Users and Nodes and Actions... Oh, my!
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1. I have a tree structured UI that displays 'things that can be enabled/disabled' as nodes. You can trigger an action against a node by selecting the action from a 'right-click' menu.

Should I allow the user to select multiple items from this tree to act on at the same time?

I have a tree structured UI that displays 'things that can be enabled/disabled' as nodes. You can trigger an action against a node by selecting the action from a 'right-click' menu. Should I allow the user to select multiple items from this tree to act on at the same time? disable multi-select

allow multi-select

2. If multiple selection of nodes is preferred, how would you deal with following situation:

The user has selected multiple nodes. Some of them are enabled and some are disabled.

If multiple selection of nodes is preferred, how would you deal with following situation: The user has selected multiple nodes. Some of them are enabled and some are disabled. present a single action in the menu, which is disabled.

present a pair of actions which forces all selected nodes to the described state... regardless of initial state

present a pair of actions which are enabled and display an error message when triggered

present a pair of actions (Enable and Disable) which are both disabled

present a single action in the menu which displays an error message when triggered

Other (please specify)

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