Discussion: UX flow for adding terms acceptance step to compendia download page

[nozomione]

Context

Currently, there are no mechanisms in place to ensure that users have accepted the terms before downloading files from the compendia download page. As a result, the page is unable to fetch the download URL and causes an infinite loading loop, as there is no option for users to accept the terms in the UI.

While this may happen rarely, it would be beneficial to provide users with a way to accept the terms in scenarios such as:

• A user shares a download page link after downloading the compendium
• A user accesses a saved download page link at a later time from a different machine/browser

e.g. ) The download page for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae compendium (/compendia/normalized/download/SACCHAROMYCES_CEREVISIAE):

We temporarily implemented a fix that redirects users when no valid token, but the UX flow could be improved.

Problem or idea

To address this issue, we suggest adding one of the following solutions to the UX flow:

• Option 1: Display a different UI screen on the download page prompting users to accept the terms before proceeding with the file download (e.g., With a message "Before download the ORGANISM_NAME compendium, you must...", along with a chekbox for terms and a submit button)

• Option 2: Redirect users to the selected compendia tab with a pre-populated compendium in a dropdown, and prompts them to accept the terms before proceeding

Solution or next step

We'd love to hear your feedback on these suggestions as well as any other ideas you might have. Your insights would be really valuable in refining the UI/UX. Thank you, Deepa!

Tagging @dvenprasad and @davidsmejia for further discussion.

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[dvenprasad]

The first option sounds good to me. It is in line with pattern we follow for dataset download. Here's the t&c page.

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