[Registry-dev] Aspects UI

[Paul Fremantle]

I think it might be useful to explain the concept a bit more. I'd also 
like to see the Heading retain the word lifecycle. How about

"Lifecycles and Aspects"

I know this is less "pure" but since the main point at this stage is to 
support lifecycle we need to make it clear.

Here is my attempt to explain this, and correct me if I'm wrong:

* An aspect is just simply a way of associating a combination of some 
state and an action with a resource.
* So a lifecycle is a state e.g. {created, tested, deployed, deprecated} 
together with one or more actions {demote, promote}

I think we need to display the "state" next to the aspect. In other 
words, at the moment the lifecycle state is independently displayed in 
the properties. But of course this isn't necessarily clear.

Secondly, I'd like the default lifecycle handler to pick its states from 
a file (or better still from somewhere in the registry), so that a user 
can edit them for his/her own company model. I also think it needs more 
than just "promote". Maybe "promote" and "reset".

Paul

Glen Daniels wrote:
> Hey folks!
> 
> I think the Aspects UI is pretty close, but we need to do a few tweaks 
> to avoid confusion and make things a bit clearer.
> 
> - Change "Lifecycles" to "Aspects" at the top
> 
> - (this is a more general issue) We really do need to do something about 
> the "+" and "-" thing.  It's confusing which "+" is which.  I'd suggest 
> we get rid of the "expand/collapse" buttons (the white ones) entirely, 
> and have the expand/collapse function controlled by clicking on the 
> header bar itself for the given pane.  Then it's clear that the green 
> "+" means "add" and not "expand".
> 
> - Change "assign" to "associate" to be consistent with the API methods
> 
> - Change "Available Aspects" to "Aspect Actions"
> 
> - Get rid of the "Available Actions" box (it takes up too much room)
> 
> - Make the Aspect list itself work like a one-level tree control. 
> Replace the blue squares to the left of each Aspect with standard tree 
> expanders (unless an Aspect has no actions).  When in the expanded 
> state, each Aspect's actions are buttons underneath the Aspect name.
> 
> I think that should do it for this release.  In the next release we can 
> start to focus on customizing the UI for individual Aspects.
> 
> That all make sense?  Comments?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Glen
> 
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