Thursday, 22 September 2011

The patents site is going pretty well, and surprise surprise it is starting to develop some of the features of the TCMT. So, time to capture some thoughts 1) All presentations should be forms. It should be possible to edit everything immediately. 2) Extensive use of breadcrumbs please. 3) Could have a clever context sensitive behaviour: First view of a record type presents the results of a search based upon the last thing that was looked at. For example when slewing to a browse patents view if the client last looked at an organisation then the list of patents presented to view should be the search results on patents for that organisation. 4) A single unified search. 5) Objects should have optional tabs. Objects should have an options tab from which the optional tabs are selected. In this way objects can start simple but collect extra information if required. More to come.