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Build Identifier: Under 'Plugin Settings' page of a project descriptor (tigerstripe.xml file), user should be warned if there are no deployed plugins. There should be a blurb indicating that "There are no deployed plug-ins and nothing can be generated for this model unless a plugin is deployed. To create a new Tigerstripe Plugin Project, click on File > New > Tigerstripe Plugin Project." It would even be better if user was provided a link to create a new plugin project. Clicking on the link would start the new plugin project wizard. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 177789 [details] Project Descriptor Right now, this is what the user sees if there are no deployed plugins. This is really confusing...I would even take out "Click here to change the generation settings for this project." if there are no deployed plugins. There is no point of changing generating settings when there are no plugins to generate code from.
Dan, can you please take a look whenever you get a chance? Thanks!
Why do you think it is a bad idea for them to be able to change the settings without any deployed plug-ins? I would say putting a link to create a new project if they don't have one is a good idea, but looking at the settings they don't seem to be specific to any specific plug-in. Maybe I just don't understand the interworkings enough to know if it creates a problem though. Any idea how I might go about figuring out if there are any deployed plug-ins?
(In reply to comment #3) > Why do you think it is a bad idea for them to be able to change the settings > without any deployed plug-ins? It's not a bad idea. I just don't think anyone would do this before creating and deploying a plugin. That message really confused me when I saw it for the first time. I didn't have any deployed plugins and naturally (since it's the only thing appearing on the page) I clicked on the link. I'm OK with leaving this message in there, as long as the blurb warning the user about not having any deployed plugins appears before it. > Any idea how I might go about figuring out if there are any deployed plug-ins? Look at the implementation for the 'Deployed Generators...' action listed under Tigerstripe menu: PluginManager mgr = PluginManager.getManager(); List<PluggableHousing> pluggableHousings = mgr.getRegisteredPluggableHousings();
This is a VERY rare case... I think we have mor eimportantissues to fix than this.
(In reply to comment #5) > This is a VERY rare case... > > I think we have mor eimportantissues to fix than this. All new users following the Tigerstripe tutorial posted on the Wiki will run into this problem. I ran into it myself as well. I'm in the process of updating/modifying the tutorials right now, but I don't think this is such a rare case for a new Tigerstripe users!
Created attachment 178188 [details] patch_324034 Can not figure out how to launch the wizard from a link easily. But at least informs the user of what they should do. Changed GenerationPrefSection.java
Patch reviewed and submitted. Thanks!
Created attachment 178859 [details] patch_324034.txt Hey sorry Navid, last week I found a way to launch the new project wizard through a link, but was on the caltrain and couldn't submit it. I meant to do this yesterday but forgot. Here is the revised patch. Class changed: GenerationPrefSection.java
Sweet! :-) I've applied the updated patch. Saw your comment about searching for the wizard id as opposed to hard-coding it. I don't think it's necessary (or worth it) so no need to worry about it.
