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VisualEditor: Citation tool opens if you click the icon, but if you double-click the ref or press the return key, the Reference dialog opens instead
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Description

Intention:
Edit an existing citation.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Select an existing citation (one using a citation template).
  2. Press the return key to open it.
  3. That's odd, I'm in the Reference dialog. Exit.
  4. Re-select the citation.
  5. Double-click to open it.
  6. That's odd, I'm in the Reference dialog. Exit.
  7. Re-select the citation.
  8. Click the little cite-web icon. That opens the citation tool's simplified dialog.

This happens in both Safari and Firefox, so presumably everywhere.

Details

Reference
bz64712

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 3:23 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz64712.

Once you're inside the Reference dialog, if you double-click the citation template, then it takes you to the Citation tool (rather than to the generic template tool). I don't know if that's intentional, but it's not obviously wrong.

In talking with Trevor this is going to take quite some time to fix, sadly.

(In reply to WhatamIdoing from comment #1)

Once you're inside the Reference dialog, if you double-click the citation
template, then it takes you to the Citation tool (rather than to the generic
template tool). I don't know if that's intentional, but it's not obviously
wrong.

It's intentional. :-)

As the citation experience overall has recently improved in leaps and bounds this is one of those issues that sticks out -- any chance we can chop it down soon?

(In reply to Erik Moeller from comment #3)

As the citation experience overall has recently improved in leaps and bounds
this is one of those issues that sticks out -- any chance we can chop it
down soon?

It's a non-trivial problem. We have some ideas for how to do this, but I need Trevor's brain, and he's been sick all week :(

Jdforrester-WMF lowered the priority of this task from High to Medium.Jan 15 2015, 12:29 AM
Jdforrester-WMF set Security to None.

@Jdforrester-WMF If that sounds reasonable to you, I'd like to see this resolved as part of the citations experience work that we're doing in Q3 - it's a UI niggle that can distract from an otherwise dramatically improved experience. Obviously not an issue if made obsolete by a new UI.

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This was fixed some time in the past 3.5 years.