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Bug 339937 - [client] [sites] Improve usability for edit-site page
Summary: [client] [sites] Improve usability for edit-site page
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Orion
Classification: ECD
Component: Client (show other bugs)
Version: 0.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 0.2   Edit
Assignee: Mark Macdonald CLA
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Depends on: 339145
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Reported: 2011-03-14 14:51 EDT by Mark Macdonald CLA
Modified: 2011-09-01 11:41 EDT (History)
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Description Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-03-14 14:51:02 EDT 
The edit-site page should be more usable. Ideas:

1. Should give an explanation of what the fields mean, especially the ones in the table.
2. Hitting Add... a few times should get you distinct mountpoints instead of duplicate ones.
3. Need a warning message if you try to browse away from the page without saving changes that you made.
4. Always show the editors in editable cells of the table, to make it obvious that they're editable.
5. Provide a way to visually browse for a subfolder to mount, instead of showing only top-level folders.
Comment 1 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-03-14 14:56:36 EDT 
6. Better validation of entries in the table (for example, a workspace path that doesn't exist, or a bogus "Mount at" value)
Comment 2 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-05-02 10:41:40 EDT 
7. The "Workspace" field should be hidden, since we don't provide a UI for creating more than one workspace right now.
Comment 3 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-05-04 18:25:42 EDT 
8. Hide the project shortnames completely. Make the Target column display the friendly names for projects.

9. Add a "Valid?" column that shows an error icon if the workspace the user entered doesn't exist. This will let you tell at a glance if you've messed up.
Comment 4 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-05-04 18:26:09 EDT 
> 9. Add a "Valid?" column that shows an error icon if the workspace the user
> entered doesn't exist. This will let you tell at a glance if you've messed up.
That should say "workspace path".
Comment 5 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-05-05 13:17:47 EDT 
10. Add a "start/stop" button to the edit-site page
Comment 6 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-05-12 11:38:22 EDT 
(In reply to comment #0)
> 5. Provide a way to visually browse for a subfolder to mount, instead of
> showing only top-level folders.

Depends on Bug 339145
Comment 7 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-05-13 17:39:27 EDT 
11. Make the table expand to fill more of the available screen width.
Comment 8 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-05-18 15:39:33 EDT 
12. Sometimes the bottom of the table is truncated in Firefox after adding lots of entries.
Comment 9 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-05-19 16:28:40 EDT 
13. If you type in one an input field and it loses focus to the mouse, your changes sometimes don't get saved. (not 100% reproducible)