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The process, that automatically fills in the recognized configuration is slow and therefore easily gets into conflict with the data submitted by the user. This makes the configuration process very problematic.
This is especially a problem of PVCS integration, but needs to be solved in general.
Yes, this is also a testability issue.
The problem is, that the user must have some feedback. It must be visible, that something is happening and that the user should not modify the data in the customizer until the auto-fill action is done. It's possible to present a dialog like "Please wait..." with a cancel button whenever the auto-fill task starts. However the dialog can popup too often and therefore be too offensive. Another option is to add a special button to the dialog that will fill the working directory on demand (and also present the "Please wait..." dialog. Comments?
For the purpose of emergency fix I suggest to remove the AUTO_FILL facility from PVCS profile completely. The proper fix will require a UI change.
*** Issue 39053 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Also, as described in issue #39053, when a different profile is selected before the auto-fill process fills the variables, the new profile will have set variables of the old one.
A UI change is necessary, scheduling for promotion D.
After issue #34630 was fixed, this issue might not be so hot.
After the performance of PCLI commands was significantly improved, the fields are filled almost immediately. Therefore I'm closing this as wontfix.