I guess as you first of all pointed out ‘usability is subjective’... That being said I personally actually thought I loved the way the properties thing is designed.. There is so much more you can do with the current design with multiple fields on properties that you just could not with the Admin Tool. For eg in the old admin tool, there were only a limited set of attributes you could apply a multiple change to. Not anymore. And I can’t say how glad I am about that.. It’s the best thing that happened after .. hmmm.. whatever the last good thing before that was!
What I like: * The way the field Ids or the field Names or the Database names can be sorted on the properties side. Takes me 5 seconds to find a field in a cluttered mess of 500 fields or more which used to take forever on the Admin tool even after they had the drop list of ID’s and Database field names.. * The whole GUI has got so much more better. Its easier to make better looking screens now faster than before. I used to take forever to make a good looking screen with the Admin tool.. but then I’m pretty anal at times on the looks of a form.. Some people may not spend as much time as I do on the looks of forms. I do.. (This is a subjective view) * Editing Workflow!!!!!! That’s the killer feature.. having all the If and Else action view in a single pane! Editing every view of a form with just a few clicks!!! Ability to edit tab orders!! Without having to click back and forth! That is I think the best thing that ever happened to mankind! * Viewing almost all the properties of a form or workflow in a single view! That gives you so much of the complete picture in just one glance once you get used to it.. * And saving your workbench.. That is such a great feature! What did I do in the past to emulate that? Pretty much do not log out of the session after a days work and lock the work station and hope no one pulled a plug? And the best part about it is that its portable my saving the xml file and copying it to another workbench on some other PC. I can’t say how many places I have used that saving tons of time... * The Undo and Redo button :-) - it should have featured in the OMG section of yahoo! Didn’t we want that almost forever! I could go on.. By lining up fields if you meant aligning them, what is the problem you are having??? And I would suggest looking at the resolution capability rather than just expanding the size of your monitor.. The size of the monitor just makes things look bigger, and doesn’t give you the more compact view that you want with the Dev Studio.. I bet you work with a low resolution monitor that has a large 32” screen. Is it lower than what I currently have? Mine is 1920x1080 and I feel I lucked on getting just about the minimum required resolution.. Its only a 15” screen. Anything lower than the resolution I have, I’d be begging for more.. I plan buying an even higher resolution if its available the next time I’m due to buy new hardware.. Joe From: Susan Palmer Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 5:45 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DevStudio Tool ** Not very Yes I have been using DevStudio v7.5 for 9 months now so I should be over the learning and adjustment curve. I find everything takes longer to do. I have no issue with reliability. Usability is subjective and I personally find it awkward. I'm constantly resizing portions. Even though I have a 24" monitor it really needed to be 32" (or maybe 55"). It is aggravating the way the Properties work. Always needing to expand everything. Of course Change History is always expanded and I use that the least. Database, Display and Permissions should always be expanded. But of course then you'd have to constantly scroll. I do like the fields area and way you can easily sort by name or ID. I don't like the way the form/workflow lists take up basically the same real estate you're going to use if you open a form. Again constantly adjusting the portions. I cannot express how much I miss the ability to grab a group of fields for movement purposes via the mouse (click and drag). I have mixed feeling about the ability to line up fields which I'm a bit anal about, its different and sometimes its just hard. On page fields why can't the first tab always show instead of having to do the left arrow click. Of course if you expand it full size not a problem. But then I lose the ability to easily use the properties. Sometimes I get wild and click on an icon inadvertently and close a portion, like where my form was displayed and it will take me 10 min trying to find it again. Why are the icons so small? Importing and Exporting takes more steps now and it accomplishes the same thing as before. I do like the filter ability on the Forms/Workflow list portions. I do like the Relationships feature. I'm sure I've missed some things, these are just the ones I immediately thought of. No, I'm not adverse to change but when I make changes I've consulted my customers and make a big effort to make it as easy as possible for them to adjust. How can I choose one thing? Not possible. As Remedy developers we just have to be adaptable! We are basically a custom shop so I do customizations every week to keep up with our constantly growing business and processes. So I hope you all are as pleased as I am. Susan On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Carin Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote: Hello there all, We would like to have your input on a Question. How happy are you with DevStudio 7.5-7.6 to do customizations? Do you miss the Admintool? Are you satisfied with the DevStudio functionality, usability and reliability. If there was one thing you would change about DevStudio, what would it be? Thank you Carin _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
