28 Sep
2009
28 Sep
'09
5:54 p.m.
On Sep 28, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
Hi,
I thought we agree not to display the office importer menu entry if
the office importer app wasn't installed?
To be consistent we shouldn't have an office import action in the
wysiwyg if the office importer app isn't installed too
Maybe we should not display the entries if the office server is not
started too.
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
No: in this case the admin should remove the
officeimporter app.
The only drawback I see is that until we have an application
manager it's a
bit harder for the Admin to bring the application back after
deleting it
(he
needs to re-install it instead of simply changing a configuration
setting).
But indeed, it's not a big drawback. The admin could also simply
rename the
page.
Since the 3rd option (hide the menu if the application isn't
installed) is
already implemented, I think we can cancel the second part of the
vote.
Asiri, ping me if you need help for the message's wording.
I think we should extend this to display a message in officeimporter
wysiwyg
plugin's file upload tab if the openoffice server is not present.
This is
consistent with what we are going to do for officeimporter
application.
Related JIRA: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XAOFFICE-25
I'm going to implement these changes by tomorrow. Please let me know
if any
of you are against it.
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