Dimuthu,

+1 on all the points.

Indeed need a unified approach, and indeed the screenshot that you attached
is a step in that direction but needs further work to make its UX better.

Dmitry


On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Dimuthu Leelarathne <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am attaching the current UI we have for APIs. So in this screenshot, it
> is grouped by the name and we can see the behaviour of it's value in
> Development,Testing and Production.
>
> Personally, I don't like the look-and-feel of this control, but it has the
> correct concept. We can develop a control with better look-and-feel and use
> it across everything - APIs, DBs and Properties.
>
> In addition to points Dmitry highlighted, I would like to highlight
> editing fuctionality of resources. The idea behind the editing
> functionality improvement is "when we are editing a particular resource, we
> should know what is the stage that we are editing and what values". Right
> now the editing functionality is not user-friendly because we go to edit
> page without the knowledge of the stage. Perhaps we can incorporate that
> into the control as well.
>
> When we develop this control (html or methodology or tag - i don't know
> the exact term), we can use it across all resources (APIs, DBs and
> Properties).
>
> Furthermore, we only have to review one of these - either APIs, DBs or
> Properties. Ideally everything else follows the same style and need not
> even be reviewed. It must be that consistent!
>
> thanks,
> dimuthu
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Dmitry Sotnikov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Asanka,
>>
>> From my perspective, all resource management in App Factory exists within
>> the ALM conceptual model. The coolness of App Factory is *not* that you
>> can list the resources (properties, APIs, databases), but that you can get
>> them automatically switched as the application moves from dev to test to
>> prod.
>>
>> This means that for all resources (properties, APIs, databases) - we need
>> to follow the same conceptual model:
>>
>> Resource A:
>>
>>    - It's work in Dev,
>>    - It's work in Test,
>>    - It's work in Prod,
>>
>> Resource B:
>>
>>    - It's work in Dev,
>>    - It's work in Test,
>>    - It's work in Prod,
>>
>> And for them all we need to have:
>> 1. Code samples on how to use them,
>> 2. Ability to simply get them to be the same or separate for the
>> different stages of ALM.
>>
>> To your question, the URL naming of the column is fine.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dmitry
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Asanka Dissanayake <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> Please find the inline image after @subject .
>>>
>>> ​
>>> The main improvement that has been carried out is , listing APIs per the
>>> environment. In addition to that I made a small change renaming the
>>> "Values" column to "URL". The rationale behind that change is , Earlier the
>>> only value shown in that column  is url (There are some other values
>>> also,they are not shown ATM.Since this is a summary page, showing the URL
>>> only is sufficient IMO) , so there is no point of naming the column as
>>> "Values" and showing only the URL.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Asanka D
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>
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