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FEATURE: Confirmation before destructive actions

Open tillprochaska opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Before actually deleting data (investigations, network diagrams, entities, …) via the UI, we display a confirmation dialog like this:

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We see confirmation dialogs like this so often that we’re trained to simply click through them without actually reading and understanding what they’re trying to tell us.

Describe the solution you'd like A pattern that has stopped me from accidentally deleting data in the past is to request the user to type in the name of the thing they’re about to delete before you can continue.

It ensures that users know what data they’re about to delete, and it might also make them read any additional information in the dialog.

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tillprochaska avatar Jun 16 '22 09:06 tillprochaska