Hi all,
Apologies for not sending this out sooner, I really thought I had…
Tomorrow we're having the first in what we hope will be quite a few UX
demos - the plan is to quickly review an area of the UI that needs help
and what it's problems are, and then detail a potential way to improve
it. This mirrors what we did recently for the vertical navigation
proposals.
Since this is user-facing, we'd like the community to feedback on the
proposals, so we're doing this as a live stream (same as the demos) and
you're welcome to watch live (or watch the recording after) and put
your thoughts on this thread. I'll be sure to post a summary of the
discussion as well.
We're looking forward to your feedback! Here's the URL for the stream
tomorrow:
Greg
Provisioning flow looks great!
I understand the idea of "wizard that then lands on existing host page" but
I'd not want to see that in production. If the wizard were using the API
instead of the host form, would the existing host page ever be needed
(except as an emergency backup for when things go sideways)?
···
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Greg Sutcliffe wrote:
Hi all,
Apologies for not sending this out sooner, I really thought I had…
Tomorrow we’re having the first in what we hope will be quite a few UX
demos - the plan is to quickly review an area of the UI that needs help
and what it’s problems are, and then detail a potential way to improve
it. This mirrors what we did recently for the vertical navigation
proposals.
Since this is user-facing, we’d like the community to feedback on the
proposals, so we’re doing this as a live stream (same as the demos) and
you’re welcome to watch live (or watch the recording after) and put
your thoughts on this thread. I’ll be sure to post a summary of the
discussion as well.
We’re looking forward to your feedback! Here’s the URL for the stream
tomorrow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvcAbIuwXsQ
Greg
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Hi all,
The UX demo was recorded today - thanks to all who took part!
There was a good amount of discussion, with the general consesnus that
using a wizard for provisioning made a lot of sense. We covered some
options for how to get started, and also talked a lot about edge cases,
complex provisioning, and spent a bit of time on multiple IPs per
interface (very relevant to IPv6). For a more detailed breakdown of the
possible provisioning workflows, see [1]
The discussion is welcome to continue here for those who could join
live, and we're really keen to hear feedback on this. It's a big
redesign of a very old part of Foreman, and we want to get it right.
Please do leave your comments in this thread 
If you're inspired to join in with the efforts to improve the UI, there
are many trivial issues which need fixing, and would make excellent
start issues for first time contributors. Marek has created a "master
tracker" [2] for easy UX fixes, and we'll be updating that with more
bugs as we work through the UX discussion notes. If you've been itching
to contribute but didn't know where, check it out!
[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sHhG7cpH6qZAJnl_czbkHz5OdC-PRJ0
fxVoDGiJ1eho/edit
[2] Tracker #20803: UX enhancements - Foreman
Thanks!
Greg
Thanks for the feedback. As mentioned during the demo, the wizard might not
contain all of the fields that current host form has, e.g. configuration
management. Also the wizards helps to setup all things required for the
provisioning but after first or more run through, all should be set and ready.
In such case, it might be easier for skilled users to just use host group and
compute profile to prefill everything.
A midstep is adding "Provision now" and "Further customize" buttons at the end
of wizard. Later, if we get positive feedback from users and 100% of them will
use provisioning wizard and the existing host form will be extra unnecessary
step, I can imagine removing it completely.
···
On středa 30. srpna 2017 18:53:38 CEST Tom McKay wrote:
> Provisioning flow looks great!
>
> I understand the idea of "wizard that then lands on existing host page" but
> I'd not want to see that in production. If the wizard were using the API
> instead of the host form, would the existing host page ever be needed
> (except as an emergency backup for when things go sideways)?
–
Marek
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Greg Sutcliffe greg.sutcliffe@gmail.com > > wrote:
Hi all,
Apologies for not sending this out sooner, I really thought I had…
Tomorrow we’re having the first in what we hope will be quite a few UX
demos - the plan is to quickly review an area of the UI that needs help
and what it’s problems are, and then detail a potential way to improve
it. This mirrors what we did recently for the vertical navigation
proposals.
Since this is user-facing, we’d like the community to feedback on the
proposals, so we’re doing this as a live stream (same as the demos) and
you’re welcome to watch live (or watch the recording after) and put
your thoughts on this thread. I’ll be sure to post a summary of the
discussion as well.
We’re looking forward to your feedback! Here’s the URL for the stream
tomorrow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvcAbIuwXsQ
Greg
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