Arrange device classes by plugin

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When you have a lot of plugins, the device classes’ list gets big. It would be nice to have two dropdown lists instead of only one, the first to select the plugin and the second to select the class.

This is not a very important request or feature, but it would make the UI a little nicer.

sounds reasonable to me!
but there should be a “select all” option to have a complete overview of what is possible.

It does not seem to be possible to have a cascaded options menu out-of-the-box with jQM (there may be extensions for this though). A relatively simple approach to providing better oversight may be to use the “optgroup” element to group the provided device classes by plugins.

https://jsfiddle.net/WittigMarcus/2do44wzd/

@mwittig
that’s a very good approach!!
better than nothing

@mwittig That would also do it well! But my initial ideia was not a cascading menu, but two separated dropdown lists.

I mean, one dropdown list lists the plugins, and when a plugin is selected, the second one is displayed next to it, populated with only devices from that plugin.

@abmantis that is a cascading dropdown menu

@Anduril Not really.

This is a cascading menu: https://i-msdn.sec.s-msft.com/dynimg/IC420403.png
This is two dropdown lists: https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/MSDNBlogsFS/prod.evol.blogs.msdn.com/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00/00/81/79/46/cascadingDropdownsStateCity.png

ok, you’re right. But I still prefer @mwittig’s method. This way you can have all classes in one view and have it sorted by plugins. So for instance if your thinking about using DummyPresence or RFPresence, it’s only one click apart and you can have a look at both to see the options.

@Anduril I like both solutions, so I’m happy with any of the implementations.