On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Small usability question. When I select a message to work on, sometimes I 
> just want to bail.
>
> I don't want to delete the current message,  just go back to the message list 
> so I can come back later and file the document. This is the work flow in the 
> case of public key not uploaded.
>
> The browser back button doesn't work. Several of the pages are the actions I 
> just took that got me here. All of the titles listed are "ASF Secretary 
> Mail". Only one goes back to where I was.
>
> So, two possible solutions:
>
> 1. Change the title of the page that processes a message: "Processing"
> Then, the browser back drop-down will show
> Processing
> Processing
> Processing
> ASF Secretary Mail
> Processing
> Processing
> Processing
> ASF Secretary Mail

Can I suggest an alternative?  Make the back button work as you would
expect it to?

https://github.com/apache/whimsy/commit/9ccb0cdfe0a5a8aa40e73be80dc51c4f325a90bd

Note: my experience is that these APIs tend to be finicky.  I've
lightly tested it on both Firefox on Safari, but there may be edge
cases that need to be handled.

> 2. Add a button next to (File) that goes back to the message list: (Cancel)

FWIW, the link in the top left ('ASF Secretary Mail') already takes
you to the message list.

> Ez-pz
>
> Craig
>
> Craig L Russell
> Architect
> [email protected]
> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!

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