Checkpoint 1 UX feedback (Konrad, 2026-04-23) surfaced three friction points
that all traced back to the same over-engineered "multi-stage commit" model:
1. When Choices.js opened its dropdown, it covered the popover's OK button.
User had to click in a thin strip "outside the multi-select but inside
the dropdown pane" to close Choices.js before OK became reachable.
2. Changing only a project/team didn't light up the global Apply button
(dirty-state diff bug on multi-selects), and even when it did, clicking
Apply didn't actually update the report tables. Also the Apply button
sat at the far right of the pill strip — easy to miss on desktop.
3. Single-month reports required changing BOTH From and To pickers; for a
low-frequency admin tool, that's a tax on the most common flow.
Instead of patching three bugs, collapsed the entire pending/dirty/Apply
model. Each popover's OK now:
- Rebuilds the URL from its OWN inputs only (keeping other filters intact)
- Navigates → full SSR page reload → report re-renders
The user reads the result of their change immediately; there's no "did I
remember to click Apply?" step.
Side-effect wins:
- 'dirty state', 'pending state', 'updateAllPillsDirty', 'revert...',
cross-filter auto-removal, and the toast system all become unnecessary.
Net -187 lines across template + CSS.
- The bug from (2) self-disappears because there's no dirty-diff step.
- Sticky popover footer (position: sticky; bottom: 0; z-index: 2) pins
OK to the popover edge even when Choices.js expands — solves (1).
- The To month picker is labelled "Until (optional)" with "Leave blank
for a single month" hint. Blank on submit → to_month = from_month.
Single-month URLs round-trip with a blank To input (so the form and
the data agree).
Cross-filter preserved: on popover open, the OTHER pill's URL selection
still disables invalid dropdown options. Just no runtime auto-remove —
unnecessary because the next OK submits and the server takes over.
Tested in the browser via preview MCP:
- All three pills open popovers on click
- Range URL shows both month pickers filled
- Single-month URL shows To blank
- OK with blank To → navigates to from_month=X&to_month=X
- Sticky footer keeps OK in viewport when Choices.js is open
- 45/45 tests still pass (no backend contract change)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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