[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-19780) Confusing <id> placeholder in Batch Diagram editor

Confusing <id> placeholder in Batch Diagram editor -------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-19780 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-19780 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Enhancement Components: batch Affects Versions: 4.3.0.Beta1 Reporter: Tomáš Milata Assignee: Tomáš Milata Priority: Minor Labels: usability Fix For: 4.3.0.Beta1 Currently, when no id of an element is entered, the "<id>" label is displayed in the node. This caused issues during usability testing. User for some reason thought the "<>" characters have some meaning and edited the value to "<myId>" and then was confused why he sees "&lt" and "&gt" sequences in the XML. Note that sapphire does not have placeholders, so this is just a workaround (when id is null, the <id> text is shown). This approach is has also disadvantage that if user double click the <id> of empty id, presses an arrow and then enter, the whole <id> value originally meant as a placeholder is now the literal value of the property. I suggest keeping the place for label just empty. User can be still notified by a validation marker and the label inline editor is still accessible by double click.