507658 - "My Collections" page is difficult to find

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Collections, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Morlan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1

To prevent possible confusions and make the collection list more readily
accessible, why don't we add "My Collections" link at the top area of the AMO?

Before:
Welcome, XXX My Account Log out 

After:
Welcome, XXX My Account My Collection Log out

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[fcp]

I think that you are suggesting the solution because the My Collections page is difficult to find.  If so, I agree that the it is hard to find.  However, I am not sure whether the proposed solution is good or not.  You or other people might come up with a better solution.

Can you change the summary of this bug to “My Collections page is difficult to find” or something which describes the problem instead of a suggested solution?

Comment 2

[Morlan]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think that you are suggesting the solution because the My Collections page is
> difficult to find.  If so, I agree that the it is hard to find.  However, I am
> not sure whether the proposed solution is good or not.  You or other people
> might come up with a better solution.

Any solution which let users to easily access this page is fine. I would like to have a one-click way to access My Collection when I'm browsing AMO. I entirely miss this page at the time I submitted Bug 507330. The position of "My Collection" is too deeply "buried".

> Can you change the summary of this bug to “My Collections page is difficult to
> find” or something which describes the problem instead of a suggested solution?

Do you mean changing the title? OK. I did it. Does it sound better now?

Comment 3

[fcp]

(In reply to comment #2)
> > Can you change the summary of this bug to “My Collections page is difficult to
> > find” or something which describes the problem instead of a suggested solution?
> 
> Do you mean changing the title? OK. I did it. Does it sound better now?

Thanks.  For tips on writing a good bug report, please see the Bug Writing Guidelines.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=bug-writing.html

Though I do not completely agree on the “add a link in high-profile areas” part, I am confirming this bug because the problem which this request is addressing is now clear.

Comment 4

[fcp]

Sorry, I think I have messed up.

normal -> enhancement

Comment 5

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

I would be OK with adding "My Collections" to the Tools dropdown for users that have at least one collection.

Comment 6

[Morlan]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I would be OK with adding "My Collections" to the Tools dropdown for users that
> have at least one collection.

Well where is the Tools dropdown? I couldn't see it.
Adding "My Collections" to the top control panel seems make sense to me. You have similar tools over there already. It's also the place for the user to configure their stuff and change details.

Comment 7

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Well where is the Tools dropdown? I couldn't see it.

Basically where you're suggesting. If you're an add-on developer or AMO editor, etc. there are links up there to go to the various control panels for them. They show in a dropdown list if there's more than one. Adding a "My Collections" link along side these makes sense. It is harder to find than it should be.

Comment 8

[Morlan]

(In reply to comment #7)
> If you're an add-on developer or AMO editor,
> etc. there are links up there to go to the various control panels for them.
> They show in a dropdown list if there's more than one. 

Sorry I still don't see such a link. I don't see any dropdown menu other than Other Applications. I don't think I'm an add-on developer or AMO editor. I'm just a normal person who uses Collections.

> Adding a "My
> Collections" link along side these makes sense. It is harder to find than it
> should be.

It doesn't make sense to ordinary people like me who couldn't even see the so-called Tools dropdown. Not all people are either add-on developer or AMO editor.

Comment 9

[fcp]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Sorry I still don't see such a link.

It is natural that you still do not see a link to My Collections, because no one has written a patch for it yet.

Comment 10

[Morlan]

(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > Sorry I still don't see such a link.
> 
> It is natural that you still do not see a link to My Collections, because no
> one has written a patch for it yet.

No. I mean Tools dropdown mentioned in Comment #5 and #7. I have a feeling that it is perhaps a link only visible to developers etc., or rather a conditional link.

Comment 11

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #10)
> No. I mean Tools dropdown mentioned in Comment #5 and #7. I have a feeling that
> it is perhaps a link only visible to developers etc., or rather a conditional
> link.

Yes, that's what I said in comment 7:
> They show in a dropdown list if there's more than one.

If there's not more than one, the link just shows there *not* in a dropdown list.

It's very simple; it's just a menu for links to things like this. If there's only one item it'll just show the link; if there's more than one link it'll show a menu for the multiple links. It's just that previously the things in here were not for anything a normal user would have.

Comment 12

[Morlan]

Sorry would you kindly post a screenshot where that "thing" is? A picture is better than words in this case.

Comment 13

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Sorry would you kindly post a screenshot where that "thing" is? A picture is
> better than words in this case.

Reusing a previous attachment:
attachment 386451 [details]

Only difference from comment 0 is that it's on the other side of "log out".

Comment 14

[Dave Garrett]

A "My Collections" link is now in the new "My Account" menu up top, so it should be much more easily discoverable now.

Comment 15

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

Verified fixed on prod.