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Matthew Wright edited this page Jan 23, 2019 · 19 revisions

Below are screenshots with numbered component(s) of the interface and descriptions of what they are and a quick snippet of what it does. If the result is visual, an image included below the description.

Managed Groups Section

This is the section that will be opened up when first opening the application.

First opening window

  1. Tabbed sections. You'll use these to get between searching comments, managing groups, and searching YouTube for content to add to groups.
  2. Settings. This opens the settings overlay where you can customize some things, sign into YouTube accounts to use for replying with, and maintenance of the database.

  1. Select a group to manage or create a new one to manage. Creating a group will open a modal.

  1. Rename the selected group. This enabled editing on the name field, press Enter or the X when done to save.

  1. Refresh the group. This is how you start downloading comments and videos in the group. Clicking the refresh button will open a modal where you can continue to start the refresh or cancel.

  1. Reload group information. This reloads the content displayed in 5, 8, and 9. This will automatically be trigger after a refresh.

  2. Delete this group entirely. Clicking this will open a warning modal to confirm that you really want to delete the group.

  1. GroupItems list. This will be a list of channel(s), playlist(s), and/or video(s).

Search Comments Section

  1. Video context sidebar. When you click on a comment, this context section will load the video thumbnail, views, likes, dislikes, description, and video author. Note: 11 will collapse/expand this section. You can click on the author profile icon or video thumbnail to open them respectively in your browser.

  2. Comments list. This list is determined by your search criteria in 3, 4, 5(, and 9/10).

  3. Select the group and it's group items.

  4. Select a video. This opens a modal that allows you to search and select a specific video the list comments from.

  1. Comment search criteria.

  2. Comment author. You can click this to open the comment author's profile in your browser.

  3. Show more / Reply. This opens the comment modal. Show more opens the collapsed version, Reply in the expanded form. When signed into an account, the Reply section allows you to select and account and even open your comment in the browser when sent.

  1. View comment thread. This will list the parent comment and all replies under it in the comments list (2). This will also change the bottom to have a 'Back to Results' button to go back where you came from.

  1. Pagination controls. Go to the first page, back a page, forward a page, to the last page.

  2. Custom page. Click in this field and enter a number between 1 and the max page count to the right of it. This is easier to get anywhere in the results list.

  3. Context sidebar toggle. Collapses and expands the video context sidebar.

  4. Query sidebar toggle. Collapses and expands the query sidebar.

Search YouTube Section

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