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Creating a TD/TM from other Formats

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating the existing + button flow and the Monaco editor insertion path, then trace how the current TD template is created. Done means the popup supports the existing TD flow plus AID input, converts it to a TD or TM, and pastes the result into the editor.

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Description

In a discussion today, we had the idea to put more functionality to the + button where other formats can be given in a small pop-up window. For now, the easiest would be to add AID to TD converter in there and allow AID as an input. In the future, we can have OPC UA Nodeset file, Open or Async API converters. The editor field below will still just see TDs.

So the workflow would be:

  1. Click the + button. This can be right click or long click. If it is not a simple click, the current behavior for a simple click stays the same.
  2. A pop-up window appears. Anything that happens in this window should result in a TD or TM being "pasted" to the monaco editor below.
  3. Multiple input formats appear.
  4. First one is the TD template we currently have. We can add another button for TM
  5. There are other buttons for AID, OPC UA nodeset, Open API etc.
  6. Clicking on one of them, shows an editor window to just paste some text.
  7. Clicking another button below transforms that format to TD or TM
Dominant language
JavaScript
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34
Forks
23
Avg merge
18h 6m
Merged PRs (30d)
11

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