UX issue: Creating a compatible group with no members will create a mixed group (BZ 708929)

Jiri Kremser jkremser at redhat.com
Tue Sep 11 16:02:29 UTC 2012


Hi Harlan,
  it was link to the local deployed instance. If you don't have, you can try it on the older version for instance here: http://jon01.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com:7080/coregui/#Inventory/Groups/CompatibleGroups

Click on New, type in some name, Next, Finish -> nothing new in the list (because the newly created group is mixed and it is available from mixed groups view (on the bottom left))

..or Click on New, type in some name, Next, Assign two resource of different type, Finish -> the same effect

JK


----- Original Message -----
From: "Harlan Douglas" <hdouglas at redhat.com>
To: "Jiri Kremser" <jkremser at redhat.com>
Cc: rhq-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org, "Malini Rao" <mrao at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:54:27 PM
Subject: Re: UX issue: Creating a compatible group with no members will create a mixed group (BZ 708929)

Hi Jiri,
I am not able to view the link that you sent over so I can not fully digest the issue at hand.
Can you please send over a screen shot or a working link and I will get back to when I can.

-Harlan



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jiri Kremser" <jkremser at redhat.com>
To: rhq-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org, "Harlan Douglas" <hdouglas at redhat.com>, "Malini Rao" <mrao at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:12:56 AM
Subject: UX issue: Creating a compatible group with no members will create a mixed group (BZ 708929)

Hi,
  the problem is that it isn't intuitive when user creates an empty compatible. group or mixed group from the compatible group view (http://localhost:7080/coregui/#Inventory/Groups/CompatibleGroups) the mixed group is created and nothing is populated in the list of groups in current view (because it is list of compatible groups).

Is it plausible from UX perspective to create a group with whatever type and then if the type doesn't correspond with the currently selected view, redirect the user to the right view? I've done those changes and to me it is far more intuitive. What about some dialog? "You have created an empty group, which is considered as a mixed one." / "You've created a mixed group from compatible view, the list of mixed group will be opened" ?

JK 


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