[kepler-dev] [Bug 5090] New: Report Layout interface is confusing wrt locking and switching to old layouts

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5090

           Summary: Report Layout interface is confusing wrt locking and
                    switching to old layouts
           Product: Kepler
           Version: 2.0.0
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: reporting
        AssignedTo: barseghian at nceas.ucsb.edu
        ReportedBy: barseghian at nceas.ucsb.edu
         QAContact: kepler-dev at kepler-project.org
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


I'm unhappy with how the report layout 'lock edit mode' button works. By
default, it's unlocked, and when you first click on a run, you're warned you'll
lose your current report layout (even if your current layout is empty, and even
if you're changing to the same report layout). On the warning dialog you may
say "don't warn me again", but this is on a per window basis, and can get
tedious.

If you click the 'lock edit mode' button, on every single run you click on, you
have to OK a warning message reminding you you're locked, this gets extremely
tedious.

One idea: if there was a distinction in the gui and code between your
"currently under construction layout associated with the current window's
workflow" vs historic layouts, and an easy way to switch between the two, as
well as copy a historic layout into your "currently under construction layout",
that might make the gui less confusing and burdensome since there would be no
need for locking.

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