UX1 Panel

This document considers numerous integration capabilities available in the UX1 panel. If you are interested in using the older generation of user panels, refer to Control Panel.

Compared with CP, the following is changed in UX1:

• Completely new layout
• Navigation placeholders are different
• A lot of new capabilities are added

Layout

UX1 unifies access to the platform UI for account administrators and service users via the same layout that looks completely different from CP.

Menu

Various APS applications including system applications plug their navigation trees in the UX1 left-hand navigation menu. System services are available for any customer through the following menu items:

• Home - home dashboard used for quick access to the most often used system and custom services.
• Users - user management tool for managing customer’s users.
• Account - account management tool for customer-wide operations.
• Domains - domain management tool for managing domain names and domain zones.

Usually, once a customer subscribes to a custom service, the respective APS application will plug its UI navigation tree into the UX1 menu.

UX1 can present up to 2 embedded navigation levels.

• Navigation trees
• Top level navigation items of the selected navigation tree

UX1 highlights the selected navigation item and its parent.

Current User Menu

UX1 provides quick access to the user menu on top-right of the screen.

This allows the user to manage their own profile or quit the UX1. Once the user clicks on My Profile, the system redirects the user to the Users menu item and opens the user profile for managing the latter.

Notifications

A customer administrator or a service user can review notifications addressed to them. For this, they can click on the respective notification icon on top-right.

A new notification pops up on the screen.

Development Error Warnings

The APS JS SDK helps the developers identify possible weakness or error in the code that can lead to possible issues. If the APS development mode is on, a developer can find some error messages just on a control panel screen with accompanying messages in the development log.

The following examples illustrate some probable cases.

• Performance issues leading to performance degradation:

  

• Functional issues leading to exception events or incorrect visual effects:

  

Breadcrumbs

When a user navigates in a set of UI views, the user panel helps the user get back to the previously visited views by providing breadcrumbs on top of the screen. In UX1, this is a link to the previous view.

For example, a custom navigation tree contains a view labeled as “Servers”. When a user starts creating a VPS from that view, the breadcrumbs in the VPS creation wizard will refer to the “Servers” view.

If the user starts creating a VPS from another view, for example, from the Home dashboard, the breadcrumbs refer to the “Home” view.

By clicking sequentially the breadcrumbs link, the user can follow back to any previous view saved in the breadcrumbs trail.

Note

The breadcrumbs trail is cleaned up when the user commits a form in a view, for example, in a wizard that creates a resource. In that case it would not make sense for the user to return back to the committed form.

Integration Points

UX1 provides several touchpoints to allow applications to integrate with the platform UI.

TOUCHPOINTS	CONCEPTS	DEMO	SAMPLE PACKAGE
Managing customer-wide services	Single Page Application	Scenario Resource Model Meta Declaration Presentation Logic	Basic sample application
Integration with Home dashboard	Home Dashboard	Home Dashboard	Basic sample application
User management	User Management	User Management	Offering sample application
Service activation	Scenario	Service Activation	Offering sample application
DNS management	Integration with DNS	DNS Management	DNS management
Notification management	On-Screen Notifications	Notification Management	Basic sample application
Mobile interface	Mobile UI	Inside concepts	-

Resource Scope Restrictions

For application UI developers it is important to understand the restriction on the scope of resources available from UX1 by default. In spite of the fact that by default a reseller is assigned the administrator role to all resources belonging to all subordinate accounts, the UX1 panel provides access to the resources of the direct subordinates only. In other words, a reseller staff using UX1 can manage the resources of the direct customers and direct sub-resellers. They do not see resources of the lower level sub-resellers and customers.

However, an application UI can drill deeper down the resource hierarchy by using the APS-Actor-Scope HTTP header in their requests sent to the APS controller. To extend the resource scope to all resources where the reseller role is owner or administrator, the application should send the APS-Actor-Scope:FULL header.

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