Don't focus to first filter when it's halfway down the page
I see the system is automatically focusing to the first filter on a search view. I don't remember this happening before; I think it's a new feature. It's great, and really useful when opening a search view, or when opening a dashboard with a search view at the top.
But I sometimes create dashboards with a search view at the bottom, so that I have the filters available when I want them but they're simultaneously out of the way when I don't want them. When I open these dashboards, what I want to see most of the time is the non-search view at the top. When the system focuses to the first filter, it scrolls all the way down to the bottom of the page. I have to scroll back up every time I open the dashboard.
I vote that the system doesn't focus to the first filter on a dashboard when the first view is not a search view. That enables me to configure the "first seen" area of the dashboard by putting the view I want people to see first in the first section of the dashboard.
ID 458
Category User Experience
Author Liquid Rapid
Date Created 9/28/2011 12:47:24 AM
Date Updated 10/5/2011 5:10:52 PM
Status Under Consideration
Score 20
Promoted By
Rick Cogley
Liquid Rapid
Comments
Kirill Bondar Staff 9/28/2011 10:27:36 AM
So far we just disabled auto-focusing on view's filters.
Liquid Rapid 9/28/2011 12:39:40 PM
Ah! Thanks for that. :-) I do like it for filters that are right at the top, especially text input boxes. I'd vote to keep it for that particular case, if it's possible.
Kirill Bondar Staff 10/5/2011 4:57:13 PM
Changed status to "Under Consideration". The autofocus code is ready, but requires more sophisticated logic for turning it on and off depending on the context.
