Webinterface

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knk
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Re: Webinterface

Post by knk »

Hey @emcodem!
I understand your challenges completely. It's not easy to "please" everyone and fit every use case.
The "refresh" was a bad call, obviously it would only fit my scenario and probably no one else's.

My point was/is, for those who are technically "less inclined", and if they are many for some reason, the Start button not providing feedback can be a pain, because if you do make a double click in a heavy WF (with dozens or even hundreds of files listed), it's easy to create a mess. Even very light WF's can create a mess if they don't give us enough time to cancel a double or triple submission.

So my honest suggestion is, for consideration, to have the Start button change its state after clicked, like to an unclickable "Job Started" and offering something like a "<<back" link to reset it to a clickable state again.
Even better (and now just dreaming :) ) to have a custom pop-up message per WF, that could appear as a window/form/mask and called by a variable or something after user clicking Start :lol: Just shooting things out there!

All the best to you guys! Have a wonderful weekend
emcodem
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Re: Webinterface

Post by emcodem »

Got to mention that i am always happy when i get some inputs from you @knk, thanks a bunch!
knk wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:52 am My point was/is, for those who are technically "less inclined", and if they are many for some reason, the Start button not providing feedback can be a pain, because if you do make a double click in a heavy WF
In theory it currently should not be possible to unintentionally double submit but the mechanics around that are far away from being perfect so i believe you have issues with it without a doubt - and yes of course we also want to be compatible with "less inclined" users interactions ;-)
knk wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:52 am to have the Start button change its state after clicked, like to an unclickable "Job Started" and offering something like a "<<back" link to reset it to a clickable state again.
Thats one of my thoughts, i do that at work in a similar but much simpler tool and the users do use it very much actually, its a button saying "reactivate" and the submit btn goes greyed out. Of course it also depends or better is caused by the way i designed the corresponding workflow form - this can or can not drive the users into the wish to re-use the current form inputs and instead clean the file list for a new job submission.
Of course we want to support both cases, complete restart and re-use current form
knk wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 9:52 am Even better (and now just dreaming :) ) to have a custom pop-up message per WF, that could appear as a window/form/mask and called by a variable or something after user clicking Start
Such things are absolutely thinkable when i finished what i said before - the possibility to store job submit form settings along with the ffastrans workflow json.
Question: what would you let the user know in such a "post-submit" window?
emcodem, wrapping since 2009 you got the rhyme?
DCCentR
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Re: Webinterface

Post by DCCentR »

Hi @emcodem!
I hope you're doing well.

I had a couple questions:
- Is there any way to make the populated %s_error% ouput message similar to the populated %s_succes%, so that it would be without that part “Populate variables@*ServerName*: ”?
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- If cmd output is encoded in WINDOWS-1251, the web interface looks like this:
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Is there any way to fix this?
emcodem
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Re: Webinterface

Post by emcodem »

@DCCentR sorry i should have answered much earlier. AFAIK there is currently no way to remove the portion you want to remove from error message.
I'll check out the encoding problem.
emcodem, wrapping since 2009 you got the rhyme?
knk
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Re: Webinterface

Post by knk »

Hi @emcodem
emcodem wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 10:53 am
Question: what would you let the user know in such a "post-submit" window?
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Something very straightforward like "Job Started", or something custom so I could type it in any language or adapt it overtime.

Another thing,

In the new web browser version I can't open "info", it retrieves error finding mediainfo. Is there a fix for this?

Thanks!
knk
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Re: Webinterface

Post by knk »

...besides the Media Info error I mentioned below, the video player doesn't allow to "take segments" as it used to.

All the best!
whtghst1
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Re: Webinterface

Post by whtghst1 »

How is the active directory integration resolving the domain name to get the domain controller. The reason I ask is that pure DNS resolution of the domain in a multi-site, multi domain controller environment could return a domain controller at different site that blocks direct traffic from the site where the FFAStrans system is located.

Spoke Site A with Domain Controller <->Hub Site A with Domain Controller <-> Spoke SIte B with Domain Controller.
Most configurations like this spokes can talk to their own DC's and the Hubs DC's, but not other spokes DC's.

If network firewalls prevent Spoke Site A from talking to Spoke Site B issues can happen during Auth check not able to contact the domain controller if you are using pure DNS resolution. The pure DNS lookup just puts up a round robin dns result of all the domain controllers in the domain in random order.

Microsoft Windows has an API for the DC Locater process to call to allow to applications to look up the closet domain controller that takes in the configured Domain Site link path costs. (Ensuring it the on-site DCs or the next site DC's in the chain are given.)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... s.85).aspx
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