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