Add "Select All/Deselect All" checkbox to sidebar about chaise HOT 7 CLOSED

A preliminary Google says the URL limit is basically at 2000 characters... http://stackoverflow.com/a/417184/3581097

... which I think would be broken if we selected all.

from chaise.

It’s really just implementation dependent. Notice the comment that says Chrome handles 20,000+ character URLs. And that’s just the browser side of the equation.

from chaise.

Aside from the question of technical feasibility, there's also a question of utility. I don't recall that we have user test data to support a "Select All/Deselect All" checkbox, but I defer to @crisaless to affirm/negate that.

What exactly should a Select All and Deselect All do?

from chaise.

The select-all/deselect-all is a crutch to deal with overly large checkbox lists or to express other constraint concepts. Consider the cases approaching the limits:

1. Select all: every possible value matches the facet, which makes it equivalent to a column-is-not-null constraint.
2. Select all then deselect a few: equivalent to not-null AND not-equal one of those few deselected values.
3. Deselect all then select a few: matches a few (our normal use case), adding a short-cut for delete chicklet, edit facet over again
4. Deselect all is a weird UX corner case which could mean either of:
   • Column-is-null constraint?
   • Facet deactivated, no constraint at all?

I wonder whether the UX should address different scenarios with different constraint forms rather than trying to cram such pathological cases into a checkbox list.

from chaise.

@howdyjessie I think this is still a good task to keep around and decide on how we want to solve it. But maybe we should un-schedule it from the Sept Sprint.

from chaise.

@robes I put it under the nebulous Oct Sprint milestone for now 👍

from chaise.

We need to revisit this later. There may be a different approach.

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