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Bug 211518

Summary:

[General designer usability] Removing Formatting from the GUI

Product:

z_Archived

Reporter:

Mark <meraso>

Component:

BIRT

Assignee:

Chen Chao <cchen>

Status:

VERIFIED FIXED

QA Contact:

Maggie Shen <lshen>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

bchanchoke, bluesoldier, rkanguri, wenfeng.fwd, zqian

Version:

2.2.0

Keywords:

plan

Target Milestone:

2.5.0 M5

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Obsolete

Attachments:

Description	Flags
mock up for the solution	none
Restore / Default Properties	none

Description Mark

2007-11-29 16:33:12 EST

There are some formatting buttons in the Property Editor that once applied to an element cannot be removed, such as the font-weight and the text-align buttons. If clicked, the XML is written (i.e. font-weight: bold). If unclicked, the XML is updated (i.e. font-weight: normal). This is an issue if later a style is applied to the element (specifically, a style defined by a CSS file in a libraried theme). The element's specific formatting overrides the style (rightly so), but if you add a style after the fact you would likely wish to remove all formatting from the element, and have it controlled by the style.

The workarounds are to either delete from the XML directly, or to delete the element and add it back to the layout. There should be a method to unset the formatting though. Font-face, font-size, font-color all have an Auto option in the drop down box, which cleanly drops the value from the XML, allowing the style to handle formatting.

Comment 1 Zhiqiang Qian

2007-12-06 22:35:42 EST

We need enhance the UI design to address such issues.

Comment 2 lifeng li

2008-10-02 15:24:37 EDT

Created attachment 114131 [details]
mock up for the solution

Comment 3 lifeng li

2008-10-02 15:25:36 EDT

mock up attached.

Comment 4 Rima Kanguri

2008-11-12 15:49:58 EST

Comment from Zhiqiang
I suggest we use a toolbar button with an icon on the top-right area of the property pane, so this will not affect current property page layout and is more consistent across pages.

I agree with the suggestion. Boonboon will update the mockup

Comment 5 Boonboon Chanchoke

2008-11-12 19:26:22 EST

Created attachment 117729 [details]
Restore / Default Properties

Comment 6 Boonboon Chanchoke

2008-11-12 19:31:56 EST

The mock up has been updated. To reduce confusion between a default properties button and restore library properties, I'd like to suggest the tool tip text on the Restore Properties icon to read "Restore properties from the original library item".

The suggested UI is included on the attachment slide #@.

Comment 7 Rima Kanguri

2009-02-02 18:34:47 EST

Zhiqiang, can this be completed in milestone 5?

Comment 8 Zhiqiang Qian

2009-02-03 01:19:41 EST

(In reply to comment #7)
> Zhiqiang, can this be completed in milestone 5?
> 
We'll try to fit the timeline.

Comment 9 Chen Chao

2009-02-05 01:30:34 EST

Fixed it by the mockup.

Comment 10 Maggie Shen

2009-02-06 05:27:55 EST

verified on build 2.5.0 v20090206-1116.

Comment 11 Rima Kanguri

2009-05-15 13:59:52 EDT

As part of this enhancement a new property called 'locale' is supported for Data Report Item - format category, what this means is user can set locale along with the format for data item