First: Thanks for that fine gadget!
Situation:
When editing or creating a recipe, there is only one dropdown-listbox that contains the ingridents.
Now imagine ..
.. you'd be editing Hoben Boots and want to add clothing. There'd be 4 categorized lists instead of one:
I think that would ease the use.
(Above category names are descriptive only and no real suggestion; you'd take whatever name that fits nicely.)
Pro's
Con's
An additional spinbox / spinbutton for easy adjusting the ingrident's count seems to be nice, but AFAIK it unfortunately requires JS for a proper implementation. So typing it in, like it is now, will surely be the better and easier way.
Keep on, best regards
Talya
Situation:
When editing or creating a recipe, there is only one dropdown-listbox that contains the ingridents.
Now imagine ..
.. you'd be editing Hoben Boots and want to add clothing. There'd be 4 categorized lists instead of one:
- "Quality" containing "Basic" to "Supreme"
- "Ecosys" containing "Desert" to "Prime Roots"
- "Kind" containing "Fiber", "Skin" and "Generic"
- and "Detail" containing Anete, Shu, .. .. Raspal, Shalah .. and Raw Material. All sorted first by type (foraged, quartered, etc) and then alphabetically.
I think that would ease the use.
(Above category names are descriptive only and no real suggestion; you'd take whatever name that fits nicely.)
Pro's
- The one-box-design is quite uncomfortable, since it contains a whole bunch of items, sometimes sorted sort of weird.
- I don't know the english and french versions in detail, but in the german one there additionally is no consequently followed naming scheme, which also makes it harder to find a specific resource. For example:
"Fragment einer Wüsten-Rendor-Haut (Vorzügliche Qualität)"
"Vorzügliche Urwurzel Gubani Haut" ..
That could be eased.
Con's
- I'm aware that without (client-side) plausibility-checking it would allow users to insert items like Supreme Generic Shalah Fiber. But I don't see the responsibility to prevent users from creating senseless recipes on the dev-side.
- I assume it'd surely imply database table changes, which is the reason why I declared this thread as comment, not as suggestion. I just wanted to put it to discussion before the book gets heavily used and changes become difficult.
An additional spinbox / spinbutton for easy adjusting the ingrident's count seems to be nice, but AFAIK it unfortunately requires JS for a proper implementation. So typing it in, like it is now, will surely be the better and easier way.
Keep on, best regards
Talya
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