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Subject:RE: What would you call this portlet? From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:Gregory P Sweet <gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:36:46 -0700
Gregory P Sweet wrote:
> The new portal will show a table of five elements and provide users
> with a
> mechanism to select what elements will be in the table:
> â five most recently viewed documents
> â five most frequently viewed documents
> â five most recently opened applications
> â five most frequently opened applications
>
> Question: What would you title this portlet, assuming the title cannot
> be
> dynamic?
So the user sees one of four lists -- either apps or docs, either recent or popular -- and the title can't identify the list? I assume the user's last choice persists until changed again (affording plenty of time to forget what it was).
I'd rethink that design. I can't imagine why the title can't change when the user chooses a different list.
For that matter, since we're talking about just five links (lines) per list, I'd let users choose one or _more_ of the four to display (each appropriately labeled, of course).
IMHO, YMMV, etc.
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-903-6372
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