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Display unit ids for IU Target locations #1432

Open vogella opened 2 weeks ago

vogella commented 2 weeks ago

Would be helpful to see the id in the overview tab of the target editor:

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Otherwise there is not direct mapping of the displayed entry and the source tab entry.

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laeubi commented 2 weeks ago

Otherwise there is not direct mapping of the displayed entry and the source tab entry.

Why should one need a direct mapping between source and UI? The representation of the source is more driven by technical reasons where the UI is for making it more visual to the user, therefore it shows the name:

grafik

If you are more interested in the technical details you can check grafik

what gives for example this grafik

vogella commented 2 weeks ago

I think the user who modifies the source tab content is the same user who works on the overview tab. The "Show location content" show the desired technical name but it also show the whole content so again it is not possible to see easily which entry maps to which in the UI to the source (especially as the sorting in the overview is not the same as in the source tab).

laeubi commented 2 weeks ago

But why do this user looks at the UI and then heads over to the source to ... ?

e.g. I can edit / delete / ... things in the UI and in the source, why should I want to switch between those?

vogella commented 2 weeks ago

why should I want to switch between those?

Activation / Reload is typical done via the Overview tab and if something goes wrong I see the error here. I typically then switch to the source tab to work on the issue. Having the information which ID is cause the issue would make the error resolution easier and consistent.

laeubi commented 2 weeks ago

Maybe one should the better show error marked in the source tab to improve the situation.

vogella commented 2 weeks ago

Maybe one should the better show error marked in the source tab to improve the situation.

That would another feature request, this one is about having the ID available in both main views. The ID could be additional information as the version, the name is also important.

laeubi commented 2 weeks ago

I think the less disruptive option would be to simply have a tooltip that shows the (Unit) ID

vogella commented 2 weeks ago

Tooltip would an improvement but still would make it harder to identify the real ID in case of lots of entries you would have to check one by one.