Hi, I was playing around trying to fix some small issues on the Task detail page, and I accidentally redesigned the whole thing (without talking to you). So here I am asking for:
Feedback for the proposed design (e.g., combining tabs, naming)
Any current pain points that come to your mind
Are you even checking tabs or are you going directly to the Dynflow console
When do you use locks?
Is it possible to create human-readable error notifications?
Using a short inline alert to display problematic issues
The progress bar was displayed just during the progress
Some buttons are hidden in the kebab
More informative empty states
More informative Locks tab
PF5
Proposed designs
Bear in mind, this is not pixel-perfect; it’s a draft. Everything can be changed, microcopy still needs review. Dummy data, state terminology is not precise (I am aware). I am not sure about primary, secondary buttons - so u can see multiple alternatives here.
On this picture, is auto reload on or off? I would assume it is off, but I’m not sure.
I know this is personal preference, but the fields like state, label and so one were easier to read in the more table-like layout of the old design.
Also, the “Start at” field is a relatively important one for things which were scheduled for the future.
The “Temporarily suspended step(s)” makes it sound a bit as if it is an outcome of some user action while in reality (and in most cases) it is just the task waiting for some external action to finish. With that being said, I don’t really have any suggestions that would read better.
In theory, there can be multiple warnings, errors, inputs, outputs, exceptions and backtraces at the same time for example if multiple concurrent steps of a single task failed. How would this be displayed then?
Afaik there is no documentation on resource locking as that is a mostly internal thing that the user has little to no options to affect.
This is a from a very quick glance, and may be biased by looking at the old page for years, but I agree that the state and such on the old page feel easier to read quickly.
The result and state values both indicate the status of a task so it’d be good to retain the result field for task details.
On the success screen I like seeing the 100% complete green progress bar on the old UI. It tells you immediately that all is good. Same for the red progress bar for errors.
