Hi Hussein, My RFE for a Cancel button was to cover what I see (and have seen since 3.6.2) as a deficiency in the product whereby there is no way to launch a webstart session using the "-open" parameter and not force the user to open a copy of a locked file that they will not be able to save. Between the new Cancel button and the support for "-read" in 4.5.2, I no longer see that as a problem. And thanks again, BTW :-)
But the OpenedDocumentTab request has more to do with what the user sees and can do *after a file is opened*. Consider the user launching webstart with the "-read" option. Perhaps the reason they get to "-read" and not to "-open" is because they don't have rights to lock a file on the server. When they stumble across this command on the tab and click it (as they surely will), they'll get a nasty permissions warning. Better for them not to see the command at all. Plus, it seems inconsistent to me that the gui file lets you hide virtually every command and menu in the interface, but something as powerful as toggling Read Only (which amounts to toggling LOCK/UNLOCK on a WebDAV server) cannot be hidden or disabled. You're right that this latest request is related to the same general use case as the previous two. But it's still a legitimate usability and configurability issue, IMO. Thanks for listening. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 11:42 PM To: Mark Fletcher Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] Request For Enhancement: doc tab commands Mark Fletcher wrote: > Please provide a way (via Options, gui file, xxe file, > OpenedDocumentHook, etc.) to define what/whether commands appear on the > OpenedDocTab object. Use case is that in a custom restricted gui users > may not have authority to lock the current document, making the "Read > Only Document" command confusing or error prone. > Sorry but we are not convinced that what you describe is a big problem. Therefore we do not plan to implement this feature. If you really want to have this feature in future version of XXE, then please consider to sponsor its implementation. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/customization_service.html Mark Fletcher wrote: > Please display a Cancel button on the dialog that warns you that a file you are trying to open has been locked by another user. There is currently no way to cancel the transaction and prevent the file from opening after the warning. Remember that you already sent us a feature request directly related to your above problem a couple of days ago and that we have implemented it. It seems that you have now discovered that your first RFE was not sufficient for your use case. Given what happened, who tell us that in the future, you'll not find that the above RFE, the *second* one related to the same problem, is not also insufficient for your use case?
