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The VILLASweb frontend (website) for planning, controlling, monitoring and analysing distributed simulations.
https://fein-aachen.org/en/projects/villas-web/
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Add IC ID in IC selection of component config editor #437

Open iripiri opened 3 weeks ago

iripiri commented 3 weeks ago

When editing a component config, it can be hard to know which IC to select if there are several ICs with the same name (see screenshot). I propose to show the selectable ICs as "IC name [IC ID: ..]"

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stv0g commented 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I had the same issue.. But I dont know if we really want to burden the user with UUIDs? Maybe a more general problem is that those ICs have the name? But I dont have a good idea how we could avoid this.

What do you think about, just showing the UUID in the drop-down, in case the names are non-unique?

iripiri commented 3 weeks ago

I was thinking of the simple database IC IDs that you can also see in the Infrastructure Components table. I guess IC IDs as well as UUIDs are both only known to administrators? But the IC IDs at least tell you which one is older or newer