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b80bd8731f |
Filter the queue by check, and say when a check cannot answer
TWO CONTROLS, ONE BOARD Severity answers "how bad". It could not answer "what kind", and on a fleet where eight endpoints go quiet at once, being able to set those aside and look at the four crashes is the difference between a board and a list. Chips per contributing check, coloured by its severity, composing with the severity rollup above them. Both narrow what is already loaded rather than refetching, so no combination can disagree with the counts. Picking a severity that excludes the active chip clears the chip: two controls lit above an empty queue, neither obviously wrong, is worse than losing the narrower one. A chip counts every row, not the rows the queue had room for. A chip reading 5 above a "3 more" line would be its own small lie. "LOW SUPPLIES 0" WAS NOT TRUE Asked what happened to toner replacement, and the answer was worse than the layout question that prompted it. _get_low_supplies_data returned the same empty result for three different situations: Zabbix not configured, Zabbix unreachable, and every cartridge full. The dashboard strip therefore displayed "Low Supplies 0 / Critical 0" while the monitoring was dead - and this instance is exactly that case, with zabbix_enabled true against a URL nothing answers on. So the strip removed in the previous commit was not information. It was reassurance, and it read identically whether the printers were fine or nobody could see them. That is the failure this codebase already names elsewhere: an empty card and a broken card must not look the same. The endpoint now distinguishes the three, and returns an envelope rather than a bare list so a card can say WHY it has no rows. cardVisible shows such a card whatever its empty rule, because "I cannot tell" is not "nothing to report". It renders as a notice line, not a queue row: there is no asset to act on, and burying "the monitor is dead" among the things it failed to find would be the same mistake in a new place. Note what this does NOT fix: the Zabbix URL on this instance is a dev placeholder. The board will now say so instead of implying the cartridges are full, but somebody still has to point it at a real server - and it is worth checking what production points at, since nothing would have shown there either. Frontend 314 passed (13 new), full suite 2178. The response shape changed from a list to an envelope; no test depended on the old shape. |
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13c46af5ce |
Rebuild the dashboard around what needs a person
The board was one card per source in a fixed grid, and both halves of that hurt. Every source got the same small box whatever it had to say. Warranties showed 5 of 50 behind "and 45 more"; the crash card truncated at 4; a one-row card sat beside a four-row card and left a hole. Nothing had room, which is the complaint that started this: not enough space to relay the data. And a box per source flattened priority. An enforcement failure and a warranty notice looked equally urgent because each owned a card, while the largest type on the page belonged to counts that are true every day and need nobody. WHAT THE PAGE IS NOW A severity rollup, one worst-first queue of everything that needs a person, and a row of context beneath it. The queue merges every critical and warning row and sorts them, so reading order is work order. It is full width, which is where the room came from. Rows are capped per source, because fifty expiring warranties must not bury two crashed PCs, and what did not fit is named per source with a link to it - a bare "and 45 more" that leads nowhere is worse than saying nothing. The rollup counts ROWS, not cards, and filters the board in place rather than navigating away, so the counts and the rows cannot disagree. Severity, position and permission were already declared per card and already sorted on. The old layout threw that away; this only stops it. WHAT WENT, AND WHY IT SHOULD NOT COME BACK Four asset tiles plus an "All assets" tile: machines + PCs + printers + network IS all assets, so the page showed a total beside its own addends at the same weight. It is now a line under a rule, where a total belongs. The printer strip. It carried the printer count a third time - the tile row and "Total Printers" were already the same number - and "Online" equalled total, so three tiles held one fact. A genuinely low cartridge already reaches the queue through the printers-supplies card, which is the moment anyone wants it. Three cards whose whole job was to display 0. Recent Devices: the largest block on the page, listing five machines that were all "In Use" with business unit "TBD". Recency is not a reason to look at something. CONTRACT 0.26.0: 'shortname' Cards may declare a short label for their rows in the merged queue. Their 'title' is written as a heading - "Endpoints with crashes or shutdowns" - and as a row badge it ran wider than the hostname it qualified, putting the badge rather than the asset at the start of every line. CSS-truncating the title was tried first and was worse: four consecutive rows reading "ENDPOINTS WITH CR..." say nothing at all. Optional and defaults to the title, so a plugin that does not declare one is unaffected. Additive field, minor bump. ALSO: "silent 1 days" A meta suffix is written for the plural case and the card cannot know the value. One row saying it was a shrug; the merged queue puts every quiet endpoint on one screen, so it said it five times in a column and read as broken. Now singularised at exactly 1, on the first word, keeping what follows: "1 event (48h)", "silent 1 day". The test asserting ' ms' survives is what caught the first version turning it into ' m'. DashboardRow.vue is extracted because the queue and the context panels render the same row, and the map tooltip, link fallbacks and chips are too easy to get subtly different in a second copy. Verified on screen against live data. Full suite 2178 passed, frontend 301. |
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e562b405d4 |
Collapse the relationships card by default, with an honest count
The triage band now answers the common case above the fold - what an asset serves, or what drives it - so the full edge list below is reference rather than the first thing to read. On a machine showing two relationships, both already appeared in the band and the banner, and the card was a third copy. Collapsed by default, using the same caret, roles and keyboard handling as the collapsible panels on the same page rather than a second, slightly different one. The card is NOT redundant with the band and is not removed. It is the only surface with Add Relationship and the per-row delete, and it keeps each edge's exact type where the band deduplicates by asset. The printer page is the proof: four rows there - usesprinter and defaultprinter, for each of two machines - collapse to two band chips, and which machine DEFAULTS to that printer is a distinction the band deliberately drops. Fine for triage, wrong for management. THE COUNT IS OF WHAT IS RENDERED, NOT OF EDGES A collapsed card that just says "Relationships" cannot be told from an empty one, so the header carries a count. The first version counted raw edges and was wrong on the first machine it was shown: a symmetric Dualpath link is stored in BOTH directions in the legacy shape, so it is two rows in outgoing+incoming and one "Connected" entry on screen. The badge read 3 above a card that shows 2 when expanded - exactly the mismatch the badge exists to prevent. It now counts rendered items. Add Relationship expands the card before opening the modal, so a new row cannot land behind a closed caret and read as the add having failed. Verified on screen: machine reads 2 and matches, printer reads 4 and matches. Frontend 280 passed. |
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78017eee2a |
Put the dual-bay sibling in the triage band, and fix the gage counterpart
TWO STRIPS OF CHROME SAYING THE SAME KIND OF THING
The machine page opened with a banner - "Dual-bay machine - sibling bay: 2022" -
directly above a hero whose band said "Controlled by". Both answer "what am I
looking at", and splitting them across a banner and a band cost a strip of
vertical space to say so.
The sibling is now a chip in the band beside the controlling PC. The band takes
an `extraitems` prop rather than learning what dualpath is: the pairing is
resolved by the machines plugin, not from the relationships endpoint, so core
cannot derive it, and a dualpath-shaped prop on a core component would be the
machines plugin leaking upward. A page passes [{label, links:[{text, to}]}] and
the band renders it with its own markup, which also keeps the chips visually
identical to the ones it derives itself.
The label stays "Dual-bay sibling" rather than "Dualpath". The banner spelled
the meaning out because a dualpath pair is ONE physical machine in two bays; a
chip reading "Dualpath" would have dropped that.
THE GAGE PAGE FILTERED FOR A COUNTERPART THAT CANNOT EXIST
MeasuringToolDetail was wired counterparttype="machine" labelled "Used on".
Wrong on both counts. The import synthesizes one measuring-tool asset per
metrology PC and a 'controls' edge PC -> tool (stage_metrology), so a gage's
counterpart is a COMPUTER, exactly as on the machine page. Filtering for a
machine peer meant the band rendered nothing on every gage that has a PC.
It looked merely empty rather than wrong because this dev database holds one
measuring tool with no relationships at all, so there was nothing to be missing.
A hand-held gage genuinely has no such edge and correctly shows nothing; a
metrology station now shows the PC that drives it.
The relationships card stays. It is the only surface with Add Relationship and
the per-row delete, and it lists types the band filters out - the band is
triage, the card is management. It does now repeat what the band shows, which
is worth revisiting separately.
Verified on screen. Frontend 280 passed.
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96a4a38c8c |
Make the legacy import safe to resume, and aimable without editing it
Three defects broke the loader's own documented resume guarantee. All three were silent: nothing raised, the run finished cheerfully, and fewer rows arrived than anyone counted. THE PAGE SIZE WAS CLAMPED, SO THE 409-RESOLVE SEARCHED THE FIRST 100 ROWS _upsert asked for ?per_page=10000 and read one response. The server clamps any page size to MAX_PAGE_SIZE, which is 100 - not an error, not a warning, just 100 rows. Anything past that resolved to None, so the id never reached the crosswalk and the run quietly dropped a model's link on every machine that used it, or an application's installs. The target already holds more than 100 models and more than 100 applications, so this fired on any re-run or resume - exactly the case the loader documents as safe. _resolve_existing now tries the exact natural-key filter the API has exposed all along (?modelnumber= on models, ?appname= on applications, ?vendor= on vendors) and then pages properly, bounded. An endpoint without such a filter ignores the unknown parameter and the paged walk finds the row. stage_metrology repeated the same mistake in its own way: it skipped 409s entirely, so a resumed run left the tool out of the crosswalk and the Controls edge unmade - metrology PCs driving nothing. stage_printers already had the resolve branch; that stage was written later and missed it. THE CROSSWALK WAS NOT BOUND TO THE DATABASE IT DESCRIBED idmap.json maps this site's legacy ids to assetids in ONE database, and those assetids mean nothing anywhere else. Keeping it across a drop-and-rebuild left warranties and printer assignments attaching to whatever asset now holds that id: wrong data, no error. The runbook's two "drop and rebuild" steps never mentioned the file. The loader now writes a uuid marker into the TARGET's own settings table, so it dies with the data, and stamps it into the crosswalk. A crosswalk built against a different database is refused before a row is written. The database name alone would not do - a rebuild keeps the name. A file written before this guard is adopted rather than refused, so no existing crosswalk is stranded. Also adds --idmap, so one checkout can drive more than one target. THE SOURCE DATABASES ARE NAMED, NOT HARDCODED 'shopdb_src' appeared at 29 call sites, so aiming the loader at the prodscratch restore meant editing run.py. Those names are now LOGICAL and resolved in Source.db() from SOURCE_DB_MAIN / SOURCE_DB_USB / SOURCE_DB_EMPLOYEES, with host, port, user and password overridable too. The call sites are untouched - resolving centrally avoids missing one, and the literals now read as documentation of which source a stage draws from. The run prints every source it redirected, so "it imported nothing" can be told apart from "it read the wrong database". This is what stood between the loader and the prodscratch run. TWO SMALLER ONES _source_password() raised IndexError rather than its intended message whenever the DATABASE_URL user is not root, which it will not be on a real server. main() returned 1 on failure into a caller that discarded it. A run that logged 200 endpoint errors exited 0 and read as a success in a deploy log; it now exits non-zero. TESTS AND DOCS The loader had no tests at all. Sixteen now cover the resolve, the crosswalk binding and the source aliasing - the logic that can run without a MySQL source, which is the part that was wrong. Verified they are not vacuous by running the old algorithm against the same fixture: it returns None where the new one returns the row. The README claimed 15 stages "complete" with counts from 2026-07-13 that two later routing changes invalidated, and the runbook told operators to verify a fresh import against them. Both corrected, with the three gaps NOT fixed here recorded plainly: warranties, notifications and knowledgebase POST without a duplicate check so resuming across them doubles rows; there is no --dry-run or target guard; and the verify stage counts target assets against source machines, which is apples to oranges. Full suite 2178 passed. |
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c22c81afa5 |
Show the controls link from both ends, and fix the dead chip links
THE RECIPROCAL LINKS BUG A PC's page showed "Serves machine 7803" at the top. The machine's page showed nothing equivalent, though the same edge was right there in the relationships card at the bottom. That asymmetry read as missing data and was reported as such. It was neither missing data nor an API fault. The endpoint returns both directions and always did; AssetTriageBand already walked outgoing AND incoming and deduped, with a comment explaining that production holds reciprocal rows. It then discarded every peer whose asset type was not 'machine', and hardcoded the label "Serves machine". So the component could only ever work from the PC side, and it was mounted only on the PC page. The counterpart type and label are now props, defaulting to the old values so the PC page is unchanged. The machine page mounts the band with counterparttype="computer" and the label "Controlled by". Eliminated with evidence rather than assumed, because this bug had already been misdiagnosed twice: the endpoint runs two queries and returns both arrays; the generic card renders both; that route has no pagination to clamp; and a single permission gate cannot admit one direction and not the other. THE RELATIONSHIP TYPE WAS ALSO HARDCODED Not every asset pair is linked by 'controls'. A machine reaches a printer through usesprinter and defaultprinter, so the band was blank on the printer page - the one page where the link is not obvious from the asset itself. The types are now a prop, and the printer page passes its own. THE CHIPS WERE DEAD LINKS Found while adopting the band more widely. It linked to /assets/<assetid>. There is no /assets/:id route and no catch-all, so every chip in the band was dead - and this change would have propagated that to four more pages. AssetRelationships.vue already resolved this correctly and privately. That function is now frontend/src/utils/assetRoute.js and both components use it, so a third caller cannot get it wrong again. Two things it gets right that are easy to miss: the detail routes key on pluginid, not assetid, so passing assetid opens the wrong record; and the lookup is now case-insensitive, because csvimport.py seeds 'Computer' and 'Machine' capitalised while this site's database holds them lowercase - a case-sensitive match produced dead links at whichever site seeded the other way. The band now carries pluginid and assettypename on each chip, which the resolver needs. TESTS assetRoute had none and neither did the band. Seven cover the resolver, including the assetid-vs-pluginid confusion and the seeding-case difference. On the backend, nothing asserted that the TARGET of a directional edge receives it in `incoming` - only that rows carry isdirectional. That missing assertion is this bug's exact shape, so it is now pinned: the endpoint was right all along, and the next such report should not cost anyone a re-diagnosis of the API. Verified on screen: the machine page shows "Controlled by G6K76CW3ESF" in the hero, the PC page is unchanged, and a page with no such link renders no empty band. Full suite 2162 passed, frontend 280 passed. |
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70e909054f |
Document the endpoints plugin in the catalogue
docs/PLUGINS.md listed sixteen of the seventeen bundled plugins. The missing one was endpoints - the newest, and the one another site is most likely to ask about, since it is the Fleet console and the live panels on a PC detail page. The row records the two things that are not guessable from the name: it depends on computers because an endpoint is telemetry ABOUT a PC asset rather than a second record of it, and its four permissions are split deliberately. Read is grantable to guests by the .view suffix rule; fleet, command and restart are not, and the plugin declares no override, so the command channel cannot be opened to anonymous callers by ticking a box. Ingest is called out as NOT being a route here - agent reports arrive on the generic collector route under a service token scoped collector.ingest.endpoints. Somebody looking for the ingest endpoint in this plugin will not find one. applications/ stays absent on purpose: it has no manifest and no plugin.py, so per the manifest-less rule it is core frontend surface that always ships, not a plugin a site can choose. |
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76d34a4b25 |
Keep the lockfile's rationale where a compile cannot wipe it
requirements.txt carried a hand-written header explaining why the lockfile is universal and hashed, what each flag buys, and a warning not to hand-edit it because waitress and tzdata were once added by hand and vanished on the next compile. Running `uv pip compile` to upgrade two packages wiped all of it, including the warning about hand-edits vanishing. The header had been documenting its own failure mode and still lost. The explanation now lives in requirements.in, which is the file people edit and which a compile never rewrites. The header is restored in requirements.txt for anyone reading that file directly, but it is no longer the only copy. Also records the --upgrade-package form for moving one package without moving everything else, and the scan_sbom.py check to run before a release. |
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b8fc2e9e33 |
Upgrade the eight shipped dependencies carrying advisories
scan_sbom.py reported 50 advisory matches against shipped components, 16 of them at or above HIGH. This clears all of them: the scan now reports 0 shipped findings and the gate passes. pyjwt 2.12.1 -> 2.13.0 idna 3.13 -> 3.19 axios 1.13.2 -> 1.20.0 (29 advisories) postcss 8.5.6 -> 8.5.26 dompurify 3.4.11 -> 3.4.14 nanoid 3.3.11 -> 3.3.18 follow-redirects 1.15.11 -> 1.16.0 form-data 4.0.5 -> 4.0.6 Every one is an in-major bump inside a range the manifests already allowed, so this is a lockfile refresh rather than a migration. The Python side was compiled with --upgrade-package for each name so nothing else moved; the diff is two version lines and their hashes. nanoid is worth recording: it is transitive under postcss at ^3.3.11, and its advisories are fixed on both the 3.x and 5.x branches. 3.3.18 is the fix that is actually reachable. The declared floors for axios and dompurify were raised to the versions in the lockfile. They were ^1.6.0 and ^3.4.11, which still nominally admitted the vulnerable range - npm resolves to the highest match so an install was never going to pick one, but the manifest should state the minimum safe version rather than rely on that. axios 1.20 adds optional proxy-agent support, which pulls https-proxy-agent and agent-base into the tree. Both are Node-only and neither reaches the browser bundle; the build was checked for them. The main chunk grew 256kB to 271kB (85.7kB to 90.5kB gzipped) from the rest of the axios delta. The PyJWT entry in the allowlist was removed rather than kept. It stopped matching the moment the upgrade landed, and an allowlist that accumulates entries for advisories that no longer apply is one nobody rereads. The reasoning is preserved as the worked example in docs/DEPENDENCY-SECURITY.md. Verified: full suite 2161 passed, frontend 273 passed, build clean, npm audit --omit=dev reports 0 vulnerabilities. |
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Recommend the smallest upgrade that clears an advisory, not the highest
The rollup took the highest fix version across a component's advisories. That is wrong whenever an advisory is patched on more than one release branch. nanoid is the case that exposed it. Both advisories against it are fixed on two branches - 3.3.16 and 5.1.16, 3.3.18 and 5.1.6 - and the rollup recommended 5.1.16 with a MAJOR warning. But nanoid is transitive, pulled in by postcss at `^3.3.11`, a range no 5.x release can satisfy. The recommendation was not merely a bigger job than necessary, it was unreachable: the actual target is 3.3.18, a patch inside the existing range. Per advisory the target is now the lowest published fix above the version in use; per component it is the highest of those, since one upgrade has to satisfy every advisory against it. Fixes on older branches are skipped rather than offered as a downgrade - axios advisories list 0.30.x fixes that would have been a downgrade from 1.13.2. This also gives the MAJOR label meaning. It now fires only when no fix exists on the current branch, rather than whenever some branch happened to be higher. |
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c4e2db4755 |
Route the dependency-security doc from START-HERE
START-HERE routes by the question somebody arrived with, and 'are we exposed to this CVE' had no entry - the SBOM was only mentioned in the Windows update doc, which is not where anybody asking that would look. |
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Add vulnerability scanning on top of the SBOM
The SBOM was generated and installed onto every server, and nothing read it. "Are we exposed to this advisory" was still a person going and looking, which meant it happened when somebody remembered to. scripts/scan_sbom.py queries OSV.dev by purl - no account, no API key, no agent, no vulnerability database to maintain on a box that cannot reach the internet. The SBOM is already the input OSV wants, so this is a lookup against what shipped rather than a second scan of the tree that could disagree with it. Three decisions worth recording: Shipped and build-only findings are both reported, but only shipped ones can fail a build. Two thirds of the components here are build tooling the SBOM already marks scope 'excluded', and the highest-severity match in the whole tree today is a CRITICAL against the test runner. A gate that fails a release over that trains everybody to bypass it, and then it catches nothing. Severity is taken from the advisory, never derived. Where there is only a CVSS vector the report says UNKNOWN, which is shown and never gates. A guessed score is worse than an honest gap because somebody would act on it. The allowlist is a record rather than a mute button: each entry carries the reason, the accepter, the date, and what would invalidate the reasoning. The first entry is a worked example - a PyJWT algorithm-confusion advisory that needs both mixed algorithm families and a raw JSON JWK as the key, and this application configures neither. The report ends with a per-component upgrade rollup, since that is the part somebody acts on. A target on a different major version is labelled rather than listed beside patch bumps as though the two cost the same. Current state: 8 shipped components have fixes available, none of them exploitable through a path this application opens today. |
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Say what a service state actually is, and make the badges readable
Three colour faults on the PC page, each hiding the next. ACTIVITY BADGES WERE ALL GREY. The list renderer reads a badge colour from a ROW FIELD, and the activity panel declared none, so every severity rendered identically. The feed's whole job is to make a critical event visible and it was painting it the same as a logon. The route now emits severitycolor - info grey, warning yellow, critical red - and the panel declares it. PAUSED AND THE TRANSITIONAL STATES WERE RED. statecolor was green-or-red-or- grey, so a paused service looked like a stopped one. They are different: a paused service was paused deliberately, and one stuck in Start Pending is failing to start on a retry cycle - which is exactly what raises event 7011, the thing behind the critical counts on the Fleet page. Both are amber now. NAMED COLOURS ALWAYS GOT WHITE TEXT. readableText only parsed hex and returned white for anything else, but panels emit NAMES. Green, red and grey are dark enough that white worked by luck; amber is not, so the fix above shipped as white-on-yellow and could not be read. Names resolve to hex before the contrast test, so this holds for any named colour anywhere in the app rather than these two panels. colorStyle had no test file at all. It has one now. Every one of these was found by looking at the rendered page. None of them would fail a test that checked markup. Full suite 2131 passed, vitest 273 passed. |
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828a62063b |
Filter chips on any card that shows a health dot
Reported from the Activity card: the header dot was red while every visible row was info, because the critical event was older and sat further down the list. The dot and the list appeared to contradict each other, and the only way to find the critical was to scroll. The dot is computed from all rows the panel received, so a red dot always means a critical IS in the data. The chips are computed from that same array, which means the count sits directly under the dot and the two cannot disagree by construction: the card now reads 'Critical 2 Warning 1 Info 12', and one click surfaces them wherever they sit in time. Derived from the panel's EXISTING status declaration rather than a new one per panel. A card that shows a health dot has already said what it dots on, so Tracked Services and Tracked Processes get chips with no plugin change, and any future list panel with a status rollup does too. Two declarations of the same thing would eventually disagree. Details that matter: a colour-keyed panel is labelled by meaning, so services read Critical and OK rather than Red and Green; chips are ordered worst first rather than alphabetically; and no selection means show everything, not hide everything - a card that emptied when you deselected the last chip would read as broken. Filtering to nothing says so, and gives the hidden count. vitest 267 passed, including the exact reported case. |
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60c35728e8 |
Import USB records off an external cmmc_usb database, so a site can retire it
A site running external mode keeps its devices and check-in/out history in a separate cmmc_usb database. There was no way to bring that in, so the choice was to keep the second database forever or lose the history. This adds 'flask usb import-external' - dry run by default, --commit to write - which reads through the same connection settings the routes already use and never writes to the source. Two things it has to reconcile, and they are why it is a command rather than a few INSERTs. The schemas disagree about SHAPE. External is an event log, one row per action; self-hosted is a paired row carrying both times. Pairing walks each device in time order, and real logs after years of use are untidy. The rule is that nothing is invented and nothing vanishes: a drive still out becomes an open checkout and is NOT flagged (that is just a drive somebody has), a return with no matching issue is skipped and named, and two issues in a row leave the first open rather than inventing a return time nobody recorded. Identity is the other. usbdevices.serialnumber is unique and NOT NULL and the external devices table has no serial, so device_id becomes it. Blank or duplicated ids stop that device rather than inventing a key. external device_owner has no column here, so it is appended to the device notes rather than dropped. Also adds usbcheckouts.scannedviruses, the one field with nowhere to land. waswiped already means what external calls sanitized - selfhosted.py was mapping it - but scanned_viruses was HARDCODED None in the log output: the API promised the field and had nothing behind it, so an imported history would have rendered blank. It now reads and writes properly. Nullable, never defaulted to false. An unrecorded scan is not a failed scan, and for removable-media records those are very different claims. Full suite 2131 passed; seven new tests pin the pairing rules. |
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99c40ae7c3 |
Say WHICH critical event, and stop the feed hiding it
Reported from production: health showed '418 critical' while the ten most recent events were all info. Both were true, which is the problem. The health rollup counts critical events in a 48h window; the activity feed shows the fifteen most recent events of ANY severity. A box that logged 418 service timeouts overnight and ordinary logons since produces exactly that pair - a page contradicting itself with no way to tell why. Two fixes. The rollup now names the DOMINANT event instead of totalling: 'Service timeout x418' rather than '418 critical'. Counting by event id costs nothing (one more GROUP BY column) and turns a number into a lead. This is the same reasoning that made health a phrase rather than a score; it stopped one step short. The activity feed now fetches the newest criticals separately and merges them, and keeps up to five of them when trimming to the cap. They hold their place in time but survive the cut, so what health is reporting always appears in the feed that exists to explain it. Verified against the reported shape: 20 service timeouts two hours old under 12 newer logons. Before, the feed was fifteen logons; now it carries five critical rows and health reads 'Service timeout x20'. Worth noting the underlying signal is real - several hundred criticals on one endpoint in 48h is a box crash-looping or a service failing on a retry cycle. The display was hiding it, not inventing it. Full suite 2124 passed, naming and parity gates green. |
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b1b9cdda72 |
Add bulk actions to the Fleet list, with a confirmation that names machines
Select endpoints, then Collect now or Restart across the selection. Restart is
gated on endpoints.restart, both are re-checked server-side.
The confirmation names the MACHINES, not just the hostnames:
Restart 2 computer(s)?
GJX9B2Z3ESF, HOST-7
This STOPS the machines these PCs serve:
DT Office
A dialog listing eight hostnames tells an operator nothing about what they are
about to halt, and that is the whole consequence of the action on a shop floor.
Where no machine is recorded it says so, because 'none listed' and 'we did not
check' are different things at 6am. Only possible now the Machine column exists.
A 409 is reported as a SKIP, not a failure. The queue permits one command in
flight per endpoint, so a bulk action across eight PCs where two are already
busy says '6 queued' and '2 skipped - a command is already in flight'. Folding
those into an error count would make a working button look broken.
Selections clear on every reload: the rows they referred to may not be on the
new page, and acting on an invisible selection is how bulk tools surprise
people.
No per-row buttons. They were built first, and a tenth column on a nowrap table
pushed itself off the edge - selecting one row costs a single click and leaves
one command path instead of two.
Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, naming gate green.
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057cee1f02 |
Match the Fleet tile radius to the global card
The tiles were 6px while .card is 0.25rem, which left Fleet marginally rounder than every other page. The global card treatment is a separate decision and has been deferred; until it is made, this page should look like the rest of the app rather than half-way to a mockup. |
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0baed4cc80 |
Close the gaps against the design: critical tile, filters, policy card, action placement
Four things the mockup showed and the first cut did not have.
FLEET
- A 'with critical events' tile, from the stability route that existed and
nothing called. Clicking it narrows to rows whose health is not ok - client
side, because the health rollup is assembled per row after pagination, so
it narrows the PAGE rather than the fleet. Worth knowing before the count
is read as fleet-wide.
- PC type and Location filters. The list route already accepted both; there
was simply no control. Both use listAll, not list: perpage is clamped to
100 server-side, so a long location list would lose its tail in a dropdown
while still looking complete.
- The machine cell shows number and name together where they differ, so
'3105 Okuma' rather than a bare number.
PC DETAIL
- A Policy card, contributed by the computers plugin. It matters because the
effective policy already narrows the command allowlist, so without it the
reason a control is unavailable on a given PC is written down nowhere.
Provenance, so it sits in the reference column, not the triage band.
Its route returns an EMPTY field list rather than the feature-gate 404 when
policies are disabled. The panel contract hides a card with no fields, so
it disappears on sites that have not enabled the feature - a 404 would have
rendered a broken card on most of them. That was flagged in the design
review as a snag; this is the fix.
- Refresh Status and Restart Computer moved out of the page header into the
triage band. They act on the MACHINE; Print Label, Edit, Retire and Back to
List act on the RECORD, and mixing them put the most consequential button
on the page - it halts whatever machine the PC serves - between printing a
sticker and editing a form. In the band it sits beside the liveness chip
and the machine it would take down.
The band takes them through an 'actions' slot rather than knowing about PC
verbs, so a measuring tool can put 'Calibrate' there without the core
component learning anything about computers.
Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, gates green, spec at 333 paths.
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Merge events and commands into one Activity feed, and lead with live state
Two changes to the PC page, both about what a responder meets first. LIVE STATE FIRST. The contributed panels moved to the head of the card flow. The grid is a two-column FLOW (column-count, with display:contents on the column wrappers), so a card cannot be pinned to a side and only document order decides where it lands - putting the panels first fills the left column with endpoint status, services, processes, interfaces and activity, and leaves identity, hardware, network and location to the right. Panels still self-order among themselves by declared position and still self-hide when no plugin answers for the asset type. ONE ACTIVITY FEED replaces the Recent events card. Events and commands answer the same question - what happened to this box - and reading them as two lists meant interleaving by eye. GET /api/endpoints/asset/<id>/activity merges them newest-first, capped at 15. Both are keyed by assetid, so it is two indexed reads and a merge sort rather than a join, and it renders through the existing ADR-010 list renderer with no bespoke frontend work. A failed command is marked critical, because that is the row somebody needs to notice. Not collapsed by default, unlike the card it replaces. The core AuditLog is deliberately NOT a third source: its rows carry the action as the entity name and the asset only inside a details string, so including it would mean parsing prose to find out which machine a row belongs to. Requester names are withheld from callers who cannot themselves issue commands, via caller_holds. A read-only viewer - a guest, on a site that grants this panel - gets the history without a roster of who restarted what, and the lookup is skipped entirely rather than fetched and discarded. requestedby holds a user ID, so names resolve through one batched query, not one per row. Verified on dev telemetry: a queued command shows as 'Collect now / Pending by admin' above the Windows events, ordered by time. Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, naming/contract/parity gates green, spec regenerated at 332 paths. |
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Put the 6am answers at the top of the PC page, and stop saying things twice
Adds a shared triage band to the PC detail hero: is it alive, what stops
without it, how do I reach it.
'Serves machine' is the reason it exists. On a shop floor a PC matters because
a machine stops without it, and that fact was buried in the generic
relationships card at the bottom of the page. Both edge directions are read,
deduplicated, and filtered to assets typed 'machine' - production holds
reciprocal rows, so reading one direction shows the link on half the pages and
not the other half.
The band is a CORE component, not a PCDetail block. Five asset detail pages
already rebuild the same hero and grid independently, which is how they drifted
apart; machines, printers and network devices can drop this in rather than
growing a sixth copy. Liveness is passed in rather than fetched, because only a
plugin that collects telemetry can answer it and a site may not have one.
The status chip's verdict comes from the SERVER: /api/endpoints/<id> now
returns the same reporting/quiet/never it computes for the fleet list. The
quiet window is a site setting, so a threshold guessed in the browser would
disagree with the Fleet list about the same endpoint the moment a site changed
it.
Two cards removed from the body:
- Remote Access duplicated the band's chips. It is what a responder clicks
first, so it belongs above the fold, once.
- Status was worse than duplication. It reads the COMPUTER RECORD, while the
endpoint panel beside it reads live agent telemetry, and on an
agent-managed PC the record fields sit empty - so the page rendered 'Last
Reported: Never' a few inches from live telemetry saying otherwise. It now
renders only when that record actually holds something, which is the case
on sites running the asset-report script instead of the agent.
Verified against dev telemetry: band shows 'Reporting, 1 h ago', the machine it
serves, and its access chips; both duplicate cards are gone.
vitest 260 passed, naming/contract/parity gates green.
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Fix the Fleet tile and health colours in dark mode
Two colour bugs on the same page, both invisible in light mode. A button does not inherit color the way it inherits font, so the plain Endpoints total rendered in the browser default black on the dark theme's card. The coloured tiles set their own color, which is why only that one showed it. The coloured ones were wrong too, just less obviously: dark mode redefines --success and --warning to bright variants but leaves --success-dark and --warning-dark tuned for a white background, so those numbers and the health pills came out dark green and dark amber on a dark blue card. Scoped to the stamped [data-theme="dark"] rather than a prefers-color-scheme query, matching the note in style.css: the theme store always stamps the attribute, and a bare media query leaks dark styling into light mode on a dark-OS machine. |
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Split the fleet roster from per-endpoint reads, and stop offering controls nobody can use
Twelve endpoints routes shared one permission, which made a reasonable policy impossible to express. A site that wants signed-out visitors to see live status on a PC page had to hand them the entire fleet - including every logged-in username on the floor - because the per-asset panels and the fleet-wide list were gated on the same string. endpoints.fleet now gates the list and the three dashboard routes. endpoints.view keeps the per-asset reads: status, services, processes, interfaces, events, command history. The name is load-bearing. guest_grantable_permissions() opens any '.view' or '.read' permission to the guest role, so calling this one 'endpoints.fleet' rather than 'endpoints.fleetview' is what keeps the roster off the public surface while per-asset telemetry stays grantable. Verified both ways. Also: the services panel emitted Start/Stop row actions to every reader, because row_actions_for() never consulted the caller. Clicking was always refused server-side, so nothing was exploitable, but showing a read-only viewer controls over a shop-floor PC is the wrong signal - and it stops being cosmetic the moment a site grants that panel to guests. That needed a contract addition rather than a local check: caller_holds() on shopdb.api answers whether THIS caller holds a permission without refusing the request, which is the complement to require_permission for a surface that serves everyone but should only offer what the caller can act on. Guests are included, since a signed-out visitor holds whatever the guest role was granted. Reaching into shopdb.utils.authz instead would repeat the ADR-002 violation the contract gate caught earlier in this branch. Contract 0.24.0 -> 0.25.0. DEPLOYMENT: endpoints.fleet is a new permission. Run 'flask seed permissions' and grant it to the roles that should keep seeing the Fleet page. Until then that page is admin-only, since admins bypass every check - a safe direction, but not an automatic one. Full suite 2124 passed, naming and contract gates green, map and spec regenerated. |
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Make the Fleet list answer the question it exists for
The fleet list showed hostname, user, uptime, CPU, memory and last-reported,
sorted by last-reported descending. Two of those columns have never held a
value, and that sort floats the healthiest endpoints to the top and buries the
ones somebody needs to act on.
What a shop-floor fleet view is actually for is which MACHINE stops if a PC is
dead, so that is now a column. Both edge directions are checked, deduplicated,
and constrained to assets typed 'machine' - without that last filter the column
filled up with office locations that happen to carry a controls edge.
Also here:
- Sorted WORST FIRST: never reported, then quiet, then reporting. Expressed
as a sortable SQL rank rather than a label applied after the fact, so the
order survives pagination.
- Health rollup as a PHRASE, not a score: 'eDNC stopped', '2 critical'. A
percentage does not tell an operator what to do.
- Filters for status, PC type, location and business unit; a sort parameter
(the route accepted none); and search widened from hostname alone to asset
number and the machine number a PC serves, which is how people actually
look a bay up.
- CPU and Memory columns dropped. The agent declares those fields and has
never assigned them, so they rendered '-' on every row.
- A summary strip wired to the dashboard routes, which existed and which
nothing called.
Two bugs found while building it:
The health rollup first read a 'running' boolean, but service rows carry a
STATE STRING and the vocabulary varies by source, so every service would have
reported as stopped. The panel and the rollup now share one _service_running()
helper; two copies of that rule would drift.
The summary counted quiet as total - reporting, which folded never-reported
endpoints in with quiet ones. Those are different failures - an enrolment or
key problem versus a machine that went down - so 'never' is counted separately.
Per-page batching for machines and critical-event counts: three queries per
page rather than two per row.
Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, naming and contract gates green.
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Stop sending the redundant per_page parameter on every list request
get_pagination_params reads 'perpage' and only falls back to 'per_page', and this client has always sent 'perpage', so the interceptor's duplicate never did anything except make every list URL carry a parameter twice. Removing it also clears a live production problem. The endpoints list route used to answer a 308, which is a PERMANENT redirect: the browser caches it against the exact URL including its query string. Clients that hit the old route keep that rewrite after the server is fixed, because the request no longer leaves the machine - nothing deployed can reach it, and it fails as mixed content when the cached target is http. Confirmed in the field: the page failed on load with the default query string while a search, whose query string differs, worked in the same session. Changing the query string changes the cache key, so an affected client misses the poisoned entry and reaches the corrected route without the user having to clear site data. Plugin views that pass per_page explicitly still work - the backend fallback is untouched. vitest 260 passed. |
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Register the endpoints list without a trailing slash, and stop hiding its errors
An endpoint reported telemetry correctly for hours while the Fleet page showed
"No endpoints found". The PC detail page displayed its panels the whole time, so
ingest was plainly working; only the list was empty.
The list route was the one route in 331 paths registered with a trailing slash:
@endpoints_bp.route('/', methods=['GET']) -> /api/endpoints/
The browser client calls it without one, so Flask answered a 308 redirect to an
ABSOLUTE url. On dev that resolves and nobody notices. Behind the IIS subpath it
cannot: with no ProxyFix, Werkzeug builds that Location from the scheme and host
it believes it has, so it emitted http:// and dropped the /shopdb prefix. A
browser will not follow an https page to http, the request failed, and the
page's catch block rendered the empty state.
Every other route in the plugin worked throughout, because none of them carries
a trailing slash - the detail panels call /endpoints/asset/<id>/status and were
never redirected. Detail works, list empty is the signature of this bug.
Registered as '' now, so the rule is /api/endpoints. That is what
CONTRIBUTING.md's API section spells and what every other list route in the
product already did. The inventory and the generated spec are updated to match.
Also here:
- tests/test_core/test_no_redirecting_routes.py fails the build if any /api
rule is registered with a trailing slash and strict slashes. Verified by
planting the violation: it named the offending route, then passed once
reverted. It takes the shared app fixture rather than building its own
application - doing that rebinds SQLAlchemy and leaves the NEXT module
without tables, which showed up as three unrelated "no such table: settings"
failures visible only in a full run.
- The Fleet page now renders "Could not load endpoints (HTTP nnn). This is a
failed request, not an empty fleet." A list that reports a 403 and an empty
fleet identically is what made this take as long as it did.
- TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT (default 0) applies ProxyFix when set. Off by default on
purpose: it makes X-Forwarded-* trusted, and a client can send those itself,
while the login rate limit and account lockout are keyed on the client
address. Set it to 1 on an instance behind IIS.
Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, naming and docs gates green.
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5da071fdda |
Stop the export aborting silently when a scrub finds nothing left to scrub
The export died with no output and no dists, exit 1, having committed nothing. grep exits 1 when it matches NOTHING, and under set -euo pipefail that failing pipeline takes the script with it. Once every internal reference had already been scrubbed, the gitea grep matched nothing, and the SUCCESS case became the abort. It printed not one line explaining itself, which is what made it cost an afternoon: the run looked like it had worked. All three scrub greps are guarded now. This is the third failure of this shape in this file, after the two fetch/push tag omissions. Also excludes a stray .env copy from the sync. A hand-made .env.bak-<date> reached the publication tree, because rsync walks the WORKING TREE and .gitignore does not apply. The scrub gate caught it, which is what that gate is for, and it never reached a commit or a bundle - but a file of live credentials should not get that far. --include '.env.example' comes first so the example still publishes. Both verified by planting a violation: a no-match grep under pipefail, and a planted .env.bak file that the sync now leaves behind. |
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2aea2bd818 |
File the Fleet nav item under Assets, beside the PCs it describes
The endpoints plugin declared a section of its own, so the sidebar rendered a one-item 'Fleet' group at the bottom, below Information, far from the PCs the view is about. Its own docstring said it belonged just after PCs, and its position (16, against PCs at 15) already said so too; only the section disagreed. Filed under assets, which puts it directly under PCs. The now-empty fleet section is removed from NAV_SECTIONS - an unused section is an invitation to file something else there. |
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ae800772d1 |
Make the dev MySQL 5.6 index-prefix requirement actually reachable
The printers observedqueues migration failed with error 1071 on a 5.6 dev server whose file format was still Antelope. The unique index it needs is (hostname, queuename), two utf8mb4 VARCHAR(255) columns, which is 2040 bytes against a 767-byte cap. The compiler hook in shopdb/utils/mysql_charset.py was already emitting ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC, which raises that cap to 3072. What is easy to miss is that Antelope makes 5.6 IGNORE the row format and build a Compact table with a warning rather than an error, so the tables look created and keep the old limit. docs/DEPLOY.md has required innodb_large_prefix plus Barracuda for pre-5.7 servers all along; nothing pointed a developer hitting 1071 at it. So the troubleshooting row that said 'use MySQL 8 for dev' now gives the fix, names the silent Compact downgrade, and says such tables stay capped until they are rebuilt with ALTER TABLE ... ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC. DATABASE_URL also gains ?charset=utf8mb4, which DEPLOY.md already requires and this environment did not have. |
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Bring the wilm branch into main: endpoints plugin, agent, policies, CSV import
Ports the corporate-GitHub wilm branch onto main, keeping the two branches
separate. Thirteen upstream commits arrive with their authorship intact; the
review fixes and the portability work below are on top.
What arrives:
endpoints plugin - a ShopDB agent reporting endpoint state, telemetry,
services and interfaces, with a command channel the agent
long-polls. Ingest stays on the generic collector route
(ADR-006); the agent key is a UI-managed single-scope
token whose revocation is an instant kill switch.
computers policies - Configuration and Business Policies (RMM-style), scope
trees validated at write time, actions checked against
the endpoints command allowlist. Feature-gated: every
route 404s while the setting is off, so enabling it can
never half-expose the surface.
asset CSV import - templates, a collector script carrying the site path, and
a validate-then-commit import. A plugin can own a virtual
column plus a post-write row hook, which is how a PC's
machine number becomes a controls link without a
hand-built relationships sheet.
agent/ - the Windows agent and its installer.
Contract 0.21.0 -> 0.24.0, additive throughout: register_import_hook (0.22),
mint/list/revoke_service_token (0.23), collector_authorized (0.24). The stability
table had no rows for any of them and now does.
MySQL 5.6 portability. The branch stored three policy columns as sa.JSON, the
only JSON columns in the product, and 5.6 has no JSON type: the migration failed
with a bare syntax error near the word JSON. They are TEXT now, through a
JSONText type decorator, so all seventeen call sites still read and write dicts.
The convention elsewhere is already TEXT (guides.blocksjson,
geenforce.manifestjson).
Review fixes carried on top:
- six policy GETs were jwt_required(optional=True), which authenticates a
caller without checking anything; they require computers.view now, and six
redundant jwt_required decorators are gone
- the agent installer took a default BaseUrl and CollectorKey, so a mistyped
run silently pointed an endpoint at the wrong instance; both are mandatory
and a non-https BaseUrl throws unless -AllowInsecureHttp is passed
- a committing CSV import wrote no audit row
Documentation: the 34 new routes are described in docs/api-inventory.json, which
is hand-maintained on purpose, and the generated spec now covers 331 paths and
477 operations across 22 surfaces. DEVELOPMENT-SETUP's 1071 troubleshooting row
said "use MySQL 8 for dev" and now gives the actual fix, including the trap that
5.6 downgrades ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC to Compact with a warning instead of an error.
Full suite 2123 passed, vitest 260 passed, all seventeen plugin chains migrate
clean on MySQL 5.6 and the naming, docs, parity and read-surface gates are green.
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Move the workflow actions onto their Node 24 releases
Every job on GitHub is warning:
Node.js 20 is deprecated. The following actions target Node.js 20 but are
being forced to run on Node.js 24: actions/checkout@v4, actions/setup-node@v4
Working today because the runners shim it, and a hard failure the day that shim
goes. checkout@v5, setup-node@v5 and setup-python@v6 are the releases built for
Node 24, so the warning goes away rather than being suppressed.
Nine references across five jobs. The comment above them says why, so nobody
pins them back to the v4 generation on the assumption it is the safer number.
The org's actions policy allows GitHub-owned actions with no SHA pinning
required, so the tag change needs no allow-list update.
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Prove the gates ran, and ship the spec the app serves
Two faults with one cause: docs/ is excluded from publication because the prose
becomes the wiki, and two things under docs/ are not prose.
shopdb/core/api/docs.py reads docs/openapi.json AT RUNTIME to serve /api/docs.
Excluding it meant every site installed from the published repo shipped the
ReDoc page, loaded it, and got {"error":"openapi.json not generated"}. The spec
now publishes - it is a product file that happens to live under docs/. The prose
still goes to the wiki and nowhere else, and docs/api-inventory.json stays out,
because nothing reads it at runtime.
The second fault is the reason this was worth chasing. Three gate modules skip
themselves when the file they read is absent, which is correct in a published
checkout and silently wrong on GitHub, which runs against exactly that checkout.
The modules skipped, CI reported green, and an outside branch added nine
undocumented routes and passed. A gate that stops running is worse than no gate,
because nobody looks at it again.
scripts/check-gates-ran.sh asserts each gate ran, with two lists: the ones that
must run everywhere, and the ones needing files publication deliberately leaves
behind - required here, allowed to be absent there. A `gates` job runs it in CI.
Proven in both directions: green in each checkout, and red when the file a gate
reads is removed.
Also purge instance/plugins.json from the publication tree. It was never
published - it is untracked there - but an old copy had sat in that tree for
months, protected from --delete by its own exclude, and it made the published
repo fail its own suite locally: 13 plugins enabled where the code expects 16.
A publication tree that cannot pass its own tests cannot be verified before
shipping. That is the exact trap the comment at the top of the script warns
about, which had claimed a second victim.
Also: concurrency on the workflow, so a second push supersedes the first rather
than queueing behind it holding a self-hosted runner.
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Secure Send hands over a message, not a bare URL
A link on its own invites being pasted onto text that is already in the chat box, and every chat client turns the selection into the link's caption. The secret then travels as the visible message with the secure link wrapped around it, protecting nothing. This is not hypothetical. Six LAPS passwords went out that way in production - machine names and passwords as the caption, the correct /s/<token>#<key> URL underneath, doing nothing at all. Copy message puts a whole sentence on the clipboard: what the link is, how many opens it has, when it expires, and then the URL. A sentence has nowhere to attach itself - pasted into an empty box it is a message, pasted over a selection it replaces it rather than decorating it. Plain text on purpose; a rich-text flavour is exactly what would let a secret ride along as markup. The success card now says to delete the password from the chat box before pasting. The existing hint explains that the key cannot be recovered, which is true and does not stop anybody pasting the password itself. Nothing about the link was wrong and nothing about it changed: the URL carries the token, the key rides in the fragment the browser never sends, the plaintext is dropped the moment it is sealed, and redeeming stays a POST so a preview cannot spend it. |
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Share a code by link instead of by instructions
Sending somebody a label meant sending a screenshot and a list of settings to retype, and they would get one of them wrong. Copy share link hands them a URL that reopens the generator with the content, the label, the copy count and every layout value that was actually changed. The whole payload rides in the fragment. A fragment is never transmitted, so it does not reach Flask, it is not in the IIS log, and the proxy between them never sees it - which matters because the content is usually an asset number or a serial, and those have no business scattered through logs. It is NOT secrecy: the link sits in a chat message and in browser history, and anyone holding it can read the content. Secure Send exists for the case where that matters, and the note under the box says so. Only values that differ from a first-time visitor's defaults are carried, so the link stays short enough to paste into a chat box; a shared link then wins over the recipient's own saved settings, because somebody following one is asking to see THAT code rather than their own last one. An unknown key is ignored rather than refused, so a link made by a newer version still opens on an older one. The picture is never carried - a data URL runs to megabytes. Values are coerced back to the type the field holds. Everything arrives from a URL as a string, and a nudge of 0 plus '2' is '02'. Proven end to end: a link made in one browser, opened in a clean context with no saved settings, rendering the same code. |
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Ticking a section off crosses out the section
It struck the heading and left everything underneath looking untouched, which is the opposite of what somebody ticking "this section is done" means. The strike now covers every block under that heading, down to the next heading of the same or higher rank - so a top-level section takes its sub-sections with it. That needed the rank, and the HTML importer was throwing it away: h2, h3 and h4 all arrived as a flat 'heading', so a parent heading had no children to cross out. It was the visible half of a real loss - a converted article kept its words and lost its shape. Headings now carry their level and render at it, and a guide written before this reads as flat, exactly as it did. Code blocks, tables and images inside a finished section fade but are not struck. A line through a command makes it unreadable, and re-reading the command is usually the reason to look back at a step already done. The five imported guides were re-imported so they carry their structure. |
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Tech Tools is reachable by the people it was built for
Every tool on that page is usable without an account, on purpose - the routes carry no requiresAuth and say so - and Secure Send is the one write this product offers a guest. The sidebar entry still never appeared for them: it named no permission, so the filter that decides what a signed-out visitor may see had nothing to go on and dropped it. The plugin had no read permission to name, only tools.secrets, so it gains tools.view: reaching the page at all. The tools themselves run in the browser and touch no data, which is why this is about whether the entry appears rather than about what anybody can read. The item names either right. Somebody granted only Secure Send needs the entry that leads to it, and a manager who holds neither still does not see it. |
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A nav item says which permission its page needs
The sidebar hides what the caller cannot reach - that is what makes it useful to a guest, and what stops a member with a sparse role being offered links that can only answer 403. It reads the permission off the nav item to decide. Only four items ever declared one. Machines, PCs, Printers, Network, USB, Knowledge Base, Notifications, Calendar, Dashboard, Map, Applications and Reports declared nothing, so the filter had nothing to go on: granting the guest role machines.view opened the API and left the sidebar empty, which reads as the grant not working. Every item now names its read permission - in the plugins, in the core navigation endpoint, and in the frontend's fallback list, which is what renders when the endpoint is unreachable and would otherwise disagree with it. |
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Reading anything needs a permission
A sweep of the URL map found 165 GET routes that answered anybody, with no token at all: the whole asset inventory, every machine, PC, printer and network device, the USB checkout history and who is holding which drive, the staff directory with its photographs, every core report. Guest access had been argued about one feature-flag at a time while the front door stood open. Each of those now carries the read permission it belongs to. That also makes the guest role mean something: a site can open exactly the reads it chooses, and nothing follows by accident. Thirty-three endpoints stay public, and each is named with its reason rather than left to be inferred: the app shell and its bootstrap, the settings allowlist (the handler already filters an anonymous caller down to branding and a few keys), images fetched by <img src> which carries no Authorization header, what a display kiosk renders before anybody signs in, the parts and USB kiosks, the client scripts that run as SYSTEM before a user session exists, and a secure-send link whose unguessable token IS the authorisation. tests/test_core/test_public_read_surface.py is the standing gate, the companion to the mutating-route sweep that has guarded writes for months. A new public read fails CI until somebody adds it to that list in front of a reviewer. Four further reads need a login but no permission, because the handler decides from who you are - your own user record, your own API tokens, the role catalogue the grid renders - and the same test proves each still refuses an anonymous caller. Verified not vacuous by ungating one route and watching the sweep name it. The employees plugin gained employees.view; the directory is names, SSOs, photographs and reporting lines, and it had no permission of any kind. Around ninety tests asserted payload shapes against endpoints that answered anybody. They are about what the answer says, not about who may ask, so they are signed in now rather than the gate being loosened. The ones that assert an anonymous caller is refused were left exactly as they were. |
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Tick a guide's sections off as you work through it
Only checklist items could be ticked, which answers "what have I done" but not the question a long procedure actually raises: where was I. Somebody looks away to do the thing the guide asked for and looks back at a wall of text. Every step and every heading now carries a checkbox while reading. Ticking one strikes it through and fades it rather than hiding it, because somebody scanning back up the page has to still be able to read what they did. The number is struck through with it, but the step's own "Step 3" label is not - that is the address of the thing, not part of what was done. Headings count, not just steps. A guide converted from an HTML article often has fifty headings and no steps at all, and those are exactly the guides long enough to lose your place in. That also means the card's "N steps to tick" stops reading as a broken feature on a guide that is entirely tickable. Reading only, as the checklists already were: in the editor a tick would be an edit, and an author clicking around their own draft would quietly change what the next reader sees as done. Progress stays per browser and per version - shopfloor PCs share a login, so one technician's ticks must not greet the next person on that bay, and step 4 of version 3 is not step 4 of version 2. |
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Anyone not signed in holds the guest role
Whether somebody with no account may see something was being answered one feature at a time: a securesend_allow_guests setting, an enable flag per kiosk, and very nearly a third for guides - each with its own settings page, its own vocabulary and its own hand-written branch inside a route. Every one of them answered a permissions question, and this app already administers permissions per role. So a caller with no token is not nobody: they hold the seeded `guest` role. require_permission consults it when there is no identity, which is the entire mechanism. The role is seeded holding NOTHING, so an upgrade opens no door; a site opens one by ticking a box in the same grid it uses for every other role, and closes it the same way. Revocation is read on every request rather than cached, because taking guest access away is what somebody does the moment they realise what they opened, and it has to bite immediately. The redundant @jwt_required() above require_permission is gone from 184 routes. It was belt-and-braces before; now it is actively wrong, because it refuses a request with no token before the permission check can have an opinion, so a grant would appear to do nothing. What a guest may hold is bounded. Any .view or .read permission is grantable. A WRITE has to be blessed by whoever owns it, through the new get_guest_grantable_permissions hook (contract 0.21.0), and Secure Send is the only case that exists: sending a password to a vendor is the one write this product means to offer somebody who never signs in. Everything else is refused by the API and greyed out in the grid rather than warned about - a checkbox that quietly makes deleting an asset anonymous is not a warning anybody reads twice. A guest write records no creator: the trail says when and from where, never who, and that is the reason for the bar. GE-Enforce and Slides gained read permissions so they can be opened to guests without handing out the manage right. Their read routes accept either through require_any_permission, so nothing an existing manager could reach has moved. The navigation endpoint now returns only what the caller can actually reach. Without that a signed-out visitor gets a sidebar of the whole app where every link bounces off the login page, which reads as a broken site rather than as a closed door. A nav item may name several permissions; holding any one is enough, which is what GE-Enforce and Slides need now that a viewer and a manager hold different strings. Two things this found on the way: current_user is a LocalProxy, so `current_user is None` is False for a request with nobody behind it - harmless under a required JWT, an AttributeError the moment verification became optional. And an image pasted into a guide before its first save was never attached to it, so it was visible to editors and invisible to every reader; saving now attaches it, and `flask guides fix-images` repairs what is stored. The guides guest setting written earlier today is gone. Granting guides.view to the guest role replaces it, which is the point. |
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A guide can be carried to another site
Guides are written on one site and needed on all of them, and the sites that matter are air-gapped from wherever the writing happens. Until now a procedure was stranded in the database it was typed into: the HTML importer could rebuild one from its original article, but anything authored in the editor had nowhere to go. flask guides export writes one .guide.json per guide, with every image the blocks reference carried inside it as base64. One file on purpose - a bundle that needs its images copied alongside it is a bundle that will eventually arrive without them. flask guides import reads them back, a directory at a time, and refuses anything that is not a bundle before it writes a row rather than half-importing a stray .json sitting in the same folder. What travels is the content: title, summary, tags, blocks, images. What does not is ids, revision history, authorship and publication state, because those belong to whichever database issued them - an imported guide starts as a draft at revision 1, owned by whoever ran the import. The SLUG does travel: it is the address somebody pastes into a work order, and the same guide should answer to the same name on every site. --replace updates the guide already carrying that slug instead of creating a second one, which is how a corrected guide is re-shipped. It drops the stored images first: the incoming bundle is the whole truth for that guide, and a guide re-shipped monthly would otherwise accumulate orphans nothing points at. Bundles refuse a version they are too old to read rather than importing the parts they recognise. A newer site's guide is not a guide this one can be trusted to render. Proven by round-tripping a five-guide export back into the same site, including one carrying two PNG screenshots, and reading it in a browser. |
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c8efadefba |
An HTML article can become a guide
A site adopting this app arrives holding procedures already written: styled HTML pages that get mailed around, opened off a share, and edited by whoever still has the file. Those pages are exactly what a guide is for, and retyping one into the editor is how a good procedure stays on a share forever. flask guides import-html reads the page and produces blocks. It recognises the vocabulary those pages actually use - a step box with its own number, an alert in one of three colours, a code block with a copy button, a checkbox list, a table with a header row - and maps each to the block that already renders it, lifting embedded images into guideimages so a document stops carrying its screenshots as base64. Page furniture goes: the header, the footer, and the table of contents a guide builds for itself from its own headings. The conversion is lossy on purpose. Colour, fonts, width and nested layout are dropped, because storing blocks rather than markup is what makes dark mode, printing and tickable steps work at all. So an import is always a DRAFT and the default is a dry run that reports what it would produce and writes nothing. Blocks go through the same validator the API uses: an import must not be able to store something the editor could not have produced. The parser is tolerant, because real articles are not well-formed. An unclosed <p> is normal HTML and the browser closes it at the next block element; without the same rule one unclosed tag swallows the rest of the article into a single paragraph, which is what it did before the test caught it. Proven end to end against four real articles, including one carrying two PNG screenshots, read back in a browser. |
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Every report offers to email itself, and a long drive name stays in its card
POST /api/reports/email has always taken any {columns, rows} from any caller,
but the Email report button existed on the toner and warranty pages only - not
because those reports are special, but because they happen to be their own
routed pages and the reports page had no button at all. It is now beside Export
CSV for every report the page can build a table from, which is all of them:
plugin reports through their declared columns, core reports through the flat
list they return, and the asset inventory summary by flattening its three
tables into one with the grouping named in a column. Presentation-only fields -
a status colour, a link id - are left out; a column of hex codes is worse than
no column. The shapes live in a module with tests rather than in the view.
The button is now hidden without reports.export on all three pages. Offering
somebody a button that can only answer 403 is worse than not offering it.
Separately, on the USB kiosk a long drive name pushed Take or Return out
through the side of its card, leaving a drive nobody could press. The name is a
flex item and so defaulted to min-width:auto, keeping its full intrinsic width;
it now yields, wraps mid-word for the serial-style names that carry no spaces,
and clamps its description to two lines so one long name cannot make every card
in the row tall. The locker line is never clipped - it is how somebody finds
the drive.
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Kiosk: find a free drive by typing, and use the width of the panel
A cabinet of thirty drives was one long column to read through. The free list now filters from a search box and lays out in as many columns as the panel is wide - four on a wall display, two on a tablet, one on a phone - while the steps that hold a single control stay narrow, because stretching one input across a 24 inch screen reads as a broken page. A drive is found by its id, by what is written on it, or by where it lives. The words can arrive in any order, and "locker" is part of what is searched, so "locker engineer" finds the engineering locker - that is how people say it out loud. Filtering is client-side: every free drive is already on the screen, and a round trip per keystroke on a wall panel would be worse than no filter at all. The matcher lives in its own module with tests rather than inside the view. The box takes focus as the picker opens so somebody can simply start typing, and it is cleared when the kiosk resets - the next person at the cabinet must not inherit a filter and conclude there are no drives left. Also: both this view and the guides blocks coloured muted text with a `--textmuted` variable this app has never defined. The browser dropped the declaration, so every hint, subtitle and locker line was rendering at full strength. The variable is `--text-light`. |
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A plugin report renders as a report, not as a JSON dump
The reports page ran a hardcoded switch over five core report ids and fell
through to `default: console.error('Unknown report')`, and its results panel was
a matching chain of per-id templates ending in a `JSON.stringify`. So a plugin
could register a report, watch it appear in the catalogue, and get a wall of
JSON when it was opened - which is where the three printedparts reports have
been since they were added.
Any report that declares an endpoint is now fetched from it, and any report
returning {columns, rows} renders as a table. That shape is already the
convention on the server side, so a plugin needs no core code at all to have a
working report. The per-id templates stay for the core reports whose payloads
are not tabular.
Export CSV goes through the api client rather than window.open. A new window
carries no Authorization header, so every report behind a real jwt_required -
which is every plugin one - answered the export button with a 401. The core
reports are jwt-optional, which is the only reason the old way ever appeared to
work. It also followed /api/reports/<id>, which does not exist for a plugin
report, instead of the endpoint the report itself came from.
A report that fails now says so instead of leaving an empty panel, and the page
offers the time window the endpoints already accepted - printedparts-consumption
was permanently stuck on its 30-day default because nothing could send one.
Verified in a browser against both plugin report families and the core reports.
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USB check-in / check-out audit, as a report rather than a paged list
CMMC removable-media tracking is an audit obligation, and answering "who had this drive, and when" meant paging through the check-in/out list by hand. GET /api/usb/reports/audit returns the events - a take and a return are separate rows, because a count cannot answer the question an audit actually asks - with summary figures riding along for the people who only want the shape of it, and a CSV for the people who want it in a spreadsheet. The window is named rather than a day count: today, last month, six months, a year, all time. Nobody should have to work out that a year is 365. Both directory modes answer in one voice. The external path reads the cmmc_usb checkinoutlog; self-hosted expands one usbcheckouts row into its two ends, so a returned drive is distinguishable from one still out, and the window filter runs in SQL against either end of the loan - a drive taken before the window and returned inside it is a check-in the window has to show. Rows come back from the mode-specific half; the CSV, the summary and the response shape are built once in the route. Ordering is total in both modes. Timestamp alone ties for two events in the same second, and the same query then returns them in a different order each run, which reads as the log being unstable. |
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USB kiosk: drive lists in two columns, in the order the labels read
The kiosk was a single column of full-width rows top-aligned on the page, so a cabinet of a dozen drives meant scrolling a wall panel, and the page itself scrolled - which takes the "Your drives" heading off screen and leaves somebody looking at a list with no idea whose drives they are. The lists now sit in a grid that fills the width and scroll INSIDE themselves against a bounded height, with the panel centred as one block the way the parts kiosk beside it already is. Two kiosks on the same floor that sit differently on their screens read as two different products. Drive ids sorted as text, which puts USB-10 ahead of USB-3. Compared with a numeric collator so the list runs in the order the labels on the drives read. |
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Granting somebody a permission now takes effect without a re-login
fetchUser() existed and was called from nowhere. The signed-in user - including the permission list every v-if in the app reads - was written once at login and cached in localStorage, and nothing ever refreshed it. So an admin granted somebody guides.create, the person was told they had it, and the New guide button stayed hidden until they happened to log out and back in. Nothing on screen explained why, and the natural conclusion is that the permission system is broken. Called on app boot, so a permission change lands on the next page load. Reproduced before and after: button hidden, permission granted mid-session, plain reload, button there. Only a 401 logs out now. The old handler logged out on ANY failure, so an API restart or a network blip would have thrown people out of sessions they still held - a cached user is stale, not invalid. |
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Somewhere to actually turn the USB kiosk on
The kiosk page tells an administrator to enable it in Settings under USB. That place did not exist - the setting was reachable only through the API or a shell, which is the same trap the backups plugin shipped with. A settings page and a catalogue card, so the instruction leads somewhere. |
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Network devices: manage buttons where every other asset keeps them
Machines, PCs, printers and measuring tools all carry Print Label / Edit / Retire / Back to List in a page header. A network device had no header at all: Edit was tucked inside the hero title row, and Print Label and Delete sat in a bar at the very bottom of the page, past every card. Managing one meant looking somewhere different from every other asset type. They move to the standard header. The bottom bar is removed rather than left as a second copy, and the two delete handlers collapse into one - the route is a soft delete, so it is called Retire here as it is everywhere else, and the confirm says what is kept. |