| gdonn001 |
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| Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| Friday, June 19, 2009 12:50:52 PM |
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I too rarely use the system generated survey diagram, but often find that the extent of the system generated title diagram is acceptable. In those cases, it would be nice to be able to use it without defining a diagram of the same area.
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I suspect that my email account got deleted on my last day. However, if it had not, some firms may have a dim view of ex-employees 'intercepting' their emails as there may be commercially sensitive emails still incoming to that address.
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I note the standard LOL behaviour where if you change the extent of the survey, the extent of the system generated diagrams also change. This is logical, and I have never had cause to complain before. Hovever, I have recently had a case where I have prepared the plans and sent copies to the solicitor to obtain the client's approval prior to lodgement. The solicitor then came back, and after some discussion, it was decided to remove some peripheral lots from the plan. When these changes were made to the dataset and plan generation entered, I noted that the diagram extents had changed slightly, causing previously modified text to be out of place. It would have been nice to be given the option of holding the original extents of the diagram, avoiding this unneccessary rework.
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Having changed firms after previously using the "Keep me logged in on this computer" function at my last firm, I can no longer remember my original password. However, the system can send password information to the registered email (at my previous firm, which is of little help now). I have therefore needed to start a new profile, but as my name is used up in the original login, I have needed to select a new username.
I note that the facilities to edit My Profile do not permit being able to edit the name displayed (the login name), even though you can edit the First Name and Surname, these don't seem to be used.
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Riki, your points are noted, and as you point out, this is really only an issue with very large surveys. However, from your initial point, if the intention is to warn users of initiating non-instantaneous processes, then such warnings should surely be used before:
- zooming out too far in spatial view (depending on layers turned on, etc)(how many times have I accidentally zoomed out, then had to walk away in disgust while the computer catches up, even after pressing ESC?);
- entering plan layout (I know I have accidentally clicked plan layout, then had to wait for it all to process, before backing out to go into Maintain Diagram Layers).
There are probably other instances where such prompts would be just as useful as at pre-validation, but these two spring to mind (and apply regardless of the size of the survey), and no warning is given here. The first also applies to e-searches, which are more likely to be performed by less frequent users who would be even more appreciative of a warning. Perhaps this could be added to the wish list, if others think it useful?
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Further to my above comment. I have just done a pre-validation, and note that the mouse pointer changes to an hourglass icon. That makes my comments above a bit redundant, and I would have thought that was sufficient in itself.
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Has anyone had a prevalidation take 5 minutes? I would assume that if you click the prevalidation button then you want it to run, and aren't going to shut down LOL straight away.
A simple solution which should keep both sides happy would be to display a message, without an "OK" button, while starting the process. The message window can then be automatically killed once the process is completed. If necessary, to avoid the user looking at a static message screen, an animated "working..." indicator could be used.
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