<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Nidhi,</div><div><br></div><div>This implemented <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/dynamic-fields">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/dynamic-fields</a> blueprint provided an ability to use "text_list" and "textarea_list" UI control types.</div><div>They are suitable for settings where the value is a list of strings.</div><div>These controls represent on UI a list of single or multiline text inputs with +/- buttons to add/remove an additional element:</div><div><br></div><div>My Setting value1 +/-</div><div> value2 +/-</div><div> value3 +/-</div><div>(the result value for the setting "My Setting" is ['value1', 'value2', 'value3']).<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If I understand your case properly, you need something like dynamic groups of inputs of different type.</div><div>This is still not supported by Fuel UI. The implementation does not look simple, it requires changing of data structure in settings yaml, adding a new level of nesting. There is a need to think thoroughly about the details: how to organize such a setting yaml structure, how to declare a set of inputs in such a group, how inputs should be aligned in the group (horizontally/vertically), etc.</div><div><br></div><div>For now, I would suggest the following ways of how to organize your plugin settings:</div><div><br></div><div>1) use text_list/textarea_list controls for each field from a group that represents storage backend configuration:</div><div><br></div><div>Field1 value_for_backend_1 +/-</div><div> value_for_backend_2 +/-</div><div> value_for_backend_3 +/-</div><div><br></div><div>Field2 value_for_backend_1 +/-</div><div> value_for_backend_2 +/-</div><div> value_for_backend_3 +/-</div><div><br></div><div>Field3 value_for_backend_1 +/-</div><div> value_for_backend_2 +/-</div><div> value_for_backend_3 +/-</div><div><br></div><div>2) use text_list/textarea_list controls to configure a list of storage backends by declaring their settings as a single comma-separated string:</div><div><br></div><div>Backends Settings comma_separated_settings_for_backend_1 +/-</div><div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> comma_separated_settings_for_backend_2 +/-</div><div> comma_separated_settings_for_backend_3 +/-</div><div><br></div><div>From my point of view, the first version looks more clear. Will it suit your case, Nidhi?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Julia</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 8:17 AM <<a href="mailto:nidhi.hada@wipro.com">nidhi.hada@wipro.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="gmail_msg">This is regarding an info required for fuel plugin development.</p>
<p class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg">We are working on Fuel Cinder Plugin where we require to </span><br class="gmail_msg">
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<p class="gmail_msg">configure multiple 'n' number of backends of storage vendor ,</p>
<p class="gmail_msg">in one go, from Fuel UI screen. where 'n' will be known at run time.</p>
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<p class="gmail_msg">Its like from UI, I can configure a set of fields, [field1, field2, field3] </p>
<p class="gmail_msg">for one backend <span style="font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg">and </span><span style="font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg">if user ask to configure 'n' backends then same </span></p>
<p class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg">set of fields to be </span><span style="font-size:12pt" class="gmail_msg">asked repeatedly.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail_msg">I have found some similar provision was planned in </p>
<p class="gmail_msg"><a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/dynamic-fields" class="m_1671772147780028939x_OWAAutoLink gmail_msg" id="m_1671772147780028939LPlnk297032" target="_blank">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/dynamic-fields</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="gmail_msg">But when i see implementation <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bp/dynamic-fields,n,z" class="m_1671772147780028939x_OWAAutoLink gmail_msg" id="m_1671772147780028939LPlnk888526" target="_blank">https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bp/dynamic-fields,n,z</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="gmail_msg">which implements new type as text_list and textarea_list ..</p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="gmail_msg">which is capability to add multiple lines of text in single field..</p>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="gmail_msg">It does not look like same as aim of BP, where acceptance criteria for BP is <br class="gmail_msg">
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="gmail_msg"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px" class="gmail_msg">"Enable text and textarea field types to be extended - where a plugin user is
able to toggle the visibility of additional fields with +/- signs and the data provided is used by plugin"</span><br class="gmail_msg">
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="gmail_msg"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px" class="gmail_msg">Kindly correct my understanding if its wrong, do we have capability to add a text
field by pressing +/- ?</span></p>
<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="gmail_msg"><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px" class="gmail_msg">What capability do we have with Fuel UI to add fields dynamically today ?</span></font></p>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">I have </span><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">read </span><a href="https://openstack.nimeyo.com/44264/openstack-dev-fuel-interaction-between-fuel-plugin-and-fuel" class="m_1671772147780028939OWAAutoLink gmail_msg" id="m_1671772147780028939LPlnk223877" style="font-size:12px;line-height:18px;font-family:sans-serif" target="_blank">https://openstack.nimeyo.com/44264/openstack-dev-fuel-interaction-between-fuel-plugin-and-fuel</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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