In several places in Orion products there are lists of items that could benefit from search boxes to make administration/user interaction easier than scrolling through large lists/clicking through "next" pages/or selecting an element to configure.
An example of where this is implemented "well" is the Admin -> Settings -> SAM Settings -> "Manage Application Monitor Templates" page. The list of template items could become quite large, so there is a search box to narrow the results before selecting a template.
Another example is the Admin -> Node Management -> Manage Nodes page. There are typically many nodes to manage, so searching on partial names of a node to quickly get a short list is great.
Examples of where this same idea of could be beneficial are:
- Many of the web console resources, specifically the "Active Alerts", "All Nodes", "All groups" resources really but anything where more than 50? list items could be present woudl qualify. There IS a seperate view/resource? for filtering on alerts but it would be nice to have it in the resource itself as the list of items can go off the page and it woudl take a few more clicks to get to the proper place to perform the alert search. Most people just slowly look at all the alerts to find the ones they want in these cases. For the "All Nodes" + "All Groups" views (for example) it would be nice to search on text and have groups and nodes in the groups that match get filtered.
- The Advanced Alert Manager (both the web console and the server tool), for creating alerts. The list of alerts can be large...and is sorted, but a search feature would be nice
I know a lot of these issues could be solved by restricting the user views to just the items they care about, shortening the lists of issues, but for some users (Help Desk/NOC/Administrators/Management) they need to see "everything" which tends to ...show a lot of stuff which generates a lot of clicks and/or manual user searching.
