Bug #55758 UI element limitation which is misleading in function for Workbench EER diagrams
Submitted: 5 Aug 2010 5:46 Modified: 19 Sep 2014 20:20
Reporter: Jonathon Coombes Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench: Modeling Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.2.25 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: EER, modeling, wb, workbench

[5 Aug 2010 5:46] Jonathon Coombes
Description:
Within the EER diagram interface, the description element has a UI element of a dropdown list to show the tablename that is active.  However, this dropdown list only shows the currently active table and therefore will only ever have one value being displayed.

This not only seems the wrong choice of UI element, but it also gives expectation that you can edit multiple tables, particularly when the table editor shows up in a tab format similar to the main editor.

How to repeat:
N/A

Suggested fix:
Perhaps the best option is to implement the table editor to work like the main interface and allow multiple tables to show up in separate tabs and therefore different tables showing in the description list element.
[5 Aug 2010 7:14] Roel Van de Paar
The bug as reported is not a bug: when two tables are both selected (CTRL-select), multiple items are shown in the list, and the description can then be updated for both tables at the same time ("<double-click to overwrite multiple objects>"). Also, both tables, together with "Multiple Items" (which is the default in this case) are in the dropdown list; from that perspective the dropdown is a correct GUI element.

However, there is another issue here: when two tables are selected, it is not possible to select from the dropdown just one table (it revers to "Multiple Items" automatically). This seems buggy. In that sense, maybe the dropdown can be changed to just a normal text field, or maybe the dropdown can be left but made to work better (but what would that do for/with the selection)?
[19 Sep 2014 20:20] Alfredo Kojima
This is actually not a bug. If you select multiple objects in the diagram, all of them will be displayed in the dropdown. You can then edit the description for all selected objects.