Show Descriptions when Selecting Dependencies

[shmuelie]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

The dependencies selection screen does not show the description of the tasks, making it difficult to select the right one

Proposed technical implementation details

No response

[denelon]

I believe those are the default [Resource name] values for an instance of a resource in the configuration selected randomly if nothing else is specified. If something else had been entered that should have been displayed.

[shmuelie]

True, the complexity comes from that the list on the right only shows description, while the dependencies only shows names. So I'm setting them both to the same thing, which feels stupid 😅

[denelon]

The "Resource name" field is a unique identifier per resource instance in a configuration file.
The "Description" field is designed to provide a human readable description during the evaluation of the configuration file.
Sometimes the same DSC Resource is used multiple times in the configuration file, and an individual instance needs to be a dependency for some other part of the configuration graph.

[shmuelie]

Right, and that's why I generally don't care about the name, but I would want to see the human readable description (I think) in the dependencies list