openedx / openedx/frontend-app-authoring
Glitchy editing experience when duplicating XBlock children
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- TypeScript
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Description
Scenario
As a course author viewing the children of a Container block in the new React-based Unit editor, I want to duplicate an existing child block.
Actual
The other children disappear, and the duplicated block's editor is constrained to a tiny window. It does successfully duplicate the block, though.
Expected
Any of these:
- Editor should pop up over existing children
- Editor should be inline with existing children
- Duplicate should just pop in line with existing children, and author can then choose to edit it
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start in the React-based Unit editor's Container child-duplication flow and reproduce the issue with a Container that has multiple children. Check how the duplicated block's editor is rendered, then verify that existing children remain visible and the duplicated block's editor is usable after duplication.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react, typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100