Revert button - Function?

[romicolman]

Problem description

Revert button functionality is not clear.

Steps to reproduce it

• Open the ODE.
• Upload a File.
• Make changes to one cell.
• You will see the UNDO button (top of the table) will be activated.
• The REVERT button (at the bottom of the table) will also be activated.

Suggested solution

If the user already has the UNDO button at the top, there is no need for an extra button at the bottom of the table.

@roll Does this button has any other relevant function?

[roll]

@romicolman UNDO/REDO and SAVE/REVERT are on different levels of functionality.

• When you use UNDO/REDO you can disable/enable changes in DATA step by step.
• When you use SAVE/REVERT, you manage the whole DATA/METADATA bunch of changes by deciding on saving or discarding it. Until SAVE is clicked no actual changes are made to the USER's files.

Here is an example:

• open a CSV file
• change one cell
• change another cell
• open a metadata editor
• update resource title
• update on field definition
• click on REVERT
• [it will discard all the changes]

[romicolman]

Thanks for clarifying @roll!

[romicolman]

@pdelboca please, remove the REVERT button.

[roll]

@pdelboca please, remove the REVERT button.

Deassigned myself as it seems to be for Patricio

[roll]

Note, that without the "Revert" button, it's impossible to change the file without saving it (so any change became undiscardable)

[romicolman]

@pdelboca I'm moving this issue to Sprint 3 so you can take a look at the technical implications of removing the REVERT button.

How the ODE should work. The user:

Makes a change/changes to a specific file. Click on Save ----All changes are saved.

If the user wants to undo changes, the ODE offers two options:

• Click on the UNDO button as many times as necessary).
• Go to the Open data Editor menu (upper right corner) ---Quit ODE

When the user now clicks on Quit ODE, the app should ask the user: "Do you want to save changes?" Yes/No

Open to suggestions here, @pdelboca.