After creating a content type, some users unsure how to access the content form for what they created

Created on 10 April 2023, over 1 year ago
Updated 18 April 2023, over 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

Identified as a UX issue in 🌱 [meta] Fix issues found during UMN Usability Testing 2015 Active

After adding a content type, user is brought to the Manage Fields page. Since this page does not have the content type name in the header (header just says "Manage fields"), the user believed that they failed to create the content type. "This page has nothing to do with what I just did. Whatever the helpdesk said didn't work."

Steps to reproduce

Proposed resolution

Not yet determined. Some potential options:

  • In the Field UI for a given content type, add a link to create a new node of that content type.
  • In the confirmation message after creating a content type (The content type
    has been added.) + [LINK TO NODE CREATION FORM]

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Release notes snippet

Feature request
Status

Needs work

Version

10.1

Component
Field UI 

Last updated 5 days ago

Created by

🇺🇸United States bnjmnm Ann Arbor, MI

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  • Issue created by @bnjmnm
  • 🇮🇳India zeeshan_khan

    I really like the approach as many user face the problem you have mentioned here.
    Well, I believe it will be better if we can show a message with add content link e.g:- "Content type created you can add content here." Something like that.

  • Assigned to sakthi_dev
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  • Status changed to Needs review over 1 year ago
  • 🇮🇳India sakthi_dev

    Please review.

  • 🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    This ticket was more for discussion first to decide on an approach. As you can see in the Proposed solution.
    No test coverage and one MR is actually empty.

    Maybe the current MR can be used but solution should be decided on first.

    Not ready for review.

  • 🇫🇮Finland lauriii Finland

    We made a similar insight as part of the research conducted earlier this year 📌 Field UI 2023 User Research Fixed :

    Users find navigating between "content" and "edit content types" burdensome

    This is not exactly the same, which could be due to the fact that we used different scripts in the studies. In the more recent insight we discovered that there are challenges with navigating between the manage content type and content form even after the content type has been created, e.g. when adding fields to a content type.

    One of the proposed solutions that could help with both of the problems has been documented in 🌱 Providing additional methods of navigating the admin interface Active .

    I'm removing the needs usability review tag for now, until we have settled on a proposal.

  • Status changed to Needs work over 1 year ago
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