default option for MoveElementOperation (and others)

[friedemann_bach]

Dear developers,

I have a little issue here which I experienced in the Author action "MoveElementOperation". I defined insertPosition, sourceLocation and targetLocation, and the action worked fine. Then, returning to the dialog again to make some other changes, I (by mistake) clicked on deleteLocation, but did not enter anything. After saving all changes, the action now returned an "unexpected <eof>" error. I checked the action definition in my project file and I saw this:

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<field name="argValues">

  <serializableOrderedMap>

    <entry>

      <String>deleteLocation</String>

      <String></String>

    </entry>

So the action just tried to parse that empty string there. I then deleted the entry from the project file, reloaded and everything was back to normal. Another way which I also tested was to repeat the sourceLocation, this also works fine but it would mean redundancy. Is this a bug? If not, it would be convenient if there was a "reset to default" button in the dialog.

Many thanks for your brilliant work!!

[Radu]

Hi,

I understand, we'll consider adding in a future version a button to unset a parameter's value back to its default.
Also in Oxygen 19.1 (Autumn this year) we'll treat an empty xpath expression set on a parameter in the same way as an xpath expression that is not set at all.

Regards,
Radu

[friedemann_bach]

Great, thanks!