Bulls Eye: Projector Mode shows avatars

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Repository for the Cohesion Catalyst project that aims to visualize multicollectivity with the help of Meteor and D3.

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Bulls Eye: Projector Mode shows avatars #14

Open hschirmacher opened 4 years ago

hschirmacher commented 4 years ago

On the admin page for the BullsEye screen, you can switch between "Table Mode" and "Projector Mode".

The difference is that in Table Mode six clients (tablets) are assumed and the six user avatars are shown in static locations on the Bulls Eye screen - the idea being that the location on the screen matches the location in the Cohesion Table. This is so that users can see who is who (physical person at the table vs. username). Technically this is achieved by matching IP addresses (tablets have known IP addresses).

In Projector mode we assume that we do not use the Cohesion Table, but show the Bulls Eye view on a projector. Here showing the avatars does not make any sense, so they should be hidden.

1) initially, none of the two modes was checked. Should be "Table Mode". 2) Switching between the modes did not work very consistently, especially the avatars were shown all the time.

chmac commented 4 years ago

Hmm, inconsistent issues are the hardest to track down. I can try to reproduce this locally, but if it's inconsistent, then it may be a timing issue, and hard to find.

@hschirmacher Can you reproduce it consistently or inconsistently with a series of repeatable steps?

hschirmacher commented 4 years ago

@chmac we consistently could not make the avatars disappear when we tested in the Container.

chmac commented 4 years ago

@hschirmacher I think this means we can close this issue oder?

hschirmacher commented 4 years ago

@chmac No this should be fixed and it should be easy to reproduce. I do not have a running system in front of me, but from the top of my head you need to:

open the bull's eye client on one client machine (:3000/bullseye)
open two regular clients and log in two users
create 10 IDs
as one user, pick all the IDs of the other user, so that both users share all IDs
once there are enough shared IDs, the bull's eye view should switch from logo display to ID bubble display. Around the big circle you should see the names of all logged in users
open an admin client, go to bull's eye management, select "projector mode"
now the bull's eye should hide the user names

chmac commented 4 years ago

@hschirmacher OK, then I got it backwards. I'll look into it.

chmac commented 4 years ago

I had a look into this, but I wasn't able to reproduce locally. There's a bit of fiddly setup to get the bvullseye view to run. I also couldn't see any change between the projector or cohesion table view. I couldn't find any docs on how to see the bullseye view, etc.

Bottom line, I think this will be some effort to figure out / track down / reproduce. I don't immediately see how the admin app data is linked to the app template. So I'm not sure how / why those settings are not being picked up, etc, etc.

I guess this is outside the scope for our first phase. If it's a crucial issue then maybe we can discuss by phone. It might be easier to understand it that way.