feature request #8320
closed
Links to reference page as appendend icon instead of having the whole citation as link
Added by Andreas Kohlbecker almost 5 years ago.
Updated almost 5 years ago.
Description
Currently the portal creates links to references by turning the whole reference string into a link. Since citation strings tend to be lengthy, this often causes confusion and unclear page appearances.
A better approach to make reference links would be to append a clickable icon to the citation string. Since this is an internal link a modified variant of the https://fontawesome.com/icons/external-link-alt?style=solid icon with inwards arrow could be used.
This would allow to also add reference links in footnotes without cluttering the portal pages too much.
- Description updated (diff)
The most important questions to answer are:
- Is a appended icon prominent enough, so that users don't oversee them?
- Are there cases in which linking the whole reference string is required?
Please feel free to give your feedback and opinion.
The icon is fine, we do not need the entire string linked.
- Subject changed from DISCUSS : Links to reference page as appendend icon instead of havin the whole citation as link to DISCUSS : Links to reference page as appendend icon instead of having the whole citation as link
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Wolf-Henning Kusber wrote:
The icon is fine, we do not need the entire string linked.
I also agree. We should try to implement as suggested and then we can see if for some exceptional use-cases we need still something else.
- Priority changed from New to Highest
posting Norberts answer received by email:
"I agree too,
Norbert"
- Subject changed from DISCUSS : Links to reference page as appendend icon instead of having the whole citation as link to Links to reference page as appendend icon instead of having the whole citation as link
Discussion ended, will now implement ....
- Tags set to phycobank, cichorieae
- Status changed from New to Resolved
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- Status changed from Resolved to Closed
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- Status changed from Closed to Resolved
- Assignee changed from Andreas Kohlbecker to Andreas Müller
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from Resolved to Feedback
- Assignee changed from Andreas Müller to Andreas Kohlbecker
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Is there an example somewhere on test server or integration?
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Do we have any rules where these icons are used? E.g. in the bibliography they do not seem to be used yet though it might be interesting to have them there too. Best of course would be to make it configurable.
But these issues are different tickets I guess. So we can close this ticket again. Looks good.
- Status changed from Feedback to Closed
Andreas Müller wrote:
Do we have any rules where these icons are used? E.g. in the bibliography they do not seem to be used yet though it might be interesting to have them there too. Best of course would be to make it configurable.
But these issues are different tickets I guess. So we can close this ticket again. Looks good.
Since these icon links are very unobtrusive we could think about adding links to all reference citations. As you said, this is another issue, so I am closing this ticket - thanks for reviewing.
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