NetBox-Concept/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.2.4

• Verified compatibility with NetBox 4.7.1 and raised max_version to 4.7.99 accordingly (was 4.6.99). Checked every area 4.7's release notes call out as breaking or plugin-relevant against the actual 4.7.1 source: the Rack model's form_factor/width/airflow/outer_* fields (deprecated, not removed), ChoiceSet's Choice-object refactor (the legacy (value, label, color) tuple format this plugin's own choices use is explicitly still supported), register_model_view/ViewTab/get_model_urls, PluginConfig resource-path resolution, PortTemplateMapping/PortMappingBase (the patch-panel front/rear mapping this plugin's component sync reads), Cable/CableTermination/ CabledObjectModel (the rack-import cable copy), and the NetBoxModel*/ PluginMenu*/ColorField/DynamicModelChoiceField base classes. No code changes were needed - django-tables2's RelatedLinkColumn removal and the removed querystring tag don't apply (unused), and the MPTT→ltree migration doesn't touch anything this plugin manipulates directly.

0.2.3

• Fix: dragging a device from front to rear (or back) made it invisible mid-drag - it stayed structurally inside its own source <svg>, so it rendered underneath the other panel once it overlapped it instead of over it. Replaced the in-SVG transform with a free-floating HTML "ghost" fixed to <body> that tracks the pointer; the original block just dims in place while dragging, exactly like before.
• Fix: the rear elevation only ever showed a device type's rear_image, leaving shallow devices without one (e.g. PDUs) blank on the rear view even when a perfectly usable front_image exists. Full-depth devices are unaffected (their rear view still only shows their own rear image, or nothing - showing the front picture there would be wrong); only non-full-depth devices now fall back to the front image on the rear view.
• Shorten the drag-hint badge text above the elevation (the German translation in particular had gotten too long for the badge).

0.2.2

• Drag-and-drop now supports dragging a device from the front elevation onto the rear one (and back), reassigning its face. Front and rear share one coordinate system (same unit height, rack offset, ...), just placed side by side on screen, so the existing delta-based drag math is already valid for a cross-panel drop - only the target face needed detecting (via elementFromPoint at drop time) and sending along. Fixed a related bug along the way: without pointer-events: none on the dragged block during the drag, elementFromPoint would always hit the dragged block itself rather than the panel underneath, so the cross-face drop would never have been detected; pointer capture keeps delivering move/up events to it regardless.

0.2.1

• Rework PNG export: instead of rasterizing the SVG export via <img>/<canvas> (fragile - any malformed SVG or cross-origin image reference could fail the whole export with an opaque error), draw the elevation directly onto a <canvas> from plain pixel geometry (export/data/), the same approach netbox-topology-views uses. Device type images are fetched individually as same-origin blobs; a single image failing to load only drops that picture instead of aborting the export. Added a combined front+rear PNG option to the Export menu.

0.2.0

• Fix: several multi-line {# ... #} template comments rendered as literal text on the page instead of being stripped, because Django's comment-tag regex doesn't match across newlines. All comments are now single-line. (This was also the most likely cause of a reported "PNG export failed" error: the leaked text made the exported SVG invalid, so the browser couldn't decode it as an image.)
• Add German translation (locale/de/). English remains the source language and needs no catalog; both are already listed in NetBox's own language selector.
• Center the "+ Add device" hint on empty rack units instead of right-aligning it.
• Add SVG/PNG/draw.io export for rack concepts.
• Fix drag-and-drop reorder: NetBox sets CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY, so the reorder POST's CSRF token now comes from a rendered {% csrf_token %} input instead of the (JS-invisible) cookie.
• Add per-type component tabs (Interfaces, Front/Rear Ports, Console (Server) Ports, Power Ports/Outlets) on the concept device page, mirroring real dcim.Device pages.
• Copying a real rack (or merging two real racks) into a concept now also copies internal cabling as ConceptCables.
• Show the peer device/port in component connection columns.
• Fix IntegrityError when merging two real racks: airflow/face can be NULL on a real Rack/Device but not on the corresponding concept fields.
• Add rack cabling: ConceptComponent, ConceptCable, device-type component sync, patch panel front/rear pass-through mapping.
• Add click-to-add on empty rack units, dropping the separate "Add planned device" button.
• Add images/labels view toggle and clean up device label styling on the elevation.
• Fix rack elevation overlap; add device images to elevation blocks.
• Add rack/concept merge (2 racks or 2 concepts → 1), and a size override when copying a real rack into a concept.

0.1.0

Initial release: rack concept planning, copy/clone/merge/deploy flows, drag-and-drop elevation, partial-width devices, REST API.