Feature #22394
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Smarter selection of data/workflows tab
Added by Peter Amstutz 4 months ago.
Updated about 5 hours ago.
Description
- Have a preferred tab which is always displayed after a navigation action (right now, the one that it shows after navigation is based on React state)
- Specifically, if I'm looking at workflows right now and my preferred tab is Data, then navigation will always switch to show the Data tab
- User option to choose which tab to prefer showing
- From discussion, I think we add a new "User Preferences" panel accessed through the top right "User" menu.
- This would have a toggle button for the desired behavior
- I was thinking it could be saved in local storage, but actually the user record has a "prefs" field which was kind of intended for this sort of thing, so maybe we should use that?
Stretch goal: If it's not too expensive, show counts in tab title as |Data (50)|Workflows (10)|. This should just use the same count as the data table under the tab, we definitely don't want to be doing any additional API queries.
Struck from earlier description: do not reorder tabs or do clever tab switching based on the current tab contents being empty. The purpose of including a count in the tab title is to indicate if there's content in the other tab without having to click on it.
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- Target version changed from Development 2025-01-29 to Development 2025-02-12
- Target version changed from Development 2025-02-12 to Development 2025-02-26
- Description updated (diff)
- Subject changed from Show counts in tab title or hide workflows tab entirely when there are no workflows in a project to Smarter selection of data/workflows tab
- Target version changed from Development 2025-02-26 to Development 2025-03-19
- Target version changed from Development 2025-03-19 to Development 2025-02-26
- Target version changed from Development 2025-02-26 to Development 2025-03-19
- Target version changed from Development 2025-03-19 to Development 2025-04-02
- Target version changed from Development 2025-04-02 to Development 2025-04-16
- Target version changed from Development 2025-04-16 to Development 2025-05-14
- Target version changed from Development 2025-05-14 to Development 2025-04-16
- Description updated (diff)
- Tracker changed from Idea to Feature
- Description updated (diff)
- Description updated (diff)
- Description updated (diff)
- Assigned To set to Stephen Smith
Look, my input matters less than any serious Workbench user, but IMO both these bullets are extraneous:
Peter Amstutz wrote:
- I think the preferred tab should appear first in tab order, so if you want to see workflows, the tabs are
|Workflows (10)|Data (50)|
As long as the preferred tab opens first, why does the display order matter? I feel like this makes documentation and information sharing more difficult without any tangible benefit.
- If the preferred tab is empty, switch to the alternate tab, unless they are both empty.
I think this is just too clever by half. I think it will make the interface feel less predictable and more random. If I want to see workflows first, and I open a project with no workflows, I would prefer to be told that explicitly rather than be shown something else. I get that it saves clicks if you understand everything going on, and I get why some people might want that, but I think it'll be surprising and disorienting when you're not expecting it.
Brett Smith wrote in #note-20:
Look, my input matters less than any serious Workbench user, but IMO both these bullets are extraneous:
Peter Amstutz wrote:
- I think the preferred tab should appear first in tab order, so if you want to see workflows, the tabs are
|Workflows (10)|Data (50)|
As long as the preferred tab opens first, why does the display order matter? I feel like this makes documentation and information sharing more difficult without any tangible benefit.
- If the preferred tab is empty, switch to the alternate tab, unless they are both empty.
I think this is just too clever by half. I think it will make the interface feel less predictable and more random. If I want to see workflows first, and I open a project with no workflows, I would prefer to be told that explicitly rather than be shown something else. I get that it saves clicks if you understand everything going on, and I get why some people might want that, but I think it'll be surprising and disorienting when you're not expecting it.
This is useful feedback, I will tweak the description (Stephen, hold off on starting this until I've had a chance to update the description, hopefully later today).
- Description updated (diff)
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Target version changed from Development 2025-04-16 to Development 2025-04-30
Here is the current state of the preferences page with just the project tab toggle:
And a mockup of what it might look like if more settings are added:
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