[Tiki-devel] tracker field creation in trunk

[Sylvie G. <sgr...@gm...>]

A lot of changes have been made in trunk in the tracker field creation.
I personally feel it is a regression. Nelson and Louis Philippe I
chatted with on IRC think it is an improvement. 
The main changes are
1/ the options of a field are no more asked at creation
2/ a permanent name is asked
3/ a popup instead of a tab

1/  is very disturbing IMHO . I did not think the options will appear
while editing the field, and I thought it was a new bub. For me it is
problematic. For instance, on an operational site, I can not create a
field than is not correct at the creation.
For instance if I create a user selector/creator. I can only give the
option creation in the edit field panel. Meanwhile, a user can create an
item with any user. it can be only in a 5 seconds time slot but it can
be done now. The field should have been hidden or correctly set since
the beginning. Why also do I need 2 clicks now to create a field instead
of 1.

2/ the permanent name has been developed to use across site because the
fieldIds are not invariant between sites. So ok, the need is there. But
I think it is very hard to understand as a tiki newbie why you need 2
names: a name and a permanent name when creating a field. I would have
prefer an automatic permname like the union of the tracker name and the
field name - and to have the opportunity to have a display name that
will appear in the default list and default tracker input for an
advanced configuration.
We discussed about having an option to show/hide the permname, to send
the permname question in the edit field panel .....

3/ why are we moving tabs to popups? Will all the creation tabs be
transformed to popups? What is the advantage of a popup over a tab?

What do other people think?