Launchpad itself

Some forms have required fields, others have optional ones

Bug #253532 reported by William Grant
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Some forms have fields labeled 'Required', and the unlabeled widgets are optional.
Some forms have fields labeled 'Optional', and the unlabeled widgets are required.

Revision history for this message
Ursula Junque (ursinha) wrote :

Hi William, can you please give an example of page where it happens? Thanks!

Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Incomplete
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad-foundations → launchpad-web
Changed in launchpad-web:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: confusing-ui
Revision history for this message
Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

Launchpad is indeed contradictory.

lib/lp/blueprints/templates/specification-subscription.pt
      56: title="Required">(Required)</span>

lib/lp/code/javascript/branchmergeproposal.reviewcomment.js
     168: '<span class="fieldRequired">(Optional)</span>',

lib/lp/code/javascript/tests/test_productseries-setbranch.html
      49: <span class="fieldRequired">(Optional)</span>
      89: <span class="fieldRequired">(Optional)</span>
     155: <span class="fieldRequired">(Optional)</span>

lib/lp/hardwaredb/scripts/hwdbsubmissions.py
     790: "responsible" for the question. (Optional)
     820: (Optional)
     827: run for this question. (Optional)
     830: client. (Optional)

lib/lp/bugs/templates/bug-attachment-macros.pt
       8: <span class="fieldOptional">Include an attachment (Optional)</span>

lib/lp/bugs/templates/bugtask-macros-listing.pt
       7: :bugtask: (Required) BugTask that will be displayed.
       8: :show_extra_details: (Optional) Boolean determining whether

lib/lp/app/templates/launchpad-form.pt
     119: class="fieldRequired">(Optional)</span>
     145: class="fieldRequired">(Optional)</span>

lib/lp/app/templates/launchpad-widget-macros.pt
      36: title="Required">(Required)</span>
      80: title="Required">(Required)</span>

lib/lp/soyuz/templates/archive-delete-packages.pt
      74: <span class="formHelp">(Optional)</span>

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