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cproudlock
2331c03664 Tick a guide's sections off as you work through it
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Only checklist items could be ticked, which answers "what have I done" but not
the question a long procedure actually raises: where was I. Somebody looks away
to do the thing the guide asked for and looks back at a wall of text.

Every step and every heading now carries a checkbox while reading. Ticking one
strikes it through and fades it rather than hiding it, because somebody
scanning back up the page has to still be able to read what they did. The
number is struck through with it, but the step's own "Step 3" label is not -
that is the address of the thing, not part of what was done.

Headings count, not just steps. A guide converted from an HTML article often
has fifty headings and no steps at all, and those are exactly the guides long
enough to lose your place in. That also means the card's "N steps to tick"
stops reading as a broken feature on a guide that is entirely tickable.

Reading only, as the checklists already were: in the editor a tick would be an
edit, and an author clicking around their own draft would quietly change what
the next reader sees as done. Progress stays per browser and per version -
shopfloor PCs share a login, so one technician's ticks must not greet the next
person on that bay, and step 4 of version 3 is not step 4 of version 2.
2026-08-27 13:02:24 -04:00
cproudlock
151d7c4f44 Anyone not signed in holds the guest role
Whether somebody with no account may see something was being answered one
feature at a time: a securesend_allow_guests setting, an enable flag per kiosk,
and very nearly a third for guides - each with its own settings page, its own
vocabulary and its own hand-written branch inside a route. Every one of them
answered a permissions question, and this app already administers permissions
per role.

So a caller with no token is not nobody: they hold the seeded `guest` role.
require_permission consults it when there is no identity, which is the entire
mechanism. The role is seeded holding NOTHING, so an upgrade opens no door; a
site opens one by ticking a box in the same grid it uses for every other role,
and closes it the same way. Revocation is read on every request rather than
cached, because taking guest access away is what somebody does the moment they
realise what they opened, and it has to bite immediately.

The redundant @jwt_required() above require_permission is gone from 184 routes.
It was belt-and-braces before; now it is actively wrong, because it refuses a
request with no token before the permission check can have an opinion, so a
grant would appear to do nothing.

What a guest may hold is bounded. Any .view or .read permission is grantable.
A WRITE has to be blessed by whoever owns it, through the new
get_guest_grantable_permissions hook (contract 0.21.0), and Secure Send is the
only case that exists: sending a password to a vendor is the one write this
product means to offer somebody who never signs in. Everything else is refused
by the API and greyed out in the grid rather than warned about - a checkbox
that quietly makes deleting an asset anonymous is not a warning anybody reads
twice. A guest write records no creator: the trail says when and from where,
never who, and that is the reason for the bar.

GE-Enforce and Slides gained read permissions so they can be opened to guests
without handing out the manage right. Their read routes accept either through
require_any_permission, so nothing an existing manager could reach has moved.

The navigation endpoint now returns only what the caller can actually reach.
Without that a signed-out visitor gets a sidebar of the whole app where every
link bounces off the login page, which reads as a broken site rather than as a
closed door. A nav item may name several permissions; holding any one is
enough, which is what GE-Enforce and Slides need now that a viewer and a
manager hold different strings.

Two things this found on the way: current_user is a LocalProxy, so
`current_user is None` is False for a request with nobody behind it - harmless
under a required JWT, an AttributeError the moment verification became
optional. And an image pasted into a guide before its first save was never
attached to it, so it was visible to editors and invisible to every reader;
saving now attaches it, and `flask guides fix-images` repairs what is stored.

The guides guest setting written earlier today is gone. Granting guides.view to
the guest role replaces it, which is the point.
2026-08-27 12:51:58 -04:00
cproudlock
8531559f22 A guide can be carried to another site
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Guides are written on one site and needed on all of them, and the sites that
matter are air-gapped from wherever the writing happens. Until now a procedure
was stranded in the database it was typed into: the HTML importer could rebuild
one from its original article, but anything authored in the editor had nowhere
to go.

flask guides export writes one .guide.json per guide, with every image the
blocks reference carried inside it as base64. One file on purpose - a bundle
that needs its images copied alongside it is a bundle that will eventually
arrive without them. flask guides import reads them back, a directory at a
time, and refuses anything that is not a bundle before it writes a row rather
than half-importing a stray .json sitting in the same folder.

What travels is the content: title, summary, tags, blocks, images. What does
not is ids, revision history, authorship and publication state, because those
belong to whichever database issued them - an imported guide starts as a draft
at revision 1, owned by whoever ran the import. The SLUG does travel: it is the
address somebody pastes into a work order, and the same guide should answer to
the same name on every site.

--replace updates the guide already carrying that slug instead of creating a
second one, which is how a corrected guide is re-shipped. It drops the stored
images first: the incoming bundle is the whole truth for that guide, and a
guide re-shipped monthly would otherwise accumulate orphans nothing points at.

Bundles refuse a version they are too old to read rather than importing the
parts they recognise. A newer site's guide is not a guide this one can be
trusted to render.

Proven by round-tripping a five-guide export back into the same site, including
one carrying two PNG screenshots, and reading it in a browser.
2026-08-27 11:46:50 -04:00
cproudlock
c8efadefba An HTML article can become a guide
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A site adopting this app arrives holding procedures already written: styled
HTML pages that get mailed around, opened off a share, and edited by whoever
still has the file. Those pages are exactly what a guide is for, and retyping
one into the editor is how a good procedure stays on a share forever.

flask guides import-html reads the page and produces blocks. It recognises the
vocabulary those pages actually use - a step box with its own number, an alert
in one of three colours, a code block with a copy button, a checkbox list, a
table with a header row - and maps each to the block that already renders it,
lifting embedded images into guideimages so a document stops carrying its
screenshots as base64. Page furniture goes: the header, the footer, and the
table of contents a guide builds for itself from its own headings.

The conversion is lossy on purpose. Colour, fonts, width and nested layout are
dropped, because storing blocks rather than markup is what makes dark mode,
printing and tickable steps work at all. So an import is always a DRAFT and the
default is a dry run that reports what it would produce and writes nothing.
Blocks go through the same validator the API uses: an import must not be able
to store something the editor could not have produced.

The parser is tolerant, because real articles are not well-formed. An unclosed
<p> is normal HTML and the browser closes it at the next block element; without
the same rule one unclosed tag swallows the rest of the article into a single
paragraph, which is what it did before the test caught it.

Proven end to end against four real articles, including one carrying two PNG
screenshots, read back in a browser.
2026-08-27 11:27:19 -04:00
cproudlock
f59aca5a1b USB check-in / check-out audit, as a report rather than a paged list
CMMC removable-media tracking is an audit obligation, and answering "who had
this drive, and when" meant paging through the check-in/out list by hand.
GET /api/usb/reports/audit returns the events - a take and a return are separate
rows, because a count cannot answer the question an audit actually asks - with
summary figures riding along for the people who only want the shape of it, and
a CSV for the people who want it in a spreadsheet.

The window is named rather than a day count: today, last month, six months, a
year, all time. Nobody should have to work out that a year is 365.

Both directory modes answer in one voice. The external path reads the
cmmc_usb checkinoutlog; self-hosted expands one usbcheckouts row into its two
ends, so a returned drive is distinguishable from one still out, and the window
filter runs in SQL against either end of the loan - a drive taken before the
window and returned inside it is a check-in the window has to show. Rows come
back from the mode-specific half; the CSV, the summary and the response shape
are built once in the route.

Ordering is total in both modes. Timestamp alone ties for two events in the same
second, and the same query then returns them in a different order each run,
which reads as the log being unstable.
2026-08-27 10:20:21 -04:00
cproudlock
7c47ae1f7c USB kiosk: take and return a drive without a ShopDB login
The people who actually take USB drives are standing at the cabinet, and most
of them have no account here. Check-out and check-in were gated behind a login
that was not doing much anyway: both modes already attribute the action to a
scanned BADGE rather than to the signed-in user, so the login was gating the
screen, not the record.

/usb-kiosk is a full-screen touch page modelled on the parts kiosk, off unless
a site sets usb_kiosk_enabled - every route 404s until then, rather than 403,
so a disabled kiosk does not advertise that there is a door here. It works
against the self-hosted tables or an existing cmmc_usb database.

THE LIST IS THE TRADE. These drives carry no barcode, so unlike the parts kiosk
there is nothing to present and the screen has to offer a list - which exposes
more than a scan-first design, where you had to already hold a drive to learn
anything. So the list is not anonymous: an SSO comes first and must resolve to
a real person before any drive is named, which is the same bar taking a drive
already had to clear. It is a POST so the badge stays out of proxy access logs.
The main screen shows the caller's own drives, what is free, and a COUNT of
everything else; holders of other people's drives appear only behind a second
deliberate tap, so nobody reads the whole cabinet off a wall panel in passing.

A badge that resolves to no employee is REFUSED, unlike the signed-in route
which creates the user row. A checkout nobody can trace to a person defeats the
tracking, and at a kiosk there is no operator standing there to vouch for it.

Returning somebody else's drive asks first and then records the badge that was
SCANNED, so the log says who actually handed it back. That is the honest record
and it needs no change to a schema this app does not own. Refusing a mismatch
outright is a setting but not the default: a drive left behind by somebody on
leave would otherwise be unreturnable at the kiosk, which just moves the problem
to a person with a login.

The authz sweep caught these writes, twice - once for the two mutations and
again for the two list endpoints. Both are exempted with the reasoning written
out beside the parts-kiosk entry rather than silenced. The list endpoints are
POSTs that change nothing.

Verified by driving the real page: SSO on the keypad, tap Take, database moves.
2026-08-27 08:14:02 -04:00
cproudlock
a9289ee670 printedparts 0003 was an unguarded ALTER, and no test could see it
Unlike its twenty siblings it ran a bare add_column plus create_index, so
`flask plugin upgrade-all` failed with "duplicate column name: gagelabtag" on
any database whose tables were built by create_all and stamped nowhere - and a
chain stops at its first error, so 0004 never applied either.

The index is guarded by COLUMN SET rather than by name: create_all names indexes
by SQLAlchemy's convention and the migration by this repo's, so a name-keyed
guard would have added a second index over the same column instead of skipping.

The test that should have caught it was restricted to plugins whose whole chain
is a single baseline, on the reasoning that a longer chain meets a second
problem - an ALTER whose column is already present - that guarding a create_table
does not fix. True, but the conclusion was wrong: the answer is to guard the
ALTERs too, not to stop testing the chains that have them. It now covers every
post-cutover chain, and was confirmed to fail against the unguarded migration
before the guard went in.
2026-08-26 15:06:11 -04:00
cproudlock
dffa2082be Backups: stop storing credentials, and fix a dedup chain that never matched
The NTLARS/DNC registry carries an FTP password in cleartext and it was stored
verbatim. That put it in the backuprevisions table, on the revision panel which
renders values, and in the download route which hands back a ready-to-import
.reg - so anyone holding backups.view could read it off a web page.

Redaction happens at PARSE, so the secret never reaches the database at all.
Redacting on display would have left it at rest and one query away.

What is deliberately NOT done is dropping the value silently. This codec already
refuses to discard an unparseable value, precisely because a backup that looks
complete and restores a machine with a setting missing is the worst outcome. A
redacted value keeps its name, is listed in the projection, and renders as a
COMMENT naming what must be set by hand. Emitting a placeholder as the password
would produce a machine that looks restored and cannot connect, and the
technician would go debugging the network.

scripts/redact_backup_secrets.py scrubs revisions recorded before this, dry run
by default. It leaves contenthash alone: the hash identifies the configuration a
bay reported, so rewriting it would make every bay's next post look like a
change and insert a duplicate revision across the fleet.

Separately, sourcehostname is now normalized at ingest. samesource() maps '' to
IS NULL for the query while the insert stored the raw '', so rows written by a
client posting an empty hostname could never match their own next post: every
post inserted, the table grew without bound, and the history filled with
identical entries nobody could read. Whitespace did the same thing more quietly.
2026-08-26 15:06:04 -04:00
cproudlock
e60d6b74d8 Search: a domain that FAILED no longer looks like one that found nothing
Every domain catches broadly and returns no rows so one broken table cannot take
the whole search box down. That part is right. On its own, though, it makes a
DOWN domain indistinguishable from an EMPTY one: the technician sees no results,
is offered a spelling correction, and concludes the record does not exist. It
does - the search just could not look.

Failed domains are now named in the response and stated above the results.

The suggestion is deliberately still offered on a degraded run. Suppressing it
was tried first and is worse: a chronically unreachable domain, an external HR
directory say, would silently disable spelling help for every search for ever
with nothing saying why. Naming the failure is the honest fix; withholding a
second useful signal is not.

Guides search also moves to the published revision. It correctly limited itself
to published GUIDES, but matched and displayed title/summary/tags/blocksjson
from the Guide row - which is the WORKING copy. A published guide with
unpublished edits matched on wording that only exists in the draft, and the
reader opened it to find the word absent.
2026-08-26 15:05:54 -04:00
cproudlock
9d96006eae Audit log retention: a way to purge, off by default
The audit log is append-only and nothing ever removed a row, so it grows for as
long as a site runs. This site reached tens of thousands of pages, which is past
the point of being useful: nobody pages through that to find anything.

Retention is OPT-IN and the default keeps everything. An upgrade that silently
started deleting a site's audit history would be indefensible, so
audit_retentiondays defaults to 0 and nothing is removed until somebody sets a
number. The Site & Facility card shows the log's size and exactly how many
entries a purge would delete BEFORE anything is pressed.

Deleting happens in committed batches. That is not an optimisation: one DELETE
over a million rows builds a single enormous transaction and holds locks across
the table while it runs, which on this server means blocking the collectors
posting inventory. The API caps its batch count so the request cannot outlive a
proxy timeout, and a run that stops early reports how much is left rather than
claiming it finished - a purge reporting success over 900k remaining rows would
be the same silent half-failure this codebase keeps getting bitten by.

`flask audit stats` and `flask audit purge` for the server, the latter reporting
by default and deleting only with --apply, with no batch cap because it is not
behind a proxy and a purge that stops halfway leaves the operator guessing.

audit.purge is a separate permission from audit.view. Reading the log and
destroying it are different acts, and plenty of people need only the first.

Chunking selects a page of ids and deletes those rather than using
DELETE ... LIMIT, which is MySQL-only while the suite runs on SQLite.
2026-08-26 15:05:43 -04:00
cproudlock
3c68ac2850 ADR-015: the site-literal check was matching nothing, and had been all along
The patterns are assembled from fragments so the published script does not
contain the strings it greps for. They used the apostrophe-escape form
('a'\''b'), which EMBEDS a literal apostrophe, instead of the concatenation form
('a''b'), which joins them. Every pattern therefore carried a stray quote in the
middle and could never match a line of real code, so the check passed everything
from the day it was written.

Verified the only way that means anything: plant a violation, watch it fail,
revert. Fixed, it immediately found 25 real hits.

Among them, in seven places, the default ServiceNow URLs - one organisation's QA
tenant, shipped with the integration ENABLED. Any site that had not configured
ServiceNow still rendered ticket links, pointing its technicians at a tenant
they cannot reach; an adopting site would have been pointed into somebody else's
instance entirely. There is no sensible cross-site default for "which ServiceNow
is yours", so the URLs ship blank and the integration ships off, matching the
Zabbix block that got this right.

A named SaaS tenant is as site-specific as a hostname, so it joins the patterns.
Colocated .spec.js files are excluded the same way tests/ already is: sample data
naming a facility is not a shipped literal.
2026-08-26 15:05:30 -04:00
cproudlock
cebb3e9e44 Guides: make images render, and stop drafts leaking to readers
Images were a broken icon for every user. The stored URL was bound straight
to <img src>, and a plain image request carries no Authorization header while
this app keeps its JWT in one, so every fetch was a 401. They are now fetched
through the API client, which also fixes the stored '/api/...' path under a
subpath mount where the API is not at /api at all. A failed image says so in
words rather than rendering as a broken icon, and the editor's own thumbnails
go through the same path - an author needs to see the screenshot they pasted.

Revision and image routes gated on their parent guide. Both were gated on
guides.view alone, and revision ids are sequential, so being able to read one
guide was enough to walk the ids and read every unpublished draft on the site -
the opposite of what docs/GUIDES.md promises. An image in a PUBLISHED guide
still serves to any reader; one that only appears in a draft does not.

The guide list, the tag chips and search now match the PUBLISHED text rather
than the working copy. Matching the working copy handed readers a hit on
wording that is not in the page when they open it.

The slug no longer follows the title. It was regenerated on every save that
carried a title and the editor autosaves every three seconds, so fixing a typo
in a heading silently moved the URL and broke exactly the pasted links the
stored slug exists to protect.

publish() now aborts when the pre-publish save failed. It ran regardless, so
the author saw "Published version N" while readers got the previous revision.

Link rendering: text is escaped before formatting, so a captured URL arrives
carrying entities and was escaped a second time - every multi-parameter
ServiceNow and SharePoint link opened with &amp;amp; in it. Emphasis could also
reach inside an href, and '//host' passed as an in-app link when the browser
reads it as off-site.

Tests are now HTTP-level. The draft-invisibility rule lived entirely in routes
that no test executed, which is how three of them shipped serving drafts.
2026-08-26 15:04:09 -04:00
cproudlock
2c016de59e Guides answer the search box, and proofing catches what spellcheck cannot
A guide was invisible to global search. Core search has a hardcoded block per
domain rather than a hook, so a new plugin stays unreachable until someone adds
one - which is the same shape as the gap this test file already documents for
USB devices and printed parts: records with a list page, labels in the world,
and no way to find them from the search box.

Guides are searched by title, summary, tags AND body. The body matters more here
than elsewhere: people look for a procedure by something written halfway down it,
not by a title they never read. PUBLISHED ONLY - a draft is deliberately
invisible to readers, and search is exactly where that rule leaks if nobody
writes it down. The test proves it with a draft sharing a tag and a body word
with a published guide, so a missing filter would show up as a ride-along.

PROOFING catches what a spellchecker cannot, because none of these are spelling:
a smart quote in a command so it will not run, a checklist item with no text so
a step is silently missing, a heading left with nothing under it after a
reorganise, an image with no alt text, a TODO published by accident. Warnings,
never blocks - somebody publishing at 14:40 with one empty bullet should be
told, not stopped, and a procedure that exists imperfectly beats one nobody
wrote.

The smart-character issue reports once per block with a one-click fix, rather
than once per offending character: an opening and a closing quote are one
problem, and listing both makes the panel look like it is nagging.

The character table itself is written as escapes. The style gate forbids
non-ASCII in source, and a file whose job is detecting smart quotes cannot
contain any - which the gate caught, correctly.
2026-08-26 11:27:10 -04:00
cproudlock
38d1e367fc Guides: write a procedure in ShopDB, not beside it
The knowledgebase plugin is a link registry - a description, a URL and some
keywords pointing at a document held somewhere else. That leaves the documents
themselves as HTML files on a share: no search, no history, no way to know
whether the copy pinned to a noticeboard is current, and no way for a technician
to tick off where they are.

A guide is stored as an ordered list of typed blocks rather than a blob of
HTML, because three of the four things this feature exists for depend on it. A
tickable step needs a stable id to be remembered; dark mode needs semantic
markup rather than pasted colours; and print needs to know where a step begins
so it does not split one across a page. Free HTML gives none of that and lets
pasted styling fight the theme.

Inline text is a restricted Markdown subset - bold, italic, inline code, links,
line breaks - escaped BEFORE formatting, so nothing an author pasted can reach
the DOM as markup. No fonts, sizes or colours: emphasis is semantic and the
theme decides how it looks. That is what makes a guide written next year match
one written today, and dark mode work without an author thinking about it.

DRAFTS AND VERSIONS. The guide row is the working copy; every save that changes
something writes an immutable revision; and a separate pointer says which
revision READERS get. Without that pointer, editing a live procedure changes it
under a technician who is halfway through following it. Publishing promotes an
existing revision rather than snapshotting, so a publish with unsaved edits
cannot ship a version nobody reviewed. Restoring writes a new revision with old
content, so the record of what people were told in between survives.

Saves dedup on a content hash covering title, summary, tags and blocks, so an
autosave that changed nothing writes no version - otherwise the history fills
with identical entries and hides the three edits that mattered.

Progress lives in the browser, not the database: shopfloor PCs share a login, so
per-user ticks would show one technician's progress to the next person on that
bay, which reads as "already done". Keyed by guide and version, because step 4
of version 3 is not step 4 of version 2.

Five permissions, and the split between edit and publish is the point: a
technician can write a procedure up while somebody else decides it is fit for
the floor. create-without-edit works too - an author may edit their own guide
until it is published, after which other people are following it.
2026-08-26 10:24:26 -04:00
cproudlock
28af92aaec An unmeasurable backup must not hide a working one
CI caught this: judging a host by its stalest kind treated a never-confirmed
revision (lastseenat NULL) as the worst case, so it won. The verdict for a NULL
confirmation is tri-state None, which renders as NO BADGE - so a host with a
healthy ntlars backup and one backfilled row showed nothing at all. Hiding a
working backup is the one thing that badge must never do.

A NULL confirmation is not stale, it is unmeasurable. The stalest kind is now
chosen among kinds that can actually be judged, which is the rule staleness.py
already applies: a chain becomes measurable the first time its PC posts and says
nothing until then. If every kind is unmeasurable the host still reports which
kind it has, with a None verdict and no badge.

The test that caught it pinned the old newest-wins behaviour, which part markers
made wrong; it now pins stalest-measurable-wins and keeps its NULL clause, which
was right all along and is what found the bug.

Also worth recording how it was missed: the change was verified against
test_geenforce_reporting.py and test_backups.py, and this assertion lives in
test_geenforce_publish_gate.py, which was never run.
2026-08-26 10:07:51 -04:00
cproudlock
52b9fa1ec1 Keep the site hostname out of the repair script test
The publication scrub gate rejects internal references, and a real site
hostname in a test is still one in the published repo. The rewrite does not
care which server it is.
2026-08-25 15:00:56 -04:00
cproudlock
315d4f46ce Repair backup revisions that recorded a mapped drive
Snapshots written before the client was fixed stored "W:\backup\partmarker\..."
as their location. That mapping exists only inside the SYSTEM logon session,
only during an enforcement cycle, and only on the bay that wrote it, so the path
recorded against a marker resolved to nothing for the person most likely to open
it.

The script rewrites backuprevisions.sharepath and nothing else - no revision is
created, deleted, re-filed or re-hashed, and no file on the share moves, since
the bytes are already where the UNC will point. Dry run by default.

It matches on the drive letter alone and leaves everything else untouched,
including paths that are already UNC and paths on another drive. This repairs a
specific known mistake rather than normalising whatever it can reach, which is
the version of this script that would eventually rewrite something it should
not have.

rewrite() is kept pure so the decision of WHICH paths to touch is testable
without an app context; the tests cover the already-UNC, other-drive, empty,
case-difference and trailing-separator cases.
2026-08-25 15:00:40 -04:00
cproudlock
500f7d6ad6 Give the backups plugin a settings page, and show where a snapshot is
The plugin shipped five settings and no page for any of them. The core settings
catalog is a hardcoded list a plugin cannot extend, so backups_shareroot and the
collection interval were reachable only through the API or a flask shell on the
server - which is not a configurable setting in any useful sense, and it is how
today went: the setting simply was not there to set.

The page is contributed the ADR-010 way rather than by editing core - a card
from get_settings_cards plus a route in the plugin's own routes.js, both of
which disappear when the plugin is disabled. Filed under Machines, next to
Machine Types, because that is where the assets these back up live.

It also states the two things the settings do not say for themselves: that
health is judged on when a backup was last CONFIRMED rather than when it last
changed, and that retention prunes database revisions only - files on the share
stay, so enabling it on a share-backed kind leaves orphaned snapshot
directories.

Snapshot paths are now shown as full UNC text in both places: a Snapshot row on
the Marker Contents card, and the existing path on the history page, which
gains a copy button. Deliberately NOT a link - browsers refuse to navigate from
an https page to file://, so a clickable path looks actionable and silently
does nothing, which is worse than no link. Copy, then paste into Explorer.

The path comes off the revision, never composed from the configured share root:
a snapshot written before the layout changed still lives where it was put.
2026-08-25 14:53:04 -04:00
cproudlock
ee208808f4 Judge a PC's backup by its stalest kind, not its newest
Until part markers, a PC reported exactly one backup kind and "newest revision
wins" was the same thing as the truth. A marker bay reports two: ntlars for the
machine's DNC settings, partmarker for the controller's patterns.

With newest-wins, the daily ntlars post keeps the badge green while the marker
backup has been failing for a month. The failure shows only on that marker's
asset page, which is not where anyone looks to find out something stopped - and
"is this still being checked" is the one question this badge exists to answer.

So a host is green only when everything it backs up is current, and the badge
names the kind that is not. Freshest revision per kind first, because
lastseenat only ever moves on the newest revision of a chain; judging every row
would report a healthy, frequently changing config as permanently stale.

Known consequence, and the right direction to err: a device retired from a PC
leaves its last revision behind, so that host stays stale until the revision is
pruned. It complains about a backup that genuinely is not running rather than
staying quiet about one.

The dashboard card needed no change - it already lists every stale chain
independently, so a stale partmarker chain was never hidden there.
2026-08-25 13:56:52 -04:00
cproudlock
512cc9be76 Let a share-backed backup say what is in it
A 'share' kind keeps its bytes on the file share and gives ShopDB only a hash
and a UNC path. That is right for an opaque vendor file, but it means the app
cannot answer the question a tech actually arrives with - what does this part
marker hold, and which pattern disappeared last month. Reading the share from
the app server is not an option: the download routes refuse to mount it on
purpose, because a permissions slip there becomes an unexplained empty panel.

So the collector now accepts an optional manifest alongside the hash: the
index, not the content. Names, sizes, per-file hashes, and the marking system
each pattern was authored for. Advisory throughout - a client that sends none
behaves exactly as before, and dedup still keys on contenthash.

The marker asset gains a Marker Contents card built from it: counts by type,
the controller family, and a diff against the previous snapshot in the same
source chain. Removed files are named rather than counted, because "1 removed"
only tells someone to go and look. Files edited in place are named too - the
file set can be identical while the content hash moved, and reporting no
change there would contradict the reason the revision exists.

The manifest is deliberately NOT covered by contenthash, which attests the
bytes on the share. A client that starts describing itself therefore posts an
unchanged hash, so a no-op backfills a manifest the row does not yet have -
otherwise the card would appear only on markers that had recently changed, and
stay hidden on every healthy one. The same no-op refreshes sharepath, so a
snapshot that moved on the share stops being pointed at where it used to be.

Manifests are validated at ingest rather than at render: a malformed one would
otherwise become the latest revision and fail every view of the asset page
until the content next changed, outliving the client bug that caused it.

sharedir() for the marker kind is overridden to the layout the site actually
uses, so what ShopDB displays and validates matches what the collector writes.
2026-08-25 13:06:49 -04:00
cproudlock
d51127841d Merge catalog rows that are the same name typed two ways
The legacy data carried space-stripped twins: 'DellInc.' beside 'Dell Inc.',
'Windows10' beside 'Windows 10', 'OptiPlex7080' beside 'OptiPlex 7080'. They
rode into the shipped seed catalog, so every site that ran `seed catalog`
inherited them, and they stay invisible until somebody opens a vendor picker
and finds the same company listed twice.

Not a code fault. The collector strips only leading and trailing whitespace,
matches with ilike, and treats the OS list as lookup-only, so it can neither
have created these nor be creating more. They arrived with the classic-ASP
import, which holds the same three pairs today.

`flask catalog dedupe` merges only whitespace-and-punctuation twins, because
those are one name typed two ways. 'Dell' and 'Dell Inc.' normalise apart and
are left alone: that is a naming choice and only a person can make it. The
surviving row is the most referenced, tie-broken toward the spaced spelling,
which is the one somebody pressed the space bar for.

`flask catalog merge` makes that judgment call explicitly, and refuses to
invent a target that does not exist, so a typo cannot move rows into a new
vendor. `flask catalog rename` handles the case neither can reach: a stripped
name with NO twin, where there is nothing to merge into.

All three report and change nothing unless --apply is passed, and dedupe is
idempotent so it is safe in a deploy script.

References are discovered from the LIVE schema rather than listed in code.
There are 15 foreign keys into these three tables across 7 tables, and
machines.controllervendorid and printerdrivers.modelnumberid are not ones
anybody would enumerate by hand. Every reference is repointed before the row
is deleted, so nothing is orphaned, and a plugin adding a table is covered
without editing this command.
2026-08-24 14:49:24 -04:00
cproudlock
7d7caba56b Let a maintenance script find the database the site actually uses
Running `python scripts/export_catalog.py` on a deployed site died with
1045 "Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'", naming a user that site
does not have.

Nothing loads .env for a plain script run. wsgi.py calls load_dotenv() for the
served app and the flask CLI loads .env for itself, so both reach the real
database; a bare `python scripts/...` gets neither. DATABASE_URL then stays
unset, FLASK_ENV defaults to development, and config.py falls back to a
hardcoded root@localhost URL.

The read-only failure above is the harmless version. Six of these seven
scripts WRITE - backfill, reclassify, retype, collapse, refile, import - and
on any box where those fallback root credentials happen to resolve, they would
have silently rewritten the wrong database with no error at all. That is also
why this survived: the dev .env points at root, so the fallback matched what
the developer expected and nothing ever looked wrong here.

All seven now load .env from the repo root, resolved from __file__ rather than
the working directory, since these are run by hand during a deployment and
rarely from the repo root.

tests/test_maintenance_scripts.py pins it for any future script: every script
that calls create_app must call load_dotenv, before create_app rather than
after it, and with an explicit path rather than a cwd-relative search.
2026-08-24 14:32:11 -04:00
cproudlock
7b79a444b8 Scaffold a plugin's frontend into the plugin, so it can be pruned
`flask plugin new` wrote views to frontend/src/views/<name>/ and a route file
to frontend/src/router/routes/<name>.js. Every one of the 16 bundled plugins
keeps its frontend in plugins/<name>/frontend/ instead, staged into
.plugins-staged by stage-frontend.mjs and aggregated into routes.gen.js.

It was not visibly broken, which is why it lasted: the router still globs
./routes/*.js during the Phase 4 dual-location transition, so a scaffolded
plugin's pages loaded. What a new plugin author silently lost was ADR-013 lean
builds. Pruning works off the staged tree, so a frontend in the core tree
cannot be excluded from a site build, and deleting the plugin strands its
views behind.

The templates for the correct layout already existed; only the output paths
were wrong. Also fixed the imports they carry: core imports now use the @
alias (@/api, @/components/...), which resolves both before and after staging,
where the previous ../../api was correct only in the old location. Sibling
views stay relative and travel with the route file.

frontend_dir is gone from scaffold_plugin. There is no second output tree to
point at, and a plugin developed in its own repo now gets the same frontend as
a bundled one rather than being skipped.

Proven end to end: scaffolded a throwaway plugin, confirmed it stages, builds
real chunks, and that SITE_PLUGINS=network prunes it, which is what the old
layout could not do.
2026-08-24 14:05:15 -04:00
cproudlock
eecb0595dd Open the record a search result found, not the list it sits in
A NOTICE result linked to /notifications, so clicking the row search had
already identified dropped the reader on the list page to find it again by
hand. The id was in the payload the whole time; only the URL ignored it.
`/notifications/<id>` is the existing notification-detail route.

The subnet searcher had the same defect two functions away: an IP search
resolves which subnet the address falls inside, then linked to /network, the
hub. It now links to /networks/<id>, the subnet detail route.

Every other search result type already carried its id. These were the only
two that did not.
2026-08-24 14:05:05 -04:00
cproudlock
adc7ef43f9 Stop the collector being able to set a printer assignment
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The printer feature rests on one rule: a collector report is OBSERVED state and
never ASSIGNED state. If a drifted bay's own state can become what it is told to
install, enforcement stops meaning anything, because a bay that installed the
wrong printer makes itself right simply by reporting it.

_sync_printer_links broke that rule. It ran on every collector PC push and, when
the payload carried defaultprinter or printers, wrote defaultprinter and
connectedto rows from the report - defaultprinter being one of the two types
_reconcile_edges is meant to own alone, from authenticated routes a human calls.

It was recorded as dormant. It was not. The collector schema ADVERTISED both
keys and the example client in COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION.md set
$payload['defaultprinter'], so the documentation was recruiting callers for it -
while the same document, under "Observed is not assigned", promised that nothing
on this path writes a usesprinter or defaultprinter row. The document
contradicted itself and the code followed the wrong half. Nothing in the fleet
armed it, because the first-party reporter never sent those fields, but any
third-party client written from the docs would have.

Retired the function, its _sync_one helper and the now-unused
PRINTER_LINK_ORIGIN label, and removed both keys from the schema.

IGNORED, NOT REJECTED. Unknown payload keys are not validated, so a client
written against the old docs keeps pushing successfully and only its printer
keys stop doing anything. The response warns, naming the keys and pointing at
POST /api/collector/printers for reporting queues and seed-from-observed for
adopting them. Dropping them in silence would leave an integrator believing
assignments were still being written, which is a worse failure than the one
being fixed.

The docs were the larger half of this. The schema table rows are gone, the
"PC -> printer relationship sync" section is replaced by a note saying what
happens now to anyone still sending the keys, and the example client no longer
enumerates Win32_Printer at all - it points at Report-PrintersToShopDB.ps1,
which posts to the observed endpoint and posts NOTHING on a failed enumeration,
since an empty list would erase the host's rows.

test_collector_printers.py pinned the old behaviour, so it now pins the
opposite: the keys create no relationships, the push still succeeds and says
why, a payload without them stays quiet, a human-made default survives a report
naming a different printer, and the schema no longer offers the keys.
2026-08-24 11:25:02 -04:00
cproudlock
b96637e1a1 Let a baseline meet a table that is already there
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Reported: `flask plugin upgrade-all` failed the tools plugin with "table
securesendsecrets already exists".

Every post-cutover baseline emitted a plain op.create_table. That is correct
only while a table's existence and its plugin's Alembic stamp can never
disagree, and they can. Anything that builds tables from the models -
db.create_all(), which `flask db-utils create-all` calls - creates them and
stamps nothing. A run that creates a table and then fails before its stamp
commits leaves the same split, and re-running is the obvious thing to try. In
both cases upgrade-all meets existing tables with an unstamped chain and the
create is fatal.

Nothing caught it because the migration test DROPS the post-cutover tables
db.create_all() built before running upgrade-all. That arranges the one state
where an unguarded create works, and never the state the report came from. The
new test is the same sequence with the drop removed for the plugin under test.

create_table_if_missing and create_index_if_missing are in alembic_template.py
next to create_plugin_tables, which had the idempotency rule right and turns out
to be called by nobody - its docstring claimed every 0001 used it. Fixed the
docstring rather than rewiring the baselines onto it, because the reason they
hand-write their DDL still stands: the helper's per-plugin MetaData cannot
resolve a foreign key to a core table at CreateTable-compile time.

INDEXES ARE MATCHED ON COLUMNS, NOT NAME, and that distinction matters. The two
creators disagree about names - db.create_all() takes SQLAlchemy's default
convention (ix_securesendsecrets_token) and a baseline spells it the way this
repo's naming rules require (ixsecuresendsecretstoken). A name-keyed guard would
have called the index missing and added a second one over the same column, which
MySQL permits with a warning, so every affected site would have quietly grown
duplicates. The test asserts no table ends up with two indexes over the same
columns.

Applied to all nine table-creating plugin migrations, not just the tools
baseline that was reported: the four later migrations that create tables have
the same exposure, and geenforce, measuringtools, printedparts and backups are
the same defect waiting for a different site.

WHAT THIS DOES NOT FIX. It makes a baseline idempotent, not a whole chain. A
longer chain can still meet an ALTER whose column is already present -
printedparts adding gagelabtag to a table create_all built at head is the case
that showed up while testing. Guarding every op one at a time is the wrong
answer to that; a database built from the models is already AT head and its
chains want stamping rather than replaying, and there is no `flask plugin stamp`
today. Left alone deliberately rather than half-built, and the new test is
scoped to single-baseline plugins so it does not pretend otherwise.
2026-08-24 09:28:37 -04:00
cproudlock
8750ba2e74 Let a site open secure send to guests, and choose how many times a link opens
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Two asks, and the first is a real security decision so it is a SETTING that
defaults to the safe answer rather than a code change somebody inherits.

securesend_allow_guests, OFF by default. With it off the model is unchanged: a
login plus tools.secrets. With it on, somebody with no account - at a shared bay
terminal, a contractor - can create a link too.

The cost is named in the setting's own description and pinned by a test: a guest
secret has NO CREATOR, so the audit trail can say when and from where but never
who. That is the whole reason it is a switch a person turns on deliberately.

IT FAILS CLOSED. A missing row, a half-migrated site, an unhappy database - the
answer is no. An error must never be the thing that opens an unauthenticated
write endpoint.

A SIGNED-IN USER STILL NEEDS THE PERMISSION even when guests are allowed, which
is surprising enough that a test pins it: opening the door to guests is a
decision about the door, not about revoking what a role holds.

Guest creation is rate limited per address, same shape as the login limiter. Not
a security boundary - a determined person has more addresses - but an open
endpoint should not be an easy place to park data or fill a disk.

VIEWS ARE NOW A NUMBER, 1 to 100, instead of a four-item dropdown. How many
people need a password is the sender's business: a shift handover is not one
colleague on a call. The floor is what matters, not the ceiling - unlimited
views would just be a password on a web page.

Also folded in, from the retention question: nothing removed a secret that
EXPIRED WITHOUT BEING OPENED. The recipient goes on holiday, the link is never
clicked, and the ciphertext sat there for good - not readable, but it made
"nothing lingers" untrue and grew the table in exactly the case where the
feature failed. Any create now sweeps expired rows and a late click tidies its
own, so it stays bounded without a scheduler an air-gapped site would never add.

Two gates caught mistakes on the way: current_user is a LocalProxy and is never
None, so `current_user is None` silently took the signed-in branch for a guest;
and cache was imported straight from shopdb.extensions when it is already on the
shopdb.api contract surface.

1836 tests green.
2026-08-21 15:53:30 -04:00
cproudlock
d4b49b91b4 Move secure send into Tech Tools, where somebody would look for it
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9845867 gave it its own plugin because Tech Tools is browser-only and this needs
storage. That was the right reading of the code and the wrong answer for the
person using it: Tech Tools is where you go for a utility, and a tool nobody can
find is a tool nobody uses.

So Tech Tools now has a blueprint, a table and a migration chain where it had
none. Its docstring and manifest say why, because "every tool here runs in the
browser" was load-bearing documentation and is no longer true.

WHAT MOVED
  /api/securesend       -> /api/tools/secrets
  securesend.create     -> tools.secrets
  securesend0001baseline -> tools0001securesend
  PLUGIN_TABLE_OWNERS, EXPECTED_HEAD_REVISION, EXEMPT_ENDPOINTS, the universal
  profile and the api-inventory surface all follow it.

THE OLD "NO BACKEND" TEST IS NARROWED, NOT DELETED. It asserted
get_blueprint() is None, which is the sort of guard that gets removed when it
becomes inconvenient. It now asserts the blueprint serves EXACTLY the three
secret routes, with their methods - so a future tool that quietly grows an
endpoint or a table has to edit this test, and therefore make the decision on
purpose rather than by drift.

Asserting methods rather than paths also pins the detail this design turns on:
redeeming is POST-ONLY. Chat and mail clients prefetch GET urls to build
previews, and a preview that could redeem would consume a one-view secret before
its recipient opened the link. Previously that was a comment; now it fails a
test.

UNINSTALLING THE OLD PLUGIN COULD NOT BE DONE WITH THE PLUGIN TOOLING. `flask
plugin uninstall securesend` loads a plugin before uninstalling it, so a plugin
whose directory has been deleted cannot be removed by the command that manages
plugins - the registry entry had to be edited by hand. Worth fixing separately;
it is the same registry-versus-code divergence the device work hit from the
other side.

MIGRATING A CHAIN THAT HAS ALREADY RUN needs the old table and its version row
dropped first, because the relocated chain has no stamp and tries to create a
table that exists. Only relevant to anyone who installed securesend during the
hour it existed - it did reach the publication repo in 4242028 - and the fix is
DROP TABLE securesendsecrets plus DROP TABLE alembic_version_securesend before
running plugin upgrade-all.

1829 tests green. Still backend only: there are no pages yet, so nothing here is
reachable by a person.
2026-08-21 14:17:57 -04:00
cproudlock
98458672eb Hand somebody a password without leaving it in a chat window
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The habit this replaces is pasting a credential into Teams, where it stays until
someone deletes the conversation. Tabled on 2026-08-21 pending a decision about
scope; the decision was text only, so this is the half that survives it.

BACKEND ONLY. There is no page yet, so nothing here is reachable by a person.

TEXT, NOT DOCUMENTS, and that shapes everything. Dropping files removed the
export-control question entirely - a password is not technical data - along with
blob storage, size and MIME handling, and the need to authenticate the recipient
so a document fetch could be pinned to a name.

TWO DOORS. Creating needs a login AND securesend.create: anonymous creation
would be an untraceable way to move data out of a system that otherwise records
who did what, and the creator is the only person these rows can ever name.
Reading needs neither, because the recipient usually has no account here and the
link is handed over on a call - the unguessable token IS the authorisation,
which is why it is 128 bits of randomness and why the row is spent on first read.

REDEEMING IS A POST, and that is the detail that would have broken this in
practice. Teams, Outlook and Safe Links prefetch GET urls to build previews and
scan for malware, so a GET that redeemed would let a preview window consume a
secret before its recipient ever saw it. The GET route that remains reports only
whether a link is still live, so the read page can say "opening this will
destroy it" without spending the only view to find out.

THE SIZE LIMIT IS THE WHOLE ENFORCEMENT. The key lives in the URL fragment,
which browsers never transmit, so the server holds ciphertext it cannot read and
cannot tell a password from a page of a drawing. MAX_CIPHERTEXT is therefore not
a tuning knob: raising it quietly turns this into the document transfer it was
scoped not to be. The refusal says what the limit is FOR, because somebody
hitting it is usually trying to send a file and the answer is a different tool.
Line counts, file signatures and refusing a pasted file belong in the browser,
guide an honest person, and are bypassable by anyone willing to POST directly.

NOT ENUMERABLE. Missing, expired and spent all answer identically - telling them
apart would confirm to anyone holding a guessed token whether it ever named
anything. A spent or expired row is deleted on the way past rather than waiting
for a sweeper, because it has no reason to keep its ciphertext.

Its own plugin rather than a Tech Tool: that plugin is browser-only by design,
and this needs storage, expiry and a view counter. Not an asset extension
either, so no assetid and no asset type - the scaffold assumes one and it was
removed.

FOUND BY ITS OWN TESTS: expiryhours=0 returned 201. `int(x or DEFAULT)` treats
an explicit zero as absent, so "expire immediately" silently became "expire in a
day". A caller who sends a number is now told when it is not allowed rather than
quietly given a different one.

BEFORE ANYONE RELIES ON THIS, test that your link rewriter preserves URL
fragments: create a secret, send the link to yourself in Teams, click it from the
message, and check the key is still after the #. If Safe Links strips it the
secret is unrecoverable and the server cannot help, which is the point of the
design. The fallback is passphrase mode, worth building only if that test says so.

Three product gates caught what a new plugin has to declare, and each was right
to: the route-parity gate wanted the endpoints described in api-inventory.json,
the lean-build guard wanted the plugin listed in the universal profile the
released installer builds from, and the authz sweep wanted the public redeem
route named in EXEMPT_ENDPOINTS with a reason. That last one matters most - a
mutating route that answers an unauthenticated caller is a decision somebody has
to write down, not a default, and reading a secret is a mutation because it
spends it.
2026-08-21 13:44:13 -04:00
cproudlock
3703412baf Only zero is empty, and the last day is worth reading
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Two separate floors were collapsing a live cartridge into a spent one, and
removing either alone changes nothing.

EMPTY_LEVEL was 5, so everything at or below 5% was assigned daysleft 0
outright. The reasoning was that a printer at 1% is out of toner as far as
anyone standing at it is concerned. But the row exists to say how long is
left, and 2% draining a point a day has two days in it. Flooring put that
cartridge beside ones that genuinely are empty with no way back to the
difference. It is 0 now: empty means empty.

int(level / rate) then truncated the division, so anything under a full day
arrived as 0 whatever the floor did - a cartridge with six hours in it was
indistinguishable from one with nothing, and the band read it as empty.
daysleft is fractional now, rounded to two places, which is about a quarter of
an hour: finer than the estimate deserves, but it costs nothing and keeps the
ordering of two nearly-spent cartridges meaningful.

daysText reads in whatever unit carries meaning: "6 hours", "1 hour", "29 min",
"4 days". Below an hour it goes to minutes with a floor of one, because
rounding hours would land back on "empty" - the same bug one rung down.

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE worth knowing: a cartridge at 1-5% with NO history used to get
daysleft 0 from the floor and land on the order list. A rate needs two
readings; with none there is nothing to divide, and the old answer was right by
accident - it said "empty" about a level nobody had watched move. It now
reports 'no history' and shows under "No estimate yet". This reaches only
printers newly added to Zabbix; anything that got to 3% the ordinary way has
the history to forecast from.

Five existing tests pinned the old rule. They recorded a real decision, so they
are rewritten to the new one rather than deleted. One of them was passing for
the wrong reason: its series (2.0, 1.7, 1.4, 1.1) drops 0.9, under
MIN_DROP_FOR_ESTIMATE, so it never had a rate at all and only passed because
the floor short-circuited ahead of the rate check. It now uses a real 20-day
drop at a tenth of a point a day and asserts the ten days its docstring always
described.

The forecast fixture's black cartridge moves from 1% to 0% so the empty band
keeps its API-level coverage, and a magenta at 3% covers hours-left end to end.
2026-08-21 11:57:02 -04:00
cproudlock
b7cfd2b198 A supply nobody could read is unknown, not empty
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Reported as "CSF04 now reports all 0%", on the printer's own page as well as
the reports. Every supply on one host reading zero at the same instant is not
what a set of cartridges does; it is what a host that stopped answering looks
like.

getsuppliesbyip turned every unreadable item into 0:

    try:
        level = int(float(item.get("lastvalue", 0)))
    except (ValueError, TypeError):
        level = 0

An item that has never collected returns lastvalue as an EMPTY STRING, so
float('') raised and the handler substituted zero. lastclock was fetched in the
same request and read by nothing at all, so a reading from three weeks ago was
presented as current.

Zero is a legitimate level meaning spent, which is what made the substitution
dangerous rather than merely wrong. Downstream it reached `level <=
EMPTY_LEVEL`, which set daysleft to 0, which put the printer on the order list:
the report asked purchasing to buy a full set of cartridges for a printer
nobody had measured. On a waste container it was worse - waste is scored as
100 - level, so an unreadable one read as 100% full, the alarm state.

_readlevel now returns (level, lastseen) with level None for no usable reading:
empty, missing or unparseable lastvalue, or a lastclock older than 24h. A
lastclock that is absent is not treated as stale - a reading that cannot be
aged is not thereby wrong, and discarding it would lose real levels. A genuine
"0" is still 0, which is the half that keeps an actually-empty cartridge on the
order list.

classifysupply gains an 'unknown' status with remaining None. It is not
critical: critical is a claim someone acts on, and it may not be made about a
supply nobody measured.

The low-supplies report skips unknown rather than listing it as needing
replacement, and counts it in summary.unknown - a printer that has gone quiet
should be visible as that, not absent and not masquerading as empty.
_annotate_supply reads .get('level') with no 0 default, which would have put
the whole bug back.

PrinterDetail already rendered `level !== null ? ... : 'N/A'`, so it starts
telling the truth as soon as the backend sends null; the UI had been written
for a case the service never produced. It gains the unknown style - muted, not
a severity colour - and a tooltip separating "no reading at all" from "no
reading since <date>", which are different faults with different fixes.

Alerts needed no change: float(None) raises and that loop already continues,
so unknown supplies stop firing low-toner emails as a consequence.

12 of the 16 new tests fail on the old code. The 4 that pass either way pin
that real zeros still behave, which is the regression this fix could cause.

Not verified against CSF04's actual Zabbix data - dev has no reachable Zabbix.
This fixes the mechanism that turns unknown into 0%; /api/printers/<id>/supplies
now distinguishes them, with null for no reading and 0 for a measured zero.
2026-08-21 11:43:56 -04:00
cproudlock
5001aedcf9 Offer a spelling on every list, not just the global search
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Correction only helped on the global search page, and people search from the
list they are already on. Extending it turned out to be a shape question rather
than a volume one: thirty routes take a search parameter across a dozen files,
so carrying a suggestion in each of their responses is a large change today and
one more thing every future plugin author has to remember.

So the suggestion moved to ITS OWN ENDPOINT, /api/search/suggest, which any page
can call after rendering no rows. A page that has not adopted it shows nothing,
which is exactly what it showed before - nothing breaks by omission.

The plumbing lives in useListQuery, which already owned the search term, so a
list needs three lines: take `suggestion` and `reportCount` from the composable,
call reportCount(rows.length) after a fetch, and drop SearchSuggestion into the
empty state it already has. A list that never calls reportCount never offers a
suggestion.

Wired: global search, machines, printers, PCs, network devices, measuring tools,
knowledge base, vendors. NOT wired, deliberately: the type and reference lists
(machine types, PC types, VLANs, subnets, operating systems and the rest), which
are small controlled vocabularies nobody typo-searches, and USB, whose empty
state has a different shape and wants doing by hand rather than by pattern.

TRAP FOUND WHILE WIRING IT, and left commented in every page: applying a
suggestion by calling setSearch alone updates the box and the URL and does NOT
reload the list. setSearch only syncs the URL, and the watcher that would reload
is suppressed because search.value already holds the new term - the same trap
the global search page documents in performSearch. Each page calls its own load
function directly.

The composable guards a stale answer arriving after a newer search was typed,
never offers back the word that was typed, and swallows its own errors: a search
that found nothing is already the answer, and failing to improve on it is not
worth an error in front of anyone.

The route-parity gate caught the new endpoint being served without an entry in
docs/api-inventory.json, which is hand-written on purpose; added, and the spec
regenerated from it (283 paths, 418 operations). That regeneration also carries
the openapi version to 0.12.0, left over from the release.
2026-08-21 11:14:56 -04:00
cproudlock
1593ee8204 Offer a spelling when a search finds nothing
The corrector landed in fa0f6d7 unwired, pending a week of zero-result logs to
say what it should be aimed at. Attaching it now instead: the guards that make
it safe here are principled rather than tuned to any particular data, so the
logs would confirm the shape of the problem without changing the answer.

ONLY ON ZERO RESULTS. A search that finds something pays for none of this - no
vocabulary build, no scoring, no extra query.

The vocabulary is harvested from columns people actually search - asset numbers
and names, vendors, models, applications, asset types - cached ten minutes and
capped per column. Long enough that someone mistyping twice does not rebuild it,
short enough that a vendor entered this morning is correctable before lunch. The
cap is there because this exists to catch a typo against the names in use, not
to mirror the database into memory to answer one query.

SUGGESTED, NEVER APPLIED. The response carries the better spelling and the
caller decides. Searching for something else on a person's behalf is how
somebody orders the wrong cartridge.

FAILS SOFT. A missing column on a lean install, or anything else, returns no
suggestion and the search answers normally. No vocabulary is worse than the
alternative; it is not fatal.

Three tests through the endpoint rather than only the unit: a misspelling gets a
suggestion, a search that succeeds gets none, and CSF18 against an existing
CSF17 returns no results AND no suggestion - the digit guard holding across the
whole stack, which is the one that would cost somebody a wrong bay.

The zero-result logging stays. It answers "what can people not find", which the
corrector does not: a typo is only one of the reasons a search comes back empty,
and the others are vocabulary nobody has entered and records that do not exist.

NOT DONE: the search page does not render the suggestion yet, so this is
invisible to a person until that Vue change lands.
2026-08-21 10:41:14 -04:00
cproudlock
fa0f6d7ebc Record what nobody can find, and a spelling corrector that refuses to guess
Two halves of one question - how to handle a misspelled search - deliberately
kept separate, because only one of them should be turned on today.

WHAT NOBODY CAN FIND IS NOT RECORDED ANYWHERE. A search returning zero results
is the only evidence of the gap between what people look for and what is there,
and it vanished. Logged now at INFO with a stable prefix, so a week of it greps
into a list. That list is what should decide whether correction is worth wiring
in: multi-word matching and cross-field matching both changed in the last day,
so a good share of what used to fail may already be found. The failures left
over might be typos, or vocabulary nobody has entered, or records that genuinely
do not exist - and each wants a different answer.

THE CORRECTOR IS BUILT AND NOT WIRED IN. shopdb/core/services/spellfix.py, with
tests, ready to attach in about ten lines once there is evidence about what to
attach it to.

NOT SOUNDEX, which was the obvious candidate. MySQL has it and SQLite does not,
and the suite runs on SQLite while production runs MySQL - so a SOUNDEX() in a
query is either an error in every test or a production path no test executes.
It is also wrong for this data: soundex is English-name phonetics, four
characters wide, and it DISCARDS DIGITS, so CSF16 and CSF17 hash identically.
Half of what people search here is an identifier.

So: character distance in Python, same behaviour on both dialects.

THE VOCABULARY IS THE DATA. No dictionary holds Genspect, Telesis, Keyence or
wax-trace. Terms come from the columns being searched, which also means a vendor
added this morning is correctable this morning.

TWO GUARDS, and they are the point rather than a detail. Digits must match
EXACTLY: CSF16 to CSF17 is one edit and a different bay, so anything carrying
digits is either right or not correctable - while cfs16 to csf16 still works,
because the guard is on the digits and not on identifiers wholesale. And the
first character must match, since typos land mid-word far more often than on the
first key, which costs almost no recall.

Distance is Damerau-Levenshtein so a transposition costs one edit rather than
two - Keyecne for Keyence is the commonest error there is, and plain Levenshtein
pushes it past the threshold on short words. Allowed distance scales with
length. A tie returns NOTHING: two equally good candidates means there is no
answer, and offering either implies a confidence that is not there.

It suggests; it never rewrites. Silently searching for something else is how
somebody orders the wrong cartridge.

13 tests, weighted toward the refusals, because those are the cases where being
wrong costs something.
2026-08-21 10:36:09 -04:00
cproudlock
d0eeaa08d5 Find a knowledge base article by words from different fields
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An article's searchable text lives in three places: its title, its keywords,
and the name of its topic. Nobody typing a search knows or cares which word
came from which, so 'CMM Community' means "the article tagged community, under
the CMM topic". Both search paths returned nothing for it.

The plugin's own listing, which is what the KB page calls, built a single
ilike('%CMM Community%'). That needs the whole phrase contiguous in ONE field,
and no article has it: 'CMM' is only in the topic's name, 'Community' only in
the keywords. Global search already split the query into words but only ever
looked at title and keywords, so a word that only the topic could satisfy
failed there too - the same bug wearing a different face.

Every word must now be found somewhere across all three fields, in any order.
_word_match gains an `extra` hook for a word that a RELATED row satisfies
rather than a column of this table, which is how the topic joins in without
colliding with the sort=='topic' join.

The retired-topic rule is unchanged and pinned on both paths: matching more
words is not a way past it.

Verified against the 235-article dev library, where all three of these
returned nothing before: 'Fieldglass Jefferson' (title word plus topic word),
'outage notification' (two keywords, not adjacent), 'compucom Jefferson'.

The same phrase-only pattern is repeated in about ten other list endpoints
(computers, machines, printers, network, printedparts, measuringtools, usb,
notifications). Left alone here - fixing them properly means promoting the
word-match helper onto the shopdb.api contract surface rather than copying it
per plugin, which is a contract bump.
2026-08-21 09:39:46 -04:00
cproudlock
875fde9f48 Fix what the last round of device fixes broke, and two dips it missed
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A review of d60ed60 and 8b9b936 found five things. Three were introduced by
those commits.

REFUSING A NAMED DEVICE MADE A MARKER PC CLAIM ITS OPERATION. _sync_partmarker
returned [] both for "not a marker PC" and for "a marker PC that linked
nothing", and the caller reads [] as the first - so a bay whose asset-id.txt
named something unresolvable fell through to the ordinary machine link, and for
a marker PC the machine number IS the operation. It took an active link to a
record that can only have one holder while several markers share it, and the
warning said "not linked". The previous behaviour minted a twin; this traded
that for a contested operation. None now means "not a marker PC" and is the only
answer that lets the machine link run; the response normalises it away so the
API shape is unchanged.

A DORMANT CHALLENGER WAS PROMOTED BY DELETING A FILE. Recording a challenger
dormant leaves a row that the next cycle finds as `reuse` and reactivated with
no incumbent check - so a second PC took a live device by its enrollment file
becoming unreadable. Both reuse branches re-check incumbency now, which is what
_sync_machine_link always did.

AN INCUMBENT UNDER ANOTHER COLLECTOR LABEL WAS INVISIBLE. Incumbency was queried
on our own label, but on a CMM the instrument IS the reported bay, so the
incumbent's link is the machine sync's row. A second PC naming that instrument
found no incumbent and linked actively: two live holders of one instrument, each
invisible to the other. Incumbency now counts any collector-owned label. A row
made BY HAND carries none of them and is still excluded - a person's link is not
the collector's to archive.

THE NETWORK FORM LOCKED OUT THE ROWS IT NEEDED TO FIX. Asset number is disabled
while editing, correctly, but the payload is built in script so the blank was
still sent - and the new server-side guard rejects it. A device with no asset
number could not be saved at all, and the field could not be typed into. It now
unlocks only for a record that loaded without one, with a hint saying why.

"2 in 4.0d" WAS THE LABEL LYING. Replacements are counted across the whole
history window; basisdays is only how long the current cartridge has been in.
Joining them with "in" claimed two changes inside four days - the exact shape
reported as unbelievable, except here the data was right. Now "2, this one 4.0d".

Two toner dips the same review found:

A MULTI-POLL OUTAGE STILL MINTED A PHANTOM SWAP. Only single readings were
dropped, so 90, 0, 0, 90 survived and 0 -> 90 scored as a change. Dips of any
length are handled now. One bad sample stays a candidate whatever the polling
cadence, because a reading is an instant; several consecutive low ones only
count as one outage when they are close together, since days at zero is a real
empty period. That time bound also separates an outage from a swap, ordinary
consumption, and a second swap, which have the same shape in levels alone.

THE DIP FILTER ATE REAL SWAPS OF NEARLY-FULL CARTRIDGES. Recovery was tested
with an absolute difference, so 95 then 5 then 100 read as a recovery because
100 and 95 are close, and the swap evidence was deleted. Toner only falls: a
recovery comes back at or BELOW where it left, a new cartridge comes back
higher.

The review also proved by reverting each feature that the previous tests did not
pin the median burn rate or the near-full rule - both passed with the bug
restored. Verified by the same method that all four toner behaviours now fail
when reverted, and the burst assertion is tight enough to tell 0.2 from 0.88.
2026-08-21 08:49:38 -04:00
cproudlock
0c0c7be439 A toner rate needs days behind it, not just readings
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Reported from the floor: two printers showing 81 and 83 percent, both forecast
to run out in a fortnight. That is a rate near 5.8 percent a day on a cartridge
barely touched.

burn_rate required four readings and a 2 point drop, and checked only that some
time had passed - not how much. Supply items are commonly polled every few
minutes, so four readings can span a quarter of an hour, and a 2 point drop
across fifteen minutes extrapolates to nearly 200 percent a day. The report then
sorted that confident wrong number into "soon", next to cartridges that really
are about to run out. It did not look broken; it looked urgent.

A rate now needs two days behind it. Two days is the smallest span that survives
a printer's daily rhythm, so one heavy morning does not become the whole picture.
Below that the answer is "not enough history yet", which the report already has
a home for: band() returns None and the row lands in the "No estimate yet"
section with its reason shown, rather than competing for attention with real
urgency.

This is the third face of the same fault. A phantom replacement truncated the
run - "2 replacements in 2.3 days" was the same printer saying so - and the rate
was then fitted to whatever short stub remained. The near-full rule and the dip
filter stop the truncation; this stops a stub from producing a number at all.
2026-08-20 17:23:34 -04:00
cproudlock
8b9b9363ee Toner: count cartridge changes that happened, and rate a burst as one burst
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Two things reported from the floor, one cause each.

"5 CHANGES IN 90 DAYS, THAT'S HARD TO BELIEVE." It was. A replacement was any
+10 rise between readings, with no check on where it landed, so two shapes that
are not swaps scored as swaps: a supply reading 0 or near-0 while it was out of
the machine and then reading normally again, and a coarse gauge ticking back up
after a reseat or a power cycle.

A swap must now also LAND near full, because that is what a new cartridge reads,
and a single dip that RECOVERS to roughly where it came from is dropped before
anything looks at it. The dip filter keys on shape rather than cause, which is
why it holds for all of them - a supply pulled out to be shaken, a door open
mid-poll, or a site whose preprocessing maps the Printer MIB's unknown
sentinels onto 0. It is NOT a Zabbix timeout: an item that does not answer
records nothing rather than writing a zero. A genuine near-empty reading before
a real swap does not recover, it jumps to full, so it survives and its swap
still counts.

find_replacements and current_run now read one predicate. When they disagreed, a
phantom rise reset the run and threw away the history the estimate needed - so
the bad count was quietly damaging the rate as well, which is why both were
wrong at once. Expect replacement counts to FALL and per-cartridge history to
lengthen.

A BURST BIASED THE RATE FOR THE LIFE OF THE CARTRIDGE. The rate was the slope
between the first and last reading of the run, and two endpoints cannot tell
"steady" from "burst then stopped". A cartridge that lost 20 percent in two days
and then barely moved for a month read as 0.83 percent/day forever after, so the
report kept promising it would run out long after printing slowed. It is now the
median of the per-interval rates: the burst is one interval among many rather
than one of two points. Rising intervals are dropped as noise; flat ones stay in
at zero, because a cartridge that did not move is real information. If every
interval is flat or rising yet the run dropped overall, it falls back to the
whole-run slope rather than reporting nothing.

Where the intervals disagree by 5x or more the rate carries a marker and an
explanation on hover. The number is still the best estimate available; the flag
stops it reading as a measurement.

The "Changed" column is "Replacements", and its cell says "2 in 90d" rather than
"2 / 90d", which was read as a date, a ratio and a version number.
2026-08-20 16:11:27 -04:00
cproudlock
d60ed602a1 Stop three ways the collector and the forms wrote things nobody asked for
A review of last week's device-identity work found these; two were writing bad
data and one was reproduced against a live server before being fixed.

AN UPDATE COULD BLANK AN ASSET NUMBER, on all six asset update paths. Create
validates it and the column is NOT NULL, but the conflict check only runs when
the value DIFFERS, and '' collides with nothing - so an empty assetnumber went
straight through to a required column. This is the likely source of the assets
found with no number: a form that loaded blank and was then saved.

MACHINEFORM COULD LOAD BLANK AND LET YOU SAVE IT. One try/catch wrapped eight
reference loads AND the machine fetch, so a single transient failure among them
- one page of listAll() timing out during a collector cycle is enough - rejected
the whole block and rendered a fully editable EDIT form with every field empty,
the error banner far below next to Save. Typing an asset number and saving then
wrote the blanks over a real machine. The record now loads in its own try, and a
failure shows the reason INSTEAD of the form: an empty edit form is
indistinguishable from a record whose fields are genuinely empty.

NAMING A DEVICE THAT DID NOT RESOLVE STILL MINTED A TWIN. Both device paths
warned "not linked" and then fell through to mint <HOST>-PARTMARKER or
<HOST>-CMM - the hostname-derived twin the resolution order exists to prevent.
The warning was true about the typo'd number and false about the twin. Naming a
device is a commitment: if the name does not resolve, or resolves to the wrong
kind of thing, link nothing and say so. Silence still means "work it out", so a
bay with no file keeps the reuse-then-mint behaviour it always had.

TWO PCS COULD BOTH HOLD ONE DEVICE, ACTIVELY, WITH NO WARNING. Verified against
a live server: report as one host, then as another naming the same marker, and
both controls rows stayed active. Neither device path had ever looked at who
else held the target - only at links whose source was THIS PC - so a replaced PC
kept its link forever and an asset-id.txt copied to a second bay claimed the
device silently. It now reuses the machine link's rule rather than inventing a
second one: an incumbent that has gone quiet past the claim window or been moved
off In Use has yielded and is archived, never deleted; a live incumbent keeps
the device and the challenger is recorded dormant.

The swap test asserted the old behaviour and now asserts the new one, split in
two: a live incumbent keeps it, and handover completes once the incumbent
yields. Two other tests were passing while their names lied - the unknown-device
one checked only that the typo'd asset was not created, not that nothing was
linked, and it passed while a twin was minted beside it.
2026-08-20 16:11:08 -04:00
cproudlock
68b86d459e One enrollment file names the device, for every bay without a registry
A bay with an NTLARS/eDNC MachineNo registry is identified by it, and a CMM by
cmmid.txt. Everything else - Keyence, Genspect, wax-trace, part markers, and
whatever a site declares next - had no stable identity at all, and the two
mechanisms that stood in for one both key off the PC: reuse looks for a prior
link from THIS PC asset, and minting builds `<PC number>-<SUFFIX>` where a PC's
number is its hostname.

Both survive a re-image. NEITHER survives a PC SWAP. A new hostname is a new PC
asset with no prior link and a predicted number that has never existed, so the
same physical device gets a second record while the first keeps its config and
its backup history under a dead PC's name. That is how 43 legacy MT-#### tools
ended up shadowed by minted twins, three records deep in places. The metrology
path learned this and gained an explicit id file; the part-marker path was
modelled on the metrology path as it stood BEFORE that fix, so it inherited the
defect - and its own docstring said so, describing minting "the same way it
already mints a CMM".

C:\Enrollment\asset-id.txt is now that identity for both, and for anything
declared later through subordinatedevice_<pctype>. It holds one line, the
device's assetnumber, and deliberately does NOT record what kind of device it
is: the pc-type already does, so a new device type needs no new file and no
client change. Resolution puts it first, ahead of everything PC-derived.

NOT machine-number.txt. machinenumber answers "which bay is this" and is what
GE-Enforce TargetMachineNumbers gates on, so naming a device there would
silently stop every bay-gated manifest entry from matching. A part marker still
files partof the operation from machinenumber; asset-id.txt changes which marker
the PC controls, not which operation that marker belongs to.

The wire field is `deviceid` rather than `assetid`, because assetid is already
this contract's RESPONSE field for a PC's integer primary key - the two would
have sat side by side meaning different things. measuringtoolid, shipped in
0.12.0, is accepted as an alias and the client still reads the older file, so a
bay staged in the last day keeps reporting; deviceid wins when both arrive.

Two guards, shared by both device families: a value that resolves to nothing
warns instead of minting a phantom, and a value that resolves to the WRONG KIND
of asset is refused with the asset named, so a machine number pasted into the
file cannot be filed under a device label the collector also owns.

Row creation is now one helper instead of a copy per path, because the named and
minted branches both need get-or-create on the extension row and the control
link.

1744 tests green, including a new file that pins the swap case both ways - with
the file one device, without it two. Five of its tests failed first time because
the fixtures built bare assets with no extension row and the type guard refused
them, which is the guard working.

VERIFIED ON WINDOWS 11 (build 26200), five cases: the new file alone; both files
present, new winning; the legacy file alone; neither, sending no field; and a
padded value with a trailing line.
2026-08-20 10:41:00 -04:00
cproudlock
2d09fa3201 Collect what bays actually have, separately from what they are told to have
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ShopDB knew what a bay SHOULD have and nothing about what it DOES. Adding the
observed half makes a rollout a review instead of a typing exercise: the floor
reports itself in, you look, and you adopt.

The collection uses the mechanism that already exists rather than a new one.
POST /api/collector/printers dispatches to the printers plugin's
apply_collector_payload, the same ADR-006 hook the computers and backups plugins
implement. New client script, new plugin-owned table, no new transport and no new
credential.

OBSERVED AND ASSIGNED STAY APART, and that is the point rather than a detail. A
collector report can never write an assignment row: _reconcile_edges is the only
function that writes usesprinter/defaultprinter, it has two call sites, and both
are authenticated routes a human calls. If a drifted bay's own state were allowed
to become what it is told to install, every configuration error would become
permanent the next time that PC checked in.

Seeding an assignment from observed state is explicit -
POST /assignments/seed-from-observed - because a rollout adopts many machines at
once. It routes through the same _reconcile_edges as the editor, so there is one
write path with two doors, and a queue matching no known printer is REFUSED
rather than guessed into an assignment. That last rule is the lesson from the
measuring tools: adopting on a weak key produced 43 duplicate instruments.

Two fixes on top of what the agents built. The replace deleted a host's previous
rows by exact case-folded name while the read path treats a short name and its
FQDN as one machine, so a PC that changed spelling appeared to hold every queue
twice - which reads as drift that is not there. And the client sent 'reportedat'
where the declared schema said 'observedat'.

Also here: the legacy loader now imports machines.printerid, the classic system's
record of each machine's default printer, which it silently dropped - the
production import would have lost every one. And Set-ShopdbPrinters.ps1 finally
registers the per-user logon task, staging Apply-ShopdbDefaultPrinter.ps1 to
C:\ProgramData first because the share it lives on is mounted only during the
enforcement cycle and the task runs at logon when it is gone.

VALIDATED ON WINDOWS 11 (build 26200), not just on Linux pwsh, which parses these
scripts happily and executes none of the spooler branches.

The reporter: posts a correct payload with the X-API-Key header; resolves BaseUrl
and CollectorKey from HKLM when given no arguments; suppresses the virtual queues
by port; resolves port addresses; and reads the CONSOLE USER's default out of
HKU rather than SYSTEM's own, which is a different and usually wrong answer.

Two results matter more than the rest. With the spooler stopped, both the cmdlet
and the CIM path fail and the script posts NOTHING - verified against a capture
server that recorded zero requests, where an empty list would instead have
erased that host's observed rows and read as a bay that lost its printers. A
genuinely empty host still posts [], because that is a real and different fact.

The logon task registers as the Users group at Limited, and falls back to the
well-known SID S-1-5-32-545 when the group name will not resolve, as it will not
on localised Windows. It was then run with the source directory RENAMED AWAY, to
stand in for the share being unmounted, and it still moved the user's default -
which is the whole reason the script is staged to C:\ProgramData rather than run
from where it lives.

The guarantees against damage were re-checked rather than assumed: an empty
assignment changes nothing, an unreachable server changes nothing, -WhatIfOnly
leaves no queue, no task, no staged file and no registry value behind, and a
drifted queue is repointed IN PLACE with Set-Printer so whoever has it as their
default keeps it.

Not covered by any of this: the driver-staging path, which needs a real vendor
package rather than the class drivers a VM ships with.
2026-08-19 15:32:18 -04:00
cproudlock
e2c45d33bc One printer picker for machines and PCs, and one default per asset
The assignment belongs to the MACHINE, and until now there was no way to set it
except the generic relationships card or the API - the form for the thing the
feature is about did not exist. MachineForm now carries the picker, and PCForm
uses the SAME component rather than its own copy: the PC's set overrides the
machine's, and two implementations of that would drift, with the two ends of an
override disagreeing being exactly the bug nobody would spot.

The shared picker also fixes what PCForm did on save. It wrote row at a time
through the generic relationship endpoints, which is a non-atomic reconcile: an
HTTP failure part way left a PC half-assigned with nothing recording what was
meant. It now calls the reconcile endpoint, which validates the default before
writing anything.

A relationship type can now say it allows one active row per asset
(relationshiptypes.issingular, migration 7d34), and defaultprinter says it.
Cardinality belongs to the type rather than the printers plugin: core's create
path is where every hand-made link passes, and the next type meaning "exactly
one" gets the rule for free. Setting a second default REPLACES the first instead
of refusing, because "make this the default" means that - and a card answering
409 would leave the user hunting for the old row.

Without it the schema was happy to hold two defaults: the unique constraint is
(source, target, type), so two different targets are two valid rows, and the
resolver takes the OLDEST - the new default silently lost. Proven by disabling
the new rule and watching the tests fail.

FOUND WHILE TESTING IN A BROWSER, and it was not mine: MachineForm read
.data.data off computersApi.listAll(), which resolves to the ARRAY - fetchAllPages
has already unwrapped every page. The whole parallel load threw into the catch,
so every dropdown on the machine edit form came up empty and the machine's own
values never loaded. A build cannot see this; only opening the page can.

GET /api/printers/assignments/for-asset/<id> returns an asset's OWN assignment,
without inheritance, because the editor must show what this asset's rows say -
otherwise a machine's printers appear ticked on the PC that inherits them and
unticking one silently creates an override.
2026-08-19 11:22:48 -04:00
cproudlock
8cedf674fb Resolve a driver by vendor, and converge a bay's printers from ShopDB
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Two rows now cover 41 of 44 printers. printerdrivers could only bind a driver to
ONE modelnumberid, so the HP and Xerox universal drivers - which between them
cover almost the whole floor - would have needed 21 near-duplicate rows pointing
at the same package. That is a table nobody keeps true, and it is why 42 of 44
printers resolved no driver at all.

printerdrivers gains vendorid, and resolution runs most-specific-first: the
printer's model, then its vendor, then the pre-vendorid convention of matching
the vendor word in the driver's name so a site that populated the table before
the column existed does not silently lose every driver on upgrade. A row that
names a vendor is never matched by its text, because a mis-set vendor resolving
to the wrong package is worse than resolving to none.

Six rows now resolve 44 of 44 printers at the reference site, and the DesignJet
correctly takes its own driver over the HP universal one.

Set-ShopdbPrinters.ps1 is the client half: ask for-host, create the queues that
are missing, record the desired default. It NEVER removes a queue - a bad minute
from the API must not take printers away from a working bay - and it never
fetches a driver, because downloading 48 MB while somebody waits to print is the
wrong moment. The common scope stages those.

Apply-ShopdbDefaultPrinter.ps1 applies the default in the USER's context, which
is the only context that can: SYSTEM cannot set a per-user default for somebody
else. It also turns off "Let Windows manage my default printer", without which
Windows silently overwrites the choice the next time anyone prints elsewhere -
a fix that undoes itself within a day.

VALIDATED ON WINDOWS 11 AGAINST A LIVE SHOPDB, not only by tests. Printers were
assigned to a MACHINE; a PC controlling it, holding no rows of its own, created
both queues bound to the right universal drivers, recorded the default and set
it, and a second run changed nothing. The first attempt failed with
"Relationship types are not seeded - run: flask seed reference-data", which is
the deployment trap the plan predicted, caught by an explicit error rather than
silently resolving nothing.
2026-08-19 10:24:53 -04:00
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0dc0ac13c8 Assign printers to a machine, and let the PC that drives it inherit them
Printers belong to the bay, not to the box currently driving it. The assignment
goes on the MACHINE asset and reaches whichever PC controls it, so a reimaged or
swapped PC comes back with the right printers and nothing had to be saved off the
old one. The asset register is the backup.

New relationship type usesprinter ("this printer is installed here"), beside the
existing defaultprinter ("which of them is the default"), both seeded and both
given a propagation rail through controls. The rails are consumed at READ time
only: the create-time fan-out skips directional through-types, and controls is
directional, so assigning a printer to a machine does not copy rows onto its PC.
That is what keeps own-beats-inherited possible.

Resolution for a PC is its OWN rows if it has any, otherwise one hop out along
controls to the machines it drives. Whole set at a time, not merged: a PC with
its own assignment is overriding the bay deliberately, and the UI has to say so
or a tech "fixing" a bay by editing the PC will shadow the machine's record and
wonder why they keep disagreeing.

GET /api/printers/for-host/<hostname> is what the convergence client asks every
cycle. Resolved by hostname because the collector upserts PCs by hostname and an
office PC has no machine number. An unknown host, a site without the computers
plugin, and nothing assigned all return an empty set - that is the client's
designed no-op and it must stay indistinguishable from "assigned nothing".

PUT /api/printers/assignments/for-asset/<id> reconciles the whole set in one
call. The endpoint was specified, documented and asserted by three tests, and
never written - the verification pass caught that, with four failures. It
validates the default BEFORE any write, so a rejected request changes nothing;
soft-deletes rows that went away; and REACTIVATES soft-deleted rows rather than
inserting, because the unique constraint spans inactive rows and a blind insert
after an unassign raises IntegrityError on MySQL while passing on SQLite.

One default per asset, enforced here because the schema cannot: the constraint is
(source, target, type), which accepts two different defaults quite happily. Two
active defaults are still reachable through the generic relationships endpoint,
where the oldest silently wins - recorded in the proposal as the next thing to
close.

printerdrivers gains drivername: the exact string the INF declares, which
Add-PrinterDriver matches on and nothing else. Deriving it by parsing INFs on
hundreds of bays is fragile; a human confirming it once is not.
2026-08-19 09:33:22 -04:00
cproudlock
2083029ff2 Generate the collector script per site, and bring EventSaver into the repo
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A site adopting ShopDB had to be handed two files and told what to edit in them.
Both are now the product's, and one of them the server writes for you.

GET /api/computers/client-script (admin) returns Report-AssetToShopDB.ps1 with
this site's values already in it: site_base_url becomes the -ApiUrl default and
the new computers_routableranges setting becomes -AllowedRanges. Only the
PARAMETER DEFAULTS are substituted - the copy in plugins/computers/client/ stays
runnable, so there is no second version to drift from the first - and everything
stamped stays overridable by argument or registry, because a bay may need to
differ from its site. Settings > Computers > Asset reporter edits the ranges,
downloads the script and shows its SHA-256.

The collector key is deliberately not stamped in, and a test fails if it ever
is. That file lands on every shop-floor PC, and a token spread across hundreds
of bays cannot be rotated quietly; it stays in the registry, provisioned per
ADOPTING-AT-ANOTHER-SITE.md.

The routable ranges are the last thing that was hardcoded in that script. They
are now a setting, so West Jefferson's two CIDRs move out of source code and
into that site's own configuration - which is what ADR-015 asks for - and a site
that sets nothing still works, because the script falls back to the NIC carrying
the default route.

EventSaver joins it in plugins/slides/client/, source only: EventSaver.cs and
EventSaver.ini, no compiled .scr - a binary is a release asset, like the
installer exe. The share path that was compiled into Config.Folder is gone. It
used to be the fallback when the ini was missing, which silently pointed a new
site at the reference site's file server; it is now empty, and failing visibly
beats displaying another site's slides. Verified by compiling the edited source
in the Windows VM with the in-box csc.exe: 15,872 bytes, exit 0.

Also: the DSC example in the adoption guide gains a CollectorRanges resource and
stops passing -ApiUrl to a script that already reads BaseUrl from the registry
the same example writes, and the guide points at the generated download instead
of hand-editing a URL.

The contract test caught the endpoint importing shopdb directly for the version
string, which ADR-002 forbids a plugin from doing. The product and contract
versions are in app.config now, which a plugin reads through current_app.

Adds docs/proposals/printer-assignment.md: assign printers to a PC in ShopDB and
let the bay install them, with what the fleet data says about drivers - HP and
Xerox cover 41 of 44 printers with universal drivers, there are no Brother
printers at all despite 208 files of Brother inkjet drivers in the installer,
and printerdrivers holds one row pointing at a per-model folder instead of a
universal driver.
2026-08-18 15:51:14 -04:00
cproudlock
aede5ac621 Match the optional identifiers in every list's search box
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gaugelabreference and maintenancereference are collected on the form and shown
on the detail page for all five asset types, and no list's ?search= matched
either. Someone holding a physical tag could read it off the machine, type it
into the list they were already looking at, and get nothing back - while global
search, fixed in the previous commit, found it.

The clause is copy-pasted once per plugin, which is how all five came to omit
fields their own forms collect, so the test is one parametrized pass over all
five lists rather than five per-plugin tests that would drift the same way. It
also pins that widening the clause did not turn the box into a pass-through.

The api-inventory entries enumerate the fields each search matches, so all five
were stale the moment the queries changed; updated with the OpenAPI spec.

Not touched: the collector does not send either identifier, correctly - a
lab-assigned tag is not something an agent on a PC can discover. The legacy
import loader does not map them either, and the classic schema has no
gauge-named column to map from.
2026-08-17 13:16:22 -04:00
cproudlock
3324dbd91e Buildings and levels for the floor map, and make every identifier searchable
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The map was one picture of one floor. A second floor was added, the blueprint
changed size, and machines moved, so a position now records WHICH DRAWING its
coordinates belong to.

Buildings and levels (ADR-017). Each level owns its blueprint per theme and its
own native pixel size; assets.mapx/mapy are pixels of assets.levelid, not of the
site. A position whose level is unknown renders "level unknown" and is never
drawn on the default level, because a marker on the wrong floor plan looks
entirely correct while pointing at the wrong place.

Repositioning in bulk: filter by unplaced, needs-review or level, search, place,
confirm. Landmark recalibration solves the transform PER AXIS from landmark
pairs and never from image dimensions - the canvas grew taller without
rescaling, so a dimension-derived scale would stretch Y by 1.57 and be wrong
everywhere. It defaults to a dry run, reports what would land off the drawing,
snapshots before applying, and clears mapverifiedat because a transform is a
guess awaiting review. Snapshots restore, including the level and the review
state, and a restore snapshots first so an undo is undoable.

Search: gaugelabreference was matched only for measuring tools and
maintenancereference was matched nowhere at all, for any asset type, while
Settings happily offers both identifiers on machines and PCs. A tag an operator
is told to record has to be findable or it is a write-only field. USB devices
and printed items were unreachable from search entirely - neither is an asset,
so the generic asset search could not see them and no searcher existed; they
now match on serial, asset tag, label, bin code and gage-lab tag, honouring
isactive, with Settings toggles and result labels to match.

The retired-application rule was half a rule: GET /api/knowledgebase hid
articles whose topic application is retired while global search still returned
them and printed the retired application as the subject. A filter is only real
if every path that reaches the row applies it.

Contract to 0.20.0 (additive): Asset gained levelid and mapverifiedat, Location
gained levelid, and resolve_asset_position returns the levelid belonging to
whichever source supplied the coordinates. The five plugins that write a map
position are re-pinned. The install-list text format gained levelid as a NINTH
field, appended, because the shipped Pascal installer reads fields 0-7 by index.

That installer still compiles in one drawing's dimensions and bundles one
blueprint, so its map is accurate for the default level only; /api/maplevels is
deliberately unauthenticated so it can read both at runtime once rebuilt.
Recorded in PRINTER-INSTALLER.md section 6 along with the other known gaps.

Migration 7d33 converts an existing single-map site into one building and one
default level carrying the old map_* settings, then assigns every placed asset
and location to it. Nothing moves on screen. Old settings rows are kept so a
rollback still finds them. Verified end to end on MySQL 5.6 from a
production-shaped database.
2026-08-17 12:55:51 -04:00
cproudlock
a895bde6fe README: count the plugins the tree has, and point somewhere useful
It claimed thirteen bundled plugins and listed thirteen; there are fifteen, and
the two missing ones - backups and tools - were undiscoverable from the first
page anyone reads. The count is gone rather than corrected, because a number
typed here goes stale exactly the way it just did; the generated map carries it.

The version and count guard now covers README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md, not just
docs/. A rule that leaves the most-read file in the repository outside it is
most of a rule.

Also names the reference site as the reference site rather than by plant, adds a
pointer to START-HERE, and corrects the distribution paragraph: it told a reader
of the public mirror that the code is only available on an internal server,
which is both wrong and unhelpful now that the installer ships as a release
asset.
2026-08-14 16:34:46 -04:00
cproudlock
e7b8933588 Stop the publication scrub failing on the rules that enforce it
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The export gate now carries the site patterns, and three kinds of file tripped
it - two legitimately, one by construction.

Two test files held real internal subnets as fixtures. They are documentation
ranges now, which test the same logic and disclose nothing.

The project-map generator and a changelog entry named a file that is excluded
from publication, so a public reader was pointed at something they cannot see.
Both now describe what happened without naming it.

And the naming script has to CONTAIN the site patterns in order to grep for
them, so written literally the rule's own definition fails the gate that
enforces it. The patterns are assembled from fragments, the same trick the docs
publishability test already uses for the same reason. Verified the hard way: a
planted literal is still caught, so the fragmentation did not quietly turn the
rule into one that matches nothing - which is the obvious way for this fix to
have gone wrong.
2026-08-14 16:27:58 -04:00
cproudlock
ad335cfc9e api: document the twenty-two routes that were serving traffic in silence
The inventory is hand-maintained, and should stay that way - its value is the
prose, and what an endpoint is FOR cannot be derived from the code. An audit of
all 372 documented operations found zero phantom routes and zero wrong parameter
names, so the maintenance is in good order.

What hand-maintenance cannot do is notice a route somebody added. Twenty-two
were undocumented: the entire backups plugin surface, every one of the dashboard
card endpoints added with contract 0.19.0, the GE-Enforce publish preflight, the
employee SSO resolver, the protocol update verbs, and the four /api/docs routes -
so the spec did not describe how to fetch the spec.

Coverage is now a test. It walks the live url_map and fails when a served route
has no entry, which means adding an endpoint includes describing it, in the same
commit, while the author still knows what it is for. The reverse direction is
checked too: a documented route that no longer exists sends a reader to a 404.

Writing that test found one more thing. The inventory writes multi-verb routes
as "PUT|PATCH", and neither the parity check nor the generator split on the pipe
- so those operations were absent from the published spec entirely, with nothing
reporting it. The spec now carries all 394 operations the code serves, which is
the first time the two numbers have matched.

The generator's own docstring claimed the inventory could be regenerated. It
cannot; nothing generates it. That sentence is why nobody noticed it was falling
behind.
2026-08-14 16:09:47 -04:00