[Building Sakai] Proposed changes to Roster2

[Sam Ottenhoff]

I like your direction here and definitely support simplifying views.

If I had a huge course, I imagine my main use of Roster would be via the
search.  I would want to see picture/profile info of just one student and I
would type in part of their EID or firstname/lastname to find them.

Infinite scroll also makes sense to me.  When I'm on a mobile device, I am
becoming very comfortable with this Twitter-like pattern of scrolling down,
waiting a second for more data to load, and scrolling more.  It seems a lot
more intuitive than tiny pager numbers while on mobile.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Juan José and myself have been having a think about how to implement
> paging of large number of site members in Roster2. I was thinking along the
> lines of the standard paging control, whereas Juan was thinking of
> implementing an infinite scroller with lazy loading of the user data. I
> think his idea is the best as it's simpler than messing around with paging
> controls and will just look a lot more modern. I'm also thinking of adding
> an autocomplete box where a tutor could just type a name and get some
> matches back.
>
> Here are the (mainly mine, apart from the scrolling) proposed changes, one
> by one:
>
> 1. Infinite scrolling on the list of roster members, with lazy loading of
> the members.
> 2. A search box which auto completes on matches, to allow single members
> to be retrieved easily, without scrolling the entire list.
> 3. Get rid of the sorting stuff, currently in the table headers, like
> sorting on role, etc. Infinite scroll makes table sorting redundant.
> 4. Add a filter box to the overview page, to filter on role - role still
> seems a useful thing to filter on.
> 5. Remove the group membership area, just show that stuff in the overview
> page.
> 6. Remove the pictures area, show pictures in the overview page,
> permissions permitting.
>
> In other words, all the views are collapsed into two, home and
> permissions. You just end up with an infinitely scrolling ( if you have an
> infinitely big site :) ) page of members, with data filtered on permissions.
>
> I think this will be a very nice cleanup and will make the roster tool
> look a lot more up to date.
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
>
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