Submit button in Directory Studio

[Juergen Weber <we...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I love Apache Directory Studio, it's really a showcase for Java and RCP.

Of course, there is one thing I don't like: all changes are
immediately written through to the server if you leave a text field.

I'd rather have a submit button, I simply feel better if I can review
what I have typed, especially if I edit several attributes at the same
time.

Of course, it should be configurable to have a submit button or not.

Thanks very much for the great software,
Juergen

Re: Submit button in Directory Studio

[Juergen Weber <we...@gmail.com>]

Thanks for considering my suggestion.
I opened DIRSTUDIO-268.

On Jan 21, 2008 9:59 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Juergen Weber wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
>
> Hi Juergen,
> > I love Apache Directory Studio, it's really a showcase for Java and RCP.
> >
> > Of course, there is one thing I don't like: all changes are
> > immediately written through to the server if you leave a text field.
> >
> > I'd rather have a submit button, I simply feel better if I can review
> > what I have typed, especially if I edit several attributes at the same
> > time.
> >
> This is one of the most interesting idea ever ! Can you create a JIRA
> for it so that it does not get buried under the hundreds of mail we
> receive every week ?
>
> Thanks a lot !
>
>
> --
> --
> cordialement, regards,
> Emmanuel Lécharny
> www.iktek.com
> directory.apache.org
>
>
>

Re: Submit button in Directory Studio

[Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>]

Stefan Seelmann wrote:
> One more use case we need such a functionality is when changing the
> objectclass of an entry and the new objectclass has additional required
> attributes.
>
> I have two ideas how to implement it:
>
> 1) a pause + a submit/commit + a rollback button. While paused all
> changes are recorded and on submit they are submitted to the directory
>
> 2) a pop-up dialog like the "New Entry" wizard.
>   
I would like to propose a third idea, quite more complex but also really 
powerfull. We discussed it many times with Pierre-Arnaud and Alex two 
years ago, but it never get done.

What about embedding ADS into Studio? It will bring many advantages :
- direct access to the schema
- as we have some rollback interceptor in ADS, implementing a rollback 
mechanism will be trivial
- you will be able to experiment on real data the impact of some schema 
modification, before injecting the schema to the production server
- you can synchronize with more than one server as soon as ADS has some 
replication mechanism whih can be used to update remote server
- everything you modify will be done offline until you inject the 
changed elements to the production server
- last, ,ot least, you won't lose any modification, as it's local and 
written on disk.

It should not be so complex to implement, IMO.

wdyt ?
> Kind Regards,
> Stefan
>
>
>   


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Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
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Re: Submit button in Directory Studio

[Stefan Seelmann <se...@apache.org>]

Hi Juergen,


Emmanuel Lecharny schrieb:
> Juergen Weber wrote:
>> I'd rather have a submit button, I simply feel better if I can review
>> what I have typed, especially if I edit several attributes at the same
>> time.
>>   
> This is one of the most interesting idea ever ! Can you create a JIRA
> for it so that it does not get buried under the hundreds of mail we
> receive every week ?

Yes Juergen, please create a JIRA.

One more use case we need such a functionality is when changing the
objectclass of an entry and the new objectclass has additional required
attributes.

I have two ideas how to implement it:

1) a pause + a submit/commit + a rollback button. While paused all
changes are recorded and on submit they are submitted to the directory

2) a pop-up dialog like the "New Entry" wizard.

Kind Regards,
Stefan

Re: Submit button in Directory Studio

[Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>]

Juergen Weber wrote:
> Hi,
>   

Hi Juergen,
> I love Apache Directory Studio, it's really a showcase for Java and RCP.
>
> Of course, there is one thing I don't like: all changes are
> immediately written through to the server if you leave a text field.
>
> I'd rather have a submit button, I simply feel better if I can review
> what I have typed, especially if I edit several attributes at the same
> time.
>   
This is one of the most interesting idea ever ! Can you create a JIRA 
for it so that it does not get buried under the hundreds of mail we 
receive every week ?

Thanks a lot !


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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org