[katello-devel] Systems with the same name in the UI

[James Labocki]

Will the UI show the unique ID for the system so a user could distinguish similarly named systems?


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd Warner" <taw at redhat.com>
> To: "Bryan Kearney" <bkearney at redhat.com>
> Cc: katello-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:06:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Systems with the same name in the UI
> 
> We allow this in Satellite. Each machine has its unique label though.
> -todd
> 
> On 09/12/2012 11:10 AM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> > As eric mentioned, duplicate names are probably indicitive of an
> > issue. What about leaving them there. If you name all your machines
> > "bob" you are probably doing something wrong.
> >
> > -- bk
> >
> > On 09/12/2012 11:05 AM, Garik Khachikyan wrote:
> >> (about colors): and for the system being re-registered some 100s
> >> of
> >> times?
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/09/12 17:01, Jason Rist wrote:
> >>> On Wed 12 Sep 2012 08:59:28 AM MDT, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> >>>> Hey,
> >>>>
> >>>> as I mentioned on the demo, if there are multiple systems with
> >>>> the
> >>>> same
> >>>> name, in the UI list they look exactly the same. We might like
> >>>> to add
> >>>> something to differentiate them.
> >>>>
> >>>> The logical option is to add UUID there, but if you open up
> >>>> system
> >>>> list
> >>>> you'll see there is not plenty of space on each line and UUID is
> >>>> pretty
> >>>> long. That would practically mean to extend each record with one
> >>>> line.
> >>>>
> >>>> Another approach could be to give each system a color square
> >>>> that
> >>>> would
> >>>> be calculated as a hash from it's UUID. This works pretty well,
> >>>> I
> >>>> already used it in one project. If you'd hover over it, it would
> >>>> show a
> >>>> bubble with the UUID. Saves space and you can still visually
> >>>> differentiate among systems with the same name, but this is not
> >>>> good for
> >>>> color-blind people.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any other options? Recommendations?
> >>>>
> >>>> ps - I am going to create a bugzilla for this I guess.
> >>>>
> >>> Aren't most hashes fairly unique up to 6 characters?  Can we just
> >>> do a
> >>> bit of the hash with a ...? I like the color box idea too.
> >>>
> >>> -J
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Jason E. Rist
> >>> Senior Software Engineer
> >>> Systems Management and Cloud Enablement
> >>> Red Hat, Inc.
> >>> +1.919.754.4048
> >>> Freenode: jrist
> 
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> Todd Warner
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