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

[Tomáš Milata (JIRA)]

Tomáš Milata created JBIDE-19780:
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             Summary: 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


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.



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