Two new UI features

March 2 2009, 9:04pm

Today we released an update to the Dash UI with two major features.

The Administrator Role

In previous incarnations of the UI, there were only two user levels; Application owners and members. In this update, we add a new user level, administrators.

We’re not crazy about complex roles and rights systems, so we’ve kept things simple. Administrators have all the rights of an Owner except the ability to delete the application or remove the owner from the application. They have access to the rest of the application’s configuration, including the setup details and sharing functions. These are people you trust… a lot. Hopefully this will make life a little easier for teams sharing applications.

There are a lot of report sharing-related features planned for the near future. Stay tuned.

Goodbye Metric Browser, Hello Metric Search

In the past, we had an odd metric browsing widget used when adding metrics to sparkline boxes and modifying line graphs, broken down by application and recipe. It was definitely useful, but the design made finding specific metrics difficult (especially if you have a large set like we do), and it presented certain challenges to nice features we have planned down the road.

So, today we’ve scuttled the metric browser in favor of a simple search function (by metric or recipe, in a single app or across all). We’ll continue to build out the search function and work towards making reports easier to build and administer.

Opening the doors a bit

The recent article on RubyInside has given us a nice, fresh set of beta invitation requests. We’ll be contacting you shortly!