Quick search for menu items & help articles

Hi Team, 

 

Please find the attached designs & patch that contains complete functionality except below to do for quick search.

 

To Do: 

 

• Unit test cases are not that sufficient to cover complete code, but will be working in background to cover up those one
• In pgadmin, for disabled menu items we need to add info that will describe why menu has disabled & how it will be enabled. Either another way to enable all of them & show respective reason in popup that menu is disabled for. 

 

Please do let me know if I missed anything or suggestion of yours.

 

Thanks !

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

Hi Team,

 

Sorry for the inconvenience, kindly please discard previous email.

 

Please review patch attached to this email.

Changes as below :

1. Added complete quick search menu to help dropdown
2. Added message to each disabled menu item to describe why it can be disabled

3. Info icon design to menu items results if disabled
4. Standard/dark/high contrast theme supports

NOTE: “Initial backend search mechanism patch by: Murtuza Zabuawala”

 

Thanks !

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

From: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>
Date: Wednesday, 20 January 2021 at 4:19 PM
To: Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]>, Dave Page <[hidden email]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

Hi Team,

 

As per inputs from you all, made changes & attached patch with this email.

 

Kindly please have a review & do let me know if missed anything.

 

Thanks !

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

From: Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]>
Date: Friday, 15 January 2021 at 3:34 PM
To: Dave Page <[hidden email]>
Cc: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>, pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

 

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:15 PM Dave Page <[hidden email]> wrote:

 

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:43 AM Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Dave

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 2:46 PM Dave Page <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 7:23 AM Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Dave,

 

Thank you for comments ! I had described points below. Please do let me know if anything missing.

 

From: Dave Page <[hidden email]>
Date: Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 10:26 PM
To: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

Hi

 

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:48 PM Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Team, 

 

Please find the attached designs & patch that contains complete functionality except below to do for quick search.

 

To Do: 

 

• Unit test cases are not that sufficient to cover complete code, but will be working in background to cover up those one
• In pgadmin, for disabled menu items we need to add info that will describe why menu has disabled & how it will be enabled. Either another way to enable all of them & show respective reason in popup that menu is disabled for. 

 

Please do let me know if I missed anything or suggestion of yours.

 

Looks very good. I haven't done an extensive code review/test, but two things spring to mind immediately:

 

1) I think the search box should be the top item on the Help menu. I do not think it should be on the far end of the menu bar, as it looks too much like it will search for data (think of search on a website).

 

- As we are showing menu items as well in search results, it can be redundant for end user & increase duplications of menu items. Please advise your thoughts on this.

 

The search box could be on the Help menu, with results shown in a sub-menu under it.

 

Another more simple option would be to move the search icon to be directly after the Help menu (which would hint that it's related to the menus), but I'm also concerned about the number of items on the top menu - we're getting to the point that 'common' window sizes would show the hamburger menu by default.

 

    I personally feel we should not add the search box on the Help menu, it should be kept separate with a placeholder indicating what is it for. We can move the search icon after the Help menu.

 

What is your reasoning? It is, after all, specifically designed to help people.

 

    OK, I have seen a couple of applications where the search box is inside the Help menu, agree with your point. 

 

 

 

2) Do we need another loading icon? Surely there's one in the source tree already that we can use? 

 

- As we are loading help articles count in background, so I have added background loading icon to show near to count of results. Our existing icon is of blue & white circle combination, which will be more useful to show foreground loading.

 

Hmm, OK.

 

 

Please do let me know your valuable inputs on this.

 

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

 

 

 

--

Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

 

--

Thanks & Regards

Akshay Joshi

pgAdmin Hacker | Principal Software Architect

EDB Postgres

Mobile: +91 976-788-8246

 

--

Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

 

--

Thanks & Regards

Akshay Joshi

pgAdmin Hacker | Principal Software Architect

EDB Postgres

Mobile: +91 976-788-8246

Hi Akshay,

 

Please find the rebased patch as attached with this email.

 

Please do let me know if need anything else.

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

From: Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]>
Date: Monday, 25 January 2021 at 3:53 PM
To: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>
Cc: Dave Page <[hidden email]>, pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

Hi Pramod

 

The patch is not applied, maybe you need to rebase and send the patch again.

 

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 4:36 PM Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Team,

 

Sorry for the inconvenience, kindly please discard previous email.

 

Please review patch attached to this email.

Changes as below :

1. Added complete quick search menu to help dropdown
2. Added message to each disabled menu item to describe why it can be disabled

3. Info icon design to menu items results if disabled
4. Standard/dark/high contrast theme supports

NOTE: “Initial backend search mechanism patch by: Murtuza Zabuawala”

 

Thanks !

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

From: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>
Date: Wednesday, 20 January 2021 at 4:19 PM
To: Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]>, Dave Page <[hidden email]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

Hi Team,

 

As per inputs from you all, made changes & attached patch with this email.

 

Kindly please have a review & do let me know if missed anything.

 

Thanks !

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

From: Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]>
Date: Friday, 15 January 2021 at 3:34 PM
To: Dave Page <[hidden email]>
Cc: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>, pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

 

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:15 PM Dave Page <[hidden email]> wrote:

 

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:43 AM Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Dave

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 2:46 PM Dave Page <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 7:23 AM Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Dave,

 

Thank you for comments ! I had described points below. Please do let me know if anything missing.

 

From: Dave Page <[hidden email]>
Date: Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 10:26 PM
To: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

Hi

 

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:48 PM Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Team, 

 

Please find the attached designs & patch that contains complete functionality except below to do for quick search.

 

To Do: 

 

• Unit test cases are not that sufficient to cover complete code, but will be working in background to cover up those one
• In pgadmin, for disabled menu items we need to add info that will describe why menu has disabled & how it will be enabled. Either another way to enable all of them & show respective reason in popup that menu is disabled for. 

 

Please do let me know if I missed anything or suggestion of yours.

 

Looks very good. I haven't done an extensive code review/test, but two things spring to mind immediately:

 

1) I think the search box should be the top item on the Help menu. I do not think it should be on the far end of the menu bar, as it looks too much like it will search for data (think of search on a website).

 

- As we are showing menu items as well in search results, it can be redundant for end user & increase duplications of menu items. Please advise your thoughts on this.

 

The search box could be on the Help menu, with results shown in a sub-menu under it.

 

Another more simple option would be to move the search icon to be directly after the Help menu (which would hint that it's related to the menus), but I'm also concerned about the number of items on the top menu - we're getting to the point that 'common' window sizes would show the hamburger menu by default.

 

    I personally feel we should not add the search box on the Help menu, it should be kept separate with a placeholder indicating what is it for. We can move the search icon after the Help menu.

 

What is your reasoning? It is, after all, specifically designed to help people.

 

    OK, I have seen a couple of applications where the search box is inside the Help menu, agree with your point. 

 

 

 

2) Do we need another loading icon? Surely there's one in the source tree already that we can use? 

 

- As we are loading help articles count in background, so I have added background loading icon to show near to count of results. Our existing icon is of blue & white circle combination, which will be more useful to show foreground loading.

 

Hmm, OK.

 

 

Please do let me know your valuable inputs on this.

 

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

 

 

 

--

Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

 

--

Thanks & Regards

Akshay Joshi

pgAdmin Hacker | Principal Software Architect

EDB Postgres

Mobile: +91 976-788-8246

 

--

Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

 

--

Thanks & Regards

Akshay Joshi

pgAdmin Hacker | Principal Software Architect

EDB Postgres

Mobile: +91 976-788-8246

 

--

Thanks & Regards

Akshay Joshi

pgAdmin Hacker | Principal Software Architect

EDB Postgres

Mobile: +91 976-788-8246

Hi Akshay,

 

As reported jasmine test case failure for quick search, had fixed issue & attached here in email.

 

Kindly also find below updates in the patch:

1. Jasmine test cases fixed

2. Added missing messages for disabled menu items
3. Removed single quotes from ‘data_disabled’ -> data_disabled

 

Please review & do let me know if missed anything.

 

Thanks!

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

From: Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]>
Date: Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 2:48 PM
To: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>
Cc: Dave Page <[hidden email]>, pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

Thanks, patch applied with some string modifications.

 

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 1:32 PM Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Akshay,

 

Please find the rebased patch as attached with this email.

 

Please do let me know if need anything else.

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

From: Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]>
Date: Monday, 25 January 2021 at 3:53 PM
To: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>
Cc: Dave Page <[hidden email]>, pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

Hi Pramod

 

The patch is not applied, maybe you need to rebase and send the patch again.

 

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 4:36 PM Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Team,

 

Sorry for the inconvenience, kindly please discard previous email.

 

Please review patch attached to this email.

Changes as below :

1. Added complete quick search menu to help dropdown
2. Added message to each disabled menu item to describe why it can be disabled

3. Info icon design to menu items results if disabled
4. Standard/dark/high contrast theme supports

NOTE: “Initial backend search mechanism patch by: Murtuza Zabuawala”

 

Thanks !

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

From: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>
Date: Wednesday, 20 January 2021 at 4:19 PM
To: Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]>, Dave Page <[hidden email]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

Hi Team,

 

As per inputs from you all, made changes & attached patch with this email.

 

Kindly please have a review & do let me know if missed anything.

 

Thanks !

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

From: Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]>
Date: Friday, 15 January 2021 at 3:34 PM
To: Dave Page <[hidden email]>
Cc: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>, pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

 

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:15 PM Dave Page <[hidden email]> wrote:

 

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:43 AM Akshay Joshi <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Dave

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 2:46 PM Dave Page <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi

 

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 7:23 AM Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Dave,

 

Thank you for comments ! I had described points below. Please do let me know if anything missing.

 

From: Dave Page <[hidden email]>
Date: Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 10:26 PM
To: Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: Quick search for menu items & help articles

 

Hi

 

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:48 PM Pramod Ahire <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Team, 

 

Please find the attached designs & patch that contains complete functionality except below to do for quick search.

 

To Do: 

 

• Unit test cases are not that sufficient to cover complete code, but will be working in background to cover up those one
• In pgadmin, for disabled menu items we need to add info that will describe why menu has disabled & how it will be enabled. Either another way to enable all of them & show respective reason in popup that menu is disabled for. 

 

Please do let me know if I missed anything or suggestion of yours.

 

Looks very good. I haven't done an extensive code review/test, but two things spring to mind immediately:

 

1) I think the search box should be the top item on the Help menu. I do not think it should be on the far end of the menu bar, as it looks too much like it will search for data (think of search on a website).

 

- As we are showing menu items as well in search results, it can be redundant for end user & increase duplications of menu items. Please advise your thoughts on this.

 

The search box could be on the Help menu, with results shown in a sub-menu under it.

 

Another more simple option would be to move the search icon to be directly after the Help menu (which would hint that it's related to the menus), but I'm also concerned about the number of items on the top menu - we're getting to the point that 'common' window sizes would show the hamburger menu by default.

 

    I personally feel we should not add the search box on the Help menu, it should be kept separate with a placeholder indicating what is it for. We can move the search icon after the Help menu.

 

What is your reasoning? It is, after all, specifically designed to help people.

 

    OK, I have seen a couple of applications where the search box is inside the Help menu, agree with your point. 

 

 

 

2) Do we need another loading icon? Surely there's one in the source tree already that we can use? 

 

- As we are loading help articles count in background, so I have added background loading icon to show near to count of results. Our existing icon is of blue & white circle combination, which will be more useful to show foreground loading.

 

Hmm, OK.

 

 

Please do let me know your valuable inputs on this.

 

 

Pramod Ahire

Software Engineer

 

 

C: +91-020-66449600/601

D: +91-9028697679

edbpostgres.com

 

 

 

 

 

--

Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

 

--

Thanks & Regards

Akshay Joshi

pgAdmin Hacker | Principal Software Architect

EDB Postgres

Mobile: +91 976-788-8246

 

--

Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

 

--

Thanks & Regards

Akshay Joshi

pgAdmin Hacker | Principal Software Architect

EDB Postgres

Mobile: +91 976-788-8246

 

--

Thanks & Regards

Akshay Joshi

pgAdmin Hacker | Principal Software Architect

EDB Postgres

Mobile: +91 976-788-8246

 

--

Thanks & Regards

Akshay Joshi

pgAdmin Hacker | Principal Software Architect

EDB Postgres

Mobile: +91 976-788-8246