This week we focused on completing the "Folder View" interface. The Folder View was implemented to solve two problems: to be able to take a quick glance and recognize which locations have problematic devices, and how to organize devices by location. The Folder View allows the user to be able to add refrigerators to a particular refrigerator, which solves the organization problem. The Folder View also allows the user to be able to quickly glance at each folder and see if there are any devices that have warnings or errors. In addition, we added tabs at the top of the folder view to make it even easier for the user to scan and see if there's any problems, instead of having to look at each folder. We added this feature because we had received feedback that it would be time consuming to look at each folder if there's a lot of different folders.
Completing this milestone took a lot of re-working the way the back-end was implemented. Eric and I divided up the work by choosing distinct parts of the folder view to work on so each part doesn't conflict with each other. For example, Michael started working on the front-end, while Eric started re-organizing the back-end in Backbone. This way both of us were able to continue working independent of each other and doesn't have to wait to complete the next step. Using this strategy, we learned a better way to collaborate and work on development together, since earlier in capstone we would find that one of us would be stuck waiting for the other to complete their part of the project before continuing.
Completing this deliverable is a huge advancement in our overall project because it is one of the two different ways a user can get a quick overview to see if there's anything wrong with a device and which location the device is located. Our next steps is to complete the "List View" interface, which is going to be a different way for users to accomplish the same goals that the "Folder View" accomplishes.
Our screenshot currently has different icons because Ombitron wanted to see what it would look like if they were to customize their platform to devices other than refrigerators. Take a look at the folder view implementation below.
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