Symphony.

Some people might find it irritating that after creating a section, the first user still has his default section set to “Blueprints - Sections”.

Also, after changing it to any of the new sections I can’t set it back to any of the other pages.

Not sure I follow this one.

Some people might find it irritating that after creating a section, the first user still has his default section set to “Blueprints - Sections”.

What should happen? When the first section is created, all developers Default Area be set to the new section? This isn’t new from what I can tell, Developers were always redirected to the Blueprints - Sections page if they had no default area set.

Also, after changing it to any of the new sections I can’t set it back to any of the other pages.

Can you elaborate? Do you mean that you create an author with no sections, add a section, change their default area to that section and then logout/login it still defaults to Blueprints - Sections? Or just the fact that you can’t set it to be Blueprints - Sections without an extension?

Nils, is it possible that you have Craig’s Tracker extensions enabled. I had some weird redirecting issues while using it on 2.2.

Without further information (such as a list of installed extensions, or an ensemble recreating the issue), this issue will be closed on the 20th Jan.

OK, let me explain: This is not a bug, it just feels a little weird.

By default, the first user has his/her default section set to /blueprints/sections/.

After creating some sections all users have their default section set to the first one. Not the first user. His is still set to /blueprints/sections/. For him/her, I have to go into the profile and change it manually.

But once I did I can never go back to /blueprints/sections/ as it doesn’t appear in the dropdown.

As I said, it’s not a bug. It’s just weird that the default setting is different for different users. And also I find it weird that I can’t get back a setting I once had but decided to change.

Thanks for clarifying phoque.

/blueprints/sections/ is actually chosen because the first user creator is a Developer, and when no default_area is specified (or there is an error with the default_area), Developers will be redirected to this page.

The same happens for Authors, who if there default_area is missing (somehow) or there is an error (such as they don’t have access), they will be redirected to their Author entry.

That said; /blueprints/sections/ is an admin page, so this option should only appear for developer Author’s.

At present however, we don’t have any precedent for dynamic forms (ie. changing a value in one place affects some other values), so we can’t hide/show this option depending on if the Author Type.

While not in scope for 2.2, I think in 2.2.1 we should look at ways to make this possible through a javascript plugin, not just for this case, but for many other’s in Symphony.

I’ll leave as pending, for 2.2.1 todo.

Is there a reason why I have to manually set the default section for the main developer after creating my section? This is what I would expect from a developer point of view:

• if there are no sections, redirect me to section overview.
• if there are sections but none is set as my default, redirect me to the first one.
• if there are section and I have a default set, redirect me to my default section.

Actually I think this was the default behaviour in builds prior to Symphony 2.2.