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Hello dear Rudder developers,<br>
<br>
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>Directive</b><b> application</b>
feature<br>
<br>
Here is a mock-up of the new "Directive management page" what
Jonathan, François and I came up with:<br>
<br>
<img alt="" src="cid:part1.02030009.04020300@normation.com"
height="816" width="1059"><br>
<br>
Our first decision was to transform the Directive page:<br>
<br>
<br>
Now when you click on a Directive, you no longer have the <b>loooooooooooooooooong</b>
page with the directive details and parameters inside.<br>
<br>
Instead you we deciced to transform that pages into tabs:<br>
<ul>
<li> First tab: <b>Informations</b></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>In that tab you will find all basic informations about
the Directive (name, description, ...) and a list of Rules
applying this Directive. <br>
So in this tab you can clearly understand what your Directive is
doing, if it's applied or not<br>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Second tab: <b>Parameters</b></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>You will find all configuration parameters for your Directive<br>
</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Third tab: <b>Target Rules</b></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>In this tab you will be able to check and determine
which Rule applies your Directive.<br>
We decided to keep the same display than Rule page with the new
category tree with small modifications (ie: You can't create, edit
nor delete Rules or categories here).<br>
You can select/deselect Rules or categories to decide which will
apply the Directive.<br>
</blockquote>
Once your done, click on the save button, saving all changes made in
the three tabs.<br>
We will try to keep action buttons (save, delete, disable ...)
always visible, so you won't have to scroll to find the button.<br>
<br>
I think that's all about this feature, 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>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
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