[IxDA Discuss] Best practice: hiding groups of widgets within a complex form?

[mark pawson]

Given the various reasons as to why you cannot use a responsive
disclosure pattern or revamp, can you provide the ability for the
user to save their own template of how they like to use the form? It
sounds to me that everyone will have to be exposed to the complexity
that you are trying to hide at least once, learn what they need and
then customize and save their own template. Or you could skip the
template saving and "give the system a memory" so the next time
they use it only the controls they used last time are shown. However,
ensure you provide a defaults button because if they are burst users,
they will probably forget how they used it last and wonder why the
form doesn't offer some functionality that it should. We have used a
combination of templates and "system memory" in some of our complex
desktop apps.


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