Make the Manage Circle table sortable

[kaigou]

Title:
AJAX the Manage Circle table

Area:
access, subscriptions

Summary:
Make the Manage Circle table sortable by headers: Account, Blank (untitled column w/asterisks), Subscription, and Access.

Description:
This will also alleviate the issue of deleted journal accounts that continue to retain access/subscription information on their end, since those accounts have no asterisk. Re-sorting will push those and other non-DW accounts out-of-the-way so the user can focus only on those accounts pertinent to the user's intended task.

ETA: per old computer issues, perhaps make the resorting via page reload, instead?

Poll #1721 AJAX the Manage Circle table

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Should be implemented as-is.
5 (25.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (15.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (20.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (40.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[zvi]

NOOOOOO! I have old computers on which this will be slow, and the only way to avoid it will be to turn off my javascript. D:

Also, this is going to get us into the thing where you wind up developing two different versions of a page, the static version and the magic whizzbang version. D:

[kaigou]

It seemed like an easier solution to the "could we please make those deleted accounts go away" issue -- rather than go through all the work to make them go away, or disappear, or whatever.

(Mostly, this is an attempt to be more lucid via one suggestion as a time rather than six in a single post, even if they are all geared towards the same issue at heart. I figured if I break up the possible solutions into separate suggestions and hit them one at a time, eventually we'd find a workable compromise.)

This particular suggestion is the "don't make it go away, just make it set-aside-able" one, but I get what you're saying about the Ajax/JS issues. Hrm.

How about: break the biggest chunks out of the Circle, into two sub-tables -- one for all the active DW accounts associated with an account (basically everything with an asterisk), and a second table for all inactive and/or non-DW accounts (anything without an asterisk)?

Or isn't there a way to do an end-run so the seeming-Ajax link instead refreshes the page with the new sort-order? (I don't mean turn off YOUR js, I mean to do the sort via reload instead of Ajax's in-page non-refresh-refresh... thing. Whatever it's called.)

Not entirely the best solution, but it's not Ajaxy that way, and it's still just re-arranging the same info on the page but in a different order.

[instantramen]

Ditto on the old computers thing, they're all I have right now. D:

[ratcreature]

Yes, this. For me more often than not the AJAX versions of pages suck.

[kaigou]

I modified the suggestion to instead be that the page reload with the resorting. As I understand it, if AJAX degrades properly, then that's what you get: the page reloading on an action instead of performing in-page; AJAX just allows such actions without a reload. Thus, if it's possible to resort a table's items, then it should also be possible to do it as a page reload instead (and thereby save the wear on older systems).

[triadruid]

I generally detest Ajax because I'm an old fuddy-duddy and I want my pages to reload when I do things to them, so... mainly, this. :P

[kaigou]

Maybe I should've changed the subject header to remove mention of AJAX, as well. I'd changed it in the body, to instead ask for reloading the page completely to resort (which is what AJAX does when it degrades, anyway, so it's definitely possible).

[matgb]

If this could be combined with showing reading/access filters as extra columns, that'd be very useful.

[susanreads]

If this is simulated by reloading the page with the requested order, does that mean it would stay in that order next time it was loaded? Because that would solve the hiding-disabled-accounts problem better than having to do it every time.

[kaigou]

I s'pose that would depend on whether the page also sets a cookie for last_selected_settings.