Phone call with Chuck to go over ideas and options. We chatted about things and came up with options and a plan. I then started working on rolling things back to prior releases for the parts homepage and for the advanced parts search pages. I got it rolled back and then sent out an email update. With the email, I listed out a number of possible ideas that we could do and/or incorporate into our design and layout plan.

Here were a few things that I listed out: As far as moving forward, I would suggest the following possible options.

1. We add in some settings for the new pages and allow the user to choose if they like the old version or the new version. The old version allows for the subs to be hidden and then showed if they click "view subs". The new version is very tidy and has a smaller footprint and allows for datatables and exports with nicer icons and layouts. We could also come up with a hybrid solution and allow them to use a new look and feel but still get to all of the older data (sub details and RFID tag numbers).

2. If we do add in settings, we could also ask them if they want all disabled sub packages to be hidden or show all. Currently, we show all sub packages other than fully closed packages.

3. We could update the default number to show per page (pagination or next page stuff). Currently it is set to 25. We had some issues with people trying to submit values from page 2 or more and not being able to add the items to the cart. The way that the snow owl datatables rewrites the data is messing it up. Basically, we had no idea that some people have 50+ sub packages under a single parent. The pagination removed the parent line that the code was looking for on subsequent pages. This same problem would have happened if they sorted the datatable and changed the order so that the parent line was not part of the same form submission as the sub item they were using (a code dependency based on the parent item being available).

4. Chuck and I talked about pulling out the datatables on both parts home and the advanced part search page. It is not as flexible as we need it to be. Go back to the drawing board and figure it out. Datatables are nice, but they do take up more room, and don't allow us to show as much detail as before. We were thinking of redoing the existing code and just making it look nicer but killing the datatables.

5. On testing, we tried... there are just so many edge case scenarios. Options? Ideas?

Anyways, open to other suggestions. Thanks!