Two-way flow of information

[jspaaks]

This issue is to track the discussion around adding (or not adding) two-way flow of information between the cfftext and the form contents. With two-way flow of information, users can edit the form which updates the data in the textfield on the right of the app; and they can also edit the right hand side and have the form contents update.

I think this is a complex issue and we should talk about the technical difficulties with this before we start if we do decide that two-way is what we need.

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Refs:

• enable 2-way editing of panel-cfftext #15

1. what happens if users paste content into the cfftext panel and they already have things filled in in the form?
2. what happens if the pasted content is not valid yaml?
3. what happens if the pasted content is not valid cff?
4. what happens if the pasted content is more than what is supported by the fields in the form?
5. are there security concerns?

Perhaps (1) can be addressed by having a dedicated UI element for pasting stuff into, with a warning or some text

• what happens if the pasted content is valid cff, but an unsupported cff-version like 1.1.0 ?
• what happens if URL to CITATION.cff is pasted instead of its content?

[abelsiqueira]

This now has dedicated issues for

• Creating a separate UI element Create screen with input to paste existing CFF to be parsed #814
• Defining rules for Define rules of parsing of existing CFF #813
• Dealing with URLs