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

[Ralph Mitchell]

If you "hover" the mouse pointer over one of the colored dots you get a
tooltip popup that tells you what column it is.

Ralph Mitchell


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:22 PM, John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov>wrote:

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