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0012872ParaView(No Category)public2012-01-23 19:452016-08-12 09:59
ReporterGreg Schussman 
Assigned ToKitware Robot 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
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Typeusability
Summary0012872: Hidden "Apply" button can be confusing to new users
DescriptionHere is a situation that I see often with new users who want to know XYZ locations of some points in their mesh:

With a mesh loaded, they will be in the Display tab of the Object Inspector.

They then select points on the mesh, and run the Extract Selection filter. "ExtractSelection1" appears in the Pipeline Browser and becomes selected.

Then, they open a spreadsheet view, and see a blank spreadsheet, with the "Showing" pulldown of "none".

They used the "Showing" pulldown to select "ExtractSelection1". This causes the "Attribute pulldown" to go from greyed out to having only "Field Data" as the only selectable option.

They are then confused, because they are looking at a mesh which has no field data, but should have point data. Point data is not an option.

So, based on their experience of what has happened so far (everything has seemed to work), this is very confusing.

In reality, the problem is that they are on the Display tab of the object inspector, not on the Properties tab. So the green "Apply" button is not visible, and there is no visual suggestion that they need to hit that button before the spreadsheet view shows them what they are expecting to see.

Is there some way the "Apply" button could be always visible, rather than (in a sense) "hidden" in a tab which may not be currently selected?

Thanks for considering this.

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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2012-01-23 19:45Greg SchussmanNew Issue
2016-08-12 09:59Kitware RobotNote Added: 0038128
2016-08-12 09:59Kitware RobotStatusbacklog => closed
2016-08-12 09:59Kitware RobotResolutionopen => moved
2016-08-12 09:59Kitware RobotAssigned To => Kitware Robot

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(0038128)
Kitware Robot   
2016-08-12 09:59   
Resolving issue as `moved`.

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