What is the general goal of the feature? Many form designs include repeat groups that may not be filled out in a linear fashion. For such forms, the ability to easily jump from repeat item to repeat item would be a big usability gain. We are wondering if a sidebar may be a useful tool for this. Wh…

Fundamentally, I think making nested data easier to work with is really important. I see a number of goals: user can quickly see a list of existing nested record user can quickly jump to a specific nested record user can quickly add a nested record user can use nested records comfortably on any de…

Seeing a screen before the beginning of a repeat (and maybe even the end) of the repeat would be my preferred approach. I think it's important to have it inline because repeats are confusing and burying such an important UI improvement behind jump doesn't feel great to me. Agreed that it's a big cha…

This is super interesting. I have some thoughts but they're not complete yet. Give me a day or two to finish them and get them in. Once quick thing: Your other proposal at Separate screen in jump screen for listing repeat items could also potentially address the issue. For example, the jump scree…

do you know who built the Collect fork with the sidebar that you shared a screenshot of? Is it open source? A now-disbanded group, and no it is not open source. In fact I don't think the source is even still available full stop. (So I guess that makes it "no-source".) Anyway it's a dead project. …

[image] tomsmyth: Separate screen in jump screen for listing repeat items Skipping repeat item screen in jump screen for field-list repeat items (both directions) "Add item" button in jump screen for repeat group “Delete item” buttons in jump screen for repeat group This sounds great to me…

Thanks Dottie. I will try to incorporate that into the proposal I've promised here..

OK, proposal created: https://github.com/opendatakit/roadmap/issues/19 It differs a little from what we discussed here because I had a kind of epiphany as I was writing it up, but let's continue discussion over there...?

Thanks to @LN I found this thread - it didn't come up when I searched or during my composition... So apologies for duplication: [image] Add new group - a more intuitive way? Ideas What is the general goal of the feature? To provide a simple and intuitive way for a user t…

Hi @seewhy ! Glad to hear others are thinking about changes to the repeat navigation stuff! 'add new group' button might be a useful replacement to 'got to end' I can see the logic in that people may use 'Add' more than 'Go to end' in that situation, but I worry about mixing two different types o…

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Refinements to Repeat Group Navigation

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