The new space setup has broken my workflow in Fibery.
For more mature spaces, where the databases, their locations, and integrations don’t change much I’m sure this isn’t an issue. But I’m growing my team and needing to adjust permissions, access, as well as the data model itself. I am modifying spaces and databases multiple times a day.
I am constantly redirected to another page or section of Fibery when I don’t want to be
I can’t find an integration, so I guess which space it’s in. My guess is wrong, so I can one-by-one cycle through them or go to the Workspace map. I can see all databases here but only the side modal for configuring a database.
Control + Click shortcut does not work for opening configuration in a new tab.
If you move a database to another space, you are automatically taken to the database in the space designer, which means you cannot move multiple at a time easily. You can no longer see other databases.
These are some of the workflow obstacles I’ve run into. I’m going to assume that there is a way to coexist happily with these changes but I have no clue how. Can anyone share how the go about updating the configuration of existing spaces and databases or designing new ones without a lot of friction?
How is this different with the new space setup UI? In the old way, you would still need to click through the spaces to find the one where the integration lives, no?
I think your feedback is valid, but perhaps it’s not specific to the recent change of space setup UI?
For what it’s worth, there are likely to be changes coming soon which will affect the UX for some of the use cases you describe. Hopefully they will not make things worse, and may even be improvements
Overall the old space designer worked for me despite these problems because it wasn’t siloed and because I could control + click to open a new tab to reference existing entities or see the configuration of multiple spaces at a time.
The total separation between the workspace and editing the configuration has made the navigation more restrictive, at least, in the ways I’ve grown accustom to using it. I’m confident that the behavior or models, redirects, and default screens has grown less predictable but that’s a feeling. It could be amplified by the frustration that comes with change overall, since I cannot consistently predict where to go to do/change things.
I’m sure that when that is released I will welcome the change. But I would love some immediate pain relief until then.
All this to say, my experience is miserable here. I’m sure that feature testing or other users may have a much better way of navigating this change. I’d love to learn it and adopt it.
Unfortunately, putting any developers to work on improvements to the current UI would be taking developers away from working on rolling out the new UI, so it just doesn’t make sense from a resource management point of view.
