[joshlemer]

Let's say I am currently viewing a piece of sheet music. I take a look at its "Fields" page and see its Setlists, Collections, Composers, Genres, Types, etc. I see its composer is "Bach, Johan Sebastian", and I want to then quickly navigate to the "Bach, Johan Sebastian" library page. 

The only way to do this is to do this process:
1. hit "cancel" in top right
2. go "back" out of the piece I'm viewing
3. select "composers" tab
4. Search/navigate to "Bach, Johan Sebastian"

I think there is room to improve the UX by allowing for the following:

When in the "Edit Fields" page allow user to simply click on the composer, genre, type, collection, setlist, signature, etc, and navigate directly to that group. Perhaps it can be an addition to the long-press action menu, which currently has "Remove" and "Delete".

I think maybe the only tricky thing in that case would be, how to treat "back" in that case, once the user is navigated to the Composer's library page. Currently "back" would always go to "Composers" but in this case I think probably "back" should go back to the piece you navigated from. This allows users to freely explore their library from one piece to an other without fearing losing their place.

[joshlemer]

Maybe a smaller but related UX thing here is that there's no way to quickly see a piece's "metadata" (Title, Setlists, all the rest of the information on the "edit fields" page) without deciding to "edit" it, which is a bit of a heavy handed navigation action (and I don't want to accidentally mess up any information, hence I don't want to go into edit mode), and seeing all this information doesn't necessarily require such a big page either. 

From both the "display piece" page (the page where rendering the single piece's sheet music"), and also in the library page, maybe at a UX level it can be solved by adding an icon in the piece's row somewhere to pop up a little popover showing the metadata, and with working links (as described in this thread's original post). 

Here are some crude mockups..

 

[Zubersoft]

If I made the popup read-only (and only allowed editing in the song editor), then it's not as bad to try to support this. I'd rather support navigating to other tabs on the library screen through this read-only popup. I don't want to support navigating from the song editor back to the library screen to view a particular group because that UI is not designed to be navigated away from without either saving or canceling the changes. That would require far too many changes and would introduce potential issues. One other problem this will introduce is if the user selects they want to navigate to a "Composer", but the composers tab is not enabled in the settings. I will have to add specific handling for this, then ask if the user wants to have the composers tab added, which requires a reload of all the tabs, then I'd have to navigate to the selected composer after the reload is complete. This will require many, many changes, so it's not something I can slip into a small update. 

Mike

[joshlemer]

Hi there!

Yes I agree that if the functionality is supported in read-only popovers, then there's no need to have it in the edit page. 

One approach to a missing "Composers" tab could be to load the Pieces tab with a Composer filter applied. Though, I guess it's possible that the user doesn't even have their "Pieces" tab enabled. 

Maybe, just have a "temporary Composers view" (or, if going with the Pieces + custom temporary filter, have a temporary Pieces view), which is destroyed as soon as the user navigates away from it (by selecting a different tab). Perhaps colour-coded to visually indicate its ephemerality.

[samibe]

I would like this a lot. I think I would prefer an icon next to the bookmarks, metronome, etc. (with similar behavior).
Perhaps missing tabs could be dealt with by not allowing those links to work (have the information visible but gray). Include a note that the tab needs to be enabled in the settings for the links to work.
I think I already have all of the tabs enabled because I use them to help with keeping the metadata clean and organized.

[itsme]

You can either filter the 'Songs' tab by composer or use the 'Composers' tab. If the 'Composers' tab is not shown, activate it via 'Library Settings - Tab Selection and Order'

[joshlemer]

I would like this a lot. I think I would prefer an icon next to the bookmarks, metronome, etc. (with similar behavior).
Perhaps missing tabs could be dealt with by not allowing those links to work (have the information visible but gray). Include a note that the tab needs to be enabled in the settings for the links to work.
I think I already have all of the tabs enabled because I use them to help with keeping the metadata clean and organized.

Oh yes I agree with this suggestion. The icon probably would go better on the bottom. The bottom of the tablet is more easily accessible than the top because you're probably holding the tablet near the bottom, so your thumb can touch the icon more easily. Or if the tablet is sitting on a music stand, the bottom is much closer and more reachable to the player than the top is. 



However, there's also the option of just opening up the pop up by clicking on the title of the piece itself at the top (currently, clicking the title does nothing, so it's available). That has the advantage of not cluttering the screen with more icons than it already has. Both options have pros and cons :-)