Create Bridge and Bond buttons grayed out where they should not be

[Alan Baghumian]

This is a minor UI quirk and will be great if can be fixed. Here is some details to reproduce. I tested with a machine that has 2 NICs:

- Go to MAAS UI, pick a machine.
- Go to Network tab, select both interfaces, then click "Create Bond".
- Create and save the bond.
- Delete the bond that was just created.
- "Create Bond" button remains greyed out, where it should get re-enabled after the bond was deleted.

The exact same issue happens to "Create Bridge" button:

- Go to MAAS UI, pick a machine.
- Go to Network tab, select both interfaces, then click "Create Bond".
- Create and save the bond.
- Select the bond, then click "Create Bridge".
- Create and save the bridge.
- Delete the bridge that was just created.
- "Create Bridge" button remains greyed out, where it should get re-enabled after the bridge was deleted.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Alan

[Caleb Ellis (caleb-ellis)]

Hi Alan, thanks for filing a bug.

If I understand correctly, the "Create bond" and "Create bridge" buttons are disabled because the underlying NICs are not selected after deleting a bond or bridge. Is your expectation that when a bond or bridge is deleted the underlying NICs become selected automatically? That UX seems a little strange personally, so I'm just wondering if some more prominent help text might be the solution here (currently there's just a tooltip when hovering over the disabled buttons). Alternatively we could look at changing the flow from "select NICs" => "click Create bond", to "click Create bond" => "select NICs".

[Alan Baghumian (alanbach)]

Hi Caleb,

Thank you for getting back to me.

Selecting the interfaces still leaves the "Create Bond" and "Create Bridge" buttons greyed out.

Please see the new attached screen shot that shows the status.