#201: Improve the UberSelectionWidget UI

Contents

1. Definitions
2. Motivation
3. Assumptions
4. Proposal
5. Implementation
6. Deliverables
7. Risks
8. Progress log
9. Participants

Proposed by

Martin Aspeli

Seconded by

Florian Schulze

Proposal type

User interface

Repository branch

fschulze-optilude-usw

State

in-progress

Definitions

 

Motivation

The UberSelectionWidget is important - it supports various use cases where we are selecting from large vocabularies, and also provides support for "browsing" through folder hierarchies to select content items. The functionality is complete, but the UI is slow and cumbersome, and could benefit from AJAX-support.

Assumptions

 

Proposal

Create a dynamic, AJAX-driven UI, based on the original USW proposals and mock-ups. This is modelled in part on the popular QuickSilver Mac application.

Implementation

An implementation of this widget lives in the fszchulze-optilude-usw branch of plone.app.form. When complete, the new widget should "just work" for any form that uses the UberSelectionWidget or the UberMultiSelectionWidget.

Deliverables

A working, KSS-driven widget

Risks

 

Progress log

An initial implementation lives in the aforementioned branch. It still needs to be tidied up,

Participants

Andreas Zeidler, Florian Schulze, Martin Aspeli and Alexander Limi