Plans for UI options

[Clark, Colin]

Hey Michelle and Heidi,

This is a really great list of list of next steps. Can you two take these JIRAs, prioritize them, and put them into a UI Options roadmap page in the wiki? Once you've got the plan into the wiki, use it as your FLOE to-do list over the next month or so.

Here are a couple quick comments about a few of the specific issues you mentioned:

* http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-2616

This one probably needs a bit more elaboration in the JIRA. Perhaps there are actually two separate issues here? Firstly, it sounds to me as if the problem is that UI Options doesn't fetch its own templates, expecting the user to do it instead. The second issue, which is related but not the same, is the fact that we don't ship any built-in means for hiding and showing UI Options nicely. Can we split this ticket into two and describe the issues a bit more?

* http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-3761

It sounds like we'll implement this as a series of preview strategies. So step 1, which you guys have started on, is to parameterize the Preview as a subcomponent. The two obvious strategies we'll want to create will be the "inline sample preview" (the one we currently have) and the "whole page" preview like we want to do for the IDI site.

Hope this helps,

Colin

On 2010-09-29, at 10:41 AM, Michelle D'Souza wrote:

> Thanks for outlining the next steps James. I've found or created JIRAs to go with the short term plan and I've noted them inline below.
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> Michelle
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> On 2010-09-27, at 2:37 PM, James William Yoon wrote:
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>> In the short term, we're planning to:
>> - Go non-modal by default by introducing a sliding panel to replace the modal dialogue that currently exists for on-the-same-page UI options
> 
> Just to clarify here - the dialog has never been a part of the UI Options component but rather some extra code that was used in some of the demos and the integration tutorial. You can see a sliding panel demo of UI Options in the demo portal: http://build.fluidproject.org/infusion/demos/uiOptions/demo.html
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> We need to move this behaviour into the component and provide a pluggable way to change the interaction between sliding panel and dialog. This is captured in FLUID-2616. 
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>> - Make the preview area optional
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> The work for this has been started under FLUID-3761. 
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>> - Introduce easy/easier integration into the code
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> Part of making integration easier is to make use of the framework supports that have been built after UI Options was created. This work is captured by FLUID-3762
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> One of the steps when integrating UI Options into a site is overriding defaults for the component. One of the required overrides we should be able to simplify is the setting of paths to the default templates for the components. There is a placeholder JIRA for this work, FLUID-3742, but we should create a more descriptive JIRA with the work we intend to do. I'd like to discuss this at today's dev meeting. 
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> We also need to make the accordian part of UI Options instead of having it be external code. FLUID-2421 and FLUID-3736.
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> As we do this work we should update the documentation: FLUID-3745. 
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>> - Showcase all of the above in a demo
> 
> I believe that there will be some design work done here before we try to develop a new demo - so no JIRAs for this yet. It's really nice to have this work moving forward!

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
http://fluidproject.org