Better previous/next behaviour please

[jamessher]

Hi, I am really keen on the use of hyperlinks to help model readers to find their way around large complex models. This looks like a really good use for hyperlinks.
Ideally when doing this kind of navigation the 'previous' and 'next' buttons should in my opinion operate like browser 'Back' and 'Forward' and they essentially do this. However they only appear to be able to bring the user back/forward through diagrams in the order they were originally visited or opened. If I navigate a bunch of diagrams, causing them to be opened, and then navigate through the diagrams via a different path (via hyperlinks or any other way, eg. select an open diagram tab) the 'previous'/'next' buttons just bring me through in the original open order and not the most recent navigation path.
This appears to greatly reduce the usefulness of the 'previous'/'next' buttons to me since the only effect the buttons have is to scroll back and forward through the opened diagrams in the open order. It is easier to select the diagram tabs if that is what I wanted.

So can the 'previous'/'next' buttons be made to operate in what I believe is the intuitive way ? ie. not simply follow the order in which diagrams have been opened, but follow the order in which diagrams are 'visited'

Thanks
   James

[CapJo]

This behavior would be really better.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

My vote also,

Paolo

[Jan ´Bary´ Glas]

Haven't noticed, but seems reasonable.

[«Midnight»]

IMHO this would be an improvement over the status quo. I'm sure there will be times in a large complex model when we'd miss the 'old way,' but I think they'd be few and far between.

David

[YogaMatt]

I like this suggestion.
I'd like to add to the suggestion with an additional feature, as follows:
Add a Previous and Next button to the Common part of the Toolbox, for all diagrams.
Behavious of Previous and Next? What the user decides i.e. if I want to logically take the model reader through a series of diagrams, I'd do this by setting which diagram is next and previous in the properties of the Previous and Next buttons.
Make sense? I want it, do others? 

[qwerty]

Digger 

This is an almost 10 years old thread. So how high are the chances?

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[YogaMatt]

Hi Qwerty
Maybe it depends on answers to such questions as:

• does the forum relife the post? (yes, as you've proven );
• have things changed since the last time it was raised? (maybe);
• is the suggestion sufficiently clear to entice discussion and development? (I'm hoping it is).

What's your view on the suggestion? Worth pursuit?
Cheers
YM

[qwerty]

Fatalism struck me long ago when it comes to Suggestions and EA. There are so many good suggestions (like this one) which all not have been considered by Sparx (like this one).

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[skiwi]

Its funny how using the Previous button to review posts takes one to more recent posts, and then wraps around to the earliests posts,
which resurface, with strangely relevant ideas for product improvements which are still applicable today.
What (doesn't) goes round, comes round?

[qwerty]

Well, they opened up the old forum again to my surprise. But basically I gave up asking for any forum corrections. There were none in the old forum (until it broke completely) and there will be none for this forum. I mentioned this wrapping in another thread (at least I seem to remember). At least there is a forum at all. Should I mention that the prev/next is very, very tiny?

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