With 24 things, finding things in rules engine is a pain

[dhylands]

I currently only have 24 things, but trying to find the one I want by scrolling horizontally, especially since you can't always read the entire label, seems problematic.

[dhylands]

This is for adding/creating rules

[benfrancis]

"only"

[hobinjk]

What are the labels you're having trouble with? I tried getting a label to cut off but it only increased the height of the thing drawer.

[hobinjk]

I think a good first step for this would be to alphabetize the things in the drawer since right now they're in API order which is a bit random

[mrstegeman]

@hobinjk After we get #1638 merged, things will be in the same order they are on the Things page, which is user defined.

[flatsiedatsie]

I created the proposal to have sentence-based rules elsewhere. This example builds on that. But in any case, I imagine users could filter their rules based on which devices or properties they apply to. In this example they could use voice input to filter the rules. E.g. "Mozilla, show rules with the clock":

A user could then perhaps say "Mozilla, remove the first rule shown".

The could also use voice input as a way to generate (the scaffolding for) a new rule. Or they could click together the sentences.

For example, if the user clicks on "And ..." they can select any existing device. Once it's selected, they can fine-tune the sentence which it generates. If a thing has multiple properties, users must first select that property before they can fine tune that property.

See also: #1418

[dhylands]

What are the labels you're having trouble with? I tried getting a label to cut off but it only increased the height of the thing drawer.

When I have a several nodes with names like zb-0000000000000000-button (so there are 16 digits) right beside each other the labels from one device run into the next one. I'm not at home right now, and that's where my computer than displayed it this way is, so I'll have to grab a screen shot next week.

[dhylands]

I was able to reproduce it here:

Well almost. On my computer at home, I think that the last digit or so of one labels gets overwritten by the label next to it. On the main screen, the last digit gets chopped in half.

[dhylands]

It seems to have the problem under firefox (running 65).

It looks like all of the digits are actually visible and the dash is overwriting the label of the next thing.

and the same thing under Chrome

[flatsiedatsie]

An experiment for the Square theme. This modification would only be made on high-res screens, which are unlikely to be touch screens.

I tried making a vertical thing drawer on the left of the screen, so that scrolling would be more intuitive, but then the javascript didn't seem to work properly anymore. The vertical split, where the bottom half is the tray, seems to be hard coded.

Not currently possible

[kgiori]

Having multiple scrollable rows of things would be faster to find what you're looking for than a single row. But as you note, it wouldn't work on a mobile device, and might be too thick on a tablet too. But if you could detect the form factor, and it fits, it would be useful.