Upayavira created SOLR-8209:
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Summary: Admin UI documents tab improvements
Key: SOLR-8209
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8209
Project: Solr
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: web gui
Affects Versions: 5.3
Reporter: Upayavira
Assignee: Upayavira
A newbie, when clicking on the 'documents' tab might expect to, well, see
documents. Instead, they see a UI that very low level allows them to post
JSON/XML to add documents, etc. This presumes knowledge of Solr APIs in order
to make good use of it, which goes against the intention of the UI - to make it
easier for people.
In its place, I propose to show a data-grid. This grid will contain maybe the
first 100 documents in the index. It could have infinite scroll (to a certain
point) to show further documents. It will have "filter" options alongside the
field headings, allowing the filtering of fields (exact term match filtering,
or wildcarded).
The left-most column will contain pencils. Clicking on this will bring up a
form that allows a user to edit the document (We could be clever hear - if the
index contains indexed fields that have content, we could warn people that
content from those fields would be lost if documents containing those fields is
re-indexed).
At the top is a button which, when clicked, brings up a form that allows us to
insert a new document. This will be a tabular view - the left column is field
names (a dropdown) and the right a free text box for content.
We could add an advanced button that brings up a q= box, allowing you to enter
arbitrary queries. In time, this could expand to include a query builder - a
bit like the query tab.
We could add delete by query functionality here, too.
We should probably have two buttons at the top - one that brings up a modal
allowing the user to enter arbitrary JSON or XML for posting to Solr, and the
other that brings up a modal allowing the user to upload a file from their
filesystem - this means we retain the essential functionality that is currently
present in the documents tab.
Basically, we give a very straightforward view of the content of an index, much
like one would in a relational database tool.
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