I posted this in the General Discussion first - until I realized this Bug Report forum. Sorry!
The Replace and Add buttons in the Subversion URL Dialog are disabled when I use a variable holding the URL or part of. If I enter the effective URL both buttons are enabled.
example:
- declare a variable holding a valid subversion URL
- use this variable in the Subversion URL Dialog (e.g. SVN Check Out)
exp: Add and/or Replace buttons are enabled
act: Add and Replace buttons are disabled
This is by design. Editing the field using the URL editor when it contains a variable reference would just result in the variable being replaced with a hard coded url, which is probably not what the user is wanting to do.
Let me describe my use case: I want to check out several (but not all) subfolders of a Subversion project. Thus I have to specify each subfolder with its complete path. I actually do this using a variable for the common parent folder. The “Source” field of the checkout action looks like this:
%SvnBase%/Source %SvnBase%/Automation %SvnBase%/Language
When I enter the “Source” field and switch to the URL dialog the entry is perfectly split into a separate lines, but I cannot edit them or add a new line while there is a variable used. So I’m forced to edit the “Source” field directly, which makes it harder to see what you do.
Imagine: you enter the dialog with valid data, you edit the data keeping it valid, but you cannot save your changes? Seems somewhat wrong to me.
Wouldn’t it be better to use a simple string list dialog instead of the more restricted URL List Builder dialog