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Bug #6167

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New Host: selection of "Host Group" and "Deploy on" is user-unfriendly

Added by Dominic Cleal almost 10 years ago. Updated almost 6 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Category:
Host creation
Target version:
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Triaged:
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Description

Cloned from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108252
Description of problem:
The contents of "Host Group" affects the contents of the two drop downs ("Environment", "Content View")that exist below the "Deploy on" field. As such, these three fields should be grouped together. A side effect of this, however, is that if user selects a group and then quickly selects a provisioning type ("Deploy on"), the UI gets refreshed after group/environment/content view are populated, and the user's selection is reset.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Satellite-6.0.3-RHEL-6-20140605.0

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Assure you have at least one host group created and at least one provisioning type other than baremetal created (i.e., libvirt)
2. Hosts > New Host
3. begin populating fields; choose a group from your Host Groups list and then quickly select a provisioning type in "Deploy on".
4. Wait for UI to refresh with contents for Environment, Content View; observe results.

Actual results:
Once the appropriate values are auto-filled -- i.e., the page has been refreshed -- the user's deploy method selection has been reset.

Expected results:
Something a little more user-friendly. Reversing the location of these two fields solves two issues:
  • It appropriately positions the "Host Group" field with the two accompanying fields that rely on its input
  • It makes it much less likely that user's selection for "Deploy on" gets reset.

Additional info:
Current workaround is to select "deploy on" method first, or simply wait for UI to completely refresh after selecting Host Group.


Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Related to Foreman - Bug #3218: CR external calls are performed twiceClosedOhad Levy10/08/2013Actions
Actions #1

Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 10 years ago

  • Category set to Host creation

The fields are laid out this way deliberately, as this is a performance enhancement and it'll be much slower if swapped back (#3218 has background).

I would suggest "Deploy on" is either disabled temporarily while host group is reloading, or we're careful to keep the user's deploy on selection when the form is reloaded.

Actions #2

Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 10 years ago

  • Related to Bug #3218: CR external calls are performed twice added
Actions #3

Updated by The Foreman Bot about 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
  • Assignee set to Ondřej Pražák
  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/3302 added
Actions #4

Updated by Ondřej Pražák about 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
Actions #5

Updated by Dominic Cleal about 8 years ago

  • translation missing: en.field_release set to 136
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