Don't unselect groups when updating publication

[Martin Becker]

When updating a publication and I select an additional group to add it to, all other groups are unselected. This should not happen!

[Robert Jäschke]

Do you mean the group for "post visibility"? At the moment it is not possible to select more than one group for that.

[Martin Becker]

Hi, I mean "relevant for".

[Robert Jäschke]

I see. Did you press CTRL while selecting the new group? If I understand it correctly, this is the default behavior of a multi-select box in HTML: to select several items, you have to press CTRL. I tried it that way and it worked.

[Martin Becker]

No, I did not and, yes it is default behavior, and yes it works when I use CTRL. but this is highly unintuitive and impractical for several reasons:

a) The window is small so you don't always see all groups, so you have to remember that there other selected groups

b) If I just update quickly I might simply forget to use CTRL.

c) I usually never need the "unselect all" feature which this default behavior

d) I doubt that a normal internet user knows that hitting CTRL will do this ... I know people how don't ... and really how should they learn about it?

e) The best practice for a user would be to always use CTRL when editing groups to not accidentally unselect all groups ... so why not take this burden from the user?

[Robert Jäschke]

I see and agree. Surprisingly, this requires some JavaScript fiddling:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8641729/how-to-avoid-the-need-for-ctrl-click-in-a-multi-select-box-using-javascript
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12585863/how-can-i-make-an-html-multiple-select-act-like-the-control-button-is-held-down
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24543862/selecting-multiple-from-an-html-select-element-without-using-ctrl-key