making device configuration user friendly from the ui

[charithmadhuranga]

issue- currently device and device profile configuration is done uploading configuration files to edgex from the ui.

expectation - Make it more user friendly by using a step by step wizard approach to get relevant data from the user and generate and upload config files automatically.

[badboy-huaqiao]

@charithmadhuranga where you find that user can update device service configuration on GUI? I don't remember that our team provided that feature, user only can be allowed to update device service two properties like description or adminstate (which will be deprecated next release), refer to issue #452 , do you mean you hope GUI has the ability to get or update the device service configuration? you can get whole configuration of one device service from system item, but it needs a lot of consideration when updating the configuration fo one device service, for example, which properties allow updates, which do not, and so on, and right now edgex don't have the API allowing GUI to call to do that.

[charithmadhuranga]

@badboy-huaqiao hi sorry for the mistake i have update the issue .currently we upload device and device profile configuration manually to the ui . I suggest if we can have a wizard to get relevant data of the device that user want to configure with the device service and generate the device and device profile files from them and upload them automatically.So for that we need two separate wizards for device and device profile and rather than uploading the files we give the user to select the option he/she need or type them, inject those variable to the template we have and generate and upload file automatically as we do now.For example iotech have a device configuration generator similar to this.

[badboy-huaqiao]

@charithmadhuranga that's ok, your idea is a good advice improving user experience, we did have a plan to provide a batch creating or updating capability, just like you mentioned above, using a template or may be with a editor as same as device profile section, great thanks for your advice, keep this issue open until it's done.