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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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matthew_lind
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September 21, 2023

Here’s another example that leaves me frustrated with the Horizon UI.

The field name is truncated within a text box that is clearly large enough to handle it. Why use a design that puts white space inside a text box that definitely has room for more text?

 

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anirbandutta
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September 22, 2023

Hello everyone

The Comments were on other threads on the topic but pl know that we are taking a look at addressing the excess white spaces issue across the various areas, addressed directly by @ophirsw 

and @rakesh, here

In the mean time let us tag any whitespaces issues feedback with the keyword whitespace

It's an opportunity for engagement
kstim
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September 25, 2023

To add to this, when building a query in JO, there is a lot of whitespace to the right of the filters. Looking at the far left of the image below highlighted in red, some of the fields seem to be impacted by the lack of space on this side of the UI; some of the data type icons are cut off, some are indented weirdly, and longer fields are cut off since they run out of space. Why not use the whitespace to let us expand the fields section at left so the above issues could be avoided? This truncating definitely makes it a bit challenging sometimes to see which fields we’re pulling into the Show section or Filters. Luckily there is a lot of whitespace to hopefully work with to improve this!

 

 

darkknight
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September 27, 2023

Created a separate (but related) post specifically for Customer Portfolio because, as frustrating as all this whitespace/truncated views is for admins in the backend areas, it’s even more frustrating for end users, and IMO we need them satiated first.
 

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bradley
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September 27, 2023

@anirbandutta is there any sense of when there will be an improvement? We have been making these posts for years and yet the amount of whitespace seems to increase. The response is “we are looking into it”. Respectfully, when will there be a pivot from looking to doing?

matthew_lind
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October 24, 2023

Here’s another Horizon UI issue.

One the Rules Action page, the Weekend Behavior selector can almost disappear. 

 

Screenshot 2023-10-24 at 08.55.19.png

Granted, I was in a narrower-than-average web browser, but not an absurdly small window. When the new UI actually makes configuration harder, it’s not a great UI.

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matthew_lind
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October 24, 2023

Here’s another Horizon UI issue.

One the Rules Action page, the Weekend Behavior selector can almost disappear. 

 

 

Granted, I was in a narrower-than-average web browser, but not an absurdly small window. When the new UI actually makes configuration harder, it’s not a great UI.

 

<<Repeating comment because the screenshot didn’t render in the previous comment>>

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