Quick Submit!

[martinch]

Hey guys,

Is there any desire for a Quick Submit button on some of those long pages that we have to make regular changes to? I thought it might be a nice feature for me personally;

Floating Quick Submit button on Campaign Detailed Settings;



Proposal;

- New System Settings options;
- "Quick Submit Active" ENUM("Y", "N").
- "Quick Submit Button Colour (Hex Colour).
- "Quick Submit Button Position (Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right, Middle Left, Middle Right).

- Pages covered;
- Campaigns - Detailed page.
- User Settings page.
- Ingroup Settings page.
- Phones page.
- System Settings page.

I've developed the feature so will submit on Mantis shortly for consideration. Thanks guys. Martin.

[mflorell]

Looks cool, thanks for contributing!

[martinch]

Thanks Matt.

Feature code submitted http://www.vicidial.org/VICIDIALmantis/view.php?id=1454

Code: Select all

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Quick Submit on Admin Panel.
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Ticket Type: Add Feature.
Reporter: Martin McCarthy (martinch).
Impacted Users: ViCiDial Administrators who like to make frequent changes to ViCiDial cluster settings.
Priority: Low.
Product(s) Affected: ViCiDial.
Deadline: No firm deadline in place.
Time / Effort Estimate: 1 hour of development / 1 hour of QA testing.

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Description
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ViCiDial administrators that regularly make changes to ViCiDial have to scroll through lots of options to submit maybe one or two changes. My idea is to introduced a sticky Submit button on some of the longer pages to allow for quick submission of forms to save a bit of time.

Tasks;

- Implement a function in functions.php to render the Quick Submit button.
- Added the function call to the follow long list pages;
    - system settings.
    - campaign detailed view.
    - modify users page.
    - modify in-group settings page.
    - modify phones page.

If you have any queries, please reach out to me.

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Supported options;

- Toggle switch to turn button on and off.
- Option to change the button position (top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right).
- Option to change button color using a hex value.

Example of button on bottom left of the system settings page in green.

[martinch]

So Chris left a message on the Mantis board regarding this ticket and he made a very pertinent point which I vibe with completely 100%! So I mean, this feature is kinda like "meh" and I respect that but it's based on real world example that I have faced...I have dialler managers that tend to make little changes throughout the day to their campaigns, tiny little tweaks, maybe dial level or whathaveyou...and this kinda came to mind. However, Chris has suggested an even easier and fast way to commit these settings! He said just use the Return key / Enter key. It's as simple as that! So if a admin changes the dial level from 1.0 to 2.0 they hit the Enter key and boom, the setting submitted. He said that this is OOTB functionality...but I personally haven't tested that...but I will test it and if that is the case, I will just pass that on and this feature can be shelved. if it doesn't work like that, it would be a formality to add an event handler to respond to that keypress. Either way, it's just nice and quick to submit changes very quickly on long pages. Cheers again Chris

[carpenox]

No sweat bro I love all your ideas I just saw this one as just an over sight to an existing feature just done another way

[mflorell]

One issue with the Return/Enter key is if the person has highlighted a select list. The browser behavior is to select the current highlighted item in the list when Enter/Return is pressed. Adding a capture behavior on that key may change the expected behavior depending on the browser that is used.

[carpenox]

Good catch, I didn't take that into consideration

[martinch]

Cheers fellas, so the Enter/Return key event handler does submit the form on text inputs which is great...doesn't work on select inputs but you know what, I think my dialler managers are going to be okay with that I think as half the inputs are text but yeah Matt, I agree, maybe I'm over-egging the pudding a bit here but yeah. Not every idea that comes to my mind is a good one that's for sure and this piece is proof of that