URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/782
Title: #782: [WIP] Improving GUI text in "Add DNS Zones" popup
pvomacka commented:
"""
Hello @felipevolpone ,
Thank you for your patch.
For adding arbitrary text into a dialog or details page is probably the most suitable IPA.html_widget (but it has a big disadvantage - described below in section A). You can put it into the section you created. It might look like this:
```
{
name: 'dnszone_title',
show_header: false,
fields: [
{
field: false,
$type: 'html',
name: 'info',
html: "Select the required zone type."
}
],
layout: {
$factory: IPA.fluid_layout,
widget_cls: "col-sm-12 controls",
label_cls: "hide"
}
},
```
Layout attribute of the section might not be needed, but I would say that here it good to add it. It hides label of field and set width of the field to 100% of the dialog.
(Simpler solutions below - B and C)
A) The html attribute contains text which will be displayed. Text there should be taken from translatable strings. It can be done by using `text.get('i18n:path.to.the.string')` and writing the string into ipaserver/internal.py. The main challenge here might be to find a place where the string has to be loaded. It has to be done before building the whole dialog and its sections. You will probably need to override `dialog_build_properites` attribute of entity specification and there change `$post_ops` operation which where is the function which builds adder dialog for entity (add there loading of translate string).
B) (not tested) Another solution would be to set text field instead of html one and turn off the field in the same way as above and then set it non-writable and read_only. Then hide the label and there the `text.get()` should work directly in field definition. (should not be needed to change behavior of building entity's adder dialog).
C) Another solution will be to create new widget, which will work in the same way as `IPA.html_widget` but it will support translatable strings.
If you have any question feel free to ask. :)
"""
See the full comment at https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/782#issuecomment-301113031