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AdvisorI would love to know what else is coming. I am still finding the process of keeping my customizations overly cumbersome. The settings to preserve certain parts of the module while accepting other parts of the update just aren't working for me. I've literally had to copy the JSON of the scripts in the comparison view, run them through something outside LM to get rid of the JSON formatting and escape characters, and go back to the edit screen to paste the updates to the scripts that I want. The current workflow still wants to get rid of any datapoints I've added and reset all the other toggles back to default (collection intervals for example).
If on the comparison screen I could scroll through and click an accept button for each section of changes I want, and by default keep the things that already exist, that would be so much better. Obviously I don't need to be able to accept each and every chunk of new whitespace in a script, I mean more so like to approve the whole new script instead of keeping the whole old script or not approving the removal of the datapoints I added etc.
Yep, i have to do the same thing. Luckily we have a sandbox portal so i bring the updates into there and put the two windows side by side so i can copy/paste from one to the other. We particularly have problems when we have discovery settings like auto-deletion that cannot be preserved.
AdvisorThat's a good thought, I keep forgetting about the sandbox. Though, I'm sure you'd agree, it should just be easier to do without all that extra faff
Yes, it should totally be easier. It was easier before when I used the undocumented api endpoint to pull down the data, used python to parse through and decode everything, then generate an HTML page that showed the current on the left, new on the right, with the diff actually showing the differences. They turned off access before I had a chance to do the next thing i wanted: put left/right toggles for each block between the left and right sides allowing me to pick which one i wanted to keep and output the final json (pretty much what your suggestion was). Hopefully they'll enable preservation for all fields and start showing the actual forms on the left and right instead of dumping raw json into a diff view.
Product ManagerAdding preservation options is a bit trickier than it might look.
We tried to go all out with SLM but it was too ambitious and didn't work properly (letting people preserve and/or edit pretty much everything).
We are looking to add preservation for Datapoints, possibly next quarter. I'd like to do scripts as well, but that will probably need to wait for the full "form based diff" experience, which would be next year at the earliest.
We're also looking to finally expose tag-editing to users, as well as a CSV export option for search results in Toolbox and Exchange.