Create Volume dialog - No helper text for Type, and no guidance on how to create one

Bug #1325701 reported by Matt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)
Fix Released
Low
Julie Gravel

Bug Description

When you create a Volume, and you don't have a Type defined, there's nothing in the dropdown. While it's empty, and not marked as required, it still makes me a little nervous and wonder what I'm missing out on by not having a Type to pick. Many other dropdowns in OpenStack either have a default value, or some helper text instead of just being empty. The Launch Instance dialog has "--- Select source ---" for Instance Boot Source, and on the Access & Security tab, if you don't have any Key Pairs, it says "No key pairs available, with a + button you can click that takes you to the Import Key Pair dialog.

I'm honestly not sure how important Type is, especially since you can't seem to do much with it in the UI yet, and have to use the CLI to actually configure more than a Name for it, but it seems like there should be some helper text or a string that says they don't have one yet, and possibly help link them over to where they could create one.

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Matt (mreid) wrote :
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Matt (mreid) wrote :
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Matt (mreid) wrote :
Matthias Runge (mrunge)
Changed in horizon:
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Triaged
importance: Critical → Low
Changed in horizon:
assignee: nobody → Gary W. Smith (gary-w-smith)
Changed in horizon:
assignee: Gary W. Smith (gary-w-smith) → Julie Gravel (julie-gravel)
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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix proposed to horizon (master)

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/99747

Changed in horizon:
status: Triaged → In Progress
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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix merged to horizon (master)

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/99747
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/horizon/commit/?id=4de6ab6516c28995f7e9e8c7809d961865696f34
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 4de6ab6516c28995f7e9e8c7809d961865696f34
Author: Julie Gravel <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Jun 11 22:32:07 2014 -0700

    Add text to the Create Volume dialog's Type menu

    The first value in the "Type" dropdown menu of the Create Volume dialog
    was empty. This causes some confusion to the user because there was not
    enough information as to why the value was empty or what would happen
    when creating a volume with the empty type.

    Adding text "No volume type" to the first value of the dropdown menu
    explains that there will be no volume type associated with the volume
    at creation time.

    Closes-Bug: #1325701
    Change-Id: Iaff5d413d4abe9c59d48a679094ea37930abc4c1

Changed in horizon:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Julie Pichon (jpichon)
Changed in horizon:
milestone: none → juno-2
Changed in horizon:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in horizon:
milestone: juno-2 → 2014.2
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