Findability

Not clear how to control the front page

criticality: 
Moderate
Drupal7: 
Open

It is not clear how to configure the front page display (e.g. single/multiple nodes, number of nodes, etc.).

Expected to Be Able to Configure Modules from admin/build/modules

criticality: 
Critical
Drupal7: 
Open
Task: 
This happened to: 

User suggested or expected a way to configure modules directly from the modules page.

Enable box is hard to find

criticality: 
Moderate
Drupal7: 
Open
Task: 
This happened to: 

When you are looking at selecting a new theme or finding out which one is enabled, it is hard to find out which one is selected.

Node add form doesnt have all configuration

criticality: 
Moderate
Drupal7: 
Open
This happened to: 

Users go to the node/add or node/edit form to configure aspects of node forms, like content type settings or taxonomies.

Solution: 
We should have text/links to indicate where these settings really can be configured.

Users expect listings of content

criticality: 
Moderate
Drupal7: 
Open
This happened to: 

Users expect listings of content types. We provide users with listings for taxonomy terms, menus, blocks, content types, and many other things. However, we do not provide users with listings for things like Articles and Pages.

Solution: 
Views in core.

User expects preview to include menu item

criticality: 
Minor
Drupal7: 
Open

When setting up the menu items, users add a menu item to a menu, then click the Preview button. They then really expected the menu item to show up in the menus during the preview.

Users want to know where content lives while adding

criticality: 
Moderate
Drupal7: 
Open
This happened to: 

User expected to know where content would show up while adding it - i.e., didn't want to add something and sort out navigation to it later. This was an expectation from other CMSes - i.e. browse to a folder and add content to it.

Pages orphaned by default

criticality: 
Critical
Drupal7: 
Open
This happened to: 

By default, page content is 'orphaned' after creation. Users cannot find it (outside of admin/content/node - which isn't part of 'the site'). This also happens with new content types.

Users do not expect theme menus appear automatically

criticality: 
Minor
Drupal7: 
Open
This happened to: 

When placing items in the Main menu (with the current hide the Navigation patch), users expect that the menu item will appear in the only menu they see, the Navigation menu. Users don't know where this new menu will appear.

Admin section not sorted by importance

criticality: 
Critical
Drupal7: 
Fixed
This happened to: 

User expected "Content" to be the first item under "Content management", but instead "Comments" were first, even though Content was much more important.

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