[dashboard] No messages about package absent in UI

[Ekaterina Chernova]

1) Go to Application Catalog (check there are no packages in database)
2) See how weird looks the page without any packages

[Brian Tully (brian-tully)]

Do we have copy as to what we want the message to say? And is this supposed to be themed as an error message for developers or is it more of a message to users to improve user experience?

Example: "Currently there are no packages available in the database. Please try again later."

Please provide more context and I'd be happy to look into this.

[Timur Nurlygayanov (tnurlygayanov)]

Brian, looks good. I sugges to add something like 'Please, upload new packages.' instead of "Please try again later."

[Ekaterina Chernova (efedorova)]

HI guys!
After some time thinking I suggest do not show error messages. Instead:
1) In Django template catalog.index.html show "Latest Apps" and "App Category" selector only in case there are some applications in the catalog
2) If no, just leave a message in that template:
There are no packages available. Upload applications at (that's will be good to provide link here) Package definitions page

How is that?

[Timur Nurlygayanov (tnurlygayanov)]

Ekaterina, sounds good.

[Brian Tully (brian-tully)]

Currently I have it showing the Latest Apps and App Category selector but there is now a message saying "No items to display." if there are no apps. This is a pattern that is used throughout Murano and Horizon which is why I decided to use it.

Also, in terms of the persona we are showing the message to, will it always be a developer who will have access and knowledge on how to upload an application? I was under the impression that there would be users that would be just installing existing applications, and if so, would we be confusing them by showing them a link to upload a package definition if they don't have access and/or don't know how to do that?

[Brian Tully (brian-tully)]

The latest discussion/consensus on IRC is as follows:

So to summarize, we are going to have

"There are no applications available at this time." with the option of adding "Please contact your Cloud Admin." for the messaging under "Latest Apps"

-- and --

"There are no applications matching your search criteria." when search and/or App Category pulldown returns nothing

[Openstack Gerrit (openstack-gerrit)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/89922
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/murano-dashboard/commit/?id=1d8cdb21fa165c8e8737228c3d862d7f41b600f2
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 1d8cdb21fa165c8e8737228c3d862d7f41b600f2
Author: Brian Tully <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Apr 23 15:28:55 2014 -0400

    Add message if no apps are in the database

    Add clearer messaging based on discussion/consensus on IRC #murano.

    Closes-Bug: #1305548
    Change-Id: If6e8a3a159078c8f3847ad72157229e2d12c7aa2

[Anastasia Kuznetsova (akuznetsova)]

Verified.