[OpenMadrigal-users] UI suggestions from B. Rideout's lunch seminar

[William Rideout]

Just to keep a good record, I thought I'd document the UI suggestions I
got during my lunch seminar of 3/12/2002 demoing the latest release of
Madrigal:

1.  Update the kind of data table so that Sondrestrom kinds of data are
not shown as numbers.  (I'll email Tony for this information).

2.  Modify the pop-up windows that describe parameters to include unit
information along with the parameter descriptions now given.

3.  In summarizeCedarFile, give Az and El information for each record -
convert kinst, kindat, and krec to words (or drop some or all?)  Also
display catalog and header information.

4.  In summarizeCedarFile, modify phrase "Parameter Summary" to "Summary
of parameters in this file"

5.  Add email links to openmadrigal-users@openmadrigal.org to allow easy
user feedback at strategic places.

6.  Allow users to enter comments about a given experiment (or file?) on
madExperiments.cgi page, and presumably display or give link to old
comments from that page.

Some other suggestions I received later:

7.  Provide links back to madInvent.cgi without using back button.

8.  Provide parameter validation on isprint page (disabled due to slow
response on hyperion, but could be implemented in a different way).

Again, everyone should feel free to post any ideas I missed to this
mailing list.

Bill

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Bill Rideout
MIT Haystack Observatory
Email: brideout@haystack.mit.edu
Phone: 781 981-5624