[katello-devel] RFE: cut&paste

[Bryan Kearney]

On 09/04/2012 10:23 AM, Jason Rist wrote:
> On 09/04/2012 07:48 AM, Tom McKay wrote:
>> While Katello/Headpin is good at displaying information about items, it can be very difficult to actually accomplish basic tasks.
>>
>> As a user, I would like to select a set of subscriptions from the Subscriptions list and apply them to a system.
>>
>> As a user, I would like to select the subscriptions already applied to one system and apply them to another.
>>
>> As a user, I would like to select a set of subscriptions from either an existing system, activation key, or Subscriptions list and apply them to another object.
>>
>> Right now it is extremely difficult to choose subscriptions with any level of confidence in the system and activation key pages.
>>
>> What I think may work is a cut&paste clipboard where I could select items and paste them to the clipboard, then apply them to other areas of the UI. This would let me, for example, use the rich Subscriptions UI to pick and choose and then switch over to the Systems UI and apply them to a system.
>>
>> I'm not sure how the cut&paste feature would look in the UI. Perhaps hovering over an item would display a button (maybe it looks like the gear icon in the dashboard portlets?).
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
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>
> This is an interesting idea. How would we differentiate between
> different types of data? Would this only be for subscriptions? I could
> see this being useful for other things, but what they add a
> subscription, could they then not add anything else?  This seems like a
> fix for a bad design - is there something we can do to the current
> design to make this easier or add another feature?
>
> -Jason
>
My guess is the main usability issue now is that many of hte 
subscriptions will have the same data:

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