Make the toner forecast an order, not a table
The report answers a purchasing question, and it was answering it in seven columns, two tables and a rowspan. What someone actually needs from it is a short list of what to buy. So it opens with that list, grouped by part number with a quantity. Two cartridges of the same part in different printers is a quantity of two, which is the number an order needs and the one a per-printer table made the reader count by hand. It covers what is empty plus what goes within a fortnight - ordering only what is already empty means running empty. There is a copy button, because it ends up pasted into a mail. Below it the cartridges sit in urgency bands rather than in one long list sorted by a number. The question is which pile a thing is in, and a pile that is empty is worth seeing as empty. Everything past "empty" starts collapsed; the order list above already covers the same ground in a tenth of the height. The row is a cartridge now, not a printer, so it can carry its own part number, its own level bar and its own countdown. Nesting supplies under a printer meant opening a printer to find out whether anything on it needed doing. Cartridges with no part mapped are counted on a single line rather than given one each. They cannot be dropped, since that would quietly shorten the order, and they cannot be ordered from here either - the job they represent is mapping them, which is one job however many there are. Bands and the order horizon are decided server-side, next to the arithmetic that produces them, so a heading cannot disagree with what got added to the list. Checked against a fleet of 43 dev printers with real part mappings, driven by a stub Zabbix - live Zabbix is not reachable from the dev box.
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"path": "/api/printers/supplies/forecast",
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"auth": "jwt-optional",
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"params": "days (1-365, default 90)",
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"purpose": "Days-to-empty per printer from Zabbix history, soonest first, with cartridge replacement counts; printers with no honest estimate are returned separately with the reason. available=false when Zabbix is unreachable",
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"purpose": "One row per CARTRIDGE: days-to-empty from Zabbix history (hourly trends over a long window), soonest first, banded empty/soon/month/later, each with its part numbers and replacement count. Also returns orderlist - what to buy within horizondays, grouped by part number with a quantity. Cartridges with no honest estimate come back separately with the reason. available=false when Zabbix is unreachable",
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"example": "curl 'http://localhost:5001/api/printers/supplies/forecast?days=90'"
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}
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]
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