I'm finding myself a bit frustrated with the "Transfer Status" screen. At first I was thinking it was mainly the "AutoUpdate" setting, so I've been turning that off lately, and I'm sure it adds to the problem but isn't the whole thing.
Here are some of the problems I'd love to see fixed. If I change the "show X events" at the top right corner to let's say 75 nodes because that's the number I'm working on. If I don't remember to go turn off AutoUpdate it blows away this setting and brings me back to 50 items. It should keep the number of events I tell it to use persistent, preferably forever or at least throughout the session I'm working on.
If you need to keep resetting it to 50, it would be more useful if the order it sorted things on was different. Right now it puts the "Executing" stuff first, followed by the stuff on deck (Waiting?) and then at the end it puts the "Complete" and "Failed". I usually want to see the "Executing", "Failed" and "Complete" items first. Not the stuff that is on not being worked on yet...
So, now the first thing I do when I go into "Transfer Status" is check the "AutoUpdate" so it is not enabled. Then I go to the "Show X Events" and change it to what I want, and then hit submit. While my job is working I want to check out the stuff that failed or the stuff that completed way too quick. In this particular instance I'm loading IOS on to a number of devices, so it takes some time. What I have been doing is going to the bottom of the list, clicking on the box that shows my results, then sometimes going to the router and checking it out for myself to see if maybe I don't have enough flash or whatever. If I can solve the problem myself, by maybe deleting items off flash, or recording on a list if I verify that I can't upgrade it due to lack of flash - I then want to remove it from the list displayed in "Transfer Status", so I click on the checkbox by the item(s) and go to the top and hit the "Clear Selected". Twice in a row now after doing that, I all of a sudden see on under the "STATUS / DETAILS" for all the rest of the items that they're now "Cancelling" and if I hit refresh they're just gone pretty quick.
I'm not quite sure what is happening, I think maybe its the context sensitive menu at the top. If you don't have anything selected, the order is "Refresh, Clear All, Cancel All, Clear Complete, Clear Failed and AutoUpdate". If you do have something selected, the order is "Refresh, Clear Selected, Cancel Selected, Clear Complete, Clear Failed, and AutoUpdate". I'm thinking when I click on "Clear Selected" its very quickly changing to "Clear All" on me and cancelling all the rest of my jobs. If this is true, a simple fix would be to always have the order the same, but have the items that currently don't make sense greyed out and unselectable. I can't tell what is really happening, at first I thought I accidentally hit the wrong selection, but the second time around I was very careful, so I'm pretty sure something is wrong. Pretty sure I've cancelled everything too easily before, but I attributed it to the "AutoUpdate" - but I've been careful to turn that off before I do anything else...
Any way you look at it, I think this interface needs work somehow. It definitely isn't user friendly IMHO...
Anyone else feel the same as me?