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2014/1/15 Tim Schnell <tim.schnell at rackspace.com>

> On 1/15/14 9:01 AM, "Liz Blanchard" <lsurette at redhat.com> wrote:
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> >On Jan 9, 2014, at 4:41 AM, Jay Lau <jay.lau.513 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >My bad, the image cannot be viewed.
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> >Thanks,
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> >Jay
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> >2014/1/9 Jay Lau <jay.lau.513 at gmail.com>
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> >Hi,
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> >Now when using OpenStack dashboard to launch a stack, we need to first
> >import the template then create the stack, but there is no way to enable
> >admin to view/modify the template.
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> Hi Jay,
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> Sorry I meant to respond to this a few days ago. Currently, in the
> dashboard you have the ability to copy/paste a template into a text area
> and then edit it before you attempt the stack-create. This seems to solve
> the use case that you have mentioned although I agree that there is room
> for improvement in the user experience.
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> The reason I bring up the distinction is because the template that you
> reference below has a much broader scope. It includes storing and managing
> templates for future use. If you are intending to add all of this
> functionality into the Dashboard then I would suggest waiting for a
> template storage solution to get done. There is currently a blueprint and
> discussion happening in Glance to take on this ability and then I would
> imagine that the Dashboard can consume it.
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> see:
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/metadata-artifact-repository
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> If you are intending to simply add an additional page for editing the
> template if the user chooses to retrieve it via the URL option then my
> only suggestion would be to have a flag that gets stored in the session
> that allows the user to bypass the editing step for launching templates
> since some users will never need to edit templates.
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@Tim, I think that it might be ok to enable admin still be able to see the
overall JSON/YAML template by the edit page even if s/he does not want to
edit it. ;-)
I'm planning to add both edit/create page to heat, and I noticed that AWS
already have such feature:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-using-cloudformer.html,
I'm now trying if we can leverage some from it.
So I think that the dashboard should probably add a new button named as
create. Yes, now we cannot store template, so my thinking is that once
admin create template finished, then s/he can simply export it and save it
locally for future use.

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> >What about add a new page between import template and launch stack to
> >give admin an opportunity to edit the template?
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> >I noticed that we already have a blueprint tracing this:
> >https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/heat-template-management
> ><https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/heat-template-management>
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> >I did some investigation, seems we can leverage
> >http://jsoneditoronline.org/ <http://jsoneditoronline.org/> to enable
> >OpenStack dashboard have this ability (Only for JSON template).
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> >Hi Jay,
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> >I really like the idea of allowing users to edit these templates easily
> >right through the dashboard. Are all template files in JSON? I would say
> >we should try to find a solution to add to the dashboard that would
> >support all (or as many as possible) formats
> > of template that we can.
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> I agree with Liz here, templates can be in JSON or YAML format so if we do
> add a javascript library to provide syntax highlighting and things then I
> would want it to work with YAML as well as JSON.
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> -Tim
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> >Best,
> >Liz
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> >Thanks,
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> >Jay
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