Improve look/feel of group popup

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Issue by mitchellsundt
Thursday Jul 09, 2015 at 18:44 GMT
Originally opened as getodk/getodk#539 (3 comment(s))

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Originally reported on Google Code with ID 538

As for the group pop-up, I guess that I would like at least the terminology to change,
avoiding the term "group"  that doesn't make sense except when building the form. 
I would actually like it to use the name of the group or something like that.

For example, in one of the Market screenshots, there is a form record bird observations.
 It would be nice if the title and content of the popup was "Add a new 'observation'"
(and "Add another 'observation'" on subsequent ones).  Then the buttons could just
say, "Add" and "Do Not Add" (or "Continue", maybe).

Making just that change would be great with me.

What would take more work, but I think would be a little better is to add buttons to
handle what the pop-ups do.  I have attached a screenshot mock-up that shows what I
mean.   I just rolled what goes at the top (every page of the group) and what goes
at the bottom (last page of group) into the one page.  It adds a "Skip 'observation'"
button at the top to jump out of the group, and a "Next 'observation'" and "Done" buttons
at the bottom.

Reported by yanokwa on 2012-03-17 22:57:36

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Comment by mitchellsundt
Thursday Jul 09, 2015 at 18:44 GMT

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From https://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit-developers/browse_thread/thread/6978c8c84b1a5bf7

Reported by yanokwa on 2012-03-17 22:58:04

• Status changed: New

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Comment by mitchellsundt
Thursday Jul 09, 2015 at 18:44 GMT

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Reported by yanokwa on 2012-05-25 15:46:40

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Comment by mitchellsundt
Thursday Jul 09, 2015 at 18:44 GMT

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Reported by yanokwa on 2012-05-26 01:14:00

[pratikmjoshi]

I agree that the current way that we add another, say observation, shouldn't be done with a pop-up. Dialog boxes are not generally used in that way. It would be much better if was an activity which contained a listview of his previous observations, with a floating action button allowing us to add another observation. That way, the user can view his previous observations and then move on after making sure he has included everything. The do not add button does not even have to be there.
Even though there is a button on the actionbar which summarises your form details, I think it would be more visually coherent for the user if the above were done.

[lognaturel]

All group UI discussion now at #809.