Importand Hints for testing on Stage Server

https://stage.d2sphere.com

General hint

Using the light theme over the dark theme is highly recommended at this stage, as all new developments happen first in the light theme and will be adopted to the dark theme only randomly.

Beside several improvements (e.g. mysterious text shadow on piecharts was removed, table columns and orders), the most interesting feature introduced by Okjin are the extended filters.

The shortest story ever:

Just try it out

The short story

The extended filters are an extension to the general search box. Both work in conjunction to each other, so pre filtering by an advanced filter for e.g. online devices and then use the general searchbox for additional search criteria is one feature. Extended filters can be configured in a special filter configuration dialog. Resetting one of them can be done directly in the filter bar by simply hitting the cross symbol of the filter tag. An alternative way is the use of the trash icon on the upper right corner of the configuration dialog. Ressetting them all in one bunch can be done by the lower reset button in the same dialog. Sophisticated input options (e.g. min and max values for numbers or lists of strings for string based filter) are a plus. Currently active filters are marked by a different caption color in the tab bar area of the dialog.

The long story aka outlook:

Several additional filters may be developed, e.g. compound filters for defining several features of a query in just one settings pane (user accounts with its several flags are a possible match). Another filter will simply reduce the maximum number of visible rows in a table (e.g. first 100 of 1.000.000 results). The filters will be extended to work together with the backing database to not only filter the values as late as the are available in the table but queriying them already filtered from the database (this makes it possible to limit the data transfer volume from database to frontend and speed up page rendring). In a next stage it will be possible also to define some of the filters as "permanent", so that they are active and visible always on a page (e.g. trips or events). Without this feature the amount of data to be shown in the table would exceed any healthy limit. Another future option will be the possibility to define limits from programmer side to the input fields (e.g. interval between start and end may not exceed 1 day) to further reduce misuse by defining to large query intervals.