[katello-devel] RFE: cut&paste

[Malini Rao]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Rist" <jrist at redhat.com>
To: katello-devel at redhat.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 10:23:28 AM
Subject: Re: [katello-devel] RFE: cut&paste

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?


+ 1 about not creating a quick fix for a design that doesn't take all use cases into consideration. Not discounting the idea or the thought process but I think traditionally cut and paste works well on adding and removing content in a list or folder but here, the requirement seems to be the ability to define and remember user-defined scope for a set of actions - so you are not pasting what you copied but just using it as the scope for the action you are about to take. It may mean just cross linking possible actions that are now possible in certain areas of the product in other areas of the product as well. So may be it calls for a way to display the primary actions and other possible related actions in any given context. Kyle and I will give this some more thought and share for discussion/ feedback.

Thanks
Malini 

> -Jason

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