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Following Alerts feature breakdown Aug '19, let’s discuss toggling notifications on/off.

This feature is needed with the following use cases:

  1. Alert becomes noisy and should be shut off until adjusted.
  2. Alert becomes irrelevant until a query is fixed or server comes back to normal.
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Here are some UI mockups:

New toggle in alert edit page

On be default

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Toggled off

Correlated settings disappear

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In view page

Destinations are uneditable and warning appears.
Wording will be different.

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Alert list column

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After concluding that this feature could be better outside the edit mode, here’s an updated concept:

Enabled

Available in the actions menu.

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Disabled

“Unmute” button appears at the top (kind of similar to query publishing) with a primary style (similar to dashboard action buttons showing “enabled” state). Also, the actions menu will allow to unmute.

A clear alert message appears above the destinations.

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@arikfr how’s this feel?

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I realized the “unmute” button doesn’t work:

  1. Since there’s already a “Notifications are muted” warning, there’s no point in double indications.
  2. The button doesn’t do well in edit mode, adjacent to the save/cancel buttons.

So, instead I’m showing a “saving” indication on the ellipsis menu, along with success/fail notifications at the bottom:

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I think this works really well.

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I would also leave the “Unmute” as a link in the warning to make it a one-click thing. Do you have any cons thoughts regarding it?

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I would also leave the “Unmute” as a link in the warning to make it a one-click thing. Do you have any cons thoughts regarding it?

Wasn’t sure about it before, but it would solve the problem of verbally pointing the user to the menu setting :+1:

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Github PR https://github.com/getredash/redash/pull/4276
Feature landed in master branch.

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