Bug 116962 - Authoring kit details panel on CT page confusing / not for admin
Summary: Authoring kit details panel on CT page confusing / not for admin
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise CMS
Classification: Retired
Component: ui
Version: nightly
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Berrangé
QA Contact: Jon Orris
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Depends On:
Blocks: 113496
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-02-26 21:41 UTC by Richard Li
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:03 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-03-05 19:37:55 UTC
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Description Richard Li 2004-02-26 21:41:43 UTC
Description of problem:

The authoring kit details panel is:

a) extremely confusing (full of random class names)
b) fragile (there's no validation on component name, for example, so
if you create an invalid component, it gets saved, and you are unable
to author any Content item because the authoring kit wizard
instantiates all authoring kit components)

Solution:

I propose that we remove this panel altogether. IIRC, this was
actually an early APLAWS fork. I'm not sure why it's back in. Dan, can
you comment?

Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2004-02-27 10:42:46 UTC
Yeah it was a temporary hack because there was no way to add generic
assets to all authnoring kits. Since i created the
'ContentAssetInitializer' concept its basically redundant & dangerous.
I also think it will break CMS because it doesn't refresh the item.jsp
page to include the components. I had thought about making its
visibiloity a config option (bug 116148), but I think we'll be safer
removing it altogether.

Comment 2 Richard Li 2004-02-27 13:58:15 UTC
removed @40839


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