Thursday, October 26, 2017

tables - Method of showing that a row has been edited and will be changed upon "Save"



What paradigms exist for denoting that a row of data has been modified and that a Save action on the view will change them in the data store? Which paradigms are recommended?


A few that we've discussed:



  • Bolding the text (as Outlook does for unread mail)

  • Adding an asterisk next to the name column of the row

  • Adding an icon, either as a new column or in addition to the name column of the row

  • Using colors (scared of this due to color blindness)


Also, there are a couple questions that hint around this topic here. I don't consider this a duplicate, as I'm speaking more of the generic paradigm where they're talking about a specific problem.


In a long list of customers, how can I efficiently mark which have been edited?



An icon indicating something has changed or been edited?




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