Vendor Licensing - Usability - Suggestions

[Harry]

I would like to point to a few design issues which make the use of the vendor licensing management more difficult.

(1) Date format

In NinjaTrader 7 start and expiry of a customer license were shown as date in local time format. This was pretty convenient. With NinjaTrader 8 date are shown in US format and 12:00 00 AM is added to all dates.

If I enter a license start date for today

-> NinjaTrader 7 display 03.08.2016
-> NinjaTrader 8 displays 8/3/2016 12:00:00 AM

This is completely confusing, as nobody (except for Americans) can read this strange format with inverted days and months. Logically you would either start with the year or with the day, but not in the middle. Adding 12:00:00 AM to every single date does not make sense either. You cannot set any license to start in the middle of the day .. and this is definitely not necessary.

By the way when edit a license start and end date are shown in local time format as for NinjaTrader 7. It is inconsistent to use two different time formats on the same screen.


(2) Location of add / edit and remove button

NinjaTrader 7 had those buttons in the top left corner. They were easily readible. Now there are minuscule buttons in the lower right corner. This is not were you search for them. When you open a menu you expect all importants things to be located in the top and not in the bottom of the page. When you open the vendor licensing module, in 95% of all cases you are not going to create a new module, but a new customer license or modify a customer license.

Therefore these buttons should be in the top of the page and not in the lower right corner.

(3) License modification has been complicated.

In the past with NinjaTrader 7 to modify a license you would

-> sort the user names
-> scroll to the customer name
-> select the license
-> enter the modification in the top left
-> update the license

Now with NinjaTrader 8 you need to

-> sort the user names
-> scroll to the customer name
-> select the license
-> edit the license
-> enter the modification in the popup menu
-> select the OK button to update the license

A 5-step process has become a 6-step process.

(4) Visual design, distance between legend and box.

It would be preferable to have the legend closer to the boxes, such that each term can be associated with its box.

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello Harry,

Thank you for the detailed observation on the platform, we do appreciate the feedback on these type of items.

I have copied this information and forwarded this to development as feature requests. If I need any further clarification on any of these items, I will reply back here.

I look forward to being of further assistance.

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Thanks Harry for the feedback.

Always appreciated.

2,3,4 are consistent with the rest of the app. We really needed to modify the whole app to change that.

1 though seems not expected, I will check into that tomorrow.

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

1 will be resolved in next release. Thanks for bringing it up.

-Brett

[koganam]

Thanks Harry for the feedback.

Always appreciated.

2,3,4 are consistent with the rest of the app. We really needed to modify the whole app to change that.

1 though seems not expected, I will check into that tomorrow.

On 2 & 4, just curious, but are user elements not simply placed with xaml? In which case, is it not a relatively simple matter to rearrange their placement?

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

Technically simple but our design guidelines are in play here. In that we always have action buttons in the bottom right hand corner for example. It matches the rest of the app.