When opening a document object, there's a color coded icon shown next to the document number (white, blue, orange, green, red, dark blue), which represents the current state of the document (Planned, Draft, Changing, Current, Historic, Locked). Why not have that same icon and its color code shown directly in the search results?
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What underlying problem is this idea trying to solve?
This would accelerate immensely the search results for the user by seeing very quickly which document the user is looking for (in the case where multiple revisions exist and the user doesn't have a Filter option chosen) or when a user wants to put a drawing in a change request, the user would see at a glance and without opening the document, which documents are already in a change request with the orange icon (Changing state). |
A functionality the shows when containers are empty or populated would also be very helpful. When searching it is very frustrating to find a load of documents that are placeholders for documents and turn out to be empty. A traffic light marker to show Red = Empty, Green = container populated would be very helpful.