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In the MantisBT connector, we often get support requests from users which are hitting repository configuration problems. The repository settings page provides little space in the header display for a longer message, which would include a hyperlink to a wiki page. Also there is no easy way to contribute a link to the page, other than the 'Additional settings' section, which is collapsed by default. I would welcome either the possibility to send HTML content to the message area in the header, or to register an additional Hyperlink , alongside 'Create new account' and 'Change account settings'.
Created attachment 178573 [details] Extremely long message shown to the user.
Agreed that there should be a way to provide more detailed feedback (see bug 276385). Have you considered overriding AbstractRepositorySettingsPage.applyValidatorResult() to show a dialog? You could also add a custom message widget by overriding createAdditionalControls().
1) Yes, I can ( and probably will ) show a dialog, but I'm not entirely happy with that choice. 2) The best I can do in createAdditionalControls() is to place a hyperlink below the Additional Settings section, and it seems quite out of place.
Created attachment 178706 [details] hyperlink placed below the additional settings section
Agreed, that's not optimal. Can you propose an API change that would enable the extensibility you require?
My use case is simple, so I would need nothing more than bc. registerExternalHyperlink(String title, URL destination);
The above refers to AbstractRepositorySettingsPage , of course.
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