Summary:
Depends on D20652. Ref T4900. When the user presses "R", send a list of cards currently visible on the client and their version numbers.
On the server:
- Compare the client verisons to the server versions so we can skip updates for objects which have not changed. (For now, the client version is always "1" and the server version is always "2", so this doesn't do anything meaningful, and every card is always updated.)
- Compare the client visible set to the server visible set and "remove" any cards which have been removed from the board.
I believe this means that "R" always puts the board into the right state (except for some issues with client orderings not being fully handled yet). It's not tremendously efficient, but we can make versioning better (using the largest object transaction ID) to improve that and loading the page in the first place doesn't take all that long so even sending down the full visible set shouldn't be a huge problem.
Test Plan:
- In window A, removed a card from a board.
- In window B, pressed "R" and saw the removal reflected on the client.
- (Also added cards, edited cards, etc., and didn't catch anything exploding.)
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T4900
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20653
Summary:
Depends on D20639. Ref T4900. Currently, "BoardResponseEngine" has a `setObjectPHID()` method. This is called after edit operations to mean "we just edited object X, so we know it needs to be updated".
Move toward `setUpdatePHIDs(...)` in all cases, with `setUpdatePHIDs(array(the-object-we-just-edited))` as a special case of that. After this change, callers pass:
- An optional list of PHIDs they know need to be updated on the client. Today, this is always be a card we just edited (on edit/move flows), or a sort of made-up list of PHIDs for the moment (when you press "R"). In the future, the "R" endpoint will do a better job of figuring out a more realistic update set.
- An optional list of PHIDs currently visible on the client. This is used to update ordering details and mark cards for removal. This is currently passed by edit/move, but not by pressing "R" (it will be in the future).
- An optional list of objects. The "R" workflow has to load these anyway, so we can save a couple queries by letting callers pass them. For now, the edit/move flows still rely on the engine to figure out what it needs to load.
This does very little to actually change client behavior, it mostly just paves the way for the next update to the "R" workflow to make it handle add/remove cases properly.
Test Plan:
- Edited and moved cards on a workboard.
- Pressed "R" to reload a workboard.
Neither of these operations seem any worse off than they were before. They still don't fully work:
- When you edit a card and delete the current workboard project from it, it remains visible. This is also the behavior on `master`. This is sort of intentional since we don't necessarily want to make these cards suddenly disappear? Ideally, we would probably have some kind of "tombstone" state where the card can still be edited but can't be dragged, and the next explicit user interaction would clean up old tombstones. This interaction is very rare and I don't think it's particularly important to specialize.
- When a card is removed from the board, "R" can't currently figure out that it should be removed from the client. This is because the client does not yet pass a "visiblePHIDs" state. It will in an upcoming change.
- The "R" flow always sends a full set of card updates, and can not yet detect that some cards have not changed.
- There's a TODO, but some ordering stuff isn't handled yet.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T4900
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20652
Summary:
Depends on D20638. Ref T4900. This is an incremental step toward proper workboard updates.
Currently, the client can mostly update its view because we do updates when you edit or move a card, and the client and server know how to send lists of card updates, so a lot of the work is already done.
However, the code assumes we're only updating/redrawing one card at a time. Make the client accept and process multiple card updates.
In future changes, I'll add versioning (so we only update cards that have actually changed), fix the "TODO" around ordering, and move toward actual Aphlict-based real-time updates.
Test Plan:
- Opened the same workboard in two windows.
- Edited cards in one window, pressed "R" (capital letter, with no modifier keys) to reload the second window.
- Saw edits and moves reflected accurately after sync, except for some special cases of header/order interaction (see "TODO").
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T4900
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20639
Summary: Depends on D20637. Ref T4900. This is some ancient dead code that nothing uses.
Test Plan: Grepped for `updateCard()` to verify it's private. Searched for "options" and "dirtyColumn" and got no hits.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T4900
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20638
Summary:
Depends on D20321. Fixes T12175. Ref T13074. Now that before/after PHIDs are suggestions, we can give the server a more complete view of what the client is trying to do so we're more likely to get a good outcome if the client view is out of date.
Instead of passing only the one directly adjacent card PHID, pass all the card PHIDs that the client thinks are in the same group.
(For gigantic columns with tens of thousands of tasks this might need some tweaking -- like, slice both lists down to 10 items -- but we can cross that bridge when we come to it.)
Test Plan:
- Dragged some cards around to top/bottom/middle positions, saw good positioning in all cases.
- In two windows, dragged stuff around on the same board. At least at first glance, conflicting simultaneous edits seemed to do reasonable things.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T13074, T12175
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20322
Summary:
Depends on D20320. Ref T12175. Ref T13074. Currently, when you move a card between columns, the internal transaction takes exactly one `afterPHID` or `beforePHID` and moves the card before or after the specified card.
This is a fairly strict interpretation and causes a number of practical issues, mostly because the user/client view of the board may be out of date and the card they're dragging before or after may no longer exist: another user might have moved or hidden it between the last client update and the current time.
In T13074, we also run into a more subtle issue where a card that incorrectly appears in multiple columns fatals when dropped before or after itself.
In all cases, a better behavior is just to complete the move and accept that the position may not end up exactly like the user specified. We could prompt the user instead:
> You tried to drop this card after card X, but that card has moved since you last loaded the board. Reload the board and try again.
...but this is pretty hostile and probably rarely/never what the user wants.
Instead, accept a list of before/after PHIDs and just try them until we find one that works, or accept a default position if none work. In essentially all cases, this means that the move "just works" like users expect it to instead of fataling in a confusing/disruptive/undesirable (but "technically correct") way.
(A followup will make the client JS send more beforePHIDs/afterPHIDs so this works more often.)
We could eventually add a "strict" mode in the API or something if there's some bot/API use case for precise behavior here, but I suspect none exist today or are (ever?) likely to exist in the future.
Test Plan:
- (T13074) Inserted two conflicting rows to put a card on two columns on the same board. Dropped one version of it underneath the other version. Before: confusing fatal. After: cards merge sensibly into one consistent card.
- (T12175) Opened two views of a board. Moved card A to a different column on the first view. On the second view, dropped card B under card A (still showing in the old column). Before: confusing fatal. After: card ended up in the right column in approximately the right place, very reasonably.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T13074, T12175
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20321
Summary:
Depends on D20308. Ref T5474. The element which previews what will happen when you drop a task somewhere can cover the bottom part of the rightmost column on a workboard.
To fix this, I'm trying to just fade it out if you put your cursor over it. I tried to do this in a simple way previously (":hover" + "opacity: 0.25") but it doesn't actually work because "pointer-events: none" stops ":hover" from working.
Instead, do this in Javascript. This is a little more complicated but: it works; and we can do the fade when you get //near// the element instead of actually over it, which feels a little better.
Test Plan:
- Shrank window to fairly small size so that the preview could cover up stuff on the workboard.
- Dragged a card toward the rightmost column.
- Before: drop action preview covered some workboard stuff.
- After: preview faded out as my cursor approached.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T5474
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20320
Summary:
Ref T5474. Allow columns to play a sound when tasks are dropped.
This is a little tricky because Safari has changed somewhat recently to require some gymnastics to play sounds when the user didn't explicitly click something. Preloading the sound on the first mouse interaction, then playing and immediately pausing it seems to work, though.
Test Plan: Added a trigger with 5 sounds. In Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, dropped a card into the column. In all browsers, heard a nice sequence of 5 sounds played one after the other.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T5474
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20306
Summary:
Ref T13074. If you hit a prompt on a drop operation (today: MFA; in the future, maybe "add a comment" or "assign this task"), we currently leave the board in a bad semi-frozen state if you cancel the workflow by pressing "Cancel" on the dialog.
Instead, put things back the way they were.
Test Plan: Dragged an MFA-required card, cancelled the MFA prompt, got a functional board instead of a semi-frozen board I needed to reload.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T13074
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20305
Summary:
Ref T5474. The first rough cut of triggers showed some of the trigger rules in a tooltip when you hover over the "add/remove" trigger menu.
This isn't great since we don't have much room and it's a bit finnicky / hard to read.
Since we have a better way to show effects now in the drop preview, just use that instead. When you hover over the trigger menu, preview the trigger in the "drop effect" element, with a "Trigger: such-and-such" header.
Test Plan:
- This is pretty tough to screenshot.
- Hovered over menu, got a sensible preview of the trigger effects.
- Dragged a card over the menu, no preview.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T5474
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20304
Summary:
Ref T10335. When you (for example) drag a "Resolved" task into a column with "Trigger: change status to resolved.", don't show a hint that the action will "Change status to resolved." since this isn't helpful and is somewhat confusing.
For now, the only visibility operator is "!=" since all current actions are simple field comparisons, but some actions in the future (like "add subscriber" or "remove project") might need other conditions.
Test Plan:
Dragged cards in ways that previously provided useless hints: move from column A to column B on a "Group by Priority" board; drag a resolved task to a "Trigger: change status to as resolved" column. Saw a more accurate preview in both cases.
Drags which actually cause effects still show the effects correctly.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T10335
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20300
Summary:
Ref T10335. Ref T5474. When you drag-and-drop a card on a workboard, show a UI hint which lists all the things that the operation will do.
This shows: column moves; changes because of dragging a card to a different header; and changes which will be caused by triggers.
Not implemented here:
- Actions are currently shown even if they have no effect. For example, if you drag a "Normal" task to a different column, it says "Change priority to Normal.". I plan to hide actions which have no effect, but figuring this out is a little bit tricky.
- I'd like to make "trigger effects" vs "non-trigger effects" a little more clear in the future, probably.
Test Plan:
Dragged stuff between columns and headers, and into columns with triggers. Got appropriate preview text hints previewing what the action would do in the UI.
(This is tricky to take a screenshot of since it only shows up while the mouse cursor is down.)
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T10335, T5474
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20299
Summary:
Depends on D20274. Ref T10578. This is en route to an ordering by points, it's just a simpler half-step on the way there.
Allow columns to be sorted by creation date, so the newest tasks rise to the top.
In this ordering you can never reposition cards, since editing a creation date by dragging makes no sense. This will be true of the "points" ordering too (although we could imagine doing something like prompting the user, some day).
Test Plan: Viewed boards by "natural" (allows reordering both when dragging within and between columns), "priority" (reorder only within columns), and "creation date" (reorder never). Dragged cards around between and within columns, got apparently sensible behavior.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T10578
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20275
Summary:
Depends on D20273. Fixes T10722. Currently, we don't make it very clear when a card can't be edited. Long ago, some code made a weak attempt to do this (by hiding the "grip" on the card), but later UI changes hid the "grip" unconditionally so that mooted things.
Instead:
- Replace the edit pencil with a red lock.
- Provide cursor hints for grabbable / not grabbable.
- Don't let users pick up cards they can't edit.
Test Plan: On a workboard with a mixture of editable and not-editable cards, hovered over the different cards and was able to figure out which ones I could drag or not drag pretty easily. Picked up cards I could pick up, wasn't able to drag cards I can't edit.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T10722
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20274
Summary:
Depends on D20267. Depends on D20268. Ref T10333. Currently, we support "Natural" and "Priority" orders, but a lot of the particulars are pretty hard-coded, including some logic in `ManiphestTask`.
Although it's not clear that we'll ever put other types of objects on workboards, it seems generally bad that you need to modify `ManiphestTask` to get a new ordering.
Pull the ordering logic out into a `ProjectColumnOrder` hierarchy instead, and let each ordering define the things it needs to work (name, icon, what headers look like, how different objects are sorted, and how to apply an edit when you drop an object under a header).
Then move the existing "Natural" and "Priority" orders into this new hierarchy.
This has a minor bug where using the "Edit" workflow to change a card's priority on a priority-ordered board doesn't fully refresh card/header order since the response isn't ordering-aware. I'll fix that in an upcoming change.
Test Plan: Grouped workboards by "Natural" and "Priority", dragged stuff around within and between columns, grepped for all touched symbols.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T10333
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20269
Summary:
Depends on D20266. Boards currently have several `whateverMap<cardPHID => stuff>` properties, but we can just move these all down into a `CardTemplate`, similar to the recently introduced `HeaderTemplate`.
The `CardTemplate` holds all the global information for a card, and then `Card` is specific for a particular copy in a column. Today, each `CardTemplate` has one `Card`, but a `CardTemplate` may have more than one card in the future (when we add subproject columns).
Test Plan: Viewed workboards in different sort orders and dragged stuff around, grepped for all affected symbols.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20267
Summary:
Depends on D20263. Ref T10333. I want to add groups like "Assignee" to workboards. This means you may have several tasks grouped under, say, "Alice".
When you drag the bottom-most task under "Alice" to the top, what does that mean?
Today, the only grouping is "Priority", and it means "change the task's secret/hidden global subpriority". However, this seems to generally be a somewhat-bad answer, and is quite complex. It also doesn't make much sense for an author grouping, since one task can't really be "more assigned" to Alice than another task.
Users likely intend this operation to mean "move it, visually, with no other effects" -- that is, user intent is to shuffle sticky notes around on a board, not edit anything substantive. The meaning is probably something like "this is similar to other nearby tasks" or "maybe this is a good place to start", which we can't really capture with any top-level attribute.
We could extend "subpriority" and give tasks a secret/hidden "sub-assignment strength" and so on, but this seems like a bad road to walk down. We'll also run into trouble later when subproject columns may appear on the board, and a user could want to put a task in different positions on different subprojects, conceivably.
In the "Natural" order view, we already have what is probably a generally better approach for this: a task display order particular to the column, that just remembers where you put the sticky notes.
Move away from "subpriority", and toward a world where we mostly keep sticky notes where you stuck them and move them around only when we have to. With no grouping, we still sort by "natural" order, as before. With priority grouping, we now sort by `<priority, natural>`. When you drag stuff around inside a priority group, we update the natural order.
This means that moving cards around on a "priority" board will also move them around on a "natural" board, at least somewhat. I think this is okay. If it's not intuitive, we could give every ordering its own separate "natural" view, so we remember where you stuck stuff on the "priority" board but that doesn't affect the "Natural" board. But I suspect we won't need to.
Test Plan:
- Viewed and dragged a natural board.
- Viewed and dragged a priority board.
- Dragged within and between groups of 0, 1, and multiple items.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T10333
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20265
Summary:
Ref T10333. Ref T8135. Depends on D20247. Allow users to drag-and-drop cards on a priority-sorted workboard under headers, even if the header has no other cards.
As of D20247, headers show up but they aren't really interactive. Now, you can drag cards directly underneath a header (instead of only between other cards). For example, if a column has only one "Wishlist" task, you may drag it under the "High", "Normal", or "Low" priority headers to select a specific priority.
(Some of this code still feels a little rough, but I think it will generalize once other types of sorting are available.)
Test Plan: Dragged cards within and between priority groups, saw appropriate priority edits applied in every case I could come up with.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T10333, T8135
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20248
Summary:
Ref T10333. When workboards are ordered (for example, by priority), add headers to the various groups. Major goals are:
- Allow users to drag-and-drop to set values that no cards currently have: for example, you can change a card priority to "normal" by dragging it under the "normal" header, even if no other cards in the column are currently "Normal".
- Make future orderings more useful, particularly "order by assignee". We don't really have room to put the username on every card and it would create a fair amount of clutter, but we can put usernames in these headers and then reference them with just the profile picture. This also allows you to assign to users who are not currently assigned anything in a given column.
- Make the drag-and-drop behavior more obvious by showing what it will do more clearly (see T8135).
- Make things a little easier to scan in general: because space on cards is limited, some information isn't conveyed very clearly (for example, priority information is currently conveyed //only// through color, which can be hard to pick out visually and is probably not functional for users who need vision accommodations).
- Maybe do "swimlanes": this is pretty much a "swimlanes" UI if we add whitespace at the bottom of each group so that the headers line up across all the columns (e.g., "Normal" is at the same y-axis position in every column as you scroll down the page). Not sold on this being useful, but it's just a UI adjustment if we do want to try it.
NOTE: This only makes these headers work for display.
They aren't yet recognized as targets by the drag list UI, so you can't drag cards into an empty group. I'll tackle that in a followup.
Test Plan: {F6257686}
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T10333
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20247
Summary:
Ref T10334. Partly, this just improves visual feedback for all drag operations. After D20242, we can have cases where you (for example) drag a low-priority node to a very tall column on a priority-ordered workboard. In this case, the actual dashed-border-drop-target may not be on screen.
We might make the column scroll or put some kind of hint in the UI in this case, but an easy starting point is just to make the "yes, you're targeting this column" state a bit more clear.
Test Plan: Dragged tasks between columns, saw the border higlight on the target columns. This is very tricky to take a screenshot of.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T10334
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20245
Summary:
Ref T10334. When a workboard is ordered by priority, dragging from column "A" to a particular place in column "B" currently means "move this task to column B, and adjust its priority so that it naturally sorts into the location under my mouse cursor".
Users frequently find this confusing / undesirable.
To begin improving this, make "drag from column A to column B" and "drag from somewhere in column A to somewhere else in column A" into different operations. The first operation, a movement between columns, no longer implies an ordering change. The second action still does.
So if you actually want to change the priority of a task, you drag it within its current column. If you just want to move it to a different column, you drag it between columns.
This creates some possible problems:
- Some users may love the current behavior and just not be very vocal about it. I doubt it, but presumably we'll hear from them if we break it.
- If you actualy want to move + reorder, it's a bit more cumbersome now. We could possibly add something like "shift + drag" for this if there's feedback.
- The new behavior is probably less surprising, but may not be much more obvious. Future changes (for example, in T10335) should help make it more clear.
- When you mouse cursor goes over column B, the card dashed-rectangle preview target thing jumps to the correct position in the column -- but that may not be under your mouse cursor. This feels pretty much fine if the whole column fits on screen. It may not be so great if the column does not fit on screen and the dashed-rectangle-thing has vanished. This is just a UI feedback issue and we could refine this later (scroll/highlight the column).
Test Plan:
- Created several tasks at different priority levels, sorted a board by priority, dragged tasks between columns. Dragging from "A" to "B" no longer causes a priority edit.
- Also, dragged within a column. This still performs priority edits.
Reviewers: amckinley
Reviewed By: amckinley
Maniphest Tasks: T10334
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D20242
Summary:
Fixes T12152. When creating a subproject task directly from a parent project, we can get column information back about the subproject column, which isn't visible. Just ignore this rather than trying to draw a card into a column which does not exist.
This flow (see test plan) is a little unintuitive since the card never appears on the workboard, but this class of things is probably roughly somewhere in T4900.
Test Plan:
- Create a parent project A.
- Create subproject B.
- On the workboard for A, select "Create Task..." from the dropdown.
- Add tag "B" in the dialog that pops up.
- Save the task.
Note that this flow creates a task tagged only with "B", since "A" and "B" are mutually exclusive tags.
Before patch: UI freezes (JX.Mask is never removed), JS error in console.
After patch: workflow completes. Note that card is (correctly) not visible: it's in an invisible subproject column.
Reviewers: chad
Reviewed By: chad
Maniphest Tasks: T12152
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D17242
Summary:
Fixes T11468. I was able to find //a// reproduction case for the issue, at least, described in my comments there.
When the server sends back position information for columns we aren't displaying, for whatever reason, just ignore that information.
Future work in T4900 to do more synchronization may revisit this.
Test Plan: See T11468#190177 for steps. Did that stuff with this patch, got a clean edit.
Reviewers: chad
Reviewed By: chad
Maniphest Tasks: T11468
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D16397
Summary: Ref T4427.
Test Plan:
- Dragged a 17 XP task from "Hunting" to "Slain".
- Saw 17 XP move.
- Level up!
Reviewers: chad
Reviewed By: chad
Maniphest Tasks: T4427
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D15237
Summary:
Ref T4900. Briefly:
- Much more layout and rendering is now done in Javascript.
- This should otherwise be identical to the behavior at HEAD, except that:
- editing a task and removing the current board from it no longer removes the task; and
- points still don't work.
However, this can now plausibly support realtime workboard updates and other complex state-based behaviors like points calculations in a future change.
Test Plan:
- Changed card covers.
- Moved cards.
- Sorted board by priority and natural.
- Added new cards.
- Edited cards in place.
Reviewers: chad
Reviewed By: chad
Maniphest Tasks: T4900
Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D15234
