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Admin dashboard redesign #264

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Admin dashboard redesign #264

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@thebaer thebaer commented Feb 14, 2020

Reworking the admin dashboard to be more organized, straightforward, and to optionally hide unnecessary information for non-technical admins in hosted environments like Write.as for Teams.

Less-technical dashboard

This will close T694.

This hides the app Monitor tab on the dashboard if instance admin sets the following config value: forest = true (note: experimental).

This makes the App Configuration page more user-friendly by changing the user-facing language and adding descriptions to each item.

New Admin Settings page

screencapture-localhost-7879-admin-settings-2020-02-25-14_26_58

New Dashboard

screencapture-localhost-7879-admin-2020-02-25-14_27_21

New Users page

Screenshot from 2020-02-25 14-43-31

Update page

screencapture-localhost-7879-admin-updates-2020-02-25-14_42_49

Enabled with: update_checks = true (note: experimental).

Automated "new version" checks

It also contains improvements to the automated update check system, both user-facing and on the backend (work started on #175 and T572):

  • Indicates a new update is available in the admin navigation bar
  • Shows "last check" time in local timezone, like blog posts do
  • Mentions update check error to admin when one occurs
  • Mentions that update checks are disabled, when true and an admin navigates to the /admin/updates page
  • Adds logging around update checks

This moves app config to a "Settings" page and the application monitor
to a "Monitor" page. It also reworks the admin navigation bar a bit and
adds some instance stats on the dashboard.

Ref T694
@thebaer thebaer added the design label Feb 14, 2020
@thebaer thebaer added this to the 0.12 milestone Feb 14, 2020
This adds a new config option that signifies the admin doesn't need to
see deeply technical things, like application resource usage. In the
[app] section, set forest = true to enable this.

Ref T694
@thebaer thebaer changed the title Admin Dashboard Redesign Admin dashboard redesign Feb 14, 2020
- Tweak the copy
- Include link to download latest release
- Change the version status design a bit
- Restyle some text
When a WriteFreely update is available, indicate this on the "Updates"
navigation item

Ref T572
This keeps track when automated update check fails, and displays a
relevant message to the admin on /admin/updates

Ref T572
Logs requests when --debug enabled, and always logs errors from the
check.

Ref T572
Previously, we'd wait for a response before finishing app
initialization, meaning an overall slower startup. This fixes that.

Ref T572
- Add a description to each config item
- Change item names to make more sense

Ref T694
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thebaer commented Feb 25, 2020

I think this is a pretty good stopping place for this pull request. Would love to hear any feedback on these changes!

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dariusk commented Feb 25, 2020

This looks great!

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thebaer commented Feb 26, 2020

Thanks @dariusk! Really glad you like it.

@cjeller1592 some documentation to add, so we can link from the admin Settings page:

  • Choosing a name for your site
  • Choosing a "Landing Page" value
  • Choosing a "max blogs per user" value (unlimited, only one, or limited)
  • Controlling registration (open, closed, invite-only for admins, invite-only for users)
  • What it means to run a private instance vs. public instance

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thebaer commented Mar 1, 2020

@cjeller1592 I moved those documentation topics to T728. Will get this merged and then we can update the app in another PR once all of that is live.

@thebaer thebaer merged commit 4595d48 into develop Mar 1, 2020
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