[katello-devel] restructured navigation questions

[Tom McKay]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyle Baker" <kybaker at redhat.com>
> To: "Tom McKay" <thomasmckay at redhat.com>
> Cc: katello-devel at redhat.com, katello at lists.fedorahosted.org, "Malini Rao" <mrao at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 5:33:11 PM
> Subject: Re: restructured navigation questions
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Attached screenshot of proposed new menu navigation.
> > 
> > 1. There isn't a landing menu item for Subscriptions under
> > Subscriptions, just Activation Keys and Import History. While I
> > understand that clicking the second level navigation,
> > Subscriptions,
> > brings you to the default landing page, shouldn't that default
> > still
> > be in the third level nav?
> 
> Yeah good catch. We could have the Third level label be
> 'Subscriptions List'.
> 
> > 
> > 2. Currently we have Content Providers with sub nav of Red Hat and
> > Custom; is Subscriptions meant to incorporate both?
> 
> No, In 1.0 you will find a list of subscriptions under Organizations
> and under Red Hat Provider. Breaking Subscriptions out is meant to
> eliminate the ambiguity and redundancy. Under Repositories you now
> have 'Custom Repos' and 'Red Hat Repos' which is the same content as
> providers with the exception of 'Red Hat Repos' which should no
> longer have a list of subs or an import history tab. These now have
> the label of repos because that is what they contain. We are sill
> mirroring content we are just doing it in multiple places and are
> more specific with nav labels. Users now have one place to see all
> Subs available in that environment which is under 'Subscriptions' in
> a nice new tu-payne.

This is still not clear to me. Is the current two-pane under "Content Providers > Custom Content Providers" now going to be under "Repositories > Custom Repositories"?

> 
> > 
> > 3. The current flow for Custom Provider is to create the provider,
> > create products, and then finally add repos; what is the suggested
> > new flow?
> 
> For the current 'Custom Provider' everything is done exactly the same
> just the label changed and its position in the nav. For 'Red Hat
> Provider' we have now eliminated the subscriptions from this page
> and condensed it into one list under subscriptions. The process is
> still the same here is well except you now import from the
> subscription page. This is why the nav is reorganized this why to
> imply the workflow you outlined.
> 
> 1- Import Subs
> 2- Enable Repos(Could add gpgs here or filter packages)
> 3- Sync down content
> 4- Content Search (Browser) - Find Content, Add to Sys
> template/Changeset
> 5- Manage Sys template/Add to change set
> 6- Manage Changeset/Promote to next environment
>