"Amnesty Project" Conflict Minerals Report metric always seems to be wanting more data values!+example
"Amnesty Project" Conflict Minerals Report metric always seems to be wanting more data values!+screenshot
"Amnesty Project" Conflict Minerals Report metric always seems to be wanting more data values!+Discussion
Well, this is working as intended, but maybe we should add some context cues somewhere to make the intentions clearer?
To pick up where your personification left off, this metric is hungry for more years :) Basically, we already have a "Yes" for 2014, but we could add a "No" for 2015, an "unknown" for 2013, etc. You can always add more values for more years; the metric will never be sated.
I realize that for this particular metric (and potentially many others), it doesn't make a ton of sense to add a value for, say, 1950, at which point the term "conflict mineral" was not in use, and clearly no company has a report. We might contemplate adding the concept of a "start year" for a metric. In that case, if we had a report for every year from the starting year to the most recent complete year, at which point the metric would lose its appetite for new answers (and stop prompting for them).
In the meantime, can you think of any wording we can add or change to make it more obvious that we're asking for another year here?
Hi Ethan :-) If there would be a line mentioning that the metric value will always be visible, it would make a lot more sense. So maybe something within the lines of.... "It is encouraged to add all available CMR reports to this metric, that is why the metric value option is always expanded."
Having said that, we're facing the same issue with the GRI project created today... http://wikirate.org/Ford_Otosan?view=new_metric_value&project=Global%20Reporting%20Initiative%20-%20G4%20Sustainability%20Reporting%20Standards
The first metric is always expanded regardless of its question/value, while the others are collapsed. Advice?
Ohhhh. I think I misunderstood.
You're saying that it's confusing/unpleasant/annoying/undesirable/whatever to arrive on a page with many metrics and have the first metric pre-expanded when it has already been worked on, while many of the other metrics that have NOT been worked on are collapsed, correct?
The current functionality is not doing anything particularly tricky -- it's really just expanding the first metric and collapsing all the other ones no matter what.
I'm thinking the simplest fix is this: don't do that anymore :) Ie, if there is just one metric involved on the page, then sure, expand the form (why not?). But if there are multiple metrics, collapse them all.
Do you think that would be less confusing?
I think it would be less confusing :) and it would look nicer too!
Done!