#69 refreshed web page always showed at the top

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sebthebert
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2012-11-30
2010-03-03
Michael
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Hi Sebastien,

Not much of the feature request, but more of the convenience request.
When there a lot of monitored devices, such that they don't fit in one
page, say, on "Device" page, when scrolling down to the bottom and, for example, choosing
to stop collecting data, after confirmation dialog, the refreshed "Device" page
is shown from very top again. I guess we got spoiled with other web sites,
when you'd see refreshed page at the place where you were, at the bottom at this example.
Make sense?
Another example: "Services" page: say, I'm going down the list and deleting
some Services, if it's not in first 20+, after deletion I have to scroll down again to get
to the point I was before.
Checked it with Firefox v.3.0.6 and v.3.5.6, so seems not browser thing?

Keep up good work!
Thanks,
Michael

Discussion

  • Mathias Hollstein
    Mathias Hollstein
    2011-08-31

    This rises a question derived from Bug 3391894 (Dispatcher adds trash devices at random) again, which basically suggests to implement a feature to stop the detection and/or adding of new devices as awhole. Some operators of Octopussy may want to do this for several reasons namely testing, security reasons or else. A simple button "Disable Detection"/"Enable Detection" on the devices page below the button "New Device" would perfectly suffice. With that one would *still* have the posibility to override and manually add a new device while one are automaticaly added (when "Disable Detection" was selected). I think that would be a great tradeoff. No code hacking and no more deactivation of the Dispatcher or Syslog/Rsyslog daemon again. The latter is never an option since it would stop processing for a all devices as soon as applied.