On Dec 27, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Samo Korosec wrote:

>
> Erm, I am probably missing something – why not use the browser's back
> button for that?

Here's a use case.

The application has contact data that consists of name + optional  
(0..n) addresses, phones, emails, websites.

There are a few areas within the application (appointments, check in,  
check out, activity, admin) where the customer may tell the user  
something like, "by the way, I have a new phone number and email  
address".

What I'm wanting is to be able to jump to the contact editing, make  
whatever changes, then return to where the user was.

So a simple, "change a phone number and add an email from appointment"  
would look like:

appointments/111
customer contact ->contacts/55
edit -> contacts/55/edit
edit phone -> contacts/55/phones/777/edit
update -> contacts/55/phones/777
back -> contacts/55/edit
add email -> contacts/55/emails/new
update -> contacts/55/emails/333
back -> contacts/55/edit
back -> contacts/55
back -> appointments/111

I just think that is smoother than having the user press browser back  
to return to appointments/111 as it skips over the "new/update", "edit/ 
updates", and "delete/confirm" paths.  Also while I'm calling the  
button 'back', it will probably be displayed as 'next', or 'done', I  
haven't bounced the semantics off of my customer yet.

This is the closest I can see to treating the "update customer  
contact" as a sub-routine.

Thank you,
Roy


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