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These changes also lay the groundwork for further improvements and new features in the product. Now that we have given ourselves space in which to put these we feel we can make progress more quickly. 

User Experience

The goal with the user experience was to give a proper home for projects. We realised that the tiles on the home screen were the only place you could see a "project" summary - but that it didn't contain nearly enough information. So we have now introduced a project page that contains real summary information about your project and a place that you can center your workflow rather than going back to the front screen. 

New Look and Feel and Global Navigation

The first thing you will notice is the new look and feel - brighter, fresher, cleaner and more consistent use of highlighting colors. This is so much more 2018 than 2016 - such a long time ago. 

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The project tiles exist, in a cleaner layout, with easier filtering, and the project title is the link to take you to the new project screen. 

Throughout the interface you will see a number of consistent user interface elements and coloring: 

  •  Text like this and items in this colour are links to other pages and are used for navigation - clicking on one of these will take you to a new screen or page 
  •  Orange is used as a highlight colour consistently to grab your attention 

Editing Things 

 if you have changes to save then you will see this button - clearly identified in yellow - and yes we moved the location of  the Save Edits button on the Connection Information window!

 if you see this button you know that you have no more changes to make 

Global Navigation 

We are not saying that the navigation wasn't perfect in the old interface but it was easy to find yourself in a perpetual loop going back through the home screen. 

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  • The Help menu allows you to access the help center, documentation, version information as well as Legal information about using the Kitewheel Hub.

Project Page 

There is a new Project Page is now the main page for dealing with all components of a project. 

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For more information on the new Project Page see the new documentation.

Metrics

Metrics are now directly linked to the Node instead of being viewed in the right hand panel. Nodes with associated metrics will have a graph icon  on them. Upon clicking the icon you will be able to see the details of the metrics

Data Schema

The data schema has two usability enhancements.

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  • The Data Schema is now half the width of the page so there is addition additional screen real estate to view and modify the Schema

Admin Pages

The Admin pages features three important updates.

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  • [KIT-1176] - Remove Hardcoded Templates from the codebase
  • [KIT-1366] - Add doNoTrack options to Hub API Listener display
  • [KIT-1367] - Upgrade to Icon Library
  • [KIT-1395] - Create Database Connector Transaction Isolation Level Option
  • Password flow 

Bugs

The user interface redesign has closed a lot of small user interface bugs and user experiences as well as the following bugs: 

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