Bug 46890 – Change description input format from HTML to Markdown

Bug 46890 - Change description input format from HTML to Markdown


Summary:	Change description input format from HTML to Markdown

Status:	NEW

Product:	UCS
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	App Center - Self Service
Version:	UCS 5.0
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	App Center maintainers
QA Contact:	App Center maintainers

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Reported:	2018-04-26 10:25 CEST by Nico Gulden
Modified:	2021-05-03 21:39 CEST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

See Also:	45502
What kind of report is it?:	Bug Report
What type of bug is this?:	5: Major Usability: Impairs usability in key scenarios
Who will be affected by this bug?:	1: Will affect a very few installed domains
How will those affected feel about the bug?:	2: A Pain – users won’t like this once they notice it
User Pain:	0.057
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ISV affected?:	Yes
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Description Nico Gulden

2018-04-26 10:25:22 CEST

Currently the self provider portals asks for HTML for the app description. This leads to simple copy & paste from text processing tools like Microsoft Word to the input field and yields HTML cluttered with useless class and style definitions that disturb the presentation of the texts in the App Center and on the App Catalog.

To avoid this junk, we should change the input to only allow a simple markup like Markdown. During the save process this markdown is converted to HTML and saved to the .ini file. This way, we only change to process chain of how the HTML comes into the .ini file. The change would only involve the app provider portal.

This may also solve the problem described in bug #45502.

Comment 1 Florian Best

2019-03-01 21:41:28 CET

Sounds great, but is there also a way to transform HTML back to Markdown? This is probably necessary to display the current values?

Comment 2 Nico Gulden

2019-03-04 09:55:36 CET

(In reply to Florian Best from comment #1)
> Sounds great, but is there also a way to transform HTML back to Markdown?
> This is probably necessary to display the current values?

Mmh, yes you are right. It probably is better to work with the simple markup and save it. And everywhere, where HTML is needed, it is converted before use.