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Hi John,

There is still an issue here (which I'm finding ever the more frustrating!!!)

First to note that it applies to the route editing screen of the desk-top view. (I've just acquired a new smartphone so I've become aware of the excellent mobile interface.  I guess posts will need to make it clear which view is being referred to in future?)

I am working with the 'Directions' pane in view and 'Edit This Route' selected.

I have entered enough directions to fill the screen and I'm now needing to scroll the list to see them all.

If I make an edit to one of the directions in the lower part of the list and click 'Save' (or cancel the change with the 'X' at the top-right) the list of directions inexplicitly scrolls to a point near the top of the list which bears no relation to the item I have been editing.  The same thing happens if I do no more than click the camera icon in a direction to see the associated photo and then close the photo.

Thus every edit in the lower part of the directions requires a manual scroll to get back to the point in the list that I was working on!!!!  If the edit was a change, you have helpfully highlighted the direction so at least it is relatively easy to locate. If the edit was the deletion of a direction, there can be no highlight and so the right point in the list now becomes a real pain to find.

Ideally, the direction list just needs to stay where it is, i.e., where I've scrolled it to.  (Could some code still be lurking that is now redundant following your earlier improvements?)

Finally, a second observation in ralation to the Directions pane.  At the top are two buttons: 'Add' and 'Manage'.  Ideally these need to remain in view and thus be easily accessible the whole time while editing directions.  That is, they need to be part of the static frame of the pane and NOT move with the scrolling list of directions.  At the moment, when working towards the bottom of a long list of directions, any adition requires a scroll to the top to click the Add button then, after the new direction has been added, a scroll back to the point in the list that was being worked on.

Apologies for the length of this post.  I think the poroblem will be easy to observe but it's quite complicated to explain!

Martyn

Thanks for this feedback Martyn - it is always helpful to hear about usability issues like this from regular users of the site.  I understand the points you've raised.  I'll see if we can do something to improve this when we next update the route planner.  The Directions are completely refreshed each time you make a change, so we wouldn't simply be able to leave them at their current scroll position - we'd need to rescroll through the list to the correct place after the list has refreshed.  I thought the recent change we made had addressed this but from what you describe we clearly need to take another look at it!

John