[ckan-dev] thedatahub.org bug reports: (i) User profile page, (ii) Registering a new account

Tue Jan 31 14:29:47 UTC 2012

@Mark: can you create a ticket for this (perhaps with a bit of
refactoring) and link as a sub-ticket of this UX super ticket:

http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1506

Rufus

On 28 January 2012 17:44, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
> A couple of bugs/usability issues with thedatahub.org reported by
> users at open econ hack day.
>
> 1. User profile page
>
> The format of the table on this page is not very helpful.
> (i) There are two columns of incomprehensible IDs, but none with the
> name of the dataset!
> (ii) The 'revision' is a link to a page for the revision, but with no
> info. Eg there is nothing under 'datasets' even though a dataset was
> edited. ie this page gives no info about the revision.
> (iii) The user thought it was a list of datasets she had uploaded
> (since most of her revisions were uploading datasets) and was confused
> by a seemingly blank revision. She wanted to be able to link someone
> to the datasets she'd just uploaded.
>
> Suggestion - have columns:
> Date = human readable date and time, which links to the page for the
> revision - showing some useful info about the revision (
> Author (assuming the list is in a standard format where sometimes the
> authors are not all the same)
> Dataset (linking to the dataset - rather than 'entity' which just shows the url)
> Log message
>
> Any thoughts how to present 'datasets I've uploaded'?
>
> 2. Registering a new account
>
> If you try to use a capital letter in your 'Login', you get the
> unhelpful error message:
> "The form contains invalid entries: Name: Url must be purely lowercase
> alphanumeric (ascii) characters and these symbols: -_"
>
> What does 'Name' or 'Url' have to do with anything? It means 'Login must be ...'
> But even better would be to make it case-insensitive and allow
> capitals to be entered.
>
>
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