Which NI programmer wrote this? Example of poor UI design.

[josborne]

Can someone translate this for me?  I think its written in programmer-speak.

In fact, this whole dialog box is a great example of a poorly designed UI ... to the point that its almost funny.

[ejkaiser]

It says what it says. You may find it funny but it is pretty clear and doesn't need a translation (and I am not an English native speaker).

What do you want to tell us with your post?

There are by far more examples of bad UI design than good ones. That's not specifically interesting, even if it is from an NI programmer. Maybe you can show us a very excellent example from your portfolio ...

I could help to translate it into German if this is the issue?

Cheers

Edgar

[camerond]

I have to agree with ejkaiser, and even though I am a native English speaker, I am not a programmer (or at least I am not trained as one), I am a chemist.

For poor UI design, you just have to look at the Windows box when a program crashes (fortunately, can't remember the exact wording):  "Unexpected fault. Program will shut down now.  [OK]  "    OK? Of course it's not OK! Who are you kidding?

Cameron

[NIquist]

What program is this GUI from?  It seems quite clear to me too.  If you set the indexing schedule to NEVER, you may get faulty search results since items that are not currently indexed will not be included in the search.  It's just a warning that the NEVER INDEX option may bite you so you need to use it carefully.

[pincpanter]

Maybe it's the "for never" that hurts you.

However, it means that data - in order to be retrieved - NEED to be indexed.

So, scheduling the indexing operation for "Never" is not really an option, otherwise your search will eventually return old data.

[crossrulz]

That's the DataFinder configuration window.  I've mucked with that a lot in the last year.  As others have said, the warning is quite clear that you can't retrieve data if it isn't indexed.  What you prefer it look like?

[thoult]

[RavensFan]

The for never part is what makes it sound like a bad English translation.  Since "Never" is an option of the dropdown, the sentence should have highlighted that word as a meaningful option rather than just looking like another ordinary word in the middle of a sentence.  The word should have been highlighted or had quotes about it like this:

A search cannot return data which has not been indexed.  Scheduling index for "Never" could lead to search results which are not up-to-date.

Even the fact that the word "never" shows up on a new line within the dialog makes it that much harder to read.  Since it looks like a regular word in the sentence, and it is broken up onto another line, it is a big stumble in trying to read it.  I had to look at that dialog 3 times, plus have the input of the other replies to realize what the sentence was actually trying to say.

[RTSLVU]

While that is a little ambiguous it is far from the worst grammar I have seen a dialog box.

Here is a good one from Yokogawa's WT-View software that comes with their power analyzers.