Index and Tables Dialog

OpenOffice.org 2.0

Document - ID	Specification Owner	Last Change	Status
	Frank Loehmann	01.02.05	Final
Conforms to	
Applies to	StarOffice, OpenOffice.org
Task ID(s)	i39804
Category	Bug fix

Abstract

The Index and Tables dialog uses a new behavior to edit the structure of an index. The behavior will be the same for all different types of indexes. Due to this redesign we do not need to abbreviate entries like we did before. This makes it easier to understand and we also solve issues in the Portuguese version, were some texts do not fit on some buttons in this dialog.

i-Team Members (The specification owner is part of the i-Team)

	Name	E-mail Address
User Experience	Frank Loehmann	frank.loehmann@sun.com
Development	Peter Burow	peter.burow@sun.com
Quality Assurance	Éric Savary	eric.savary@sun.com
Documentation	Uwe Fischer	uwe.fischer@sun.com

Approved for Implementation

	Approved by	Date
User Experience	Frank Loehmann	01.02.05
Development	Peter Burow	04.02.05
Quality Assurance	Éric Savary	01.02.05
Documentation	Uwe Fischer	01.02.05
String Review	Elizabeth Matthis	04.02.05

Document Change History

Rev. Level	Change	Initials	Date
1.0	Initla Spec.	FL	01.02.05

Contents

1	Motivation	1

2	Goals	1

3	Competitive Analyses	1

4	Detailed Specification	1

5	Future Tasks	2

6	Notes	3

7	References	3

Motivation

The Index and Tables dialog has some very small buttons i.e. to insert "fields" like a chapter number to the structure control. For many languages these 5 button are too short, so that we have used abbreviations. In Portuguese even abbreviations are much longer than the space on the button. So we decided to slightly re-design this part of the dialog.

Illustration 1 Current Index and Tables dialog - red rectangle shows buttons two short for Portuguese

Goals

Re-design dialog so that Portuguese strings are no problem anymore.

Competitive Analyses

Please see motivation section above.

Detailed Specification

The Index and Tables dialog uses a new behavior to edit the structure of an index. The behavior will be the same for all different types of indexes (i.e bibliography, table of contents,...).

The Fields list box shows all fields which can be inserted into the index structure below. The Insert, Remove, All and Edit buttons are now of the same size and are slightly larger that the smaller ones used before in OOo 1.1. The remove button is only enabled if an entity is selected in the structure control. The All button assigns the current structure to all levels of the current index.

Illustration 2 The overworked Index and Tables dialog now uses a changed section to edit the structure of an index. Please note that the Fill character and Tab stop position control are only shown in this mock-up to get a feeling for the dialog in general.

String list

Item	English	German	Comments
Label	Fields	Felder	
Button	Insert	Einfügen	
Button	Remove	Entfernen	
LB content	Chapter number	Kapitelnummer	EM note: sentence capitalization is used for the Biblio entries, so these entries have to have sentence capitalzation.
LB content	Entry text	Texteintrag	
LB content	Page number	Seitennummer	
LB content	Hyperlink	Hyperlink	Start and end tags both get set automatically
LB content	Chapter information	Kapitelinformation	
Biblio. LB Content	Keep current entries	keep current translations	

Future Tasks

none

Notes

none

References

none

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Frank Loehmann

2005-02-01T14:20:50