# PLEASE get rid of the wonky "two click requirement" to change focus

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/please-get-rid-of-the-wonky-two-click-requirement-to-change-focus/2037>\
**Category:** Bugs & Issues\
**Created:** [September 17, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/please-get-rid-of-the-wonky-two-click-requirement-to-change-focus/2037 "2021-09-17T20:28:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matt\_Blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/matt_blais/32/1464_2.png) [@Matt\_Blais](https://community.fibery.io/u/Matt_Blais)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/please-get-rid-of-the-wonky-two-click-requirement-to-change-focus/2037/3 "2021-09-17T22:04:22Z")

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> [@Oshyan](#):
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> make entity views non-modal

I understand the modal dialog pattern.

These Fibery “modals” generally do not adhere to the “_Explicit Save is required, or else closing it cancels all changes_” behavior, and their modal status doesn’t seem to serve any purpose. And sometimes they don’t behave like modals at all – in my above example, _regular_-clicking a Table View cell DOES close the sidebar AND execute the click (which is what I want, only with more consistency).

Modals are a PITA if not actually required. I would much rather have them be active, independent windows/panes – and hopefully that’s where we’re headed with [Multi-panel context-preserving navigation](https://community.fibery.io/t/in-dev-multi-panel-context-preserving-navigation/2003).

Either way, once you’ve accepted that clicking outside the thing dismisses it, it’s not a stretch to dismiss it and activate your click-target in a single operation.

Personally I think the hit to usability (the double-takes of having to click twice) far outweighs the benefit of adhering to a standard modal pattern that that’s not serving any purpose. Innovators create new UI/UX patterns every day, and I’m glad they are, else we’d all be using Windows 3.1 UI.

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