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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0009664 | MMA | Navigation | public | 2012-09-07 15:56 | 2022-12-19 18:51 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 1.0.7 | ||||
| Target Version | 2.0.4 | ||||
| Summary | 0009664: Reduce number of clicks for cases where only a single item is in a given category | ||||
| Description | If the number of items in a subcategory=1, then automatically display a view of one subcategory lower. e.g. If the user selects Genre > Alt. Rock and: - only 1 Artist exists, then show the Albums view instead of the Artist view by default - only 1 Album exists, then show the Tracks view instead of the Albums view This eliminates extra/needless clicking through the hierarchy. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | |||||
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I know that iPods work this way, but I'm not particularly happy with this feature - while it can save clicks, consistency of the app navigation seems to be sacrificed to me. To be discussed... |
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Point taken re. consistency, however, it seems that we're needlessly forcing the user into extra steps whenever only a single item is contained within a category. e.g. for a Genre with only a single track, there's absolutely no benefit for Artists to be displayed upon selection of the Genre. Moreover, the issue of consistency is mitigated by MMA's view-based design. i.e. in a hierachical design, the user has no way of going 'back' to a higher-level in the hierarchy that's been 'skipped'. In MMA, though, it's just a question of displaying a view that makes more sense, and the user could easily switch to a 'higher' level view if desired. |
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Ok, to be fixed in the future builds... |
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This can be better resolved by displaying all three views at once. e.g. Always display each of the groups graphically, followed by Tracks, rather than rigidly showing the same groupings each time. See google play for an example. e.g. If the user clicks Alt. Rock (which contains only a single artist), show: Row of Albums. <more...> ------------------------ List of tracks |
