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add a human readable summary column to `updated` changelogs #16428

Closed ITJamie closed 4 months ago

ITJamie commented 5 months ago

NetBox version

v4.0.3

Feature type

Data model extension

Proposed functionality

Addition of a read-only text field containing an autogenerated string of a high-level list of changes in that changelog. examples of summarys:

Use case

when looking at an object with a large list of updated changelogs it can take a while to track down the specific change you're looking for. Having a quick summary text field that had a human-readable list of high-level changes that happened in that update would be fantastic to limit the amount of individual changelogs you need to look at when trying to find a specific change event

This was flagged to me by a staff member who pointed out that the change-logs in our old system(racktables) had a summary view of what fields changed in a changelog event which made it easier to track down a specific change without looking through potentially hundreds of updated changelog entrys on an object

Database changes

a text field to store the "summary" if we choose to store the value rather than generate on the fly

External dependencies

N/A

jeffgdotorg commented 5 months ago

I'd like to understand the comparative use case a little better. Could you please link me to a place in the racktables demo where I can see the feature that inspired this FR? I spent a few minutes looking for it, but it's eluding me.

ITJamie commented 5 months ago

apologies. it turns out that the extra log items were a custom extension in racktables that a previous staff member had made rather than a native function of racktables. it is still quite a useful feature request to have a quick summary of the fileld names where the value changed on each change request.

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