Bug #22052: Templates tab in Hosts>Operating Systems have confusing and misleading asterisks - Foreman

Bug #22052

Templates tab in Hosts>Operating Systems have confusing and misleading asterisks

Added by Daniel Lobato Garcia almost 5 years ago. Updated about 4 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Aditi Puntambekar

Category:

Templates

Target version:

Difficulty:

trivial

Triaged:

Bugzilla link:

1523147

Pull request:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/5902

Fixed in Releases:

1.20.0

Found in Releases:

Red Hat JIRA:

Description

Description of problem:
In Hosts > Operating Systems, when you go to select the Templates, each template has an asterisks beside its name. This is confusing

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hosts > Operating Systems.
2. Select an operating system, RHEL 7, or Fedora.
3. Select the Templates tab.
4. Every template option has an asterisk, which makes it look mandatory to make a selection for each one.

Actual results:
According to Lzapletal, only three are mandatory: PXE, Provision, and Finish template

Expected results:
Only the mandatory template selections should have asterisks.

Related issues

Associated revisions

Revision 2f2b888c (diff)
Added by Aditi Puntambekar about 4 years ago

Fixes #22052 - Added help text in Templates tab

History

#1 Updated by Marek Hulán over 4 years ago

Difficulty set to trivial
Subject changed from Templates tab in Hosts>Operating Systems have confusing and misleading asterisks to Templates tab in Hosts>Operating Systems have confusing and misleading asterisks

I think we should remove all asterisks, which templates needs to be assigned is determined by what provisioning type you choose for this OS. In fact image based provisioning can work with finish template only. On the other hand that can lead to a confusion that no template is required. So alternative solution is keeping all asterisks but add help to the form that explains the purpose.