Host/Service group right column view mode switcher not working correctly

[sukhwinder33445]

Describe the bug

Host/Service group right column view mode switcher not working correctly. If you change the view mode in the right column, this affects the left column.

To Reproduce

1. Host Groups.
2. Select a group.
3. Select a host.
4. Select a group in host detail view (right column).
5. Change the view mode of view mode switcher (right column).

[nilmerg]

this affects the left column

The left column is closed, for me. Is that what you mean?

[sukhwinder33445]

No. When you change the view mode in the right column for the first time, the view mode for the left column changes (this should not happen). And the right side still remain as it was before.

[nilmerg]

Nope. Left column closes and right column (then the only col) updates correctly. The left column shouldn't close of course, but the update is as of now working as intended. See #260 for that.

[sukhwinder33445]

@Yonas-net tested this and it works fine on his device. On my device it still doesn't work (maybe it takes too long to load 😆 ).

[nilmerg]

This is weird.

• If having a hostgroup detail open on the left without a view parameter, interacting with a viewmode switcher on the right updates the left column and the right is only updated after its autorefresh
• If having a hostgroup detail open on the left with a view parameter, doing the same interaction on the right closes the left column and renders the updated right column left

Here's definitely something wrong with what submitting the viewmode switcher will update.

[yhabteab]

That's exactly what I was going to write 😆 . This also applies to Hosts => Host services 😔 . Without the view param in /icingadb/hosts everything works as expected.

[yhabteab]

The left column shouldn't close of course,

I think this is actually intended, that when col1 and col2 do have the exact same url path, col1 is supposed to be shifted. See here.

[nilmerg]

This is weird.

This is fixed it seems with #331.

I think this is actually intended

It's not. It's a side-effect of an intended effect. The part you've linked is intended to cover the case that a configuration form is on the right and redirects back to list upon successful submit. Then the right column is indeed not required anymore and the "redirect" is loaded into the left column. But here it's not a configuration form. So this is a bug in Icinga Web 2.

[yhabteab]

The view mode switcher is also somehow a configuration form. And the left column closes only when the view mode is submitted, so I am not sure how to distinguish this from the others.

[nilmerg]

This will still happen in some situations as long as https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2/issues/4554 isn't fixed.