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Bug 197168

Summary:	provide edit context wizard page during attachment process
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Shawn Minto <shawn.minto>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Shawn Minto <shawn.minto>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	robert.elves
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	174658
Bug Blocks:

Description Shawn Minto

2007-07-19 12:32:30 EDT

When attaching a file to a task, the user is presented with the attachment to review before submitting it if Mylyn can display it.  This wizard should also present the user with their current context if they wish to attach it.  This would allow the user to edit the context to remove any proprietary or unneeded information before they attach it to the bug report.

Comment 1 Mik Kersten

2007-07-23 23:34:03 EDT

Makes sense.  As a general rule, whenever providing facilities for attaching a context we should provide a preview.  However, low priority since there is already a straightforward work-around (preview before attaching) and since editing the context within the wizard might make the user think that they are editing a copy.

Comment 2 Mik Kersten

2007-07-23 23:34:25 EDT

Notably, we could provide a facility where they are editing a copy.

Comment 3 Eugene Kuleshov

2007-07-23 23:41:17 EDT

What is still confuses me about the task editors is their dual nature. They do have some offline facilities and yet there are some stuff that is "submit"-based, like attaching things, reassigning as well as few other actions. The problem with those is that you can't undo them or delay submission and they not really resemble the pure editor.

Comment 4 Mik Kersten

2007-07-23 23:48:58 EDT

Yes, that could be part of the root problem here.  For example, if everything was submit based (e.g. we did not allow any submission from a wizard, only the editor itself) we would not need a custom solution for this and could rely on the Context tab.

Setting for 3.0 since this could be one of the drivers for unifying how attachments work with the rest of the task editor lifecycle.

Comment 5 Mik Kersten

2008-05-13 16:48:29 EDT

Shawn: if you're still interested in this, could you consider adding the current page to the wizard?  It should be pretty straightforward as long as you don't try to work around the limitation of bug 174658.

Comment 6 Mik Kersten

2008-06-12 18:59:25 EDT

Tentatively scheduling for 3.1 planning.

Comment 7 Steffen Pingel

2009-01-19 17:59:32 EST

*** Bug 233729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn