On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
Hi Morgen,
There's a default sharing account out of the box?
Yes, it's a WebDAV sharing account.
Are you asking because you would like to have a WebDAV sharing
account as your default?
No, I would like to be able to create a Chandler Hub Sharing account
(which uses the new morsecode protocol), and have it be the default.
Any time a user has more than one sharing account, they should be
able to choose one to be the default when publishing.
The real problem is that if your default sharing account is not
filled in, you can't publish anything, even though you *have* added
another sharing account that is filled in. Since there is no way to
tell Chandler to make the new account the default, Chandler will
continue to try and use the out-of-the-box default account, which if
not filled in, will prevent you from publishing.
To work around this for now, I added code that does the following:
When you click Ok in the accounts dialog, it will see if your default
account is one that is not filled in. If so, it will look to see if
the user *has* filled in any other sharing accounts, and will
randomly select one to be the new default. This at least gets around
the following scenario people have been running into:
1) Start a new Chandler
2) Create a collection to share
3) Bring up Accounts dialog
4) Create new Chandler Hub Sharing account and fill it in
5) Try to publish the collection
6) Chandler complains that you haven't set up a Sharing account
(because the default sharing account is not filled in)
My workaround prevents #6 from happening because the account created
in #4 will be automatically be the default.
So it just hit me that since your first question was whether there
*was* a default sharing account out of the box, that maybe you don't
really think we *need* the notion of a default account. If that's
the case we need to resolve this because the current account dialog
and sharing code is geared toward having a default account to use.
We *could* get rid of the notion of a default sharing account, but as
someone who has quite a few sharing accounts, I appreciated being
able to select a default from time to time. We either need to
embrace the notion of a default or get rid of it, because at the
moment we're in a state of limbo.
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