[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-16896) download runtime UI wizards has some weird workflow

[Rob Stryker (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16896?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12956785#comment-12956785 ] 

Rob Stryker commented on JBIDE-16896:
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> C) why can't we do authentication in a progress when clicking next instead of requiring users to manually click validate ?

When 'next' is pressed, the TaskWizard framework requires we already know what the next page is. In this workflow, what the next page is depends on your credentials. If your credentials have signed tc already, then that page is not shown. If your credentials have *not* signed tc yet, then that page is next. 

Since we don't know what the next page is, we can't allow this action to be done on a press of 'next'. 

Furthermore, I actually haven't figured out how to run commands during a "Next..." press in the TaskWizard framework at all, so, there's definitely help-wanted there. 

> D) the license text shown is LGPL license - not $0 subscription (opening separate bug for this)

The license is the LGPL license. The zero dollar subscription terms-and-conditions are on a separate page. You must have a single-sign-on user name that has not yet signed the terms-and-conditions to see that page. Since your username obviously has, that terms-and-conditions page is skipped. 

> F) when clicking finish the dialog returns instantly to JBoss Runtime creation and it tells me the home dir does not exist...why did it not fill it in and let me wait ?

You may be waiting quite a long time. Also, until we have the zip downloaded, we won't know what the actual folder will be.  For example, you download jboss-as-7.1.1.final.zip to /home/user/as711.   We can't just put /home/user/as711 as that'd be wrong. The correct path would be /home/user/as711/jboss-as-7.1.1.final   but we can't know that until we have the zip file downloaded and know what the root folder in the zip is.
                
> download runtime UI wizards has some weird workflow
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>                 Key: JBIDE-16896
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16896
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: server
>            Reporter: Max Rydahl Andersen
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> using download runtime the dialogs gets maxed out dependent on the lenght of the URL it looks like.
> Making the wizard very clumsy to look and work with.
> - the table is just taking up all space - and the url is not useful (can't copy/paste/link it)
> - the table is in a dailog and there is 90% whitespace
> How about 
> A) show the name and description in table
> B) Show the *info* url and if authorization is required enable username/password on the first page instead of requiring a second page for just that ?
> C) why can't we do authentication in a progress when clicking next instead of requiring users to manually click validate ?
> or at least tell the user to validate instead of just blanking out Next and *once* the credentials are valid actually show that isntead of just enabling Next.
> D) the license text shown is LGPL license - not $0 subscription (opening separate bug for this)
> E) the info url for the server is never actually shown in the workflow
> F) when clicking finish the dialog returns instantly to JBoss Runtime creation and  it tells me the home dir does not exist...why did it not fill it in and let me wait ?
> G) It actually creates the server for me in the background *while* im in the server wizard flow....thats just weird.

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