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Sorry for making my question so "general" and "Abstract", but what what I was thinking that something so general and abstract could exists.
I have a particular use case: Navigating the collection of schemas in the UBL specification (is a long hierarchy of processes, documents, agreegates, entities, etc), but maybe
is extensible to other use cases, like navigating documents, extense product catalogs, organization charts, or something similar.
The problem with the Tree View (in desktop or Web enviroments) is that it requires too many user clicks to get where he wants to go. The more deep the hierarchy, the more clicks the user has to perform.
I also admit that
this could be a question for a UX group, but as we work with trees of data, it looks like a problem here.
Until now, the first alternative I found is the BaseX GUI ( http://basex.org/products/gui/ ). It represents elements as boxes inside boxes, The ancestors are bigger and the children smaller.
Am i clearer know?
William David Velásquez
Director de I+D Visión Tecnológica S.A.S. Tel: (4) 444 7292 Cel: 313 743 54 11 wvelasquez@visiontecnologica.com Follow me: @williamda
De: Gareth Oakes <goakes@gpsl.co>
Enviado: lunes, 08 de septiembre de 2014 5:48 p. m. Para: William Velasquez Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org Asunto: Re: [xml-dev] Visualization of XML Data trees Hi William,
I think the UI depends on the use cases for the user. For example, is the user a developer? An author? A reviewer? Manager? DBA?
For some systems you will have a mix of user classes and therefore you need to consider multiple UIs to enable the various user stories. Certain user classes may also be device specific, e.g. developers work on the desktop whereas managers primarily work
on a mobile device.
You mention mobile device, which could mean smartphone or tablet. In the case of a tablet you may be able to make a tree-view work but it could get fiddly for complex XML documents. For a smartphone you don't have enough real estate, so perhaps you need
to consider a drill-down UI with breadcrumbs or something like that.
Hope that helps the thought process. Also if you supply some examples of user stories that may help solicit better feedback?
// Gareth Oakes
// Chief Architect, GPSL
// www.gpsl.co
From: William Velasquez <wvelasquez@visiontecnologica.com>
Date: Tuesday, 9 September 2014 4:25 am To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org> Subject: [xml-dev] Visualization of XML Data trees Hi XML Geeks,
One of the most common form of visualizing hierarchical data (like that stored in an XML Document) is the Tree View User Interface Control.
The tree view has a lot of concerns against it, one of them is that it's hard to use in mobile devices.
Does anybody know a better user interface facility for representing and navigating XML trees?
Thanks in advance for all your suggestions,
William David Velásquez
Director de I+D Visión Tecnológica S.A.S. Tel: (4) 444 7292 Cel: 313 743 54 11 wvelasquez@visiontecnologica.com Follow me: @williamda
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