[Xymon] Column order and accessibility of the 'info' column

[Deiss, Mark]

We use border framing on the rows/columns as used in the old Big Brother - makes it a lot easier to follow a column/row for us that are aging and becoming visually impaired.  Also have the code modified to only alter the background color outside of the tables to the overall state color. Found that with shrunk displays that the background state color can impinge into the icon area and can make it difficult to make out the icon colors. We keep the table background black which seems to work best for distinguishing all the icon colors.

The drawback on this is that you are chewing up some additional web display real estate to support the borders. So it may be a space issue if you have a large number of host rows and/or columns that are already consuming all the display real estate.

If you are interested, I can send you the modifications to pagegen.c

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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:23 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Column order and accessibility of the 'info' column

We're finding the 'info' column to be very important to us, but are also finding it a little difficult to find in the web displays.

Since the number and titles of the columns displayed for each group vary, it is impossible to know which green diamond is the 'info' column without consulting the group-header. Is is difficult in a couple of cases:
   + If there are many hosts in a group, it can be hard to do the
      row/column matching to click the correct 'info' button.
   + If we use the 'find host/jump' function, the found host is
      at the top of the page and we must scroll up to find the header.

I can think of several ways to make this more usable:
   + Use a unique icon (or icon set) for 'info'. Is 'info' ever
      be anything but green?
   + Let me rename the 'info' column like we can the 'conn' column.
      If it were named ' info' it would always sort to the left.
   + Let me specify an alternative column sort order for my pageset.
   + Make the 'find/jump' option jump to the group rather than the host.

Can anyone suggest another way (which is already possible) I can use to improve the accessibility of the 'info' column?

-- 
    Do things because you should, not just because you can.

John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Enterprise Technology Services
Department of Administration
State of Alaska
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