Defect #4843
closed
confusion by redirecting the user to an empty "new issue" page after saving an new issue entry
Added by Henning Sprang about 14 years ago.
Updated almost 14 years ago.
Description
it might be useful when somebidy wants to do bulk entering of many issues at once, but normally, the current behaviour of redmine to show a "new issue" page with no data after saving an entry is confusing.
It would be better to show the user a page with the data he just entered into the new issue, to let him check the data and give him proper feedback that his entry is saved.
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and yes, when looking twice at it, there's a small green bar saying "creation successful" - but no, i don't think, this is clear enough!
It's realy a much better feedback to see the full entry. and giving the reporter a chance to check back what he entered, eventually make corections or additions.
I'm not sure what seems to be the problem. When creating a new issue, you have two buttons at the bottom of the form: Create and Create and continue. The first one takes you to the newly created issue, what seems to be what you describe as the desirable behavior, and the second is meant for "bulk entering" in that it takes you back to the new issue page including a notification of the successful creation of the previously entered issue.
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Resolution set to Invalid
The default behaviour (eg. if you hit enter from the issue form or if you click the first submit button 'Save') is what you need.
Oh, right. It seems I did not understand the meaning of "create and continue" and didn't even realize the second button.
Actuall, I like the possibility of bulk issue entering, e.g. for a project start so I'm not voting for removing this extra button.
But: I still believe it isn't really intuitive or obvious what it is for!
So it might it be useful to change the wording on the button like "Create and enter another issue"?
Somehow, this one seems too long, and I don't have a better idea yet, but I really think it should be made clearer!
Another thing I reealized:
The reason why I always hit the "create and continue" button is, because it's in line with my mouse movements. would the "create" butten be directly below the entry fields, I woulöd have hit that.
I'd vote to place teh buttons better in line with the other entry fields - see the attached screenshot where I changed it how I think it should be.
It might be a lot of work to implement that for such a small usability enhancement,. but I'd be happy if you'd consider this change.
(I might also take some more time and look into the redmine html generation code and template and post a solution for this, so please don't just close it...)
- Status changed from Reopened to Closed
All buttons are left-aligned on all forms. This is probably something you could solve through CSS in a custom theme.
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