Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
As a User on the Zone for over 7 months now, I've been awarding my friends points on a regular basis and have to keep going through the list of Users and keep clicking on their names to award points. We have an option to give to all users points but I think if we want to only give to a select range of Users, my solution for this is to probably introduce Checkboxes next the everyone's names who's logged in, probably only those with Public Qucknotes on.
This I'm not complaining, Just suggesting!
check boxes next to the names?
i'm not sure how it's going to work, because / award is a command so the idea is you select the user from the list, then use the command.
i really don't see how we could make it work- i think it's a great idea, but i really cant't think of a solution
I think what he's getting at here is having the ability to select certain users via a checkbox next to their name in the login list, and then any QN command that involves other users will affect all users who have been selected, and nobody else. As interesting as this is, I can imagine it would be very time consuming to code. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but don't expect many people to seriously consider this. to be honest, it's only a minor inconvenience to execute the command for every user to which you would like to award points.
check boxes next to the users?
i can just about picture how bad that would look
a user will be listed, then a checkbox next to their name, then another user, then the check box, it would make the login list just horrible.
i mean- just picture this:
20 users logged in
laced-unlaced
1 line below would be the checkbox
ocean dream
1 line below would be the check box
Master Alex Matthew SARcastic
then 1 line below would be the check box
and so on
and as jess said, it's really not hard to just sent the commands to the users you want.
Yeah having checkboxes below each name would just clutter up the site and make things confusing, in my opinion.
actually it wouldn't necessarily have to be so, you could, in theory, have the usernames as selectors where they currently are, so hit the spacebar on the username to select/unselect it, so it wouldn't look any different - it would just react differently.
Also the ability to award points to multiple users would reduce the number of points-awarding quicknotes that appeared in the qn boxes.
However, I very much doubt that it's a feature that the admins would want to implement, but it's not a flawed suggestion in the least, IMO.
hmm i like that idea. pressing space on the users.
perhaps you're right, we should have it:)
To make the list multiselectable from a UI standpoint is easy. To actually use the multiple results in a paradigm that programmatically is designed to manage one at a time is where the challenge would come in. Again, speaking as somebody without direct access to the source for this site. Obviously multiple requests on one query are doable and done everywhere but this looks like a custom widget and my less than scientific wild-ass guess is it would probably take a refactor below the UI in the ass end somewhere to make it a reality.
So if it doesn't happen, it's not because the admins 'don't care' or 'don't listen', just some implementations refactoring - another word for restructuring how something works - take a surprising amount of time depending on what was done initially, and how.