Bug #5090
openReport Layout interface is confusing wrt locking and switching to old layouts
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Description
I'm unhappy with how the report layout 'lock edit mode' button works. By default, it's unlocked, and when you first click on a run, you're warned you'll lose your current report layout (even if your current layout is empty, and even if you're changing to the same report layout). On the warning dialog you may say "don't warn me again", but this is on a per window basis, and can get tedious.
If you click the 'lock edit mode' button, on every single run you click on, you have to OK a warning message reminding you you're locked, this gets extremely tedious.
One idea: if there was a distinction in the gui and code between your "currently under construction layout associated with the current window's workflow" vs historic layouts, and an easy way to switch between the two, as well as copy a historic layout into your "currently under construction layout", that might make the gui less confusing and burdensome since there would be no need for locking.