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Bazaar: Adding Items Ambiguous Language + Mobile

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  • Chedburn [1] Admin · 2 likes ·
    Will pass on to Michael to take a look, thanks.
  • artem [1637698] Admin · 1 likes ·
    Hello Pixie, We have added red background for the rows with error validation. This way it is possible to see that there was a mistake without having to keep all dropdowns open. This should be a more practical approach, especially …
  • artem [1637698] Admin · 1 likes ·
    Yes, We also changed 'Amount' to 'Quantity'. [image: storage3.static.itmages.com]
513437 [513437] · #1

Hiya,

Tried to add items to my bazaar this evening from my mobile and the little drop down boxes for each item seem to cause lots of issues. It is fine if you are just adding one thing at a time but to add multiple things you can only have one dropdown open at a time and if you make a mistake in one it wont let you go forward - would be good if it highlighted where the error was or let you see all of your inputs at once so you could see where the error was. You can imitate this easily on a desktop if you shrink your window down to mobile display size, should show you how annoying it is :p

Also, "Amount" is super amibiguous wording. Went to add things on my desktop (the full screen of which does not have the annoying dropdown boxes and would actually be a better way for the layout to stay in mobile) and noticed that on the second add screen (confirmation) it says "Quantity" rather than "Amount". Is there a way that it could say "Quantity" instead of "Amount" on the first screen too?

Aside from using two different words for the same thing, "Amount" is a bit too ambiguous and while you are adding lots of items it can be confusing. Particularly in Mobile where on the first add screen items you are adding in don't show up in a linear way (i.e. all in one column on one page). Its easy to put in the Price under Amount when your brain goes into auto-pilot.

Not that it is actually relevant in this case, but in the spirit of being thorough:
MOBILE: Samsung S5, Kitkat, Chrome
DEKSTOP: iMac, Maverick, Chrome

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Chedburn [1] Admin Developer · #2

If we changed 'Amount' to 'Quantity' and made it so the dropdowns always stayed open (allowing more than one open at once) would that resolve the problem?
artem [1637698] Admin Staff · #5

Hello Pixie,


We have added red background for the rows with error validation. This way it is possible to see that there was a mistake without having to keep all dropdowns open. This should be a more practical approach, especially for mobile. Please let us know if you have any notes. Changes will be applied on the LIVE server in next release.




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513437 [513437] · #6 · edited

That's a great change thank you, looking forward to it :)

Edit: will "Amount" still be able to be changed to "Quantity"?

Thanks for considering these they are small but make a huge difference to playing on mobile.