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Bug 1194754

Summary: content selection within grid cell(s) is lost upon grid refresh (every 5 seconds by default)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Einav Cohen <ecohen>
Component: ovirt-engine-webadmin-portalAssignee: Nobody <nobody>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Pavel Stehlik <pstehlik>
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Version: 3.6.0CC: ecohen, gklein, lsurette, rbalakri, Rhev-m-bugs, yeylon, ykaul
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Last Closed: 2015-08-02 13:49:28 UTC Type: Bug
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screen-cast: content selection within grid cell lost (twice) upon auto-refresh none

Description Einav Cohen 2015-02-20 16:53:16 UTC
Created attachment 993997 [details]
screen-cast: content selection within grid cell lost (twice) upon auto-refresh

Users would like to be able to copy a grid cell content to clipboard. 
This is currently impossible due to several issue. 

One of the issues is that when selecting text-content within the grid, this selection is lost once the grid is being refreshed (which happens automatically every 5 seconds by default), which would require the user to be very quick with his copying process -> annoying. 

See attached screen-cast for problem demonstration.

Comment 1 Einav Cohen 2015-02-20 16:55:38 UTC
I believe that this behavior is happening due to the re-rendering of the items in the grid (even if nothing has changed) upon refresh; my assumption is that taking care of this issue will be tricky; maybe we can find a more creative way of allowing copying cells content into clipboard (adding UserExperience keyword).

Comment 2 Einav Cohen 2015-03-02 20:03:12 UTC
after discussing with Liz:
It seems that PatternFly is going towards avoiding having right-click menu items; assuming we will adopt this paradigm (as part of adopting PatternFly), we may actually be able to utilize the browser's native right-click menu for copying text from grid-cells. 
which means that we will need to take care of the selection disappearance as documented in this BZ, maybe by making sure that if a grid-cell content remains the same as before the refresh, we will not re-render the cell, or re-render and re-select the contents?
[removed UserExperience Keyword, as this is a technical bug, no UXD involvement is needed here]

Comment 3 Einav Cohen 2015-08-02 13:49:28 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1145182 ***