CUNY Academic Commons

The Campus field is multi-select, while the Primary Purpose is not. (This is the default behavior of the Select2 library, and we discussed it briefly during implementation.)

Once you click/tab into the field, the options appear, so it seems to me like it won't actually confuse anyone. But if others disagree, we can look at adding the arrow - though it may need some design work, since once you start selecting options, the field contains little boxes with Xs, which may be confusing next to the arrow.

Putting this ticket into a milestone so that it's not lost. Not sure if we're planning any more holistic evaluation of the new tools, but if so, this potential interface improvement could be rolled into it.

Colin McDonald wrote:

I don't believe I have any post-launch user testing data to provide on this; we just have the data on what people have been choosing when using these fields. I don't know if we can see whether people are skipping this field and then needing to come back to it (doubtful probably). If not, and absent more reports about confusion here, I'd lean toward keeping this as-is also.

Thanks for the feedback, Colin. Who makes a final call on things like this?

Hi All -- let's leave this as is for now and then re-open/re-consider if we hear additional reports. I agree with Luke that there is a bit of visual confusion here, but I don't think it's worth the dev/design time to address it unless we hear of other reports or discover them ourselves in user testing.

I've rejected for now, but we can come back to this. Boone, if you feel this is better not rejected and instead placed in Future Release, please put it there. thanks.