Bug #15248
closed
When deleting a record in the BE, MsgBox should show the record label
Added by Oliver Klee almost 19 years ago.
Updated over 14 years ago.
Description
When I delete a record in the BE in Web > List, I get a message box wit the following text:
Are you sure you want to delete this record?
[Cancel] [OK]
Usability-wise, this could be improved by providing the record label (or the title):
Are you sure you want to delete the record "My Record 1"?
[Cancel] [OK]
In my case, I use a 100dpi display in which the fixed-size fonts of Typo3 are quite small (and even if I increase the font size, the icons stay small), so that I'm not always sure whether I have clicked in the right row. Here it would help if the message box told me which record I'm about to delete. (I'm sure that I want to delete something; I'm just not sure I've clicked on the right record.)
(issue imported from #M1957)
Files
For this, sysext/cms/layout/db_layout.php probably needs to be changed. I still don't know where the change needs to go exactly in all these long functions and magic numbers.
I think typo3/sysext/cms/layout/db_layout.php and typo3/alt_doc.php need to be changed. Just search for deleteRecord inside there to find the JS function.
Maybe it can be changed to use the following:
Table:uid: Are you sure this record can be deleted? (the same text as before, just prefixed with table:uid) - This is easier to do I think...
Anyway I am not sure if this is bad from a usability side. Any comments?
Greets, Sebastian
I've just looked through the user interface design guidelines of Windows, Maxc, KDE and Gnome. Those that say something about deleting elements use the following form:
Are you sure you want to delete the record "My Record 1"?
I propose using sprintf to place the element name in the string.
Some KDE apps also use the following form (although I suppose they don't do it that way to improve usability but because it was about 3 lines less to code):
Are you sure you want to delete the following record?
My Record 1
(If JavaScript provided custom buttons labels for alerts, we also should have "Cancel/Delete" buttons instead of "Cancel/OK", but AFAIK JavaScript doesn't support this.)
Hi,
sprintf is a good solution I think.
Is it possible for you to provide a patch for this?
Greets, Sebastian
Currently, my schedul is really full. I hope that I can come up with a patch in late January or February 2006.
I added a patch. Can someone test it?
Why not define $title in one go and also check for it's existance e.g.
$title = $row[$this->fieldArray0] ? $row[$this->fieldArray0] : '';
Besides that the patch workes fine for me. Tested on 4.2.1 as well as 4.1.7
I added a new patch that also shows info for content elements without title (by taking the first part of the text).
And added a new patch with new translations for the reference count and a better description for the deletion
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