UI FLAW (version 32.1.31): Factbook checkbox/menu gives no feedback

I find it confusing that there is no feedback when you click on the Factbook icon in a book and then click on either "Show in all appropriate books" or "Do not show in any books". The checkmark always appears in the icon, and there is no differentiation in the menu commands to show which one of them has been selected. The menu stays dropped down, and you're not sure whether what you just clicked on took.

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Savanna Lineberger

Thanks, Rosie. I wrote up a case for our team.

Mike Childs

Thanks, Rosie. That certainly had me confused. I know I was not the only one annoyed with Factbook popping up uninvited in my Bible study.

Mark Barnes (Logos)

When you choose "Do not show in any books", Logos essentially "opens" every book in your library and toggles Factbook tags off in each one. But after that, you're able to go into any book and toggle it back on. So, "Do not show in any books" isn't a state that you select; it's an action that you take. That's why there's no selected state.

That said, we could provide some UI feedback when you click it.

Rosie Perera

But after that, you're able to go into any book and toggle it back on.

But that also essentially "opens" every book and toggles Factbook tags back on in each one. In other words, there is no book-by-book state; it's a global state of the app. Either all the Factbook tags are off (for any books where that operation makes sense), or they are all on. There should be some visual way for the user to know the state.

That said, we could provide some UI feedback when you click it.

Thank you. At the very least, the menu should drop back up, so that the user knows that something happened.

Mark Barnes (Logos)

But that also essentially "opens" every book and toggles Factbook tags back on in each one. In other words, there is no book-by-book state; it's a global state of the app. Either all the Factbook tags are off (for any books where that operation makes sense), or they are all on.

There isn't a global state. There is only an individual state. After you turn all Factbook tags off here, you could then open a single book, and turn Factbook Tags on in that single book. It looks like that isn't possible, but that's because the Factbook Tags button is split. The button itself (not the dropdown) turns Factbook Tags on/off in individual resources. (Yes, I know that's confusing, and yes, we are in the process of making that clearer.)