Bug Bugs and Feature Requests

[jluerken]

Hey DBTech Support,

I've tested the new Review product now for a couple of hours and I like the idea in general.
I did not find many bugs and most of them are already reported so I am not going to report them a second time.
I want to focus on useability and missing features.

Tested:
1. Installation + Un-installation worked

I've installed the Product on my live system and un-installed it.
I had a lot of product where the installation worked but un-installation never did and resulted in a DB error.
This is not the case with DBTech Reviews. The used routines for this work like they should.

Features:
2. Custom fields and the rest should be phrases for multi language boards

Multi-language boards cannot use dbtech reviews at the moment because fields, categories and all of the other
field an admin can add are not phrased. I think this product is worth changing it so that those things are phrased.

3. Copy over instance user rights from other instance

If you add more instances to the system and have a lot of usergroups, it should be possible to copy the rights from
one instance to another. It was a pain in the ass to add the rights to each instance. A lot of not needed clicking.
Please add a function to copy rights from one instance to another.

4. fill it with demo data on 1st installation

It's not easy to understand how the end product should look like if there is no data in the system.
Especially while setting up the product it would be good to have some demo data in it so that you can move
boxes and categories around and see what changes how.

5. Remove "Dragonbyte" from frontend. It's everywhere (Dragonbytetech Review)

I like dragonbyte tech products and support but please remove "DragonbyteTech Review" from the front end.
In the end it is the review area of each site and not everyone needs to know which product is used.
I know it's a phrase and can be changed easily but it should be named different on first installation already in my opinion.

6. "Add Review" and "Main Page" should get button images and should be moved down.

I found those links in my custom style on top in the header, very small.
I think this stuff should get button images or use the images of the system.
Those buttons should find their way down to the review section where they can be found more easily.

7. Dynamic Navigation Feature should be a dropdownbox on top of the board, otherwise you have to many tabs

The dynamic navigation feature is a nice idea but at the moment it simply adds each instance with the setting "navigation link = yes" to the
header of the board. Depending on how many instances a board has this can result in having a lot of tabs on top of a board and in the end in
breaking the design. This feature should be added as a dropdown box to the top.

Bugs:
8. Under "Details" while adding a new review questions are displayed which I have deleted already

I have deleted the main instance and created new onces. I've deleted all Questions and created new onces but when
I now add a review the old Questions are still showing up.

9. Instance Permissions
Clicking on the USERGROUP box should mark all groups below but it does not do anything

10. Instance Permissions 2
If you select groups and click on SAVE, the selection is gone after reloading the page.

11. After deleting the default Review Instance the Navigation links are gone and also the "add new review" buttons are not there anymore.
Yes, I've selected a new instance to be the new default but still the same.


Kind regards
jluerken

 

[Dylan]

Thanks for the detailed post I'll speak to each one.

Features:
2. Custom fields and the rest should be phrases for multi language boards

Although it doesn't state it, you can create phrases for the custom field title and use it as the title and it will work. It checks to see if there is a phrase and uses that instead if one exists. In Beta 2 you can create phrases for the selections on dropdowns, checkboxes and radios as well.

3. Copy over instance user rights from other instance

If you add more instances to the system and have a lot of usergroups, it should be possible to copy the rights from
one instance to another. It was a pain in the ass to add the rights to each instance. A lot of not needed clicking.
Please add a function to copy rights from one instance to another.

In Beta 2 I added a copy option to the instance list, it will copy all the info besides the short name to a new instance. Thanks for that suggestion

4. fill it with demo data on 1st installation

It's not easy to understand how the end product should look like if there is no data in the system.
Especially while setting up the product it would be good to have some demo data in it so that you can move
boxes and categories around and see what changes how.

I tend to usually not install demo data. If someone knows how it works then they have to spend all the time to clear it out. I'll look at making a hack that will install some demo data and try to keep it outside of the base install.

5. Remove "Dragonbyte" from frontend. It's everywhere (Dragonbytetech Review)

I like dragonbyte tech products and support but please remove "DragonbyteTech Review" from the front end.
In the end it is the review area of each site and not everyone needs to know which product is used.
I know it's a phrase and can be changed easily but it should be named different on first installation already in my opinion.

In Beta 2 I changed it to just Reviews on the breadcrumb which was the main place I saw it repeated.

6. "Add Review" and "Main Page" should get button images and should be moved down.

In Beta 2 I moved the Add Review button down to the main page and if you want to get back to the main page from any review page you can get there from the breadcrumb.

7. Dynamic Navigation Feature should be a dropdownbox on top of the board, otherwise you have to many tabs

I'll work on it in Beta 2. Without needing the Main page and add review links I'll look at making it into a dropdown link with the available review instances.

Bugs:
8. Under "Details" while adding a new review questions are displayed which I have deleted already

I have deleted the main instance and created new onces. I've deleted all Questions and created new onces but when
I now add a review the old Questions are still showing up.

9. Instance Permissions
Clicking on the USERGROUP box should mark all groups below but it does not do anything

10. Instance Permissions 2
If you select groups and click on SAVE, the selection is gone after reloading the page.

11. After deleting the default Review Instance the Navigation links are gone and also the "add new review" buttons are not there anymore.
Yes, I've selected a new instance to be the new default but still the same.


Kind regards
jluerken

I'm not sure what's causing the issues, I can't replicate them on my local system and I'm getting confused when you say Questions in the Details, as they're two different things. Questions are part of the ratings and custom fields are part of the details so I'm not sure which section you are seeing the problems in. Is the system in an area I can access it? If it is and you'd give me temp admin I'd like to take a look and see if I can find out what's going on with it.

 

[jluerken]

I will wait for beta2 and then check the reported bugs again in my system.
If I can still reproduce them I will provide you with an admin access.

Thanks for your answers!