[FR/P-UI] New admin UI

[matmair]

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Problem statement

The current admin (global settings) UI is using HTML templates. This means you can not use all admin features headless and the UI needs to be fully rendered on the server side before being shown.

Suggested solution

Switch to new UI #5011

Describe alternatives you've considered

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Examples of other systems

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Do you want to develop this?

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[matmair]

I will use this as a first PR to show the capabilities of the new UI.

[wolflu05]

Good idea to start this, but I am not sure if the admin ui would be a good thing for the start. I just think we should build something users daily would use. The admin ui is something that gets not used very often. Or was that your thinking so that we can experiment with something that's not used so much?

[matmair]

@wolflu05 there is nearly nothing in the daily UI that does not require fast rewrites of the modal and forms interfaces - which is 20+ files.
The admin UI is pretty much standalone so the idea is to get fast results that can be discussed. And add the missing admin APIs.

[SchrodingersGat]

@matmair do you mean the "django admin" page (which we use mostly out-of-the-box) or our "settings" page (which is user facing)?

[matmair]

@SchrodingersGat our settings page

[matmair]

Regarding this I ran into the first interesting question: do we define where settings go on the backend (ie making it pluggable and frontend version independent) or is that done in the frontend? Thoughts @inventree/triage?

[SchrodingersGat]

By "where they go" do you mean the display
location? I think it is probably simpler to let the front-end define this, but you know more about the react/mantine setup...

[matmair]

I mean in terms of categories. Ie a category security with 3 settings, reporting with 20 settings etc. So a mapping where settings should be rendered. Because that is contingent on the server version.
The general URLs and layout will need to be done in react.

[SchrodingersGat]

Oh right, yeah I think the categories have to be specified by the server and then rendered out by the front-end

[matmair]

Closed by #5679