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The Great Plone Migration

This is the story of a courageous band of Plones who made the long, hard journey to Earth. Some of their problems follow.

Note: this document is historical only. These have been moved into the bug system and the migration has been made.

Key

• I am a bug
• I am fixed
• I have gone away
• ? I need more data
• p I am partially fixed
• jcc: I am being worked on

NEW STUFF THAT'S BROKEN

• Skin-changing:
  • Default Look selector needs to be removed from Plone Setup as well
  • Personalize: changing to Plone Core skin, or back to Connexions skin, gives traceback tb-prefs.txt.
  • Changing to a valid look works but doesn't persist.
• Is "Local Roles" the way to add people to your personal workspace? If that's going away, how do you do it?

EXISTING STUFF THAT'S BROKEN:

(Severity relative to possibility for quick demoing)

Really serious problems:

• Error on login: Attribute error on login_time
• Can't find anyone to add to workgroup -- tried searching for "Drummond", "jenn", "a", "e"... and only ever came up with Crouton.
• Got "None object has no attribute 'createObject'" when trying to add modules to workspace
• jcc: Module creation doesn't go through the license step.
• Module editor added/removed properties aren't getting updated
• Removing collaboration requests doesn't work (404)
• Insufficient privileges to view groups interface as Crouton, even though it's listed as a link from Local Roles
• Get ValueError?: list.index(x): x not in list when searching for people by username under Local Roles
• Get no results when searching for people by email address under Local Roles
• Clicking non-checked-out module title from workspace gives a blankish module_edit_form (blank-module-edit.png)
  • Need to update the not-checkedout page
• module_editroles_form gives an attribute error on getUser.
• "Create New Workgroup" link on left sidebar doesn't work -- 404 at /Members/jenn/create_workgroup. Can't figure out how to make a workgroup.
• Courses are almost unstyled by default (probably missing stylesheets)
• All/None/Inverse is there on file management page but doesn't work
• Remove and Rename buttons on file management page don't work; give a 404.
• Need to incorporate plone contents table
• Table of objects needs module ID and checkout status instead of size and type if we want to match existing page

Medium-serious problems:

• Traceback when trying to add a link object or folder to a workgroup.
• Still no obvious way to add existing modules to a workgroup
• /query/view gives a 404 -- get there by clicking "Search Repository" in the breadcrumbs (/content/view likewise)
• Brand-new course object is pretty ugly, and there's no indication of where to go next; search still says "add to workspace"
• Can't select everything within the error details box to copy and paste into an error report
• New course object doesn't in fact show up in the workspace just after creation
• AttributeError? on visible_ids when looking at "folder" (workspace) properties
• Deleting the only remaining user in a workgroup deletes the workgroup without a confirmation step
• The "About" tab's content is the current About folder's content, not the stuff from the splash pages
• Need human-readable title for workspaces
• "MailHost? Error: Message missing SMTP Header 'To'" when trying to have password mailed
• Mail from account request doesn't seem to be going out either.
• Site license doesn't actually appear behind the link in account request (need restructuring for summary and textbox)
• Make Textarea width a user pref
• Login and logout messages need to be customized to match our current ones.
  • "Reopened" because logout message hasn't been done. It currently includes the generic sentence "Best Regards from the The Connexions Project team.", with an extra "the".
  • If the standard "You will notice..." message is going to stay, we should fix the grammatical problem. "...the top right bar has changed, it now contains several personalized items." is a run-on sentence. The comma should be changed to a semicolon.
• Missing all/none/inverse almost everywhere (wg and object management, mod selection for wg addition, etc.)
  • All/Inverse is there in the first column. Holding off on inverse for now.
• jcc: Module creation goes to text editing first instead of metadata editing.
• The top logo/search/Rice bar is just barely too wide for an 800-pixel screen. Taking the search box down from 20 characters to 15 or 18 would probably do it.
• The personal workspace is called "My Workspace" on the sidebar, but "My Folder" on the toolbar.
• /portal_form/init_account_form should list web address along with full name and email for confirmation
• "Domains" field on password changing screen shouldn't show up, at least not for non-managers
• Migrate news
• Where's the module status page? Without it, there's no place to see everything at once.
  • Module discard should send you back to status page (ooops, there isn't one), since editing page will give a jarring "not checked out" message.
• Insufficient privileges error needs to be customized.
• Will we be customizing My Preferences to add our account metadata (broken-out name, institution, URL, etc.)?
• After document creation, there's no explicit link back to the workspace you created it in.
• Turning form help off doesn't seem to work.

Minor problems:

• Difference between a "document" and a "file" wouldn't be obvious to a new user -- are we keeping the "document" type?
• "Browse Content" tab doesn't stay highlighted when you move to another browsing method (e.g., authors)
• What happened to the "unavailable" list of usernames?
• Citadel is setting a "cookietest" cookie, which should presumably go away at some point for tidyness's sake.
• Will there be a link to all the news items at once somewhere?
• No account approval system yet
  • Unapproved accounts can log in (live system does that too, but it really ought to get fixed)
• Need to plone-ize Browse pages, putting them in RisaRepository? skins, and linking to one of them as a top-level tab
  • The links on the "browse" page (By Course, By Title, etc.) need breaks; they're all running together.
• cnx71 isn't allowing external editor locks (405 Method Not Allowed)
  • External Editor not supported yet (should probably remove pencil)
• Something touched my home page just because I viewed the editing screen without making changes.
• Where is that students list coming from on the "people" page?
• Need news and service mark on home page.
• No account request system yet.

Broken/missing links:

• Need to convert /cnxml/ to Plone documents
  • looks like this is done; I'm not going to file a task on it unless someone tells me otherwise. -- Jenn
• "Return to Module Editing" link (e.g., http://cnx-246-71.ece.rice.edu/Members/jenn/Connexions_Module.2003-08-11.3948/text) doesn't work; gives a 404. Should be [module]?/module_edit_form?
  • I don't remember where this link was, and it's probably gone now anyway.
• Link to resource page as Help on personal tool bar
• No links to (e.g.) workgroup help yet.
• Link to collaboration requests from logged_in page (and maybe a slot?)
• No password help yet.

INTERFACE ISSUES:

Problems:

• How do you get back to the "author home" page that you get upon first login?
• Form autocomplete entries show up in the wrong place if you scroll the page before filling in the form
  • might be a Firebird 0.6 bug, though I haven't reproduced it elsewhere
• How do you add an existing module? Really need a more explicit search available on the workgroup page.
• Too much spacing between list items by default; it's making some pages way too long (qstart, courses)
• Things seem very small by default. We'll get complaints from profs about the tab and breadcrumb sizes, at the very least. Body at 65% Verdana?!
• "Folder Contents" tab disappears when you go to one of the others in your workspace; can't get back from (e.g.) View to Folder Contents.
• The fact that the "View" tab displays the default "%s's home page" won't be obvious to non-web programmers.
• Is that going to be our new home page format? Is there not going to be a non-ploneish "web site"?
• Quick Start tab doesn't stay highlighted when clicked like others do.
• Do we really need a little printer icon everywhere? Do people not know how to click "print"? There's enough clutter as it is.
• CNXML 0.5/0.4 links aren't underlined, but other links on page are -- style collisions?
• If object creation is now a dropdown-and-form-button thing instead of "Create Module" and "Create Workgroup" links, it's harder to put them everywhere they need to be.

Quibbles:

• In a workgroup, "Add new item" is ambiguous; "Create" might be better. A clearer link to adding existing modules would help.
• A new object gets created right after you hit "add", even if you never give it any details, and it has one of those ugly names.
• Need "add to workgroup" buttons at top of search results as well as bottom
• Typo in account request: "Enter your any family lineage, eg. Jr., or III" --> "Enter any family lineage, e.g. Jr. or III".
• All examples on account request page need the extra period in e.g.
• Example web address on account request page (http://www.example.com/~jdoe/) is too big for the tooltip box.
• Is the "You are now logged in" message necessary every time? Shouldn't it go to the equivalent of our old Author Home?

Naming:

• Validation messages on account request could use some help
  • "Input is required but no input given." should perhaps be "This field is required."
  • "You did not enter an email address." should perhaps be "Your entry is not a valid email address." when people enter something like "jenn".
• What's up with the nasty long names like Connexions_Module.2003-08-11.3948? Can we change those back to new0, etc.?
• If Preview: Web | Source | Print is on the bottom of every author interface page, it should be explicit that it refers to the module (not the files or links or whatever)
• Could "Contents" be called "Files" in the new scheme? What else do you put in a module? If you're putting things in course objects, that's a different interface.
• The "My Folder" title should really be something like "Personal Workspace".

Layout:

• Can't tell the text boxes from the buttons sometimes (e.g., bottom of /query/?similar=yes&words=m10017)
• Preview: Web Source Print needs to be available (also) at the top of the editing page.
• Tabs can extend over the borders of their boxes (e.g., Workspaces box on Undo page).
• On the second account request page, Confirm Password has an unnecessary explicit break in the middle that exacerbates the vertical-spacing issue
• If the old sidebar stuff is in tabs, why is the workspace box taking up the whole left sidebar space?
• Go through all headings resetting them to h1/h2, etc.
• At minimum one-row size, the "Show All Items", "Select", and "Add New Item" selectors and button all look related.

DESIRES:

• Search results screen: the presence of more module text is great, but there should be an option for compact output
• Would be nice if sort order persisted.
• Author home has become the personal workspace; do we lose anything there?
• Do we get sorting in these ploneish tables? It's hard to tell.
• Metadata editor still doesn't list copyright holders.