Thanks Patrick for the comment. This actually confirms that my method is just a workaround. Best would be to develop an apposite feature for multi level categorization in forms, if it's feasible and other users find it useful.
I definitely do! Davide On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Patrick Nagel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > after seeing Davide's way of using the HeaderTabs extension together > with the > SemanticForms extension [1], I thought I'd also give it a try on a > Wiki I'm > working on. > > I found a usability problem: > > The error message that SemanticForms shows when a mandatory form > field hasn't > been filled ("There were errors with your form input; see below") > will confuse > the user if the error is in another tab. It would be great if the two > extensions could work together as follows: > * switch to the tab which contains the error(s) if they are all in > one tab > * highlight the tabs that contain errors if they are spread over > multiple tabs > * tell the user to check all highlighted tabs for errors > > I don't know if this is even possible, but it would be great for the > usability > of a large form :) > > If it's not possible, maybe a "cheaper" version could be considered: > If a form uses the HeaderTabs extension (has the <headertabs/> tag > in it), show > a different error message, such as "There were errors with your form > input; see > below (the errors might be in other tabs than the one you currently > see)" > > Patrick. > > [1]: > http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms/browse_thread/thread/7fd6faf04388fb5c?hl=en > > -- > Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc > Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Semantic Forms" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
