I also have a feeling the GUI topic is too broad and would contain
everything making it useless...
This is what happened now with the plugins section.
I think we can also remove the GUI heading and just talk about concepts and
as a subtopic how they are handled in the GUI.

- > Workflow (general concept)
- - > Creating a workflow (GUI explanation)
- - > Actions
- - - > Action 1
- - - > Action 2
....




On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 10:06 PM Matt Casters
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not sure I like the idea of putting everything and the kitchen sink
> under "Hop GUI".  Maybe we can flatten the tree a bit?
> Perhaps we can have a number of top level entries like Workflows,
> Pipelines, Metadata, Tools, ...?
> We can put the password encryption plugin under the Hop Encr tool or under
> a more generic "Security" heading.  It's a non-trivial concern after all.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 1:03 PM Bart Maertens <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Hans, All,
> >
> > I agree moving the plugin documentation out of the plugins category is a
> > necessity.
> > Our initial structure was inspired by the Hop architecture, which imho
> is a
> > way too technical perspective.
> > The documentation structure should follow how people use Hop and where
> they
> > would look for information.
> >
> > People will interact with transforms, actions, project & database config
> > etc almost exclusively from Hop Gui.
> > Therefore, my suggestion would be to use the 2 main 'Workflow' and
> > 'Pipeline' sections you mentioned, but keep them in the Hop Gui section.
> > Something like:
> > - > Hop Gui
> > - - > Workflows
> > - - -> Workflow Editor
> > - - - > Workflow Run Configurations
> > - - - > Actions
> > - - - > ....
> > - - > Pipelines
> > - - - > Pipeline Editor
> > - - - > Pipeline Run Configurations
> > - - - > Transforms
> > - - - > ....
> > - - > Testing
> > - - > Projects & Environments
> > - - > Metadata
> > - - - > Databases
> > - - > ....
> >
> > For the more configuration/administration oriented tasks, we could add a
> > Tools/Administration/Configuration section, something like:
> > - > Tools (or Administration?)
> > - - > Hop Conf
> > - - > Hop Server
> > - - > Hop Run
> >
> > I'm not sure where e.g. the password plugins would fit in, since they're
> > not directly development or configuration related. We could keep those in
> > the current 'Plugins' section.
> > - > Plugins
> > - - > Password Plugins
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bart
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 9:46 AM Hans Van Akelyen <
> > [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Hoppers,
> > >
> > > I would like to restructure the documentation a bit and would love for
> > your
> > > opinion on the matter.
> > > Currently all our transforms and actions are gathered under the plugins
> > > section, this made sense when we started working on the project but
> from
> > a
> > > user perspective this is confusing.
> > >
> > > The suggestion is to make at least 2 large categories to the
> > documentation
> > > being "Pipeline" and "Workflow" we can then move the documentation that
> > is
> > > located under "Hop Gui" or rewrite parts of this documentation and do
> > cross
> > > references when needed.
> > >
> > > I think making these 2 large sections and adding the transforms/actions
> > > here will greatly improve readability. We can still use the plugins
> > section
> > > too, we can use it for external plugins or transforms/actions that we
> > will
> > > not be adding to the default release in the future.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Hans
> > >
> >
>
>
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