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# ML QA team feedback

## Teddy

* The new interface is too crowded in the asset. The preview player could be closed in the past but now it is visible at all times.
The appearance of the page appears too "stuffed" with information (asset navigator to the left, media items list in the middle and preview player + file details on the right).

* Personal taste: The theme of the site is too dark and hard on the eyes (dark background, black background for the pages, dark blue text, red errors and so on). It may be modern (even WhatsApp recently got a dark theme) but maybe a new theme/ability to change it would help too :sweat_smile: 

* When creating jobs from the Jobs menu you can select the desired materials (asset, package template, platform and so on) but if you select an existing batch with too many parameters, a too long job name format or type a very long job name, you will get an error when you press on the "Save" button. Perhaps a dynamic counter or some kind of dynamic preview for the resulting job name would help.
The error received is clear for us but needing to reduce the job name letter by letter until it matches the validation is cumbersome as the name limit is nowhere clearly presented.

* Same location as above, when creating jobs from the Jobs menu, it isn't clearly presented to the user that the Package template is dependent to the Platform (needs to be linked to the selected Platform). Right now, if you select a package template but then select a platform and they aren't linked, the template will be removed. You do not get any hints about the link being needed.

* When viewing a batch, you only see the batch info at the top and the jobs listed below, grouped in the platform-package template sections.
You do not know where the delivery will be made at first glance but need to open each job individually to see where the deliverable file will be copied.
A preview with the platform destination probably would be beneficial to the user (I'm thinking of the operators that are not allowed to create platform but only jobs/batches).

* In the Media items menu is more noticeable but it's a general issue, the filters present at the top of a page are listed randomly and not in the same order as the columns. While not an issue per say, it looks messy.
![](https://i.imgur.com/gsWURFE.png)

* Anywhere it is possible to expand a list, the theme of the site doesn't clearly show what was expanded and the items contained by it.
Expand a package inside an asset or expand a timeline when creating an IMF package and it will be clear that the way in which the list expands is confusing.
![](https://i.imgur.com/FXHvEzk.png)

* The order of the buttons from the left side menu is not natural and doesn't allow the user to "flow" through them from top to bottom as to have everything ready when he reaches the end.
Now he needs to go up and down constantly to create what he needs.
For example: If you need/want a Job to create a composition and deliver it, you need to go to Profiles>Bug, Profiles>Timed text to create the image bug profile and select the display settings for the subtitle, then go down some more to Transcoder and edit it for your TT/SCC needs (they are not universal).
After that you need to go up to Tags to create tags for the items required (video, audio track, timed text and bug/image) after that go down a bit to Teamplates>Composition and create your composition.
But wait, we're not done yet, go up a bit to Templates>Packages and create/edit a package template with a Composition deliverable (in which you set the composition template from earlier, transcoder profile and name format).
Once these are done, go to Assets and put the tags to the files you want then go down again to Platforms and add the package template to one of the delivery platforms desired.
Only now you can create a job from the Jobs menu (yes, go up again) :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes_and_hand_covering_mouth: 

* When creating an asset, you also need an "Entity type". This is created from the Metadata Settings menu, Classification tab.
After a classification is created by pressing on the "Add new entity type" button from the header, you can use it on an asset.
The fields set in this new entity type/classification can be found in an asset in the Metadata Sets tab or in the Details tab, in the Entity Type field. You can find the same thing under multiple names depending on where you look.

* In an asset, you have the Timelines tab that has a Create new button. Pressing it opens "Create new CPL" menu.
From the header, in any other menu, you have Create new>CPL.
CPL = Composition PlayList
The Compositions where renamed Timelines in a ticket but only the tab name. In other locations the old acronym still remains present. 
In the asset they are named Timelines, in the editor they are CPL while the error menu list refferes to them as Composition.



## Stere

* Asset Page - Timelines Tab - The options in the hamburger menu are overlapping the player and media info in the right side (just the same as it is in the Media Tab), but here the background of the options is transparent and looks awful.

![](https://i.imgur.com/IgpKlFy.png)
