Operators reported losing a part-filled form by clicking slightly outside it.
Every data-entry modal closed on a backdrop click with no warning and no way
back - the worst possible response to a misplaced click, and it happens most to
someone adding their first records at a new site.
Close-on-overlay is removed from 35 modals across 30 files: anything containing
an input, textarea, select or v-model. They still close by Cancel or the X.
Confirmation dialogs keep it, because a delete prompt holds nothing to lose and
dismissing one by clicking away is the behaviour people expect. VendorsList
shows the distinction - its edit form no longer closes that way, its delete
confirmation still does.
The shared Modal component now defaults closeOnOverlay to FALSE. Every current
caller holds a form, a checkout, a stock adjustment or a map position being
picked, and not one passed the prop, so all of them had the same fault. A modal
that genuinely wants dismissing that way opts in explicitly.
Also regroups the operator console menu, which had grown to numbers 1-9 plus
three letters bolted on with no order to them. Actions are now grouped by what
they touch, keyed by their first letter, and the old numbers still work so
nobody who has used it for months is stopped by a rearrangement.
The menu also warns when the server is not fully provisioned and names the key
that fixes it, instead of reporting it as ordinary status lines that read as
normal unless you already knew what to look for. That check is cached for the
session because it shells out to flask twice and the answer does not change
while somebody reads the screen.
Two things a second site ran into.
The network device form asked for the map position as two raw numbers, so
placing a device meant reading coordinates off another screen and typing them
in. Machines, PCs and printers have had a "Set Location on Map" picker all
along, and the network API already accepted mapx and mapy - only the form was
missing. Same picker, same modal.
The 3D parts kiosk hardcoded 'WJ' as the prefix shown before the number box,
with a comment inviting whoever needed something else to edit the source. That
is West Jefferson's gage-lab tag format and nobody else's, so another site's
operators were told to expect letters that are not on their labels.
It is now printedparts_label_prefix, set in Settings, defaulting to EMPTY - a
site that has not set one sees no prefix rather than inheriting another site's
convention. West Jefferson sets it to WJ once. The kiosk hides the prefix
entirely when unset and falls back to no prefix if the setting cannot be read,
because a cosmetic hint must never stop a kiosk working.
Not to be confused with printedparts_code_prefix, which mints item codes like
3DP0042 and was already configurable. That is the code we generate; this is the
tag already printed on the label.
Two unrelated things found while looking at blank printer types.
Selecting a filter while past page one returned an empty list. The filter asked
the server for page 5 of a result set that now had one page, and the screen said
nothing matched. useListQuery already resets the page - setSearch and setExtra
both do - but the filter dropdowns bypassed it and called the loader directly.
Nine list pages now route through applyFilter, which calls setPage(1) when it
needs to and loads directly when already on page one, so the composable's URL
watcher does not also fire and fetch twice.
scripts/retype_models.py addresses why printer types cannot be derived. The
catalog types every printer model "Printer": true, and useless, since it does not
say whether the product is a laser, a plotter or a label printer. That answer is
a property of the model - every VersaLink C405 is a laser MFP - but nothing
recorded it, so nothing could derive it. Recording it on the MODEL means the
existing backfill fills every printer by exact name match, and a printer added
later inherits the right type the moment its model is chosen.
It exports the models needing a decision to CSV with a type suggested from the
model number, a person corrects the column, and applying it is a dry run unless
given --commit. A suggested type is refused unless it already exists in that
asset class's own vocabulary, which is what keeps the later name match working.
The suggestion order matters and got this wrong first time: a generic plotter
pattern matched "Zebra ZT411" and filed a label printer as a plotter. Brands now
come before generic patterns, and the review step exists precisely because a
confident wrong guess would type every asset using that model.
Verified on the development database: 24 printer models need a decision, 22 got
a sensible suggestion, applying them let all 42 printers match a printertype by
name, and the transaction rolled back cleanly.
Two fields on the same page were both labelled "Type": the asset's own, and the
catalog model's. Only one of them was vague. "Model type" already says exactly
what it is; the bare "Type" did not say whose.
So the unqualified one is the one that changes. No new vocabulary, and "Model
type" reads correctly against it:
Type -> Machine Type (machines)
Type -> PC Type (computers)
Type -> Printer Type (printers)
Type -> Device Type (network devices)
Left alone everywhere the word is not ambiguous - measuring tools, subnets,
VLANs, notifications, supply types and the manifest editor have no model type on
screen to be confused with.
This is a labelling change only. It does not address the blank type column on
machines imported from the classic ASP database, which is a data gap the
backfill script fills; renaming a column heading was never going to put values
in it.
Adding a "Model type" row next to "Type" put two rows in the Hardware section
that read identically. They come from different tables - modeltypes is the
catalog-wide list spanning every kind of asset, machinetypes is machine-only -
but the names line up in practice: all 262 machines in the development database
match exactly, which is the same fact that makes the type backfill safe.
So the row now appears only when the two disagree, which is the case worth
seeing: a model catalogued as one thing fitted to an asset recorded as another.
When they agree it says nothing and is hidden. Applied to machines, PCs,
printers and network devices, each compared against its own type table.
An asset that carries a model but no vendor was showing a blank the database
could already answer: the model records its vendor, and both sides reference the
same vendors table. Machines, PCs, printers and network devices now fall back to
it.
The fallback is FLAGGED, not merged silently. to_dict sets vendorfrommodel and
the detail pages render "(from model)" beside the value, because the record
itself is still empty: the edit form shows an empty vendor box, and a page
implying the vendor is stored would be lying about where it came from.
The model's type is exposed under its own name, modeltypename, and shown as a
separate "Model type" row. It is deliberately NOT used to fill in the asset's
own type. modeltypes is the catalog-wide list covering every kind of asset - it
holds "Access Point", "Camera" and "Desktop PC" alongside the machine entries -
so it is a different taxonomy from machinetypes. Only about two thirds of the
names overlap, and mapping one onto the other would mistype the remainder, with
the failure mode being a machine labelled "Desktop PC".
scripts/backfill_vendor_from_model.py writes the derived vendor down for real,
since the display fallback leaves reports that read vendorid still seeing
nothing. It is a dry run unless given --commit, fills only rows where the
asset's vendor is NULL and the model names one, and never overwrites a vendor
somebody chose. It skips a table lacking either column, so it runs against a
server whose network migration has not been applied yet.
Verified against the development database by nulling one machine's vendor inside
a transaction: it was detected as fillable, restored to exactly its original
value, and the rollback left the row untouched.
FLASK_ENV is not forced by the script. The app already reads it from .env, and
overriding it demanded a SECRET_KEY the environment had no reason to supply.
Three faults around vendor-model photos, found while looking at why an uploaded
image did not appear.
Saving a model was blocked after uploading a photo. The Image URL field was
type="url", and an upload sets it to an application path such as
/api/models/image/model-120.png. Native url validation demands an absolute URL
with a scheme, so the browser refused to submit the form with "Please enter a
URL" for a value the page had just written itself. The field is now type="text",
which is what it always needed to be: it holds either a full web address or a
path on this server. documentationurl stays type="url".
The upload button did not appear when adding a model, only when editing one.
That was deliberate - the photo is stored as model-<id>.<ext>, so it cannot be
sent before the record has an id - but it reads as a missing feature, and the
hint explaining it was easy to miss. A photo chosen while creating is now held
and uploaded as soon as the model is saved, and it is dropped if the dialog is
cancelled, so it cannot land on the next model created in the same session.
Network devices could never show a photo. NetworkDeviceDetail.vue binds its hero
image to networkdevice.imageurl, but networkdevices carried only vendorid, with
no link to a catalog model, so nothing could populate it - a feature that looked
present and could not work. Machines, PCs and printers have carried
modelnumberid since July. This adds the same column and relationship, the
to_dict branch that exposes modelname and imageurl, the field on the API, and a
Model selector on the form so the link can actually be set.
The migration is guarded the same way employees0002photo is: on a fresh database
the tables come from the SQLAlchemy models, which already declare the column, so
an unconditional add fails with "duplicate column name". The foreign key is
created only on databases that can add one by ALTER; routing it through
batch_alter_table made Alembic's column sort raise "Circular dependency
detected" on the fresh-database test.
Deploying this needs `flask db upgrade` and `flask plugin upgrade-all` on the
server, not just a file copy.
The location option label read l.location, but the Location.to_dict() field is
locationname, so every option rendered blank - the dropdown looked empty and
"massive" (a long list of blank rows). Fixed across all five affected forms:
printers, computers, network devices, network device form, and the subnets
location filter. Other .location uses (printer-driver URL, search-result label,
report bylocation key) are legitimately different fields, left alone.
Also require a model on the printer form: asterisk + required attr, plus a JS
guard in savePrinter (the native required is skipped while the select is
disabled with no vendor picked) that points the user at the vendor first.
Model image URLs are root-relative (/api/models/image/...), so on an /ops
subpath deploy the raw <img src> resolved to the server root and 404'd. Wrap
every model-image src in withBase(): machine/printer/PC/network detail heroes,
the models settings preview, and the machine-badge / asset-label print pages.
withBase leaves external http(s)/data URLs untouched.
core.js still routed plugin-owned pages directly. Extracted all 11 into the
owning plugin's route file + moved their views into plugins/<name>/frontend/:
- computers: reports/pc-relationships, settings/pctypemapping
- printers: reports/toner, settings/printertypes, settings/zabbix (toner/supply
monitoring)
- machines: settings/machinetypes
- network: settings/networktypes
- warranty: settings/dellwarranty
- slides: settings/slides (its route file gains a default export; it was
toplevel-only)
- employees: NEW plugin frontend (employees/:sso + settings/employeedirectory) -
employees had no route file before; its pages lived only in core.js.
core.js now holds only core routes; all 14 bundled plugins are self-contained
under plugins/<name>/frontend/. Verified live: the extracted Machine Types
settings page renders in the settings rail from the machines plugin frontend.
Build + 58 vitest + naming green.
Relocate warranty, measuringtools, network, printers, usb, notifications,
computers, and slides into plugins/<name>/frontend/. Each plugin's views are
pulled from wherever they lived (own dir, plus the shared views/settings/,
views/reports/, views/print/ dirs, and top-level views) into the plugin's
frontend/views/, and its route file becomes the self-contained routes.js.
Handled the messy cases:
- computers: name mismatch (its views live in views/pcs/) - moved by following
the route file's own imports, so the dir name did not matter. Its OS/access-
protocol/PC-type settings views move with it (only computers.js routed them).
- network: NetworkHub's sibling sub-views (NetworkDevicesList, SubnetsBrowse,
not directly routed) moved too so its `./` imports resolve.
- printers: the qrLogo helper is SHARED with core AssetLabel, so it stays in
views/print/ and PrinterQR imports it via @/views/print/qrLogo.
- slides: route file is toplevel-only (TVDashboard); SlideManager stays core
(core.js routes /settings/slides).
frontend/src/views/ now holds only core views; frontend/src/router/routes/ holds
only core.js. All 13 plugins are self-contained under plugins/<name>/frontend/.
Verified live: Network (hub + moved sub-views), Computers (name mismatch),
GE-Enforce (helper), printedparts all render from their staged frontends. Build +
58 vitest + naming green.
