[RAS] affiliations percentage

['Christian Zimmermann']

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:

> Here is my affiliations draft. I could make this into a google
> document, but let's start with plain text:
>
>
> Affiliations' percentages spec draft with questions
>
>
> I'm using the "we" pronoun in the following mainly to mean the RAS/ACIS system.
>
> We let users enter percentage for each affiliations that they list in
> their profile. We show an input box for each affiliation, with some
> label next to it. For example, in this mockup I use "Share:" as the
> label: http://www.screencast.com/t/qza127hJ0e
>
> Or we change the affiliations display to a table view and put those
> input boxes into a column, with the submit button below the column.
> http://www.screencast.com/t/cNotuQQJ8uc

I like this second one more. It clusters less the left hand side.

>
> (We probably need the percent sign (%) near the input boxes, or in the
> column title?)
>
> – What would the input box label or the column label be?
> – What label should the button have?

They are OK as in the mockup. But I suggest adding at the bottom of the 
column a "total" box, that adds up the shares, with a % sign. Javascript 
can add the shares live, as I have seen elsewhere.

Of course, what happens if someone does not have Javascript turned on?

>
> The [Save share changes] button can be disabled (grayed out) until the
> user modifies one of the given percentage values (JavaScript).
>
> By default, when a user first sees this screen with this feature
> enabled, we calculate the percentage automatically, splitting the 100%
> equally, in the best possible way (e.g. 34, 33, 33 in case of three
> institutions).
>
> User may change the numbers and submit the change by clicking the
> [Save share changes] button. Then we process the share values given
> and adjust it proportionally to a total of 100%. And we display the
> same screen with adjusted numbers and with the affiliations sorted in
> the order of decreasing share. Additionally, we show a confirmation
> message in the top part of the page, saying "The affiliation shares
> have been saved." or similar.
>
> – Do we need such message? What text would you like to have there?
>

Confirmation is always good.

> If a person deletes an affiliation, we adjust the remaining numbers in
> the same way.
>
> While adjusting the numbers we always ensure that the total sum of
> them is 100, in the best way possible, while keeping the individual
> numbers in the integer range 1-99.
>
> The numbers entered by the users as a share are also enforced to be
> numbers in the integer range 1-99. If a user enters a non-numeric
> value, or a non-integer value, ACIS would show an error message
> "Invalid share number. Use an integer between 1 and 99." and it would
> bring back the displayed share of that affiliation to it's previous
> value.
>
> If the user has only one affiliation, we do not show the Share column,
> the input boxes, the [Save share changes] button. (And no
> Workplace-Share attribute is written into the ReDIF template in that
> case.)
>
> If the user has opened the affiliations page, has modified the Share
> value for one or more affiliations, but then clicked on the [Delete]
> button of some other affiliation, his change to the share values is
> not saved. We may show a confirmation dialog if he wants to submit the
> form without saving the share value.
>
> – What should be the confirmation dialog text then? "The share
> changes will not be saved. [Cancel] [OK]"
>

SOmething like "Please adjust shares after deletion"?

> – Or alternatively, we could save the shares even in this case. Save
> the shares AND delete the affiliation at the same time. Is this
> better?
>
>
> – Anything else to clarify or to consider?

We may need an external link on or next to "Share" with some explanations. 
I propose:

"For multiple affiliations, please attribute a share to each. These will 
be used to determine the main affiliation and allocate ranking scores 
across affiliations. With affiliations in different regions or countries, 
your ranking scores will also be weighted accordingly."

>
>
> -Ivan
>

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