Defect #5920
Unify and improve cross-project views layout
| Status: | New | Start date: | 2010-07-21 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | UI | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Affected version: | devel | Resolution: |
Description
Recently I started using Redmine with many projects inside (~100), and I found cross-project views not really easy to use :
- only accessible by "Projects" link in top menu
- there you have a list of your projects with contextual links which are not really contextual, but lead to other "sections" (view all issues, overall spent time, overall activity)
- when you click on one of those links the layout changes completely : no more contextual links, you have heterogeneous sidebars
- you cannot go to an other of the first "sections" without re-clicking on "Projects" at the top (or doing an "Previous page" in the browser to go back there..)
- a tiny (but maybe unrelated) annoying thing for me : when you don't have any project using time tracking module, you should not see "Overall spent time" link anywhere
Imho it's a notable usability defect if you need those cross-project informations. I leave a patch where I just modified views and added a "cross-sidebar", which should be displayed on each of those pages. It's not perfect at all (maybe to much "h3" sections for instance..). Consider it as a possible start point for the discussion.
Let me know what you think.
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History
Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang over 1 year ago
- File cross_project_menu.png added
there you have a list of your projects with contextual links which are not really contextual, but lead to other "sections" (view all issues, overall spent time, overall activity)
I agree, but I think it would make sense to display a cross-project menu rather than links in the sidebar:
Updated by Jean-Baptiste Barth over 1 year ago
Yes, it might be more intuitive and compatible with what is done in projects.