Filter to show only changes for highstates

[erwindon]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I takes time to scroll on SaltGui even if most of the state_id have not been updated on the minions.

Describe the solution you'd like
It could be great to be able to have a toggle in order not to show state_ids that have not been updated.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Keep scrolling

Additional context
We use SaltGui to manage dozens of minions, each made of os dozens of state_ids :)

[erwindon]

the question is about highstate output as seen on the Job page, isn't it?
(and not about the output of the Highstate screen)

[cedricmaunoury]

Yes. For me, there is (at least) 2 places where it could be interesting : the form where you can run commands on minions (available through the « > » button on the top right of the index page) & the last jobs run through the GUI. Thanks for your quick feedback 😊

[erwindon]

ok, understood.
no real changes will be made to the direct-output panel.
but since there is a lot of shared code between the 2, it may still benefit from changes on the Job screen.

[erwindon]

The Job screen (when viewing highstate output) already has some helpful features.
It is possible:

• to collapse the output of all minions, leaving just the minion names and a list of colored balls representing the individual states; and
• to click on one of the colored balls, so the screen will scroll down and temporary highlight the corresponding task, the tasks for that minion will be shown again in the process. the task-block will flash to indicate its location; and
• to click on the output of any task, so the screen will scroll back to the top of the task list for that minion, allowing quick selection of the next one.

are you already using these features?

[cedricmaunoury]

Finally, the goal would be to be able to set --state-verbose=false in the GUI.

I am using these features but it is still "massive clicking" to prevent seeing "useless" informations.

[erwindon]

SaltGUI has one hidden feature...

• use CTRL-CLICK on the SaltGUI logo to get access to an otherwise hidden options page. you can change state-verbose there for the duration of the session
• use variable saltgui_state_verbose: false in the /etc/salt/master file to start with that value. made that a different variable then state_verbose so that it affects the view in SaltGUI only, not how it stored or visible to commandline users

[cedricmaunoury]

A new hidden world is now available. Thank you :)

My 2 cts : It may be more "User friendly" to give access to all these options through a standard button.

Thanks again for this GUI for Salt !

[erwindon]

My 2 cts : It may be more "User friendly" to give access to all these options through a standard button.

I'll add a tooltip "click for internal details" to the logo
The documentation is already in https://github.com/erwindon/SaltGUI#settings-and-statistics

[erwindon]

migrated issue to PR using hub pull-request -i 543

[erwindon]

• tooltip added to logo
• added warning that settings in "Options" are for the current session only

@cedricmaunoury
can you try the SaltGUI version from this branch? and leave whatever comments you have on it?

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[erwindon]

@cedricmaunoury
ping?

[cedricmaunoury]

@erwindon Sorry, I have not been able to test it yet in our environment. From this feature request, we decided to put state_verbose: False in our minions configuration to always filter the output.

[erwindon]

@cedricmaunoury
the only change now made in this PR is to make the Options screen less secret (and no changes related to highstates).
there is now a tooltip on the SaltGUI logo that explains that ctrl-click navigates to the Options page.
also based on your comment:

My 2 cts : It may be more "User friendly" to give access to all these options through a standard button.

that's why I asked for your opinion this :-)

[cedricmaunoury]

It is a good improvement 👍