New host detail page feedback (Foreman 3.0+)

[Marek_Hulan]

@ekohl

Right now I think the table is rather meaningless. What you see is 3 columns. The first column is the action. In my database I see 2 values: create for the very first entry and all the other ones are update. Technically you can see delete as well I guess, but then you’d have no host detail page. So I’d argue to drop the column.

You would see more updates, which is the main value. Sure if you never modify your host you’ll only see only the create. I assume many users edit their hosts though, so they would see the last three updates.

@ekohl

make the date clickable to view the full audit without having to go to all audits and finding the entry.

that’s the modal I’m talking about, I’ll open the RFE unless someone comes with a different idea when we close this thread, not sure if this could be done in 3.1 release

@jeremylenz

One option for handling this problem would be to have a kind of synopsis text, such as “Unknown subscription status. 2 traces need attention” which is generated from all the non-green statuses and available at a glance without clicking. This would give you more info than the icons alone.

I like that, we can present only the red and yellow sub-statuses in that case.

@lzap

So ideally if we would only make hamburger menu extensible and later on we could add some option for users to mark some actions to be also available via buttons.

I think there’s a slot already in the kebab menu, @amirfefer will be happy to assist with this in the thread Host Details Page Redesign - Extension points once he’s back.

@lzap

I agree, the first thing that strikes my eyes is that the hostname is being wrapped. In your example, that is not even a long hostname, but our users often have prod-hostnames.which.are.really.long.like-332.really.long.com.

A bug already tracked as Bug #33504: The new host detail page hostname should never be split to two lines - Foreman