TUI Future Enhancements - Ideas for Later
This document tracks potential future enhancements for the hyperexport interactive TUI.
Completed Enhancements (8-22)
- ✅ Enhancement #8: Multi-pane split-screen layout
- ✅ Enhancement #9: Export queue management with reordering
- ✅ Enhancement #10: Export history view with filtering
- ✅ Enhancement #11: Live logs viewer with filtering and scrolling
- ✅ Enhancement #12: VM grouping and folder tree view
- ✅ Enhancement #13: Real-time export preview
- ✅ Enhancement #14: Quick actions menu
- ✅ Enhancement #15: Bulk operations manager
- ✅ Enhancement #16: VM comparison view
- ✅ Enhancement #17: Saved filters and bookmarks
- ✅ Enhancement #18: Performance metrics dashboard
- ✅ Enhancement #19: Advanced search and filter builder
- ✅ Enhancement #20: Snapshot management interface
- ✅ Enhancement #21: Resource allocation planner
- ✅ Enhancement #22: Migration wizard with guided workflow
High-Priority Future Enhancements
1. Integrated Help System
Priority: High
Complexity: Medium
Description: Interactive help viewer with comprehensive documentation
Features:
- Interactive help viewer with searchable documentation
- Keyboard shortcuts reference card (all current bindings)
- Feature walkthroughs and tutorials for each enhancement
- Context-sensitive help (press
? on any screen for relevant help)
- Search functionality within help content
- Categories: Getting Started, Features, Keyboard Shortcuts, Troubleshooting
- Examples and use cases for each feature
- Links to external documentation
Implementation Notes:
- Create help content database (markdown-based)
- Build searchable index
- Render help with syntax highlighting
- Support hyperlinks between help topics
- Back/forward navigation history
Key Binding: ? or h
2. Settings/Configuration Manager
Priority: High
Complexity: Medium
Description: Centralized configuration management interface
Features:
- Edit tool preferences and defaults
- Configure network settings (timeout, retries, bandwidth limits)
- Customize theme colors and appearance
- Set default export paths, formats, compression settings
- Configure logging verbosity and output
- Email notification settings
- Save user preferences persistently to config file
- Import/export settings
- Reset to defaults option
Settings Categories:
- General (defaults, paths)
- Network (timeouts, bandwidth)
- Appearance (colors, theme)
- Notifications (email, webhooks)
- Advanced (logging, debugging)
Implementation Notes:
- Store in
~/.config/hypersdk/tui-config.json
- Validate settings before applying
- Live preview of theme changes
- Backup before changes
Key Binding: O (Options)
3. Dashboard/Home Screen
Priority: High
Complexity: Medium
Description: Overview screen with quick stats and recent activity
Features:
- Quick stats overview (total VMs, storage used, recent exports)
- Recent activity timeline (last 10 operations)
- Quick access buttons to common features
- Status indicators for running operations
- Customizable widget layout (drag/drop zones)
- At-a-glance health indicators
- Shortcuts to most-used features
- Integration with all other enhancements
Widgets:
- Infrastructure summary (hosts, VMs, resources)
- Recent exports (success/failure rates)
- Scheduled operations (upcoming tasks)
- Storage capacity trends
- Quick actions panel
- Alerts and warnings
Implementation Notes:
- Make it the default landing screen
- Allow toggling between dashboard and classic list view
- Widget configuration saved in settings
- Refresh intervals configurable
Key Binding: D (Dashboard) or default home screen
4. Template/Profile Manager
Priority: Medium
Complexity: Medium
Description: Manage export configuration templates
Features:
- Save complete export configurations as templates
- Quick-load saved profiles
- Share/export profiles as JSON files
- Import profiles from files
- Default profile selection
- Profile categories (Development, Production, Backup, Migration)
- Template variables (placeholders for VM names, dates)
- Clone and modify existing templates
- Version history for templates
Profile Contents:
- Export format (OVF/OVA)
- Compression settings
- Cloud upload configuration
- Advanced features settings
- Validation rules
- Schedule preferences
Implementation Notes:
- Extend existing profile system from main.go
- Store in
~/.config/hypersdk/profiles/
- JSON format for portability
- Schema validation
Key Binding: T (Templates)
5. Schedule Manager
Priority: Medium
Complexity: Medium
Description: Centralized view of all scheduled operations
Features:
- View all scheduled operations in one place
- Calendar view of upcoming migrations/exports
- Edit scheduled tasks (reschedule, modify settings)
- Cancel scheduled tasks
- Recurring schedule support (daily, weekly, monthly)
- Schedule templates
- Conflict detection (overlapping schedules)
- Estimated completion times
- Dependencies (schedule based on other task completion)
Views:
- List view (chronological)
- Calendar view (monthly/weekly)
- Timeline view (Gantt-style)
Implementation Notes:
- Store in database or JSON file
- Integration with cron for recurring tasks
- Notification before scheduled task starts
- Automatic cleanup of old schedules
Key Binding: K (Schedules)
Priority: Low
Complexity: High
Description: Network testing and monitoring utilities
Features:
- Bandwidth testing to target hosts
- Latency monitoring (ping, traceroute)
- Connection validation (can reach vCenter, cloud endpoints)
- Network path visualization
- Throughput graphs (real-time)
- Packet loss detection
- DNS resolution testing
- Port connectivity checks
- MTU discovery
- Speed test to various endpoints
Diagnostics:
- Source to vSphere connectivity
- Source to cloud provider connectivity
- Bandwidth between hosts
- Network stability over time
Implementation Notes:
- Use native Go net package
- Real-time graphs with historical data
- Export diagnostics reports
- Integration with migration wizard (auto-test before migration)
Key Binding: N (Network Diagnostics)
7. Cost Estimator
Priority: Low
Complexity: Medium
Description: Calculate and project migration/storage costs
Features:
- Cloud migration cost calculator
- Storage cost projections (monthly/yearly)
- Bandwidth cost estimates
- ROI analysis for migrations
- Cost comparison between providers (AWS vs Azure vs on-prem)
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
- What-if scenarios
- Export cost reports
Cost Components:
- Compute costs (instance types)
- Storage costs (volume types, tiers)
- Network egress costs
- Reserved instance discounts
- Spot instance savings
Implementation Notes:
- Pricing data from cloud provider APIs
- Update pricing regularly
- Allow manual price overrides
- Multi-currency support
Key Binding: $ (Cost Estimator)
8. Diff/Change Viewer
Priority: Low
Complexity: Medium
Description: Compare and track configuration changes
Features:
- Compare VM configurations side-by-side
- Highlight differences between VMs (CPU, memory, disks, network)
- Track configuration changes over time
- Before/after comparison for migrations
- Export diff reports
- Merge configurations
- Configuration drift detection
- Compliance checking
Comparison Types:
- VM vs VM
- VM vs Template
- Current vs Previous state
- Expected vs Actual
Implementation Notes:
- Store configuration snapshots
- Diff algorithm for structured data
- Visual diff rendering (like git diff)
- Integration with snapshot manager
Key Binding: X (Diff/Compare)
Additional Ideas
9. Audit Log Viewer
- View all operations performed through TUI
- Filter by user, operation type, date range
- Export audit logs for compliance
- Search within logs
10. Backup/Restore Wizard
- Similar to migration wizard but for backups
- Scheduled backup management
- Backup verification
- Restore testing
11. Compliance Checker
- Check VMs against compliance policies
- Security configuration validation
- Best practices verification
- Generate compliance reports
12. VM Provisioning Interface
- Create new VMs through TUI
- Template-based provisioning
- Bulk VM creation
- Pre-flight validation
13. Alerts and Notifications Center
- Centralized notification inbox
- Alert rules configuration
- Webhook integration
- Email/Slack/Teams notifications
- Profile export operations
- Identify bottlenecks
- Optimization suggestions
- Historical performance trends
15. Multi-Tenancy Support
- User authentication/authorization
- Role-based access control
- Tenant isolation
- Per-tenant quotas
Implementation Priority Matrix
| Feature |
Priority |
Complexity |
User Value |
Effort |
| Help System |
High |
Medium |
High |
Medium |
| Settings Manager |
High |
Medium |
High |
Medium |
| Dashboard |
High |
Medium |
High |
High |
| Template Manager |
Medium |
Medium |
Medium |
Medium |
| Schedule Manager |
Medium |
Medium |
Medium |
Medium |
| Network Diagnostics |
Low |
High |
Medium |
High |
| Cost Estimator |
Low |
Medium |
Low |
Medium |
| Diff Viewer |
Low |
Medium |
Medium |
Medium |
Notes
- All enhancements should follow the existing pattern:
- Type definitions for state management
render{Feature}() function for UIhandle{Feature}Keys() for keyboard input- Integration with Update() and View() switch statements
- Key binding in main.go
- Consistent color scheme and styling
- Consider user feedback and real-world usage before implementing
- Each enhancement should be a separate commit for easy rollback
- Keep enhancements modular and independent where possible
- Document keyboard shortcuts as they’re added
- Test each feature thoroughly before moving to the next
Last Updated: 2026-01-23
Current Enhancement Count: 15 completed (8-22)