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matthew_lind
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September 4, 2023
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Horizon UI; Expand the field names into unutilized white space

  • September 4, 2023
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Another in a theme of Ideas posted here about the Horizon UI and it’s limited visibility in its “working areas” compared to the unutilized nearby white space.

 

In the Rules Engine > Action, the target field name is very limited. In my example, it’s not so bad. But once you’re loading to many target fields, especially where they have similar names, the truncation of the target field name is a blocker.

 

Yes, the visibility of the target field name is responsive, in minimal ways, to a larger window and larger screen. However, one must have a impossibly large monitor and window to improve the visibility of field names in an example like this.

Yes, one can also hover to see the full field name. However, that’s time consuming and clunky, especially when loading many fields.

In both work-arounds above, we’ve taken an “Admin Quality of Life” step backwards from Bionic rules, where these limitations do not slow an admin’s work.

 

 

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darkknight
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September 5, 2023

💯So much unused white space all over the application

Jeff Kirkpatrick
Stuart
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September 5, 2023

 

Adding this screenshot as a different part of the horizon UI where whitespace could be utilized more efficiently; this screenshot could be either rules or DD but the issue is the same, the edit modal is on the right side surrounded by lots of whitespace.  The field dropdown doesn’t resize based on field length and so becomes truncated giving the user a horizontal scrollbar.  A better UX would be a dynamic resizing (within limits) based on field name length to not require a scroll.

romihache
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September 5, 2023

I submitted a while ago an idea with Stuart’s example, and Sara had already submitted the same before then.
Whitespace is a pain point across the whole application :/
 

 

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matthew_lind
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September 5, 2023

This…

Whitespace is a pain point across the whole application :/

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bradley
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September 5, 2023

@ophirsw @dstokowski FYI :)

Stuart
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September 7, 2023

 

Adding this to the list of areas in the UI with white space unutilized - this is in Rule Chains.  If I remember correctly, rule names by design can only contains 80 characters.  Imo, it would make sense to allow the display on this page to show 80 characters of rule names, versus truncating.

matthew_lind
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September 7, 2023

@Stuart, you must have been watching me work yesterday, because I had exactly the same observation in Rule Chains.

Even more interruptive, in the Rule Chain > Add rules view, the Horizon Rules tag consumes roughly 11 more characters. I am truly confused at how designs like this are getting into production.

 

 

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bradley
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September 7, 2023

@matthew_lind and @Stuart 6 months ahead of you :)

 

 

kstim
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September 7, 2023

The Customer Goal tab is another place where excess whitespace persists. For any goal names that are longer, they’re truncated. To see the full goal name, you have to either:

  1. Make the Goal Name box larger by dragging the end of the box to the right (glad this is an option but requires an extra click)
    OR
  2. Click into the details of the Goal Name where the name is still truncated. To view the full name in the details view, you have to click the edit pencil icon and scroll through it which is an additional painpoint.
Option A. 
Option B.

 

anirbandutta
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September 11, 2023
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