Re: [Openflow-dev] usability Openflow 5.0

[Vincenzo Di S. <e.d...@ic...>]

Juli=E1n Mu=F1oz Dom=EDnguez wrote:

> In general I like Openflow 5.0, but I have seen some problems for the "=
day
> to day":
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> Now the applications are in a separate tab. Here we could have, say, 40
> applications: it would be nice to see the "Tittle" (a commment) about t=
his
> application.


Yes it`s a good idea.


> The same for activities: but maybe there is no space ??? But what is mo=
re
> important from a point of view os usability, see the tittle, or see if =
the
> activity is XOR or AND (not sure myself, what do you think?)


IMO, we should give all the informations about the objects. For the=20
moment we aren`t paying attention on the templates, because our priority=20
now is the code, so they may appear incomplete or not well structured.

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> And now, the biggest usability problem (in my case):
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> With previous I had a problem with the names:
> To avoid problems, I had to give a different name to the Activity and t=
o
> the URL of the application (the method).
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> Now with Openflow 5.0 I have also to "invent" a name for the
> application...
> I have to invent 3 names: the activity, the application, and the
> called method name.
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> In practice it would be much more easy if I could use the same name.
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> Illuminate me, maybe it is not a problem now with the new object model =
??

You can give the same name to the differt objects, because they`re URLs a=
re usually different, but this may cause confusion
when you need to maintain your workflow application. Try appending suffix=
 as "abc_activity" or "abc_app" etc...


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