[Belle II] User Feedback Survey

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Describe your overall experience with the current DIRAC web application.

Usage:

• DIRAC admins:
  • Accounting/Monitoring
  • ConfigurationManager
  • SystemAdministration
  • Job Monitor
  • Pilot Monitor
  • Proxy Manager
  • Resource Summary
  • Site Summary
  • Transformation Monitor
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• Operation experts:
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• Shifters:
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  • BelleWebDIRAC extension
• Users:
  • JobMonitor
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  • BelleWebDIRAC extension

Likes:

• Intuitive interface friendly for beginners
• Common look and feel between vanilla and extension
• Customizable menu structure
• Flexible accounting plot
• Pie chart
• Easy to manage not only jobs but also configuration via WebApp.
• Possibility to show different menus depending on the user group

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Dislikes:

• Slowness:
  • Taking long time to reload the page when multiple tabs are open, i.e. when the URL contains multiple WebApps
  • Long waiting time when selector is loading many candidates from DB
  • After selecting Reports: Accounting and Category: Job on the Accounting WebApp, it takes long time for the "Selection Conditions" to be ready
• Inconvenience:
  • Inconvenience for mass operation (e.g. kill 20K jobs of specific user)
  • Selection conditions etc. do not appear in URL, difficult to share the same view with other colleagues for investigation, and selection lost with reload (or restart of the browser)
• Not intuitive personalization (for one of the colleagues)
• Lost "Not" check button in the selection box
• Big cost to learn development
• Uneasy debugging when something is wrong
• Sorting with some column on WebApp only effective for the page, not for all the contents.
• Searching contents via browser on configuration manager only search from showing part on browser, not whole contents

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Are there any features or functionalities you wish were included in the current web application?

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How do you feel about the current user interface and design? What changes, if any, would you suggest?

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Have you ever used the DIRAC web application on mobile devices? Would a mobile-friendly version be beneficial for you?

• No. (for some of the colleagues)
• Yes. (for one of the colleagues)

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Are you using a DIRAC web application extension? What do you have in it?

Yes.

• Dataset searcher (house-made dataset catalog)
• DIRAC account searcher
• Production status
• Monitoring dashboard
  • Automatic issue detector results
  • Pilot status (total/each site) -- collection of plots from BelleDIRAC Pilot Status
  • Job status (total/each site) -- collection of plots from Accounting
  • User job status -- ??
  • Production status
• CE test summary
• SE test summary
• DB check summary

Is there anything else you would like to share or suggest as we work on the diracx-web application?

No response