[DIRSTUDIO-234] Greyed out menu items should have a tool tip explaining *why* they're greyed out

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: studio-ldapbrowser
• Environment: OSX 10.4
• Assignee: Stefan Seelmann
• Reporter: Alan Batie
• Created: 12/Nov/07 20:21
• Updated: 19/Nov/09 15:49
• Resolved: 08/Feb/09 21:13

Description

All GUIs should have a tool tip explaining why something is greyed out and what needs to be done to make it active (and it needs to be useful information, not just "it doesn't apply" or "you're not allowed to do that now" — it's obvious the application thinks that because it's greyed out). In this case, I did a search against our ldap server, found an attribute that needed removing and did so. Then I did another search. This time the font changed to italic, and when I go to delete an attribute, Delete is greyed out. There is no clue anywhere as to what's going on. I searched in help for the ldap browser, and found very little.

Issue Links

• relates to: DIRSTUDIO-373 Can't delete a tagged attribute if the non tagged attribute belong to the DN
• relates to: DIRSTUDIO-207 Operationnal attributes cannot be shown entirely
• relates to: DIRSTUDIO-241 The "New Value" action (in the Entry Editor) should be disabled if the AT is defined as single valued