"Save Workspace As" does not work

[forman]

From @HelenClifton on June 20, 2017 11:10

When File->Save Workspace As is selected, there isn't a way to enter the name for the new workspace.

If "Select" is clicked, an error message is shown

Copied from original issue: CCI-Tools/cate-desktop#14

[forman]

Yes, a known problem. To get around it: create an empty directory first and then select its name.

We actually need a directory chooser.

[forman]

@HelenClifton unfortunately there is currently no real fix for that, because the Electron platform does not allow us selecting non-existing directories. See electron/electron#9411.

To all: are there any suggestions how to proceed?

[HelenClifton]

@forman : The user probably will not know in advance that they need to create a new folder.
So, the suggestion is: the user navigates to the workspace home (the folder where the new workspace will be) and then a pop up appears asking the user to enter a name for the new workspace.

[forman]

That sounds reasonable. What about a dialog that looks like this:

+------------------------------------------------------------------+
|    New Workspace                                               X |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                  |
|    Parent directory:                                             |
|                                                        +-----+   |
|    ________________________________________________    | ... |   |
|                                                        +-----+   |
|                                                                  |
|    Workspace name:                                               |
|                                                                  |
|    ________________________________________________              |
|                                                                  |
|                                                                  |
|                                   +--------+        +--------+   |
|                                   |   OK   |        | Cancel |   |
|                                   +--------+        +--------+   |
|                                                                  |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+

[HelenClifton]

Looks fine to me !

[forman]

Fixed in 1.0.1 as proposed.

[HelenClifton]

@forman Tested with cate-2.2.0-dev.1 - not quite as expected - please could you take a look ?

1. File->New Workspace
2. Select an empty folder as the parent folder, enter a new workspace name
   
3. Workspace is created. Then select "Download Data Source"
   
4. Click Download and see error:
   
   Traceback is here: Traceback.txt

[forman]

Does the UC09 folder exist?

[HelenClifton]

@forman If I create the UC09 folder first, then it's fine.
Later on if I choose File->Save Workspace As, it will create a new sub-folder within the parent directory, as expected.

[forman]

Strange. It works for me, even if the workspace folder does not exist. But the parent must exist.