In depictions selection screen, suggest recently selected items

[nicolas-raoul]

For now, the depictions selection screen does not show anything when no search string is entered.
Instead, it would be good if it could suggest:

• Items that were selected during previous uploads.

This feature exists in the category selection activity, so that activity can be studied for inspiration.

[johnnyrev]

Can it be assigned to me?

[johnnyrev]

If I get it straight, this is for step 2 of "upload" search. If so, you want the items shown with checkboxes, as they are in step 3, or with their depictions and descriptions?

[nicolas-raoul]

Yes, this screen:

It should show for instance the last 10 chosen items. If possible implement like done in categories, for consistency. Thanks!

[macgills]

This functionality has been broken for contributions since 13/06/19, partially fixed in #3650

If somebody could tell me what

    private boolean hasDirectCategories() {
        return !directKvStore.getString("Category", "").equals("");
    }

a "direct category" is then that would help, as far as I can tell nobody ever writes anything to this preference. @maskaravivek

@johnnyrev a new Room Dao will have to be added so that when a user selects a depiction we save that to the database. When search term is empty we, if following the example of category model, would take the 25 most recently selected from the database to show them in a list.

There is however a lingering question of precedence for me, do we show items from nearby locations first here or recently selected items first. @nicolas-raoul

[nicolas-raoul]

My guess would be that "direct" was related to campaigns, and thus can be removed as the campaigns feature was removed years ago.

I would put nearby items before recent items.

[macgills]

@nicolas-raoul apologies for going off topic here but campaigns have been removed?

This is only on beta but it looks like the feature is still very much there. Can we remove it? @misaochan

[nicolas-raoul]

Sorry I was referring to a different feature which tagged all uploads using a particular category such as "Wiki Loves Earth 2011" The campaign message is to be kept 🙂

[macgills]

Thanks for the info @nicolas-raoul

@johnnyrev are you still working on this? I have availability as I think I have already commented on another of your tickets

[johnnyrev]

@macgills Actually me and @dafnith have started working on that and we want to totally reproduce it. Thanks for asking, but we can’t give it away!

[sivaraam]

@johnnyrev It's good to know that you and @dafnith are working on this. I just wanted to let you know that in case you feel stuck somewhere, feel free to ask for help here :)

[johnnyrev]

@sivaraam Thanks a lot, we appreciate it!