Modal/dialog question
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Warren Buckley
02/26/2024, 1:01 PMModal/dialog question
Will there be a concept of a dialog that is persistently stays open no matter where you navigate around.
Warren Buckley
02/26/2024, 1:04 PMIn current backoffice we have the one for when you click the
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Jacob Overgaard
02/26/2024, 1:12 PMasking the hard questions, eh? 😉
Jacob Overgaard
02/26/2024, 1:12 PMthe answer is we don't know yet
Jacob Overgaard
02/26/2024, 1:13 PMit seems messy to push the whole backoffice UI to its side to show that, so most likely no, there won't be a help menu as you were used to, but there will be a concept of a help sidebar somehow
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Mark Drake
02/26/2024, 1:22 PM@Warren Buckley ditto on a sidebar like the help feature.
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Warren Buckley
02/26/2024, 1:46 PMhahah expect more and more questions as I get to hack & play more 😛
Warren Buckley
02/26/2024, 1:47 PM@Jacob Overgaard do you think the dialog/modal for help will be persistently open though (regardless of everything shifting left)
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Jacob Overgaard
02/26/2024, 2:04 PMWell we need something to persist in an opened state, if we want Tours to work
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Niels Lyngsø
02/28/2024, 6:39 PMI may add that from a Interaction & A11Y perspective & technical perspective, then what we call Dialog/Modal gets a focus lock, meaning user can't tab outside or neither interact outside of them.
So the old help sidebar thing, would then require some Sidebar feature(not diaog/modal term.), and you can say we already have a similar feature, if you look at the sidebars of a section. So it can be possible, but as Jacob mentions, maybe we do not want to introduce such concept. I would say the help section, which btw. goes away in favor for the Tours, is not the strongest argument for such feature at the current stage.
But please enligthen us on the use cases 🙂
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Warren Buckley
02/28/2024, 7:06 PMYeh I think the tours and the other help makes sense to read other information about the back office UI whilst you have a panel that’s persistent and thus easy to read.
Warren Buckley
02/28/2024, 7:08 PMA quick extension idea is ‘editor chat’ where editors talk to one another who are logged into backoffice. Again they can go around doing their tasks whilst communicating.
Warren Buckley
02/28/2024, 7:08 PMThink of it like the pattern that’s come about in browsers recently that have apps or other information stored in a panel to the right open whilst you work.