Display Table Metadata when asking user to 'Pick your starting data'
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Description
I just enetered metadata descriptions for our databases into the Data Reference pages, expecting to see these descriptions shown when I created a new question. Surely this is one of the most obvious things you would want to tell your users i.e. what's in these databases...
I would like the list of databases to:
a) be much wider as I don't see why it has to be so restricted in size
b) to show any metadata descriptions from the Data Reference attributes.
It would be a natural extension to then see the table level metadata descriptions once you have selected the database.
There are other areas in the interface where this data could be shown too (e.g. Admin:Data Model & Admin:Databases) so perhaps you could put a Data Reference menu option in Admin to allow people to decide if/where to display the metadata descriptions.
It's hardly critical, but would help new users to have a better understanding of what the heck they might be looking at - so helps the self-service experience - one of the tool's major strengths.
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Research direction
Start with the “Pick your starting data” flow and the Data Reference pages described in the issue; inspect how database and table metadata are currently exposed. Done means the database list is wider and displays available descriptions, with table descriptions shown after selection, while any broader Admin placement is explicitly scoped.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- clojure
- Domain
- databases, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100