Regression in UX for Create-dialog

[enkelmedia]

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When testing out preview--002 of Bellissima I'm noticing that the "create new item"-experience has degraded compared to the Umbraco 12-version.

Notice here how the dialog to choose what to create shows up on the right side of the screen forcing me to travel with my eyes and the mouse over to that part of the screen:

Here I really think that the behavior from Umbraco 12 is a lot better where the Create-action is the default for the "dots"-icon and where the options show up in a list to the right of the tree:

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This item has been added to our backlog AB#41936

[enkelmedia]

@iOvergaard @nielslyngsoe After playing around even more with the latest main-branch I really think that this issue should be considered. Especially thinking about editors that spend many hours every day in the backoffice.

It's really frustrating having to drag eyes and mouse from the left to the right side to choose doc-type and then back to the left to set the name. I think that this will also relevant for things like sorting, move, copy etc. These actions are performed in the context of the menu/tree and it does not make sense showing them in a modal to the right. While the right sidebar modal does make sense when inserting links and uploading images in the context of working in the "main area". It feels like there is an extension/area missing here.

I have the same experience with the "Import" and "Export"-features that are implemented for dictionaries. Maybe there is a good reason that the sidebar-modal is used for all of these cases but if not it would be better to address this now than when almost everything is implemented using the right sidebar.

[nielslyngsoe]

Hi @enkelmedia

We are aware, its a missing feature for now. It will most likely be postponed til very late as it is not feature wise important but ofcourse something that should be fixed before Content Managers starts using it.

[enkelmedia]

@nielslyngsoe Thanks for clarifying your intensions - totally understand!

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[madsrasmussen]

Hi @enkelmedia

I will convert this into a discussion until we have some clear action points we can fix. Thanks!

[arknu]

@madsrasmussen What is not clear here? This is a clear UX regression, the dialog should obviously pop up close to the mouse (i.e. on the left side), not on the right. It is completely unintuitive that the dialog shows up way over on the other side of the screen.