On Sep 28, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote: > Hi, > > >> My suggestion was about file upload tab inside officeimporter wysiwyg >>> dialog, which requires openoffice server to function. >> >> Yes, my question was: why have this tab enabled when the openoffice >> server is not started? >> > > Yes, we can either: > > 1. Completely hide the file upload tab if the openoffice server is not > present. > > 2. Display a "teaser" message in the file upload tab saying "This > functionality requires ....". > > I thought (2) was more consistent with what we are going to do for > officeimporter application UI (display a message saying openoffice > server is > not started etc.)
Well we're not doing this right now for the office importer UI.... I reported it in jira AFAIR. Right now the top level menu entry is always present and if you click on it you have the form available to upload a file even if the server is not ready. -Vincent > > Thanks. > > - Asiri > > >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>>> Maybe we should not display the entries if the office server is not >>>> started too. >>>> >>> >>> I think you are referring to officeimporter xwiki-ui behaviour, this >>> we have >>> voted and finalized. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> - Asiri >>> >>> >>>> >>>> WDYT? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -Vincent >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> - Asiri >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Guillaume >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>>> -Vincent >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thus I think the user doesn't have to know that the feature >>>>>>>> exists >>>>>>>> if the >>>>>>>> administrator has not activated it. The question then becomes: >>>>>>>> how >>>>>>>> does the >>>>>>>> administrator knows that the feature exists? I can see 2 >>>>>>>> options: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> - Make the check be: "if the user isn't an admin & the server >>>>>>>> isn't >>>>>>>> running" so that admins know about the feature >>>>>>>> - Keep the check as it is and assume that admins that want to >>>>>>>> make >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> OOo server work will find out how since it's an often requested >>>>>>>> feature >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'd like to add a new behavior though (if it's not already >>>>>>>> done): >>>>>>>>> - if the office importer app is not installed (we can test for >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> main office importer page availability) then the menu entry >>>>>>>>> shouldn't >>>>>>>>> appear. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The OOo app comes bundled by default with XE. It's always there >>>>>>>> by >>>>>>>> default. >>>>>>>> This option doesn't solve the user expectation issue. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Guillaume _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
