It has been brought to my attention from my web administrator that ‘Everybody’ finds twisties confusing and don’t know how to use them.
It is their suggestion that the twisties be removed altogether and the category be made a link that will expand when clicked.
Does anybody have any ideas as how to go about this?
Any hlep would be appreciated.
Thanks again.
Subject: Want to change twisties to links
ND6 allows you to designate an image to be used in place of the twistie triangles. In applications I develop, I prefer to use a plus/minus, which most people understand better than the triangles.
Both the expnad image (plus) and the collapse image (minus) are actually contained in a single gif. Read the designer help for specifics.
Subject: RE: Want to change twisties to links
That was my suggestion and I put it in place, but that is still not good enough. Apparently people still wouldn’t ‘get’ it. Despite just about every other program on this planet uses them.
I think I am just going to tell them no.
Thanks for the help anyways.
Subject: Clickable categories in views
Another option is to change the category titles themselves to links. You can
do this easily enough by making the categorized column be a link instead of
just text. For example, let’s say you normally categorize by the variable
“Other”. Instead of writing that as the formula for the categorized column,
you can do:
Cat := Other;
EC := “&Expand=” + @DocNumber + “:” + @DocNumber;
“a href="vwWeb2?OpenView&Start=1&Count=-1” + EC + “">]” + Cat + “/a>]”
(where vwWeb2 is whatever your view name is.)
This works fine except for two things:
(1) There’s no way to tell if a view is currently expanded or collapsed so you
can’t have them click once to expand the category and click it again to
collapse it
(2) The automatic ALT text that Domino adds to the twistie get screwed up.
Instead of the link saying something like “Show details for Hamburgers”, it
says “Show details for a href=…>]Hamburgers/a>]” Definitely makes the
ALT tags worthless.