FR: Better toolbar/query button dropdown

hpl123

Hi support,
This is a feature request to add a better toolbar + query button (menu) dropdown solution. The current one is confusing for many users. To clarify, in V7 the toolbar folders + also the query button (menu) dropdown solution have an icon/title followed by a carrot dropdown icon and the user has to click the carrot icon to expand and show the operations in the folder (when pressing icon/title nothing happens) which again is very confusing and very bad UX wise.

I know this is how the Kendo UI toolbar option works BUT I believe there are other ways you could change/improve this:

Change the type i.e look at this demo: http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/toolbar/index . Change so the toolbar dropdowns use the (these are not the actual type names but rather what is displayed in the demo linked to above( "Paragraph" type dropdown instead of the "INSERT" type.
Change so the entire "button" i.e icon + title + carrot icon opens up the dropdown menu.

I hope this can be fixed. Thanks in advance.

BenHayat

You're right Henrik;

I constantly (naturally) click on the wording and not on the down arrow. I really hope Support can adjust this so it will behave like V6 version, which is the norm.

RLJB

I agree it's a very confusing button, ie having to click the carrot to make it drop down. Can't wait for the support tickets about that one... "the button doesn't work"

aware_support

We'll see what we can do. Many requests for this change...

hpl123

Great news, thanks.

IDEALLY if you could do the following when you are looking at this, it would be very welcome 🙂:

Change the toolbar dropdowns so they work like in V6 i.e. press anywhere on the button opens up the list of operations.
Change the in-query dropdown (button in row) so it´s a "true" splitbutton i.e. 1 operation on the visible button and then when pressing the carrot, the list of operations is displayed. Even better would be to have both in-query which would be great i.e. "normal" dropdown (like explained aboe for the toolbars) + splitbutton dropdown option.

Thanks

hpl123

Support,
Any update in this fix? Thanks

aware_support

It's not easy. We will have another crack at it...