[jira] [Created] (SOLR-8209) Admin UI documents tab improvements

["Upayavira (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Upayavira created SOLR-8209:
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             Summary: Admin UI documents tab improvements
                 Key: SOLR-8209
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8209
             Project: Solr
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: web gui
    Affects Versions: 5.3
            Reporter: Upayavira
            Assignee: Upayavira


A newbie, when clicking on the 'documents' tab might expect to, well, see documents. Instead, they see a UI that very low level allows them to post JSON/XML to add documents, etc. This presumes knowledge of Solr APIs in order to make good use of it, which goes against the intention of the UI - to make it easier for people.

In its place, I propose to show a data-grid. This grid will contain maybe the first 100 documents in the index. It could have infinite scroll (to a certain point) to show further documents. It will have "filter" options alongside the field headings, allowing the filtering of fields (exact term match filtering, or wildcarded). 

The left-most column will contain pencils. Clicking on this will bring up a form that allows a user to edit the document (We could be clever hear - if the index contains indexed fields that have content, we could warn people that content from those fields would be lost if documents containing those fields is re-indexed).

At the top is a button which, when clicked, brings up a form that allows us to insert a new document. This will be a tabular view - the left column is field names (a dropdown) and the right a free text box for content.

We could add an advanced button that brings up a q= box, allowing you to enter arbitrary queries. In time, this could expand to include a query builder - a bit like the query tab.

We could add delete by query functionality here, too.

We should probably have two buttons at the top - one that brings up a modal allowing the user to enter arbitrary JSON or XML for posting to Solr, and the other that brings up a modal allowing the user to upload a file from their filesystem - this means we retain the essential functionality that is currently present in the documents tab.

Basically, we give a very straightforward view of the content of an index, much like one would in a relational database tool.



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