is why I posted the breadcrumb fix. 8-)
Thank you for your time!
Alexis
#6
Having a navigational breadcrumb on the Webform Submission page(s) is definitely something a lot of people need, at least in my circles it is, consistency is key.
I've gone ahead and upgraded this patch for the 3.x branch.
I've also consolidated the Webform breadcrumb code to a single 'smart' function to keep all the logic in one place.
This may not even be the way to solve the issue, but for now, it at least provides some form of breadcrumb navigation until a better solution comes along.