Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.Participant did not understand the Preview was updated automatically. They didn't use it, and just went straight to 'view page'.
(The latter part of that is a problem until #1831696: View page link goes nowhere, if you have not saved is resolved.)
A possible solution was rejected (Show when the last time the preview was updated) because most of the time it will be '0 seconds ago' but so a solution to this needs more thinking and/or research. Would a 'xx ago' timestamp help?
Comments
Comment #1
dawehnerIf we place a xx ago timestamp there, we should talk about the typical speed a user interacts with a view.
If we say the timestamp should be updated every 2 seconds, the user might get really annoyed by the constant changing, but on the other hand set it to a too high value (like 1 minute) wouldn't help anyone.
10 seconds seems to be a good value, what do you think?
Comment #2
Bojhan CreditAttribution: Bojhan commentedHow often is the preview updated?
Comment #3
dawehnerThe preview is updated everytime the user changes any kind of setting in views, as long
"[] auto preview" is checked. If it's not checked, the update happens just on pressing the button.
Comment #12
LendudeThis is probably more a task, but anyway, I'm closing this as being superseded by #2684509: [meta] Implement a preview-first Views UI with current functionality, if we go to something like that, I think this would be addressed.
If you feel this needs to be addressed inside the current Views UI layout feel free to reopen this.
Comment #13
Lendude