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Indicate that tools are deprecated in search results and in the browsing (mosaic) view
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When searching and browsing for tools on Toolhub, it would be extremely helpful if one could see, at a glance, that a certain tool is deprecated. This applies to both the list of search results, and the grid/mosaic view of tools.

One example where this would be very useful: search for 'reconci' on Toolhub. Various of the resulting tools are deprecated but one needs to click and visit each individual one to become aware of that.

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(second and third search result are deprecated tools)

https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/search?q=reconci%2a&ordering=-score&page=1&page_size=12 > here, too, two tools are deprecated, but that's not clear in the grid view.

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• Sandra_Fauconnier_WMSE created this task.Aug 12 2022, 12:23 PM
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@Sandra_Fauconnier_WMSE do you have any suggestions about how this indication of the deprecation flag being set might look in either location (the autocomplete and/or the card view)? It sounds like a good idea to me, but I'm suffering from a lack of imagination when thinking about how this could be made obvious to most users.

• Sandra_Fauconnier_WMSE added a comment.Oct 12 2022, 11:14 AM
In T315077#8148460, @bd808 wrote:

@Sandra_Fauconnier_WMSE do you have any suggestions about how this indication of the deprecation flag being set might look in either location (the autocomplete and/or the card view)? It sounds like a good idea to me, but I'm suffering from a lack of imagination when thinking about how this could be made obvious to most users.

I'm not a UX designer, but I can imagine / think of one simple approach: a differently-colored deprecated tag / chip after the tool name or after its description in a list of search results, or as a line in the card view.

For search I can imagine you'd also allow filtering out deprecated tools in general (e.g. by adding a 'show deprecated tools' filter in addition to the others). As I said, I'm not a UX designer, who could probably come up with better ideas :-)

TBurmeister subscribed.May 13 2025, 4:14 PM

Related task for the filtering of deprecated tools in the Toolhub UI: T277324

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