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As a point of UI Feedback, our work laptops seemingly struggle to render the CDF UI in some cases.

 

This makes resizing the Preview with the Vertical Slider which separates the list of files from the preview window, sometimes laggy and difficult to work with.

 

In effort of eliminating user friction to viewing documents in the fullest way possible, I’d like to be able to double-click the vertical slider and have it store the position it was clicked in for returning to that spot, but then move all the way to the leftmost portion of the screen, covering even the data explorer dataset filter windows on the left.

For bonus points this action would also enact the button between the zoom in and out buttons on the bottom right of the preview - the one that looks like a refresh icon, to maximize the preview in the newly sized window.

 

Obviously this can be achieved by dragging the bar manually to the side, but doing so performs extremely poorly on a seemingly newer Microsoft Surface Laptop with 16 GB of RAM.

 

In all cases when the Cognite team demos these features on Macbooks, they work fine, but I think more work could be put into supporting Windows users who in many cases only have onboard video rendering hardware, which does not perform on-par with the Apple Silicon chips that help share rendering workloads on Macs.

Hi @Jesse Jenken !
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback and suggestions. How is the experience in your view when you test the Search application for data exploration? We have tried to improve the user experience there, as Search will take over from Data Explorer eventually.

Best, 

Sofie, Product Manager


Hi @Sofie Svartdal Berge,

 

Thanks for that.  It appears the search view has been updated and is no longer showing the Tree ID’s in the tree view.

 

It appears the vertical sliding bar is not appearing on the search results, removing the ability to resize the right windows.

 

This may be fine, but in some cases we’re looking to make more information appear and the slider assisted.