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Hello dear Rudder developers,<br>
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I am currently working on new features for next Rudder release, and
I need your advice and feedbacks on my first steps.<br>
<br>
Our main objective here are:<br>
* Organize your Rules by providing hierarchical links between them (
~ group categories with Rules)<br>
* Check and select which Rules apply a Directive directly from the
directive page: No more thousands of clicks before applying your
Directive to Rules<br>
<br>
To do this there will be a lot of changes to make the webapp more
and more user friendly.<br>
<br>
In this mail I'll talk about the <b>Rule category</b> feature<br>
<br>
Here is a mock-up of the new "Rule management page" what Jonathan,
François and I comes up with:<br>
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<img alt="" src="cid:part1.00050103.00020405@normation.com"
height="786" width="989"><br>
<br>
On the right part, we find our goold old <b>Rule table</b>. As you
can see, it had a small lifting:<br>
<ul>
<li> Less columns: some of them were useless ( enable/disabled,
groups and directives with only the first displayed unless you
click on it)</li>
<li> New column category</li>
<li> Compliance column with meaningful colors ( Green > 90%,
Yellow <90% and > 40%, Red < 40, gray when no reporting
yet (disabled, just started)</li>
<li> Edit button replaced with a more meaningful one (uuuugly
icon before...)</li>
<li> When mouse is over a Rule with a description, the
description is displayed in a tooltip</li>
<li>The table displays only a Rules from selected catagory ( see
below )<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>On top of the table, a button to create Rule, a filter to filter
the table, and a checkbox to tell whether the table should include
or not Rules from subcategories <br>
</p>
<br>
On the left part: The new category tree view<br>
A new way to organize your Rules and understand how you apply your
configuration to your nodes.<br>
<ul>
<li>a tree like the one in the groups page</li>
<li>on click, it displays Rules from this category in the table on
the right side</li>
<li>when mouse is over one category, description is displayed, and
action buttons appears (edit and delete)</li>
<li>I'd like to add a way to rename a category quickly, by
double-clicking on its name</li>
</ul>
On top of the tree, a button to create new category, buttons <b>+ </b>and
<b>-</b> to expand/close all category, and a filter on the tree<br>
<br>
I think that's all about Rule category, what do you think of it ? do
you have any more ideas? something we missed maybe? Don't hesitate,
we're here to discuss! <br>
<br>
another mail should come shortly about multi-application of
Directives!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
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