Hi guys,

while trying to understand one of our user problem (he can't read a
configuration file), I tried to use the studio to reproduce the bug.

Atm, with the current version, to open a server.xml ADS file, you have
to do an 'open file'. It works. But I don't find this to be the best
solution. I would suggest that we keep this option, of course, but I
think it would be very interesting to associate the function to the
Connection element :
- when you create a connection to a server, you ask for the associated
file (this is an option, of course !)
- the user can also gives the server name and version he is using

So the next time the user want to open the configuration associated with
a connection, he just have to right click on the connection, and select
the menu 'open configuration'

This will help a lot :
- now, you don't have to browse many file system if you are managing
more than one server
- as each connection 'knows' which server/version its is managing, you
can directly open the right configuration plugin
- you don't have to open the connection, it can work offline
- and if the server's configuration is stored into the DIT (like for
OpenLDAP), you will be able to read it online too.
- last, not least, if the user don't configure the server's name and
version, it can be discovered on the first connection, as those
informations are stored into the server.

wdyt ?

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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org

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Hi Emmanuel,

it is easy to add an additional page to the connection wizard and
connection property page and to save that parameters on the connection
element. We have an Extension Point for that. I will try to document the
extension point next weekend, if I don't do so, please remember me ;-)

I think some kind of auto-detection of the server type and version would
be cool.

Another cool thing would be to edit a remote file, e.g. using scp/sftp.

Regards,
Stefan


Emmanuel Lecharny schrieb:
> Hi guys,
>
> while trying to understand one of our user problem (he can't read a
> configuration file), I tried to use the studio to reproduce the bug.
>
> Atm, with the current version, to open a server.xml ADS file, you have
> to do an 'open file'. It works. But I don't find this to be the best
> solution. I would suggest that we keep this option, of course, but I
> think it would be very interesting to associate the function to the
> Connection element :
> - when you create a connection to a server, you ask for the associated
> file (this is an option, of course !)
> - the user can also gives the server name and version he is using
>
> So the next time the user want to open the configuration associated with
> a connection, he just have to right click on the connection, and select
> the menu 'open configuration'
>
> This will help a lot :
> - now, you don't have to browse many file system if you are managing
> more than one server
> - as each connection 'knows' which server/version its is managing, you
> can directly open the right configuration plugin
> - you don't have to open the connection, it can work offline
> - and if the server's configuration is stored into the DIT (like for
> OpenLDAP), you will be able to read it online too.
> - last, not least, if the user don't configure the server's name and
> version, it can be discovered on the first connection, as those
> informations are stored into the server.
>
> wdyt ?
>

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