Apache Allura™

An additional bug in the current GET links: currently forum discussion pages don't enforce a trailing slash on the URL so if you go to /p/myproject/discussion/help the sub/unsub link doesn't work but it does from /p/myproject/discussion/help/

• Owner: Anonymous --> Igor Bondarenko
• Labels: sf-current, sf-2 --> 42cc, sf-current, sf-2
• Status: open --> in-progress

Closed #802. ib/7685

This is looking good.

One small UX improvement would be to use $.ajax to submit the post so it doesn't need to pull down the whole page again.

Closed #819. Force-pushed ib/7685

I changed it to ajax, but there are still some improvements needed that I wanted to discuss with you beforehand.

Firstly, in allura theme we don't have separate icons for "subscribed" and "unsubscribed" state. So it seems to user that nothing changes, when she clicks "Subscribe/unsubscribe" button.

SF theme does not have this problem, since we're using font for icons and "active" styles actually work there (blue text-shadow).

I think we should use Font Awesome or something instead of sprites on allura theme also. Probably will need another ticket for that. Or at least have separate sprites for different states.

Secondly, there're no any feedback when subscribe request is in progress, i.e. immediately after click. I have tried to use a little spinner for that, but there are gradient on the background and a spinner with transparent background looks ugly on such scale. Do you have some ideas what we can use to indicate request progress? Maybe some css transition to scale or spin the icon?

Thirdly, we have one confusing use case for subscriptions. Let's suppose user is subscribed to entire tracker and then he tries to subscribe to the individual ticket in this tracker. He will not be subscribed to the ticket, since he already has subscription for entire tool, so even if we would fix my first and second point above, user will see that nothing changed, and that's also confusing. I'm thinking we should show some kind of message in that case to clear things up. It could be tooltip-like message above the subscription icon or something like flash message in the top right corner. What do you think?

These are great notes :)

• I created a ticket to address the updated icons: [#7924].
• Maybe could use a combination of “cursor: wait;” and/or the msg notify system to indicate request progress/completion?
• If someone is already subscribed to the parent of the current item, I think it would make more sense to have a "subscribed to {parent}" type label or something in place of the button.

I like the idea of a tooltip-like message that makes that even clearer. But yeah, I agree that we probably shouldn’t allow an ‘unsubscribe’ button if they’re already subscribed to the parent -- that might get confusing.

"cursor:wait" seems like a good idea, thanks! I'm not sure about "suscribed to {parent}" label. It will clear things up, but maybe it will be too long for the toolbar. Let's try it, though.

Closed #825. Force-pushed ib/7685 (rebase)

Added "cursor: wait" + notification system based on tooltipster plugin, so that user will see clearly what's going on.

This looks great Igor.

Do you think we should change this into a 4 with the additional work you did?

Merged/Closed

• Milestone: unreleased --> v1.3.1