"jQuerify" adding a new user...

[aaron_guitar]

After adding a new user it's confusing that only that user is displayed in the table. It always takes me a couple seconds before I realize that it's just showing the new user. It seems it would be more efficient to show all of the users and just have the new row highlighted with jQuery.

(I can code this if needed.)

Would be great if you can code it.

maybe it could be done using ajax

I guess it's too late to submit a patch for this for 2.8?

Writing this on the top of my head, but I vaguely recall seeing the behavior on other forums. (Add category?) So, in 2.8, I can picture the core devs rejecting it due to the introduction of inconsistencies in the interface.

On thing that's sure, though, is that an enhancement with no patch will never get considered in any version.

The way it's setup currently is inconsistent. I'm not really sure if completely Ajaxify-ing it would be the best solution. I was just thinking that it would be helpful if it highlighted the new user row after it was added. This would at least be more useful than the current setup. Thoughts anyone?

my fear, personally, would be that if you've thousands of users in there for any reason, a newly registered user definitely won't show.

then again, it could be argued that since the admin just created him, bringing him back to the all users list makes more sense. (and I'd +1 to that.) After all, he just created the user...

the same also applies to tags, cats, etc.

Regarding your first comment, the scripting would have to figure out which page the new user would be displayed on and show that page.

All I know is the current way has no advantages over any other method =)

Replying to aaron_guitar:

Regarding your first comment, the scripting would have to figure out which page the new user would be displayed on and show that page.

All I know is the current way has no advantages over any other method =)

agreed. basically, we'd want to either identify on which page we are if it *has* to be visible on the screen. else we just dump the search query and return to the first page of results. either way make sense imo, as the current behavior is just misleading.

maybe a dev will stop by and suggest.

Agreed. I'll work on getting a patch up here soon.

Has anybody had a chance to look at this?

Don't think you need the js at all. To highlight the new user just set the style in user_row($user_object, $style, $role); when listing users.

Not sure if that's the proper behaviour in the first place. Perhaps after adding new user show a link to the profile in the "New user created" notice at the top. Jumping to some page in the user listing can be confusing too.

I don't really care much either way, it should be changed though.

Replying to aaron_guitar:

After adding a new user it's confusing that only that user is displayed in the table. It always takes me a couple seconds before I realize that it's just showing the new user.

In trunk, you get sent to the main user list after adding a new user, with a message saying "new user created".