New Editing Experience
After some years working with Coreon time has come to revisit the editing
module. During the last months we’ve reworked the whole module to edit
concepts, terms, properties, to make it more user friendly, more efficient, and
also a bit more modern.A little preview? Enjoy a short demo video on the new editing experience.
Regards – your Coreon Team
What is Improved?
Over the years we’ve collected a lot of ideas how to make the editing experience better. And after a longer development phase in 2018 and 2019 when we were focusing on making the access to Coreon for nonpower users easier (by having introduced capabilities such as a Readonly User Experience, Concept Cards, Better Repository Selection, and last but not least Single Sign-On) we now dedicated significant development time to improve the life of our users who are maintaining
the data, every day!
To deliver this, we had to touch all functionalities to create new concepts, adding and editing terms, properties, multimedia assets, to add and edit aliases. After a longer beta phase – thanks to all contributors! – we’ve now reached a milestone to release the new editing module to everyone.
Concretely you will notice the following changes:
- View / Edit modes are more similar in look and feel. However, upon user feedback, we decided to keep the edit mode in general. I.e. you will only see the edit controls after explicitly activating the mode.
- Immediate selection of narrower relation’s type (has-part, isgeneric, is-instance) when adding concepts
- Faster changing a value through more instant interaction
- Cleaner layout since less controls and buttons
- When editing long content chunks (many terms, many properties), then the save buttons were out of view. Scrolling up/down is no longer necessary, a floating action bar keeps the Cancel / Save buttons always in view.
What does this mean in daily work? We did a little comparison to the ‘old’ editing style and computed the amount of required mouse clicks:
- To create a new concept, relation type ‘is-part-of’, with a term in on language, save it: before 10, now max. 4 clicks
- To correct a spelling error in an existing term, save it: before 3, now 2 clicks
- You are triaging the good vs. the bad terms, you want to change a picklist-like usage status value of two terms from tbd to preferred or to forbidden, and save it: before 8, now only 5 clicks
- So, no doubt – the adding of new narrower concepts to elaborate the concept system is certainly faster than before.
