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UX: Improve support in response to brainstorming#1302

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See commits as they are separate and descriptive

@carlinmack carlinmack changed the title Improve in response to support brainstorming Improve support in response to brainstorming Feb 17, 2026
@carlinmack carlinmack moved this to In review 🔍 in Sprint Q1/2026 Feb 17, 2026
@carlinmack carlinmack changed the title Improve support in response to brainstorming UX: Improve support in response to brainstorming Feb 17, 2026
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let's not merge just yet, need to check if you can still send the support req

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carlinmack commented Feb 17, 2026

I think it's okay, I haven't changed any of the keys for the categories so it should work the same, but when we deploy we should immediately create a test ticket

(For context I get
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and Pablo says that it's due to config/environment vars not being set)

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Only important feedback about the footer, everything else looks great!
Thanks a lot!

{
"key": "file-modification",
"title": "File modification",
"title": "Modify files",
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non-blocking: I'm not convinced that the active wording is making sense, since the field is called "Category" (and not something like "What do you want to do?").

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I changed to active so that we could group alphabetically i.e.

  • record deletion
  • ...
  • user deletion

vs

  • Delete a record
  • Delete account
  • ...

We could also group semantically instead of alphabetically and keep the current titles, however I think "Delete account" is more use friendly than "User deletion" for example. I would be pro changing the label though to "Type of request", "What do you want to do" etc

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I like the "call to action" labels a bit better... I'm not convinced though regarding the sorting.

I think for organization and findability we could

  • group the actions/categories (e.g. "Records", "Account", "Report")
  • add short description text, so that the input field search could match better the target category. E.g. imagine:
Quota increase
---
Ask for additional storage beyond 50GB for your draft upload

matches also terms like "storage", "50GB".

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I agree that this dropdown is not great, and that we should work on improving it to make sure people choose the correct category.

Let's do this iteratively in some future pull requests.

<a href="https://help.zenodo.org/">{{ _('Overview') }}</a>
</li>
<li class="item">
<a href="https://help.zenodo.org/docs/">{{ _('Docs') }}</a>
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The "Docs" link is gone.

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Yep intentional, the docs page is a subset of the overview page

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We should either remove Guides (which is also a subset) or add back Docs.

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+1 for also removing guides

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I'm OK to try to remove guides. (Worst case we can easily bring it back if we think it was useful.)

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For some reason it won't show the 7th commit from my branch in this PR 😭

This section isn't very useful and the information can be found via the
help overview
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okay, ready to merge :)

@ptamarit ptamarit merged commit c13e0f5 into zenodo:master Feb 19, 2026
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