For larger deployments the current Portal runs into some issues:
- instance icons are only useful when there are low number of them
- strings for names are truncated if they are too long
- you cannot filter
- you cannot sort
- there are no mouse-overs showing the full description or name
Imagine a larger TimeXtender implementation:
- 3 environments
- 2 ODX
- 6 DWH
- 100 SSL
You get a huge page of icons that is hard to work with and makes it easy to make mistakes. If you did not come up with a good naming conventions you might have:
- Development - SSL - SalesManagement
- Development - SSL - SalesMarketing
The UI will truncate the names and you might have two ‘Development - SSL - SalesMa' instances, but you only want to promote the Marketing one. You can assume the sorting is alphabetical, but I would not bet on it.
These kind of issues could be solved by:
- Adding a list/table option for displaying instances making it possible to see all attributes and make more effective use of screen real-estate
- Make it possible to sort by any attribute (i.e. Environment first, name second, etc.)
- Make it possible to filter the instances displayed. If I am pushing Dev to Test, I don't want to see Prod instances
- Add mouse-overs to get a full display of attributes in Icon mode
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