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Summary

The evaluations table's column order lived in localStorage, so it followed the browser rather than the experiment it describes — which of an experiment's evaluators are worth a column, and in what order they read, is a property of the experiment, not of the machine looking at it. Column visibility was not persisted at all. Both now live on the experiment: a Save columns button appears at the toolbar's leading edge once the live layout differs from the saved one, and disappears again once it matches.

Changes

  • ExperimentGroup gains column_layout (order + hidden). The entity store is schema-on-read, so no migration is required. Update follows the existing pareto convention: an omitted column_layout preserves what is saved rather than clearing it.
  • The field is nullable so "never saved" stays distinct from "saved with nothing hidden". The client applies its own default hidden columns only in the null case, so a deliberate "show everything" survives a reload instead of being re-hidden — and the Save button does not appear on a freshly loaded page.
  • Visibility is stored as the hidden ids rather than a map over every column, so a column that appears later (a new evaluator, a new metadata key) shows up by default instead of being invisible because a layout saved before it existed never mentioned it.
  • Studio seeds column order and visibility from the experiment and persists them through the existing PUT /experiments/{name}.
  • StudioDataViewToolbar gains a slotStart (surfaced as toolbarSlotStart on StudioDataView), rendered before the search bar. Additive and optional; existing callers are unaffected.
  • Regenerated openapi/, the web SDK, and plugin-types/plugin.d.ts.

Behavior change worth calling out

This replaces the localStorage column-order persistence (nemo-studio:experiment-columns:<id>). Anyone holding a local layout will see it reset once to the experiment's saved (initially absent) layout. Keeping both stores seemed worse than picking one.

Type of Change

  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
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  • Contributor tooling or automation
  • CI, build, or test infrastructure

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  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Documentation updated for user-visible behavior
  • Documentation not applicable — justification: no documented surface changes; the field is described in the OpenAPI schema it ships with.

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  • uv run pre-commit run -a passes, or any blocked checks are identified below
  • Targeted tests pass, or tests are marked not applicable above
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  • uv run pre-commit run --files <changed files> — passed (ruff, ruff format, ty, copyright headers, UI lint-staged, merge-conflict check). The full -a run was not performed locally, so that box is left unchecked; CI runs the complete gate.
  • uv run --frozen pytest services/intake/tests/integration/test_experiments_crud.py -k "column_layout or pareto" — 3 passed. Covers the null default, the PUT round-trip, preservation on an update that omits the field, and that an empty layout stays distinguishable from null.
  • pnpm --filter="...[origin/main]" run --parallel --if-present test:ci@nemo/common 1518 passed (122 files), studio 3358 passed (346 files). Includes 11 new useColumnLayout cases (load-time clean state, hide/show, reorder, hidden-compared-as-a-set).
  • pnpm --filter="...[origin/main]" run --parallel --if-present typecheck, pnpm lint — clean.
  • Re-ran both generators on the current base and confirmed no drift: the committed OpenAPI spec and plugin.d.ts match what the generators produce.
  • Manually exercised against a local platform: reordering and hiding columns reveals the button, saving persists, and a reload comes back on the saved layout. The stored layout round-trips through the API.

Not done: the Stainless Python SDK was not regenerated — make update-sdk requires STAINLESS_API_KEY, which this environment does not have. The OpenAPI spec and web SDK are committed.

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  • New Features

    • Experiment evaluation tables now save and restore customized column order and visibility.
    • Save layouts from the table toolbar with clear saving feedback.
    • Data view toolbars can display custom content at the leading edge.
    • Experiment APIs support optional saved column layouts.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved the distinction between no saved layout and an intentionally empty layout.
    • Partial experiment updates now preserve fields that were not included in the request.
    • Column state no longer carries over when navigating between experiments.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for layout persistence, updates, reordering, visibility changes, and unsaved-state detection.

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The evaluations table's column order lived in localStorage, so it followed the
browser rather than the experiment it describes — which of an experiment's
evaluators are worth a column, and in what order they read, is a property of the
experiment, not of the machine looking at it. Column visibility was not
persisted at all.

Store both on the experiment. `ExperimentGroup` gains a `column_layout` holding
the column order and the hidden column ids; the entity store is schema-on-read,
so no migration is needed. Update follows `pareto`: an omitted `column_layout`
preserves what is saved rather than clearing it.

The field is nullable so "never saved" stays distinct from "saved with nothing
hidden" — the client applies its own default hidden columns only in the null
case, so a deliberate "show everything" survives a reload and the Save button
does not appear on a freshly loaded page.

Visibility is stored as the hidden ids rather than a map over every column, so a
column that appears later (a new evaluator, a new metadata key) shows up by
default instead of being invisible because a layout saved before it existed
never mentioned it.

In Studio, a Save columns button appears at the toolbar's leading edge once the
live layout differs from the saved one, and disappears again once it matches.
`StudioDataViewToolbar` gains an additive `slotStart` to host it.

This replaces the localStorage persistence (`nemo-studio:experiment-columns:<id>`),
so an existing local layout resets once to the experiment's saved layout.

Signed-off-by: Rob Rhyne <rrhyne@nvidia.com>
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The PR adds persisted experiment column layouts across OpenAPI, intake models, CRUD endpoints, and Studio. Studio initializes layouts from saved data, detects unsaved changes, and provides a toolbar save action.

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Experiment column layout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Column layout contract
openapi/..., services/intake/src/nmp/intake/entities/experiments.py, services/intake/src/nmp/intake/api/v2/experiments/schemas.py
Adds ColumnLayout with ordered and hidden column IDs. Requests and responses distinguish omitted, null, and explicitly empty layouts.
Experiment API persistence
services/intake/src/nmp/intake/api/v2/experiments/endpoints.py, services/intake/tests/integration/test_experiments_crud.py
Creation and updates persist supplied layouts. Omitted updates preserve existing fields. Integration tests cover default, round-trip, preserved, and empty layouts.
Studio layout state and save flow
web/packages/studio/src/components/dataViews/ExperimentDataView/*, web/packages/studio/src/routes/ExperimentDetailRoute/index.tsx, web/packages/common/src/components/DataView/*, web/packages/common/plugin-types/plugin.d.ts
Replaces local-storage persistence with useColumnLayout. Studio seeds order and visibility from saved data, detects dirty state, remounts per experiment, and renders a save button through the toolbar leading slot.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant ExperimentDataView
  participant useColumnLayout
  participant ExperimentAPI
  User->>ExperimentDataView: Change column order or visibility
  ExperimentDataView->>useColumnLayout: Track current layout
  useColumnLayout->>ExperimentAPI: Update experiment with column_layout
  ExperimentAPI-->>useColumnLayout: Return persisted experiment
  useColumnLayout-->>ExperimentDataView: Clear dirty state and refresh query
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The PR saves experiment-specific column layouts and restores them across sessions, but clients that send an explicit null to clear a saved layout may instead leave the previous layout unchanged because the API contract and update behavior disagree. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to align null handling and the published schema.

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services/intake/tests/integration/test_experiments_crud.py (1)

854-857: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover create and read-after-write persistence.

This test creates only a null layout and checks the PUT response. Add a POST with a non-null column_layout, then GET the experiment after PUT. This verifies both the create path at services/intake/src/nmp/intake/api/v2/experiments/endpoints.py Line 131 and persisted reads.

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In `@services/intake/tests/integration/test_experiments_crud.py` around lines 854
- 857, Extend the experiment CRUD test around the existing create and read
assertions to POST an experiment with a non-null column_layout, then PUT an
updated layout and GET the experiment afterward, asserting the persisted layout
matches the submitted value. Preserve the existing null-layout coverage and use
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Inline comments:
In `@openapi/ga/individual/platform.openapi.yaml`:
- Around line 12225-12230: Update the column_layout schema property to
explicitly allow null values by adding nullable: true alongside its existing
allOf reference and description, then regenerate the generated clients so they
represent the nullable response.

In `@web/packages/common/plugin-types/plugin.d.ts`:
- Line 9321: Update the documentation around the toolbar slot properties: make
the comment above toolbarSlotStart describe leading toolbar content, and move
the existing trailing-content comment to toolbarSlotEnd. Keep the property
declarations unchanged.

In `@web/packages/studio/src/components/dataViews/ExperimentDataView/index.tsx`:
- Around line 189-201: Reset the data-view state when group.id changes so the
reused ExperimentDataView instance cannot retain the previous group’s
columnOrder or columnVisibility. Update the useStudioDataViewState setup around
seededColumns, preferably by keying the view with group.id or synchronizing both
state values, and add a rerender test covering distinct layouts for successive
groups.

In
`@web/packages/studio/src/components/dataViews/ExperimentDataView/useColumnLayout.ts`:
- Around line 100-110: Update the saveGroup call in useColumnLayout so saving
column_order and hidden state cannot overwrite concurrently changed experiment
fields; use a layout-only mutation/update path that sends only column_layout, or
add optimistic concurrency control to reject stale writes while preserving the
current layout save behavior.

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In `@services/intake/tests/integration/test_experiments_crud.py`:
- Around line 854-857: Extend the experiment CRUD test around the existing
create and read assertions to POST an experiment with a non-null column_layout,
then PUT an updated layout and GET the experiment afterward, asserting the
persisted layout matches the submitted value. Preserve the existing null-layout
coverage and use the current EXPERIMENTS endpoint and response assertions.

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@rrhyne rrhyne changed the title feat(studio): save an experiment's column layout feat(studio): save an experiment's column layout (ASE-425) Sep 2, 2026
Saving a column layout sent the whole experiment back, echoing this client's
copies of description, insight_id, summary, metadata and default_sort. Any of
those changed since the group was loaded was overwritten by the stale value.

The endpoint blanked those five when they were omitted, which is why the client
echoed them. Guard them on `model_fields_set`, as every field added since
already is, so a caller can update one field without touching the rest; an
explicit null still clears. The layout save now sends only `column_layout`.

Also key ExperimentDataView by group id: the route does not remount between
experiments, so the next one inherited the previous column order and visibility.

Mark `column_layout` nullable on the response so generated clients represent the
null the API actually returns — which surfaced that the seeding helpers only
accepted `undefined`.

Signed-off-by: Rob Rhyne <rrhyne@nvidia.com>
Inserting toolbarSlotStart above toolbarSlotEnd left the existing
trailing-content doc attached to the new leading slot.

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openapi/ga/individual/platform.openapi.yaml (1)

12334-12341: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fix explicit null clearing in the update contract.

update_experiment only assigns column_layout when it is not None. An explicit null therefore leaves the existing layout unchanged. Track column_layout in body.model_fields_set and assign None when sent. Add nullable: true to the source model, then regenerate the OpenAPI schema.

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In `@openapi/ga/individual/platform.openapi.yaml` around lines 12334 - 12341,
Update the update_experiment handling so column_layout is assigned when its
field is present in body.model_fields_set, including explicit null, while
omission continues leaving the saved layout unchanged. Mark column_layout as
nullable in the source model and regenerate the OpenAPI schema so the contract
documents null clearing.
openapi/ga/openapi.yaml (1)

12168-12175: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document and implement column_layout: null clearing.

ExperimentRequest.column_layout is ColumnLayout | None, but both generated request schemas omit nullable: true. Add json_schema_extra={"nullable": True} to the field and regenerate the OpenAPI document.

The update handler only assigns column_layout when it is non-null. An explicit null is therefore ignored, and the saved layout remains. Check "column_layout" in body.model_fields_set and assign existing.column_layout = body.column_layout so omission still preserves the layout.

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In `@openapi/ga/openapi.yaml` around lines 12168 - 12175, Update the
ExperimentRequest column_layout field to emit nullable schema metadata, then
regenerate the OpenAPI document. In the update handler, use
body.model_fields_set to distinguish omission from an explicit null and assign
existing.column_layout = body.column_layout when column_layout was provided,
preserving the current layout only when the field is omitted.
openapi/openapi.yaml (1)

12334-12341: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Handle explicit null for column_layout.

update_experiment checks body.column_layout is not None, so explicit null follows the omission path and the existing layout remains saved. Use "column_layout" in body.model_fields_set to distinguish omission, assign None when sent, and mark the inherited field nullable before regenerating the OpenAPI spec.

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In `@openapi/openapi.yaml` around lines 12334 - 12341, The update_experiment
handling for column_layout must distinguish omission from an explicitly supplied
null. Use body.model_fields_set to detect whether column_layout was sent, assign
None to clear the saved layout when present, and mark the inherited ColumnLayout
field nullable before regenerating the OpenAPI specification.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@openapi/ga/individual/platform.openapi.yaml`:
- Around line 12334-12341: Update the update_experiment handling so
column_layout is assigned when its field is present in body.model_fields_set,
including explicit null, while omission continues leaving the saved layout
unchanged. Mark column_layout as nullable in the source model and regenerate the
OpenAPI schema so the contract documents null clearing.

In `@openapi/ga/openapi.yaml`:
- Around line 12168-12175: Update the ExperimentRequest column_layout field to
emit nullable schema metadata, then regenerate the OpenAPI document. In the
update handler, use body.model_fields_set to distinguish omission from an
explicit null and assign existing.column_layout = body.column_layout when
column_layout was provided, preserving the current layout only when the field is
omitted.

In `@openapi/openapi.yaml`:
- Around line 12334-12341: The update_experiment handling for column_layout must
distinguish omission from an explicitly supplied null. Use body.model_fields_set
to detect whether column_layout was sent, assign None to clear the saved layout
when present, and mark the inherited ColumnLayout field nullable before
regenerating the OpenAPI specification.

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