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When exporting designs, if a user cancels during the format selection, the current workflow closes all export windows and forces them to start over from the beginning. Instead, keeping the user on the export window after canceling would improve efficiency and convenience. This approach would allow users to quickly select another format without re-navigating the file menu, aligning with user-friendly practices.

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5 hours ago, AtiDeziner said:

 if a user cancels during the format selection, the current workflow closes all export windows and forces them to start over from the beginning.

What do you mean by canceling the format selection? The selection of the format to export is done in a drop-down menu, so I don't understand how this selection should be canceled and which export windows should be closed.

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Select format --->    Then click on Export Button --->   when windows open to select folder where you save the file , and you suddenly you remember that I choose wrong format or want to change the format , you click on cancel so after cancel you go back on artwork screen but I am saying if you cancel the button they go back to on export option , if we save so its save but if cancel then its gone to back screen of export.

 

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Thanks for the clarification - I really didn't understand the relation for "cancels during the format selection" and "select folder where you save the file".

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I think the confusion here might stem from when you said “if a user cancels during the format selection” (my emphasis) when it would have been better to say “after the user has pressed the Export button and they then press the Cancel button” which is a different thing, as format selection is done before pressing the Export button.

Confusion aside, I agree that it would be good to go back to the Export Dialog if the user presses the Cancel button in the file selection dialog so that they don’t have to open the Export Dialog again.

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3 hours ago, GarryP said:

it would be good to go back to the Export Dialog if the user presses the Cancel button

But what if the user really does want to cancel the whole export process? I have to click Cancel twice?

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2 hours ago, prophet said:

But what if the user really does want to cancel the whole export process? I have to click Cancel twice?

The Cancel button when selecting a directory for export is used to interrupt the export process, not to repeat the format selection.
Cancel should simply be understood as cancel. If you want to return to the format selection, or make any adjustments to the export parameters, the dialog would have to be added with a "Back" button.

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11 hours ago, prophet said:

But what if the user really does want to cancel the whole export process? I have to click Cancel twice?

User experience --> how many clicks ... if wanna change format or repeat all practice.

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15 hours ago, prophet said:

But what if the user really does want to cancel the whole export process? I have to click Cancel twice?

Given the very small number of times that I go to export, make sure that my settings are correct, and get to the point where I’m selecting a location and then completely change my mind about exporting in the first place, I don’t see one extra click on those occasions to be too much extra hassle, especially if it means that I can go back to tweak the settings which I do way more often than cancelling altogether.

However, a “Back” button, as suggested by Pšenda, would be an acceptable alternative.

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57 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Given the very small number of times that I go to export, make sure that my settings are correct

However, when selecting a directory, you won't discover that the "parameters" of your export are incorrect - you'll only find out after performing the export after analyzing it in reverse, when you discover, for example, that you forgot to change the export scope because Affinity stubbornly promotes its settings there. In this dialog, if you happen to notice an incorrect file extension, you can only register a completely incorrect export format. And honestly - how often does this situation, i.e. changing the format due to an incorrect file extension, happen to you? At least to me, because in the vast majority of cases I always export to the same formats in individual applications. And if I happen to make a mistake, ESC and Ctrl+E to return to selecting a different format are not considered such a big problem.

 

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

However, a “Back” button, as suggested by Pšenda, would be an acceptable alternative.

For these purposes (directory selection), Serif correctly uses the standard OS dialogs, so any major modifications to them, adding buttons and responses to their pressing, will probably be a problem.

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I’m not quite sure what you mean by your first paragraph so I won’t ask about it further as I was only trying to answer prophet’s question about having to clicking twice, from my point of view.

14 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

For these purposes (directory selection), Serif correctly uses the standard OS dialogs, so any major modifications to them, adding buttons and responses to their pressing, will probably be a problem.

I don’t see why it would be a problem, or who it would be a problem for, but I’m not really bothered about it.

As long as we can go back to the Export Dialog after pressing the Export button then I’m pretty much fine with whatever happens (as long as it’s less of a chore than having to open the Export Dialog again, which is what this thread is about).

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