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Modal/dialog question
# package-development
w
Modal/dialog question Will there be a concept of a dialog that is persistently stays open no matter where you navigate around.
In current backoffice we have the one for when you click the 
Help
icon top right (menubar item) that displays. Or is this going away in belissma @Jacob Overgaard ?
j
asking the hard questions, eh? 😉
the answer is we don't know yet
it 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
m
@Warren Buckley ditto on a sidebar like the help feature.
w
hahah expect more and more questions as I get to hack & play more 😛
@Jacob Overgaard do you think the dialog/modal for help will be persistently open though (regardless of everything shifting left)
j
Well we need something to persist in an opened state, if we want Tours to work
n
I 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 🙂
w
Yeh 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.
A 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.
Think 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.
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