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Noel asked a question in Ruby on Rails Tutorial on December 14, 2009 00:20:

typo in 3.3.3

in 3.3.3

Second, the :media argument sure looks like a hash, but where are the curly braces? When hashes are the last argument in a function call, the hashes are optional; these two lines are equivalent:

should probably say:

Second, the :media argument sure looks like a hash, but where are the curly braces? When hashes are the last argument in a function call, the curly braces are optional; these two lines are equivalent:

A comment on the problem "Not apparent how to navigate up to all projects." in Balsamiq:

Sorry, poorly worded. Started new project, then I went to Assets folder. In there it is not obvious how to get back up to parent folder. – Noel, on November 27, 2009 17:26

Noel replied on November 23, 2009 23:12 to the problem "Not apparent how to navigate up to all projects." in Balsamiq:

New project went to Project Assets, not obvious way to go back up

Noel started following the problem "Not apparent how to navigate up to all projects." in Balsamiq.

Noel started following the idea "Help us design the "UI Library Position" feature" in Balsamiq.

Noel shared an idea in Balsamiq on September 15, 2009 00:11:

closing mockup should take you back to project view

closing mockup should take you back to project view since that is the entry point it should be the exit as well. It may be disorienting to a user to end up in a different place

Noel shared an idea in Balsamiq on September 14, 2009 23:43:

Navigating the folder hierarchy

It's hard to go back to a parent folder. For example, if I click on a project, the only way to get back to the project view i to click on the site name. Also, if I go into an asset folder, I don't see how to get back to the parent project folder.

Noel shared an idea in Balsamiq on September 14, 2009 22:19:

Initial upload workflow

I have a folder with mockups for multiple pages on my site. Would be nice to be able to upload multiple mockups at once for the initial project setup. Also importing a mockup shouldn't take me to edit mode since I want to upload other mockups.
Finally, the mockup I uploaded had an image as a background (basically a site template). The mockup that was uploaded had the image place holder and text telling me that the image was missing, but does not tell me how to fix this. E.g. What image is missing, and where should I upload this picture to? I tried to upload it to project assets, but that didnt work.

Noel reported a problem in Balsamiq on September 14, 2009 22:09:

Email update toggle problem

It's hard to tell the state of the Email update toggle. Also, enabled it, I think bec it is green, but can't disable it now.

Noel shared an idea in Balsamiq on September 14, 2009 22:06:

Registration and Email confirmation seems cumbersome

When I was registering, the email address field says "Address(es), that was confusing as there is only space for one address, or if you can enter multiple with comma, hint should note that.

I don't mind the idea of an email confirmation, but when you click on confirmation link, the top of the page was the "oops looks like you have not confirmed..." well duh, that's what I am doing :)

Also, don't think you should have to enter username/psw for confirmation, seems redundant.

finally, Yahoo flagged balsamic confirmation email as spam.

Noel replied on June 24, 2009 19:23 to the idea "Mockup Inheritance" in Balsamiq:

This would work for a page template as well, currently using image of another bmml, but workflow not streamlines as I have to edit that file and export png

Noel started following the idea "Mockup Inheritance" in Balsamiq.

Noel replied on April 30, 2009 18:00 to the idea "Adding Linking Support to Mockups for Confluence, JIRA and XWiki" in Balsamiq:

looks good to me. what defines recent? today? this week?

Noel replied on April 30, 2009 17:03 to the idea "Adding Linking Support to Mockups for Confluence, JIRA and XWiki" in Balsamiq:

I agree with your analysis. For Confluence, I think the mockups attached to current page would be good. Maybe an alternative to link to all the children of the current page would be to let the user select a specific page to find the mockup(s). So if I am in Space A Page 1, I can link to something in Space B page 4.

When you click on a link, just fetch the mockup as you suggested.

Noel started following the idea "Upgrade notice" in Balsamiq.

A comment on the idea "Help me design the Check for Updates Feature" in Balsamiq:

The idea was that if you wanted to not be so current, you could (like if u just upgraded to XP when Vista came out). I guess the original mockup with the separate releases was confusing. You just want to show what's new since current release, that's fine. I would display in chrono order not reverse chrono then and maybe a heading "Changes since installed version" – Noel, on March 03, 2009 19:43

Noel replied on March 03, 2009 17:46 to the idea "Help me design the Check for Updates Feature" in Balsamiq:

I think upgrade check should occur at each startup. Only display window if upgrade available and let user select which version they want to upgrade to if there have been several updates since current version. Also have a "check for updates" menu option.

A comment on the idea "Help me design the Linking Mockups Feature" in Balsamiq:

This captures what I was thinking. in Confluence you could just have a new macro to define which file to display, the interactive one or the PNG.
As for the actions, I would like "on click" and "on hover" hover could be useful for menus.
I also agree on the rename of Presentation mode. – Noel, on January 06, 2009 14:03

Noel marked one of Eugene Mirotin's replies in Balsamiq as useful. Eugene Mirotin replied to the idea "Help me design the Linking Mockups Feature".

A comment on the idea "Help me design the Linking Mockups Feature" in Balsamiq:

OK, I was thinking of it differently in my mind. Need to think of the workflow to see how complex this would be. Would this limit you to images on the same page? Probably not, but then if there are 100s of mockups throughout the wiki, how does one easily link the relevant ones.

In my mind I saw a "project" mockup which contained the relevant screens and from which I could create the relationships. – Noel, on December 29, 2008 17:49