Explanatory guide text in Conductor?

Justin Clift jclift at redhat.com
Wed Aug 8 20:35:16 UTC 2012


On 09/08/2012, at 6:14 AM, Steve Linabery wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:08:41PM -0400, Andy Goldstein wrote:
>>> Ignoring my mediocre example text and the fact that it's just an
>>> unstyled paragraph tag, I wonder what people think about this general
>>> concept. Would it be helpful? Or in an app like ours, do we expect the
>>> user to know what they're doing? (Unlike, say, sharing a photo with some
>>> friends, managing cloud deployments isn't necessarily you should learn
>>> on the fly.)
>>> 
>>> -- Matt
>> 
>> This was something I've been wanting to see since I attended CloudForms training last week.  There are several screens in Conductor (and Katello, for that matter) that could benefit greatly from some brief on-screen text help.
>> 
>> Andy
> 
> Big +1 from me.


Would a visual progress tracker be useful here too?

Something like this one:

  http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mrandmrsSmith_pr.gif

That's from an article Matt pointed out a few months
ago for a similar thing (but for our docs):

  http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/15/progress-trackers-in-web-design-examples-and-best-design-practices/

?

+ Justin

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