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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
24435e6359 Let the warranty search find a machine number
Reported: the warranty page cannot be searched by machine number.

It was there to be found. _related_machine puts the machine's number in the
payload, and it does so for a stated reason - a shopfloor PC is bought,
warranted and replaced as a PC, but it is FOUND by the machine it drives, and
nobody walks the floor looking for an asset number. The table renders it as a
chip. The filter looked at vendor, service level, service tag and asset number,
and never at the machine. So the one identifier the feature was designed around
was the one thing the search box could not match.

This is how a field list goes wrong: a column was added to the table and not to
the filter, and nothing connects the two. Moved the field list into
warrantySearch.js so a test can see it, following controllingPc.js and
labelPages.js. Machine name is searched as well - somebody who knows the bay by
"the Makino" should not have to look up its number to find its warranty.

The specs also pin the case that made the old inline version fragile: a covered
asset whose machine is null, which is every printer and any PC nobody has linked
yet, must not throw. And a missing field must not match: String(undefined) is
'undefined', so a naive coercion makes a search for "und" hit every row with an
empty vendor.

Not changed, worth knowing: the covered asset's NAME is still not searched, only
its number. That looks like the same omission, but it is a wider change than the
report - the placeholder has always said "asset" without saying which half - so
it is left for a deliberate decision rather than folded in here.
2026-08-24 09:52:05 -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
de3c5aa562 Stop re-creating a controlling-PC link that was already there
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Reported: moving machine 3016 on the map and saving answered "this
relationship already exists" and refused the save.

The map had nothing to do with it. Every save of the machine form re-POSTed the
controlling-PC link, and the server was right to refuse it - the row was already
active, and assetrelationships is unique on (source, target, type). Any edit to
a machine that has a controlling PC hit this; a position change is just the one
somebody happened to be making.

The form asked the wrong question. It used "do I know the existing link's id" as
a stand-in for "is there an existing link", and read that id from
rel.assetrelationshipid - a key the API has never emitted. to_dict serialises
column names and the column is relationshipid, so the read was undefined on
every load while controllingPcId was populated from the same relationship. The
two answers disagreed, and the disagreement was invisible: undefined is not an
error, it is just a falsy id.

That single conflation caused both failures. Saving anything re-created the
link, and CLEARING the controlling PC did nothing at all, because "no selection
and no known id" reads as "nothing to do" - so removing a machine's controlling
PC silently kept it. Only the first of those was reported, and the second is the
one somebody would have trusted.

Fixed by making the LOADED PC the authority on whether a link exists, with the
relationship id used only to delete a row. If that id ever goes missing again
the worst case is a link that cannot be removed, never a duplicate create.

The decision moved to controllingPc.js as a pure function so it could be pinned
by tests, following labelPages.js. Unchanged is now explicitly no-op rather than
delete-then-create: re-linking a machine to the same PC opens a window where it
has no controlling PC at all, and resolve_asset_position walks that edge, so a
failure between the two calls would drop the machine's inherited position along
with its link. The specs also cover a select handing back '42' against an API
that gave 42, which would make an untouched link look like a swap and reach the
same duplicate POST by another route.

Not the printer assignment, which was the first guess: PrinterAssignmentPicker
makes no relationship calls, and its save is wrapped in a catch that only logs,
so it cannot surface an error from this form at all.
2026-08-24 08:42:50 -04:00
cproudlock
81575e46ca Give the guest setting somewhere to be changed
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Reported: no Tools section in Settings. The setting existed in the database and
had no page, which from a person's side is indistinguishable from the feature
not existing.

get_settings_defaults SEEDS a setting. get_settings_cards (ADR-010) is what puts
it in the rail. Declaring only the first is a silent half-feature: nothing fails,
no test notices, and the switch is unreachable.

The page states the cost where the DECISION is made rather than in a document
nobody opens - turn it on and it says a guest-created link records no creator,
so the audit trail can say when and from where but never who.

Admin-only, like every other settings page, because this one decides whether an
unauthenticated caller may write to the site.

Also caught while wiring it: the card asked for a 'shield' icon, which is not in
the settings iconMap, so it would have rendered the fallback puzzle piece - the
glyph that reads as "nobody chose this". Uses wrench, matching Tech Tools.

The row still comes from `flask plugin upgrade-all`; the card appears either
way, and without the row the page loads empty.
2026-08-21 16:07:28 -04:00
cproudlock
92cf1d71f0 Stop making people sign in to reach tools that need no account
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/tools, /tools/codes and /tools/secure-send were all behind requiresAuth. None
of them needed to be, and one of them actively contradicted a setting added an
hour earlier: securesend_allow_guests lets somebody with no account create a
link, and the page they would create it on was behind a login wall.

The label generator runs entirely in the browser - no API, no data, nothing to
protect - so gating it only ever cost a guest the use of it.

THE SERVER STILL DECIDES who may create a secret. A signed-in user needs
tools.secrets; a guest needs the site to have opened guest creation. Making the
page reachable is not the same as making the action allowed, and the two were
conflated.

The page now reads the setting on load, so a guest at a site that has NOT opened
guest creation is told to sign in instead of being handed a form that was always
going to be refused - with a line saying that receiving a link never needs an
account, because somebody who lands there confused usually has a link they
should be opening instead.

A signed-in user always sees the form, even without the permission: the server's
"you do not have permission" is a different answer from "sign in", and
collapsing them would send somebody to a login page they are already past.
2026-08-21 16:00:18 -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
e8920b2cf3 Do not add the mount to a site URL that already has it
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a381174 fixed a link missing its subpath and produced one carrying it twice:
https://<host>/shopdb/shopdb/s/<token>.

site_base_url is DOCUMENTED as scheme + host, and sites really do set the full
base including the subpath. Trusting the description rather than tolerating what
is configured is the same mistake as the last one, pointed the other way.

The mount is now appended only when the configured URL does not already end with
it, which covers every combination a site can have: base with the subpath, base
without it, a trailing slash on either, and a site mounted at the root where
there is no subpath at all.

Checked all five by evaluating the expression rather than reasoning about it.
2026-08-21 15:22:55 -04:00
cproudlock
a3811740bb Build a secret's link from the site's URL, not the browser's
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Reported from production: clicking a secret link gave an IIS 404, and the link
read /s/<token> where the site lives at /shopdb/s/<token>.

The link was assembled from window.location.origin, which is scheme and host
only. site_base_url already exists for this and says so in its own description -
"used for QR codes and any absolute link the app emits" - with getSiteBaseUrl()
as the helper the QR pages use. This reached past all of it.

Both halves were wrong, and the second is worse because it fails silently:

  MOUNT PATH. A site served under /shopdb or /ops carries that in front of
  every route. Leaving it off is the reported 404.

  HOST. Whoever creates a secret may have reached the app by an IP, a short
  hostname, or a name that resolves in one VLAN, and the recipient opens the
  link from somewhere else entirely. The configured site URL is the one address
  known to work for both of them.

The shape of this failure is what makes it worth spelling out: the secret was
created SUCCESSFULLY and the sender was handed a link that could never work, so
the failure landed on the recipient, the sender had no reason to doubt it, and
the secret expired unread. A 500 would have been kinder.

Falls back to the browsing origin when a site has not set site_base_url, which
is what every other absolute link here does.

BASE_URL is injected at build time, so the subpath half of this cannot show up
in dev and only appears on a subpath deployment.
2026-08-21 15:19:31 -04:00
cproudlock
7fc109d91a Give secure send a card, a form, and a page for the person receiving it
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The backend has been there since d4b49b9 with nothing to click. This is the
half a person actually touches.

A card under a new "Secrets & Access" heading on Tech Tools, which is where
somebody looks for a utility - the whole reason the plugin moved there.

THE CREATE PAGE encrypts before anything leaves the browser and shows the link
once. The plaintext is dropped from memory as soon as it is sealed, and the page
says plainly that the key is in the link and exists nowhere else, because
somebody who does not know that will paste the link somewhere durable.

THE READ PAGE IS PUBLIC, at /s/<token>, outside the app shell: the recipient
usually has no account here, so it carries no navigation and asks for no login.
Short path because the whole link gets pasted into a chat message.

IT NEVER REVEALS ON LOAD. It asks whether the link is still live, then says
"opening this destroys it" and waits for a click. A page that revealed
automatically would be burned by the first scanner that fetched it - which is
the same reason redeeming is a POST.

A MISSING FRAGMENT GETS ITS OWN MESSAGE. If a link rewriter strips the part
after the #, the recipient is told the link is missing its key and what to ask
for, rather than being shown a generic failure. That is the one failure mode
this design cannot recover from, so it is worth naming to the person looking at
it.

The client-side guards live in securesend.js and are advisory by nature - the
server cannot see plaintext, so its size limit is what enforces. They refuse a
pasted FILE outright, which removes the easiest wrong path without anyone
reading a rule, and they warn on something document-shaped: over the length a
credential needs, more than twenty lines, or starting with a PDF/zip/image
signature.

Web Crypto only, no dependency, AES-GCM so a tampered ciphertext fails to
decrypt rather than producing plausible rubbish. The key is base64url for the
fragment, which survives copy-paste and link rewriting better than the standard
alphabet.

VERIFIED THAT THE PAGES RENDER, headlessly, against the dev server: the card
appears under Secrets & Access and the create form draws with its counter and
options. NOT VERIFIED END TO END - no secret has been created, sent, opened or
decrypted, because that needs the dev API restarted and the table migrated.
2026-08-21 15:10:52 -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
f09d14d28c Refuse a measurement that makes the label stop existing
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Reported as a barcode rendering 176 by 0. A bar height of zero is what does it:
the number went straight into a CSS length, height: 0in is perfectly valid, and
an image sized height: 100% of a zero-height box is zero pixels tall. The label
comes out full width with nothing on it, which reads as a rendering failure
rather than as a field doing exactly what it was told.

A cleared field was the same bug wearing a different hat. An emptied number
input holds '', not 0, so the page emitted `NaNin`; the browser dropped the
declaration and the box fell back to auto height. That one merely looked wrong
instead of vanishing, which is arguably worse for finding it.

Measurements now go through labelVars(), which will not emit NaN, an empty
length, or a zero for anything whose zero means the box stops existing. Padding,
the quiet zone and the gap still take zero, because there zero is a real answer,
and offsets stay signed. It is a separate module because this is exactly the
kind of arithmetic that needs tests rather than a preview: every case in
labelVars.spec.js is a value a number input can actually hold.

The stylesheet now carries fallbacks on its var() reads as well, but they are a
net, not the fix: a custom property set to garbage is substituted and then
dropped at computed value time, and the fallback does not apply - it only covers
a property that is absent entirely.
2026-08-21 12:09:26 -04:00
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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
e9fcd1e598 Stop a caption from eating the barcode, and put the labels beside the settings
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Reported as the CODE128 not appearing in the preview. It was appearing, in 44
of the 45 preset and layout combinations swept - as a 36 pixel stub. The code
box and the caption were both allowed to grow, so a caption of any length took
half the label and then kept taking, and on 1.00 x 0.50in stock a few words of
caption left a barcode too narrow to scan. Present, useless, and indisinguishable
from a failed render. The caption now takes the room it needs and no more, and a
CODE128 holds at least 40% of the label, or all of it when stacked: past that
there are too few narrow bars left to read, and a caption that wraps or clips is
the better trade.

So that a real failure can never again look like this one, an empty code box now
says so in red in the preview. It is screen-only - the marker must never reach a
printed label.

The settings were a narrow column with the preview trailing below them, which
put the labels being adjusted off the bottom of the screen. Settings on the
left, labels on the right in a column that stays in view and scrolls on its own,
folding back to one column on a narrow window.

That scrolling column is a print hazard worth naming: an ancestor with its own
overflow clips a multi-page print to whatever happened to be on screen. Print
resets it, and the check is a six-page two-sided run coming out as six pages
with the label as the only clipping box in the chain.
2026-08-21 11:55:36 -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
f9d298c7f0 Name the toner on the forecast, keep the number on the hover
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The forecast identified a cartridge by its part number alone. 'W2020X' only
tells you which toner it is once you already know, and both places that name a
supply - the Order now list and the Part column - showed nothing else, so the
report read as a list of codes.

Both now show marketingname, which is what the box says: '414X Black'. The
part number moves to the title attribute, one hover away, because it is still
the thing an order is placed against. A supply with no name on file falls back
to the number rather than showing an empty cell; marketingname is nullable.

'Copy list' is deliberately untouched. It writes the part number verbatim,
which is what purchasing pastes into an order, and a spec pins that the name
does NOT reach that text.

firstPart() now returns the whole part row rather than its number, since the
cell needs both halves. It has one caller.

Dropped the .partnumber style with its .unmapped variant: nothing renders that
class any more, and the variant was already dead - the unmapped block lists no
part number by definition.

Verified by mounting the component against a fixture. The dev box has no
Zabbix, so the page itself has no rows to look at there.
2026-08-21 11:22:58 -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
1abb6430f5 Put a code on the back of a card, a picture on the front, and the page in the app
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The back side landed last commit carrying text by default, and a back laid out
as text-only renders no code box at all. So a two-sided run came out with a
blank reverse, which reads as the code having failed rather than as a setting
doing exactly what it said. The back now defaults to carrying a code, takes its
own content per row, and chooses its own symbology - a QR on the front that
opens the record, a CODE128 on the back that the bench scanner already reads.
Text-only is refused while the back carries a code, and the contradiction is
reconciled on load, so a saved setting from the broken combination repairs
itself rather than printing another blank box of cards.

A picture can go on a label: above the code, beside it, or behind everything as
a watermark, on either side or both. The file is read in the browser and never
sent anywhere, which is what makes it usable at an air-gapped site, and it is
deliberately not saved between visits - a data URL runs to megabytes and would
take every sizing value with it when the quota gave out. The watermark says
plainly that it costs the scanner contrast.

The generator was a full-screen route with no navigation and a narrow column of
controls against the left edge. That shape exists so a print cannot put the
sidebar on label stock, which is a real hazard and the reason core's label pages
are built that way - but it is a hazard the print stylesheet can answer, and
style.css now hides the shell at print time. A tool someone spends ten minutes
in gets the navigation and the full width; the stock still gets nothing but
labels, confirmed against a print PDF rather than a preview.

Two smaller things found while checking the above. A test print paired each page
with a rendered code by loop position, while the codes are keyed to position in
the whole run, so a two-sided test card could carry the wrong code; the index
now travels with the page. And the back's dotted preview outline outspecified
the print reset, drawing a dashed rule down the edge of every second card.
2026-08-21 10:59:28 -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
39ede87d55 Give a label its own gap, its own position, and a back side
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Three things the code generator could not do, each of which had someone
working around it with a control that meant something else.

The gap between a code and its caption was the quiet zone. That is the
clear space a scanner needs around the code, so closing up a caption meant
shaving the thing that makes the code readable, and the only way to get a
tight label to scan was to push the caption further away than it looked
like it should be. Quiet zone now means the code's own margin and nothing
else; gap means the distance to the caption, and adds to the quiet zone
rather than eating into it. Each stock preset carries the gap that suits it.

Position had one pair of controls and they moved the label box on the
stock. That is the fix for a printer whose origin is off, and it is not the
fix for a code sitting in the wrong place on a label - but it was the only
lever there, so it got used for both. The label div is now the media and
holds still; everything printed sits in a content wrapper that Align,
Vertical and Content X/Y move within it. The old pair kept its behaviour
and is labelled Media X/Y.

A badge card has two sides and the generator only ever emitted one page per
card. The back can now carry the same code again, a fixed block of text,
its own per-row content, or nothing. Page order is a choice because the two
kinds of printer want opposite things: interleaved for a duplex card
printer, which takes pages two at a time, and grouped for a single-sided
one whose stack gets flipped and reloaded. A row that leaves its back
column empty still gets a blank back page - a page count that varies per
row shifts every later back onto the wrong front, which prints a box of
perfectly readable cards that are all wrong.

CSV parsing and page building moved to plugins/tools/frontend/labelPages.js
(committed in 875fde9), where the column contract and both page orders are
covered by tests rather than by looking at the preview.
2026-08-21 09:08:37 -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
85931db0fa Network devices: filter models by vendor, and style the hero like every other page
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Three fixes, all of them a page not doing what its siblings already do.

MODELS WERE NOT FILTERED BY VENDOR. PCForm, MachineForm and PrinterForm each
narrow the model list once a vendor is chosen; NetworkDeviceForm bound the whole
catalogue, so picking Palo Alto still offered every Dell and Zebra model. Same
computed as the others, including the same rule that no vendor selected shows
everything - an empty dropdown reads as "no models exist" when it means "pick a
vendor first". Audited the rest: this was the only gap. The other views holding
a modelnumberid have no vendor picker to filter against, and settings ModelsList
is where a model's vendor is ASSIGNED, where filtering would be circular.

THE HERO RAN THE LABEL INTO THE VALUE - "Asset #FW-OAV..." as one string. The
page used detail-item / label / value, which match nothing in the stylesheet, so
the two spans got no layout at all. Every other detail page uses hero-detail /
hero-detail-label / hero-detail-value, which stacks a small uppercase label above
the value. Renamed to those; no CSS added, because the styles already existed and
this page simply was not using them. It was the last page using the unstyled
names.

MACHINES LIST LINKED BY THE WRONG ID on its fallback path. `/machines/:id` keys
on machineid, the plugin extension id, and the row click and View button fell
back to `item.assetid` - which lands on whichever machine happens to carry that
number: a wrong page that looks right, which is worse than a 404. That defect has
been fixed twice before in other views (AssetRelationships, then the GE-Enforce
reports table) and BackupHistory carries a comment warning about it; this was the
fourth copy. The list endpoint always sets item.machine, so the fallback could
not actually fire here - it is removed as a latent trap rather than a live bug,
and with no machineid the cell now shows plain text rather than a link that
misleads.
2026-08-20 15:10:01 -04:00
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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
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21afa0b56e Let a metrology bay name the instrument it drives
The server has accepted `measuringtoolid` since the adoption work landed, and it
is the FIRST entry in the resolution order precisely because it is the identity
that survives a PC swap. Nothing ever sent it. The reporter read the eDNC
registry, cmmid.txt, machine-number.txt and pc-type.txt, and its own comment
said metrology bays have no per-bay id and therefore send nothing - so a Keyence
or Genspect bay fell through all four steps to minting, which the server's own
docstring calls the last resort.

Minting derives the asset number from the HOSTNAME, so a permanent instrument
inherits the identity of whichever PC drove it that week: replace the PC and
either the number lies or a second tool appears for the same physical unit. That
is how 43 legacy MT-#### tools ended up shadowed by minted twins. The half that
prevents it was built, tested and undeliverable.

The reporter now reads C:\Enrollment\measuringtool-id.txt and sends it when
present. Its own file, NOT machine-number.txt: machinenumber answers "which bay
is this" and is what GE-Enforce TargetMachineNumbers gates on, so naming a tool
there would silently stop every bay-gated manifest entry from matching.

The paste-ready reporter in COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION.md is a second implementation
of the same payload, so it gets the same resolver rather than being left to
drift. The field was also missing from the payload table and from the classic
api.asp mapping, and there was no prose anywhere describing how a tool is
resolved - added, including why minting is last and what the two guards refuse.

VERIFIED ON WINDOWS 11 (build 26200), four cases: a named instrument is read and
sent; no file sends no field and exits 0; a whitespace-only file behaves as
absent rather than sending an empty string; and a padded value with a second
line yields the first line trimmed.
2026-08-20 10:28:24 -04:00
cproudlock
3f7cc37b00 Spread a driver rollout across waves so the fleet cannot stampede its own share
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GE-Enforce gives each PC a start offset of SHA256(hostname) % 5 MINUTES and then
repeats every five minutes. That was sized for reading a few KB of manifest
JSON. A driver set is 100 MB for the two universals and 226 MB for a full site,
so the day a driver entry lands, every bay pulls it inside one five-minute
window: roughly 30 GB across 300 bays, at something like 800 Mbps, on the same
share the whole floor needs for everything else. The failure mode is not slow
printers, it is a floor that stops converging.

-WaveStart with -Waves spreads that out. Each PC derives its own wave from its
hostname, so there is no central coordination, no per-bay configuration, and no
list of who has had it yet. The hash is the same idiom Register-GEEnforce.ps1
already uses for its start offset, SHA-256 rather than MD5 because FIPS-enforced
bays disable MD5 outright and would throw.

Measured over 300 hostnames at 10 waves: 23 to 44 bays per wave against a mean of
30, so the peak wave moves about 4.3 GB rather than the 3 GB an average implies.
Hash bucketing is uneven and the peak is what sizes a link, so do not quote the
mean.

THE GATE RUNS BEFORE THE MANIFEST IS READ, because the manifest is on the share
too. A bay that is not due must not touch the share at all - one read is cheap,
300 bays deciding to read in the same five minutes is the entire problem.

It FAILS CLOSED on an unparseable date. Failing open would restore exactly the
stampede this exists to prevent, and 30 GB cannot be un-sent, whereas a typo that
installs nothing says so in the log every cycle and is fixed in a minute.

A bay powered off during its wave installs on its next cycle instead. The wave is
an earliest-time, not a deadline, so nothing needs chasing afterwards.

-TestOnly reports a bay whose wave has not opened as COMPLIANT, because not
installed is genuinely its desired state today; DSC would otherwise call
SetScript every pass to be told to wait. -IgnoreWave is for proving a pilot bay
before opening anything.

Verified on Windows 11 build 26200, six paths: not-due installs nothing and exits
0; TestOnly while not due exits 0; a garbage date exits 1 having installed
nothing; -IgnoreWave installs against a future start; an opened wave installs;
and no wave arguments at all installs, which is what imaging needs.
2026-08-19 17:16:58 -04:00
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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
1a5a1cd43d Correct a drifted print queue instead of leaving it wrong
A queue was matched by NAME alone, so a bay whose printer had moved, or whose
queue was built on a driver the site has since replaced, looked converged and
printed to the wrong device. Absence was fixed; drift was not.

Set-ShopdbPrinters.ps1 now repoints a queue whose port does not match the
address ShopDB holds, and swaps a queue built on the wrong driver. Both are
things ShopDB is authoritative about: where the printer IS, and what drives it.

CORRECTED IN PLACE with Set-Printer, never removed and recreated. The queue keeps
its name, its sharing, its permissions, and whoever has it as their default keeps
it - which is what makes this safe to run every cycle on a live floor. There is
still no removal code path in this script at all.

Two guards, because a repair that breaks a working printer is worse than drift:
the driver is only swapped when the wanted one is actually staged, and
-WhatIfOnly reports both kinds of correction without making either.

Verified on Windows against a queue that had the right name, the wrong port, the
wrong driver AND was the logged-on user's default: both fields were corrected and
the queue was still the default afterwards. The earlier no-op guarantees were
re-run and still hold - nothing assigned changes nothing, and an assignment with
no default leaves the user's own default alone.
2026-08-19 13:07:51 -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
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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
cproudlock
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
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03d0754fdc Stage printer drivers as a deployable set, for the common scope
Assigning a printer to a bay is useless if the bay cannot install it, and the
fleet data says why that mattered: 42 of 44 printers could not resolve a driver.
This is the delivery half - the drivers themselves, staged once per bay, so that
creating a queue never waits on a download.

Install-ShopdbPrinterDriver.ps1 does one driver: trust the package's signer, then
pnputil /add-driver, then Add-PrinterDriver. Install-ShopdbPrinterDrivers.ps1
does a site's whole set from drivers.json, and answers a compliance question with
-TestOnly, which is what makes it a clean DSC Script resource rather than a
fire-and-forget install.

Deliberately SEPARATE from assignment. Drivers are large, near-identical across a
fleet and change rarely; assignments are small, per-bay and change often. Staging
the set in the GE-Enforce common scope means the assignment client only ever
creates a queue - it never fetches a 48 MB package while somebody is waiting to
print, or discovers the share is unmounted at the worst moment.

THE SIGNER TRUST STEP IS THE WHOLE TRICK, and it took a real driver to find it.
certutil -addstore on the .cat file satisfied the Xerox package and failed every
HP INF with "The publisher of an Authenticode(tm) signed catalog has not yet been
established as trusted" - a coin toss, not a mechanism. The certificate is now
extracted with Get-AuthenticodeSignature and added to Trusted Publishers, for
every catalog under the package rather than the first INF's neighbours. On a
locked bay there is no prompt to answer, so the old failure was silent.

Verified on Windows against real packages, not by reading: all six drivers this
site needs install through the script, a second run is a no-op, a wrong driver
name fails with the names the package actually offers, and the DSC cycle behaves
- TestOnly exits 1 on a clean box, install exits 0, TestOnly then exits 0.

The packages themselves stay out of git: they are licensed vendor binaries, and
they belong on the share beside the other imaging payloads.

DEPLOYING-DRIVERS.md carries the GE-Enforce entry, the DSC configuration and the
Intune shape, plus the constraint that has cost a session before: the SFLD share
is mounted only during the enforcement cycle, so this runs as a manifest entry
and never as its own scheduled task.
2026-08-19 09:33:05 -04:00
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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
96f127f8c8 Bring the collector script into the repo, with no site in it
Report-AssetToShopDB.ps1 lived on one site's imaging share and was, per the
adoption guide, "provided on request" - which is not a distribution mechanism for
a product meant to be adopted. It now lives in plugins/computers/client/, beside
the collector contract it implements (ADR-006), so the two version together.

Three things named West Jefferson and no longer do (ADR-015):

- The server. It resolves from HKLM:\SOFTWARE\GE\ShopDB BaseUrl - the value
  Install-GEEnforce.ps1 already writes and the enforcement client cannot run
  without - or from -ApiUrl. With neither it logs and exits 0 rather than
  posting somewhere wrong. Any bay running this script runs the enforcement
  client, so the value is present wherever it is deployed.
- The corporate VLANs. Two hardcoded CIDRs decided which NIC's address was
  reported, with a comment reading "update if site re-VLANs". A site may now
  name its ranges (-AllowedRanges, or a CollectorRanges registry value); with
  none configured the NIC carrying the DEFAULT ROUTE is used, which expresses
  "the routable NIC, not the controller NIC" without knowing any site's
  addressing.

VERIFIED IN THE WINDOWS VM, not by reading it - and the VM earned its keep. The
local array was called $allowedRanges, which is the SAME VARIABLE as the [string]
parameter $AllowedRanges because PowerShell names are case-insensitive; the array
was silently coerced to an empty string, and .Count on a scalar string is 1. The
script therefore believed a range was configured, skipped the default-route
fallback, and reported no IP at all. Linux pwsh parsed it happily. Renamed to
$rangeList, and the four paths were then confirmed on Windows: no config skips
cleanly, BaseUrl resolves from the registry, an unconfigured site picks the
default-route NIC, a configured range selects or excludes as asked.
2026-08-18 09:59:51 -04:00
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f34b9ca710 Carry the level everywhere a position is drawn, and gate it per occurrence
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The hover mini-map said "This asset has a position (2835, 1410) but no level"
for every asset in the product. When 0.11.0 gave LocationMapTooltip a levelid
prop, NONE of its seven call sites were taught to pass one - printer, machine and
PC detail pages, the toner report, enforcement reports, the warranty chip and the
dashboard cards - so the component correctly reported a missing level and the
preview never drew. Two payloads behind those views also emitted mapx/mapy with
no level: the toner report and the enforcement report.

The map PDF export had the ORIGINAL bug still in it: it plotted every filtered
asset onto the sheet, so exporting the ground floor printed second-floor markers
on it. Worse than on screen, because nobody can correct a sheet once it has been
printed and carried onto the floor. It now exports only the level being viewed.

The legacy import loader sent mapleft/maptop with no level at three call sites.
That loader is the one still to run against production, and every marker it
created would have been undrawable. It now resolves the site's default level -
the legacy schema predates levels and has one floor plan, so that is what its
coordinates mean.

THE GATE MISSED ALL OF THIS because it asked whether a FILE mentions 'levelid',
not whether each position does: one module emitted 'mapx' six times and 'levelid'
once and passed. It now checks per occurrence, covers scripts/ as well as shopdb/
and plugins/, and fails any Vue file that binds tooltip coordinates without
:levelid. Both new rules were confirmed to fail the build against planted
violations before being relied on.

Printer QR labels: the asset number is no longer printed. A label now reads name
(8201-HPLaserJetPro), QR, FQDN, then IP. The name falls back to the assetnumber
because that is where sites actually keep it - every printer here has an empty
name field, so preferring the Windows queue name alone would have printed a blank
line on every label.
2026-08-18 09:36:45 -04:00
cproudlock
62f4a42210 fix: page past the 100-row cap in batch label sheets and asset pickers
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Follow-up to the application-picker fix. Three of these were already wrong on
data that exists today, not merely latent.

Batch label printing is the worst of them: AssetLabelBatch asked for 500
machines or PCs, got 100, and printed a sheet that looked complete. With 262
machines and 290 PCs in the catalogue that is a physically short run with no
error anywhere - the operator finds out at the label printer, or later at the
bay with no label on it. PrinterQRBatch, USBLabelBatch and PrintedPartsLabels
had the same shape and are fixed alongside it, before their tables cross 100
too.

MachineForm's "controls" PC dropdown offered the first 100 of 290, so a
machine could not be linked to a PC sorting late in the list. NetworkDeviceForm
had it for models, which are already past 100 - and the same file already
called modelsApi.listAll() correctly two lines away.

Adds listAll() to the machines, computers, printers, network, measuring-tools,
USB and printed-parts APIs, all delegating to fetchAllPages().

Still outstanding: callers of vendors, locations, business units and the type
catalogues that ask for more than 100. Those tables are all well under the cap
today, so they are correct for now and wrong the day they are not.
2026-08-17 14:10:08 -04:00
cproudlock
9c1c6c5729 fix: page past the 100-row cap in application pickers
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get_pagination_params clamps perpage to MAX_PAGE_SIZE (100) and reports
nothing about having done so, so a caller asking for perpage: 1000 gets the
first 100 rows and a success response. Every picker built that way looked
complete and was not.

Found on a live site with 126 active applications: the 26 sorting last were
absent from the knowledge-base topic dropdown, so an article could not be
filed against them. Nothing was wrong with those application records, and
editing them could never have helped.

Adds fetchAllPages() to the api module, generalizing the one call site that
already handled this correctly (modelsApi.listAll), and points the four
application pickers at a new applicationsApi.listAll(): the KB article form,
the KB list's topic filter, the notification form, and the report filter
builder.

Lists that render a page at a time are untouched - they page for a reason.
Other callers still asking for more than 100 rows of vendors, locations,
models, subnets and the rest are latent: correct only while those tables stay
under 100, and silent on the day they do not.
2026-08-17 14:06:35 -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
c648bdf560 labels: one module knows how to draw a code, seven views stop guessing
Three core pages and four plugin pages each imported qrcode and jsbarcode
directly, and each carried its own answer to the same questions: what margin,
what width, which error correction, how big a module must be before a scanner
can read it. The answers had already drifted - margin 0 in one place and 2 in
another, width 150 against 160 - and on a label that is the difference between
a sticker that scans and one that does not.

frontend/src/utils/codes.js owns it now: the label-stock presets, the quiet-zone
and margin defaults, CODE128 with no printed value, and the printer-resolution
arithmetic that only the Tech Tools generator had. A view passes what is
specific to its own label and nothing else - MachineBadge still asks for CODE39,
because the badge readers predate the shop-floor scanners and decode nothing
else, and that is exactly the kind of thing a call site should say out loud.

views/print/qrLogo.js is folded in rather than left as a second half-shared
helper that only some of the pages reached into.

The check script now fails a build that imports either library outside that
module. Without it this re-forks within a month: the next label page starts by
copying the nearest existing one, which is how it happened the first time.

Tests cover the part no amount of looking at a screen verifies - a QR that
looks fine at 96 dpi on a monitor can be unreadable at 203 dpi on half-inch
stock.
2026-08-14 14:03:49 -04:00
cproudlock
035419fa51 ADR-015: stop shipping one site's values, and make the rule a gate
The scanner has been reporting the same count for weeks, which is what a rule
that only prints becomes. It now FAILS the build, and it looks where the leaks
actually were: PowerShell, the installer, the seeds, generated JSON, the
frontend - case-insensitively, across plugins, shopdb, scripts, deploy, tools.
A line that is deliberate declares itself with an ADR-015-OK marker and a
reason, so the claim is visible in review instead of tolerated in silence.

What it found, fixed here:

- The shadow client wrote one site's ShopDB URL into HKLM whenever the registry
  disagreed. At the site it was written for that reads as healing drift;
  anywhere else it overwrites the site's own address on every enforce cycle,
  and the site cannot win because the cycle repeats. The bay's value now wins,
  an explicit -BaseUrl seeds it, and with neither there is nothing honest to
  write, so it says so and skips.
- The kiosk dispatcher fell back to one plant's host when HKLM was unset, so a
  kiosk elsewhere quietly opened a server it has no business reaching. The
  fallback is now this site's site_base_url, baked in at seed time, and the
  dispatcher refuses rather than guessing when neither is set. Its legacy
  shortcut matcher derives the host from that URL instead of naming one.
- The OpenAPI generator hardcoded a production hostname into every spec it
  generated, which then published to a public wiki. The relative mount is the
  only server it can honestly name; a site passes its own by environment.
- Placeholders and examples in the UI and the client help offered real internal
  subnets and a real production URL. They now use documentation ranges.

Both publication gates - the export scrub and the docs publishability test -
carry the site patterns, which neither did. One plant's hostname, FQDN and
internal networks are out of the documentation and the generated specs.

Comments naming the reference site are reworded rather than deleted: the
reasoning is worth keeping, the plant name is not what makes it true.
2026-08-14 13:47:39 -04:00
cproudlock
4d6ab741cc backups: retention reads the key the settings page actually writes
get_setting on BasePlugin namespaces what it reads to plugin.backups.<key>,
while get_settings_defaults declares - and the settings page writes - the bare
key. So the retention read never found the operator's value and always fell back
to 0, and 0 means keep everything. Retention was configurable in the UI and did
nothing. It is the only place in the codebase using the namespaced helper.

The share root also stops shipping one site's file server as its default. That
put a site's internal topology in a bundled plugin and in the public mirror, and
pointed a second site at a server it cannot reach. Blank now, per ADR-015, and a
share kind with no configured root returns nothing rather than composing a path
from somebody else's hostname - a path built on an empty root is not a lesser
answer, it is a wrong one.
2026-08-14 13:47:19 -04:00
cproudlock
838932a72d geenforce: gate publishing on the library version, not on the manifest's own
The publish gate exists because a minor version bump that NARROWS behaviour is
not backward compatible: _CmmVersion arrived in lib 2.6, and an older lib does
not know the field, so every gated entry looks unfiltered and it installs every
PC-DMIS version it cannot detect, on every CMM, in one cycle.

It was comparing the fleet's reported library versions against manifestversion.
That is the manifest's own 'Version' field. For a share-imported manifest the
two numbering schemes happen to coincide; for a scope authored in code they do
not, and seed_display_scope writes '2.0' - which every kiosk exceeds. So the
gate passed on the scope that most needed it.

A scope now declares minlibversion. Unset, the requirement is DERIVED from what
the manifest actually uses, so a scope written before this column existed is
still judged on its contents rather than on a number that says nothing about the
library. Only features that narrow behaviour belong in that table; an addition
an old lib ignores harmlessly needs no floor. manifestversion remains the last
fallback, which preserves what share-imported manifests already relied on.
2026-08-14 13:47:11 -04:00
cproudlock
c7dffce81e Serve an uploaded file as data, not as a document that can run
An SVG is an XML document that may carry a script, and it is an accepted image
type because floor-plan maps and branding genuinely want vector. Loaded through
an img tag that script never runs, so the tiles and maps were never the risk.
Opening the file's own URL is - and the application image route is public, so
that URL needs no session.

Every route that serves an upload now goes through one helper that sends
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'; sandbox, and nosniff. Seven routes
across core and five plugins, so a new one added later starts from the same
place rather than repeating the reasoning. Banning the format instead would
have cost the maps their only sensible one.

The app also sent no security headers at all. It now sets nosniff,
frame-ancestors self (as X-Frame-Options too, for the display bays' browsers)
and a referrer policy. Deliberately NOT a page-wide CSP: this serves an SPA with
inline styles, so a real script-src policy is a change worth making with the
frontend in front of you, and a permissive header claiming one would be worse
than having none.

Contract 0.19.0. send_upload is on the shopdb.api surface, because a plugin
serving user-supplied bytes should not have to remember these headers. The same
bump records that get_dashboard_widgets has taken data and shape rather than a
component name since the dashboard was rebuilt - that shipped without a bump,
while BasePlugin and PLUGIN-HOOKS.md both still documented the shape nothing
renders, which is how five plugins came to declare widgets pointing at
components nobody had written.
2026-08-14 13:46:53 -04:00
cproudlock
d830dd49a9 collector: adopt an instrument before minting one, and stop the 500 loops
Minting derived a measuring tool's asset number from the HOSTNAME, so a
permanent instrument inherited the identity of whichever PC drove it that week:
replace the PC and either the number lies or a second tool appears for the same
physical unit. And because idempotency was keyed on the collector's own label,
it could not see a tool it had not created - on prod that left 43 legacy MT-####
tools shadowed by minted <HOST>-CMM twins, three records deep in places.

Resolution order is now most-stable-identity-first: the instrument named by
measuringtool-id.txt, then a prior collector link, then a tool this PC already
controls that somebody else created, then the reported machine number, and only
then mint. What minting produces should be read as a placeholder until a real
identifier is recorded.

Three separate 500 loops came out of the same mistake, looking a relationship up
by LABEL when assetrelationships is unique on (source, target, type):

- On a CMM the instrument IS the reported bay, so the machine sync has already
  made a row for that exact triple - and it finds its own rows by that label.
  Relabelling hid the link, so the next cycle built a second row for the same
  triple and MySQL rejected it: 200 once, then 500 forever. The machine link is
  now recognised and left alone; adoption only needs the identity.
- A part-marker PC hit it twice over, once on its partof row and once because
  the marker's asset number is derived from the PC and could already be taken.
  Both are get-or-create on the triple now, and an existing asset of that number
  is adopted rather than duplicated.

A named instrument also supersedes a minted twin properly: the stale link is
archived by TARGET, not by object identity, which is what left a PC reading as
the controller of two instruments.

Reported identifiers are matched exactly rather than with ilike. They arrive
from a text file on a shopfloor PC, and ilike reads _ and % as wildcards, so
MT-600_ adopted MT-6001 and a bare % adopted whatever active asset came first.
A named id that is not a measuring tool is refused with a warning rather than
linked as one.
2026-08-14 13:46:40 -04:00
cproudlock
38deefe619 migrations: commit the plugin chains too, and bound what re-ran
Core's Alembic env got connection.commit() when the stamp bug was found; the
per-plugin template did not. MySQL commits DDL implicitly, which flushes
everything queued before it including the previous migration's version stamp,
and the LAST migration of a run has no DDL after it - so its stamp rolled back
at close while its schema change survived. flask plugin upgrade-all then exited
0 having silently re-run that migration, and re-ran it again on every deploy
after. Invisible for exactly as long as every plugin head happened to be
idempotent.

Two were not.

backups 0003 cleared lastseenat for EVERY row, which is correct once and
destroys evidence on each repeat. It is now scoped to the backfill's actual
signature, COALESCE(collectedat, createdat) - the expression 0002 wrote - plus a
date bound. Both conditions are needed. Matching on collectedat alone misses
every row whose collectedat is NULL, so precisely the rows carrying the most
invented value would have kept it forever; and value equality is not a signature
on MySQL, where db.DateTime is second-precision and the collector writes both
stamps in one statement, so a genuinely fresh revision would read as a backfill
and be wiped. SQLite keeps microseconds, which is why no test could show it.

geenforce 0003 added a column unconditionally, so it failed on a fresh database
built from the models and on any re-run. Guarded like network0003prefix.
2026-08-14 13:46:23 -04:00
cproudlock
ab301df9ac network: generate a device's asset number instead of asking twice
Every network device on this fleet already follows one convention, applied by
hand: AP-<name>, SW-<name>, SVR-<name>, IDF-<name>. 45 records, no exceptions.
The create form demanded the asset number anyway, so the same value was typed
twice and the convention held only as long as everyone remembered it.

The prefix now lives on the device type, and a blank asset number is generated
as <PREFIX>-<name>. Left explicit, an asset number always wins: a device
carrying a real identifier of its own - a vendor tag, a controller name, a
serial - keeps it. That is the platform rule, adopt where an identifier exists
and derive only where none does.

The prefix is NOT derived from the type name. "Access Point" and "Access Panel"
both initialise to AP, and assetnumber is unique, so the second type would
collide with the first on every device it created. It is nullable, so a type
that wants no prefix generates the bare name rather than needing one invented.

Names are sanitised before they reach a business key - the existing data
already shows why, with IDF-Telco-Demarc-#1 carrying a '#' into an identifier.
An existing prefix is never stacked: IDF-03 under type IDF stays IDF-03.
2026-08-14 13:45:51 -04:00