Selecting tables from Browser

Hello!

Our team is working on validating a solution for viewing many tables in the
Catalog Browser. We've heard through user interviews that some schemas hold
many tables (over 10000 in some cases) and when expanding tables, the
browser crashes. In cases where people are able to view tables in the
catalog browser, finding the relevant tables requires a lot of
search/scrolling.

We are testing these designs over the next few weeks. In particular we're
looking to validate/invalidate if:
Terry would filter the list of tables before selecting tables
Terry has a curated schema list based on her permissions
Terry needs to reopen the object manager again after making a selection
Terry needs to collapse and expand the list of tables without opening the
object manager
Terry needs to use the object manager once there are at least 20 tables
(Terry is our DBA persona)

Here are the screens:
*01 Open 'Object Manager' by clicking on tables in the browser. (not
attached to 'object manager', open to suggestions)*
[image: 08.png]
*02 Most DBAs tend to know which tables they're working with on a high
level. Here they can filter down the list.*
[image: 09_01b.png]
*03 Alternatively, DBAs can just select the tables they need.*
[image: 09_02.png]

*04 once selected, the tables appear in the browser*
[image: 10.png]

Part of our test is to learn how users expect to re-open the object manager
as well.

Feedback is welcome. We'll consolidate feedback from here with the feedback
we get from user tests and share that out in a few weeks once the sessions
are done.

Shirley & pgAdmin team