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Feature #15650

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Improve pagination for group forums

Added by Boone Gorges over 2 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

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Resolved
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Group Forums
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Start date:
2022-03-16
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From #15646:

4. Search pagination: when one is browsing through a forum, particularly one with a lot of pages of posts, the pagination is a bit wonky. When one is on, say, the 7th page of results of a forum with 129 pages of posts, the choices for moving forward are: 1 2 3 …6 7 8 …127 128 129. I think we should show at least two or three pages forward from where one is to help people move forward more quickly. Or, perhaps, we could add a box where people could skip ahead to a particular page of results.

I think that we can tweak, so that maybe we show "1 2 ... 5 6 7 8 9 ... 128 129".

Adding a box for people to skip to a certain page of results is possible, but harder. This seems like a case where (a) the majority of groups won't have that many pages where this change will make a huge difference, and (b) jumping around pagination (as opposed to going one or two pages at a time) is not likely to be a great way to find something in a group, and (c) modern apps, for better or for worse, seem to have mostly abandoned the idea of pagination as a navigational concept. Seems better to ensure that search works well; see #15648. For these reasons I'd recommend not pouring lots of dev resources into overhauling the pagination interface.


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Related to CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #15646: Forum improvementsDuplicateBoone Gorges2022-03-16

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Actions #1

Updated by Boone Gorges over 2 years ago

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Updated by Matt Gold over 2 years ago

Okay -- that is fair, as long as we can get the search working well

Actions #3

Updated by Raymond Hoh over 2 years ago

I've filtered the search pagination parameters so it resembles the format of "1 2 ... 5 6 7 8 9 ... 128 129" in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/c5b1aac2679ecb6233858ae83ad483b73a47e31d.

Did we want to do the same thing for topic and reply pagination as well? I'm assuming we do, but just wanted confirmation.

Actions #4

Updated by Colin McDonald over 2 years ago

That sounds good to me, Ray. Matt, what do you think?

Actions #5

Updated by Colin McDonald over 2 years ago

I think the solution here is in good shape, but Matt since you raised it initially do you want to give a final look before we move ahead? Thanks!

Actions #6

Updated by Raymond Hoh over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from Reporter Feedback to Staged for Production Release

I've updated the code so our custom pagination range applies to topic and reply pagination as well. See https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/8c253bc060c19fff3317edf6a364453f716f5ef0.

This is available for testing on cdev.

Actions #7

Updated by Boone Gorges over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from Staged for Production Release to Resolved
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