Bug 37172 - user-friendly suggestion
Summary: user-friendly suggestion
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat 5
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Webapps:Manager (show other bugs)
Version: 5.5.14
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X 10.4
: P2 minor (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2005-10-19 23:06 UTC by keen
Modified: 2006-04-13 14:42 UTC (History)
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Description keen 2005-10-19 23:06:34 UTC
Even though I realize this is a mistake someone makes only once...

When you "Deploy" an application in the webapps manager - it doesn't create a new application. It just 
makes a link between the application already existing in the webapps folder and tomcat manager. 
Therefore, you would think that when you click a link called "Undeploy" it would sever that link NOT delete 
the entire webapp folder - usually that kind of action is called, you know, "Delete." Therefore, for the sake 
of user-friendliness and to, you know, avoid the usual sadomasochistic Linux user-experience, maybe you 
should have the javascript popup say something useful along the lines of: "Are you sure - this will delete 
the webapp folder" - not just: "Are you sure" when the undeploying is really deleting.
Comment 1 Yoav Shapira 2005-10-20 03:38:05 UTC
OK, clarified warning -- thanks for the suggestion.

Next time, please try to provide a better title for your Summary of Bugzilla
issues, tell us the Tomcat version, and mark minor enhancements as such.  This
is far from critical.
Comment 2 keen 2005-10-20 03:45:50 UTC
>mark minor enhancements as such.  This is far from critical.

Thanks for fixing this oversight - I have a bone to pick with you here though. It was critical to me as I lost 
about a week's worth of work when an entire website was deleted basically without warning.
Comment 3 Jose M. Palomar 2005-12-07 21:05:47 UTC
The new message is only shown when application is stopped but not when
application is started.
Comment 4 Yoav Shapira 2006-04-13 21:42:06 UTC
Yup, I know, that's what he asked for.