Assigning a discipline to a package resource is confusing

[emetsger]

To assign a discipline to a package resource, bring up the properties box for the resource and scroll down to the Optional Properties; Discipline will be the first optional property:

At first glance, Discipline appears to accommodate multiple values. The first value defaults to "Life Science" and the second value is empty. This is not the case. The second, empty value, represents a narrower discipline selection, i.e. a sub-discipline (e.g. Biotechnology, Animal Sciences, etc). The user doesn't know that until they select the empty box. If a user thought "Life Science" by itself was sufficient, they would never be inclined to click on the empty value in order to narrow the discipline.

What makes this worse is that the user must select a sub-discipline in order for the super-discipline to be persisted. That is, if the user thought "Life Science" was sufficient, and clicked "Apply" to persist their selection, the discipline is not, in fact, persisted!! They must select the broader discipline ("Life Science") and select a sub-discipline (e.g. "Biotechnology"), and then click "Apply". Only then will the Discipline optional property be saved on the package resource.