User Experience Improvement Suggestions
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 6:48 pm
If I may, I would like to make a couple suggestions to improve the user experience on your wonderful app Syncovery:
1.) The possibility to reset every subsection of "Advanced Settings" to its Defaults separately (f.e. just Job or just Safety) would be extremely helpful for users that change parameters in several sections at once and then need to get back to find the parameter that causes problems.
2.) Sometimes a user may need to change what happens after a job finishes - this could happen for several reasons: f.e. the job may take longer than expected or the user has a change of plan and needs to leave his workstation. It would be wonderful if the user could decide on the fly after a job started executing if system should suspend, hibernate, or shutdown when job is finished.
This setting should be valid only for currently running job. If the job is run again, then the permanent setting "Job > Shutdown computer" is in effect again. This on the fly setting should supersede Job > Shutdown computer after being set. But before changing this parameter on the fly, the user should be able to see the current Job setting in this on the fly dialogue f.e.by highlighting or check mark the permanent choice in the on the fly dialogue for information purposes. I think a dropdown menu prominently placed on the upper side of the program window would be a good choice to alert the user to the possibility of changing this setting when desired even when the job is already running.
3.) A user can press "Esc" when editing a profile for easy exiting of profile editing and all changes are lost.
Since the "Esc" key is on many keyboards next to F1 it is easy to accidentally press Esc instead of F1/Help and lose all changes to the profile even though the user simply wanted help on the current setting.
Therefore may I suggest to add a dialogue "Save changes - yes/no" when pressing "Esc"? It would have saved me and probably many other users a considerabe amount of time and confusion in inputting the lost settings again.
Thank you very much for kindly taking these user experience improvements under consideration.
1.) The possibility to reset every subsection of "Advanced Settings" to its Defaults separately (f.e. just Job or just Safety) would be extremely helpful for users that change parameters in several sections at once and then need to get back to find the parameter that causes problems.
2.) Sometimes a user may need to change what happens after a job finishes - this could happen for several reasons: f.e. the job may take longer than expected or the user has a change of plan and needs to leave his workstation. It would be wonderful if the user could decide on the fly after a job started executing if system should suspend, hibernate, or shutdown when job is finished.
This setting should be valid only for currently running job. If the job is run again, then the permanent setting "Job > Shutdown computer" is in effect again. This on the fly setting should supersede Job > Shutdown computer after being set. But before changing this parameter on the fly, the user should be able to see the current Job setting in this on the fly dialogue f.e.by highlighting or check mark the permanent choice in the on the fly dialogue for information purposes. I think a dropdown menu prominently placed on the upper side of the program window would be a good choice to alert the user to the possibility of changing this setting when desired even when the job is already running.
3.) A user can press "Esc" when editing a profile for easy exiting of profile editing and all changes are lost.
Since the "Esc" key is on many keyboards next to F1 it is easy to accidentally press Esc instead of F1/Help and lose all changes to the profile even though the user simply wanted help on the current setting.
Therefore may I suggest to add a dialogue "Save changes - yes/no" when pressing "Esc"? It would have saved me and probably many other users a considerabe amount of time and confusion in inputting the lost settings again.
Thank you very much for kindly taking these user experience improvements under consideration.