Add Micron asset picker to work package creator

Adds an optional read-only Micron asset catalog lookup for the WP creator, with searchable asset IDs, CSV import, and graceful fallback to manual asset entry when the catalog is absent or unreachable. This includes the backend /api/assets endpoint, SQL Server connector configuration, Docker network changes for outbound access, and UI updates/documentation to make the catalog read-only and clearly distinguish Micron-vetted assets from manual entries.

DEPLOY-runbook-2026-08-04.md

@@ -0,0 +1,284 @@
+# Deploy runbook — WP Suite
+
+**For:** IT / whoever administers the Docker host and Portainer
+**From:** n.siegfried@prime-controls.com
+**Revised:** 2026-08-05 — **this replaces the 2026-08-04 version.** Same procedure,
+but the deploy now carries a second database migration and a new admin screen. If
+you already have the earlier copy, work from this one instead.
+**Expected duration:** 10–15 minutes, including the backup
+**Expected downtime:** under a minute, while containers are recreated
+
+---
+
+## Fill these in before handing this over
+
+| Thing | Value |
+|---|---|
+| Docker host (SSH target) | `________________` |
+| Stack name in Portainer | `________________` |
+| Site URL | `https://________________` |
+| Stack directory on the host (holds `docker-compose.yml` / `backups/`) | `________________` |
+
+Container names are fixed by the compose file and are the same on every host:
+`nginx_webserver`, `wp_api`, `wp_db`, `wp_db_backup`.
+
+---
+
+## What this deploy changes
+
+Front-end and nginx changes, a new admin screen, plus pending database migrations
+that run automatically. Three things make it more than a routine restart:
+
+1. **The nginx config and the entire `html/` directory are baked into the
+   container image at build time.** A plain restart deploys nothing — the stack
+   must be re-pulled and re-built.
+2. **A pending migration rewrites existing rows** in the `users.role` column
+   (`b41c7ae90d52`, values `user` → `project_user`). That is why step 1 is a backup
+   and not optional. If a previous deploy already applied it, it will not run again —
+   step 0 tells you which of these you are actually about to run.
+3. **A second migration adds new columns** (`a7c31f9e5b02`: an archive timestamp on
+   projects, and two default-membership fields on users). This one is additive and
+   has database defaults for existing rows, so it does not rewrite anything.
+
+For the people using the app, the visible changes are: projects can now be
+**archived** from the Admin Console (they disappear from the pickers and go
+read-only, and can be brought back), certain users can be set to join **every new
+project automatically**, and the Admin Console has been rebuilt so the user table
+fits on screen.
+
+Migrations run themselves when the `wp_api` container starts. There is nothing
+to type and **no new environment variables** — do not change the stack's
+environment variables.
+
+---
+
+## Step 0 — Record the current state (needed for rollback)
+
+SSH to the Docker host and run:
+
+```bash
+docker exec wp_api alembic -c server/alembic.ini current
+docker inspect nginx_webserver --format 'nginx image: {{.Image}}'
+docker inspect wp_api          --format 'api image:   {{.Image}}'
+```
+
+**Copy the output into your ticket.** Also note the Git commit the Portainer
+stack is currently on (Portainer → the stack → the Git reference / last-updated
+commit). Without these, rollback is guesswork.
+
+The first command prints the migration the database is currently on. Use it to see
+which migrations this deploy will actually run:
+
+| `alembic current` shows | What will run | What that means |
+|---|---|---|
+| `c93f2b1d7e04` or earlier | both migrations | The `users.role` rewrite is included — the backup in step 1 matters most in this case. |
+| `d15b8c4ef207` | only `a7c31f9e5b02` | The `users.role` rewrite already happened on an earlier deploy. This one is additive only. |
+| `a7c31f9e5b02` | nothing | The database is already up to date; this is a code-only deploy. |
+
+Take the backup either way.
+
+---
+
+## Step 1 — Back up the database
+
+On the Docker host:
+
+```bash
+docker exec wp_db_backup /scripts/db-backup.sh
+```
+
+This triggers the stack's existing backup sidecar once, on demand. Expected
+output ends with a line like:
+
+```
+[db-backup] wrote 1.4M /backups/wpsuite-20260804-141233Z.sql.gz.enc
+```
+
+Confirm the file is on the host (substitute the stack directory):
+
+```bash
+ls -lt <stack-dir>/backups | head -3
+```
+
+**Record that filename.** Do not continue until you have seen the `wrote …`
+line and the file in that listing.
+
+- A `.sql.gz.enc` extension means backups are encrypted — expected and correct.
+- A `.sql.gz` extension plus a `WARNING: BACKUP_ENC_PASSPHRASE not set` line
+  means backups are unencrypted. Not a blocker for this deploy; report it back.
+- **No SSH access?** Portainer → **Containers** → `wp_db_backup` → **Console** →
+  connect with `/bin/sh`, then run `/scripts/db-backup.sh`. Same result: the
+  dump lands on the host, because `/backups` is a bind mount.
+
+---
+
+## Step 2 — Redeploy the stack in Portainer
+
+1. Portainer → **Stacks** → select the stack.
+2. **Pull and redeploy** — with re-pull / re-build **enabled**.
+3. Wait for it to report success.
+
+A plain "restart" or "stop/start" will **not** deploy this change. See "What
+this deploy changes" above.
+
+---
+
+## Step 3 — Confirm the containers came up
+
+```bash
+docker ps --filter name=nginx_webserver --filter name=wp_api --filter name=wp_db
+```
+
+All three must be `Up`, and `wp_db` should show `(healthy)`. Then check the API
+applied its migrations cleanly:
+
+```bash
+docker logs wp_api --tail 40
+```
+
+You are looking for Alembic `Running upgrade …` lines followed by gunicorn
+starting up, and **no** traceback. The last one should end at `a7c31f9e5b02`. The
+API deliberately refuses to start if a migration fails, so a restarting `wp_api`
+container means the migration failed — go to Rollback.
+
+Confirm the database landed on the new revision:
+
+```bash
+docker exec wp_api alembic -c server/alembic.ini current
+```
+
+Expected: `a7c31f9e5b02 (head)`.
+
+Then verify nginx's own view of its config:
+
+```bash
+docker exec nginx_webserver nginx -t
+```
+
+Expected: `syntax is ok` / `test is successful`.
+
+---
+
+## Step 4 — Confirm the response headers
+
+```bash
+curl -sI https://<site-url>/work-package-suite.html | grep -Ei 'cache-control|content-security-policy'
+```
+
+Add `-k` if the site uses an internal or self-signed certificate.
+
+**Both lines must come back.** Expected, approximately:
+
+```
+cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate
+content-security-policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; ...
+```
+
+If the `content-security-policy` line is **missing** while `cache-control` is
+present, the deploy is bad — go to Rollback and send me the nginx log. (This is
+the specific regression this deploy fixes; the two headers must coexist.)
+
+Also confirm the API is reachable through the proxy:
+
+```bash
+curl -s https://<site-url>/api/health      # → {"ok": true}
+```
+
+---
+
+## Step 5 — Hard-reload once in a browser
+
+Open the site and press **Ctrl+Shift+R** (Cmd+Shift+R on macOS) once. The app
+uses a service worker; a normal reload can serve the previous version and make a
+good deploy look broken.
+
+Sanity checks — all four should take under a minute:
+
+1. Log in. The home page offers to select or create a project.
+2. Open **Admin Console** (the link is on the home page; you need an admin account).
+   The user table should read as **one line per user** — if rows are three lines tall
+   and the table spills outside its white card, you are still on the old cached
+   files: hard-reload again.
+3. Two new cards are present and load: **Projects**, and **Default members on new
+   projects**. Both should list rows, not an error.
+4. In the **Projects** card, click **Archive** on a project you don't mind hiding
+   (a `DEMO-` one if there is one), confirm the prompt, then tick **Show archived** —
+   it should reappear marked `archived`. Click **Unarchive** to put it back. That
+   round trip proves the new migration and the new endpoint are both live.
+
+**Deploy complete.** Please report back: the step 0 output (including which
+migrations ran), the backup filename, and the two header lines from step 4.
+
+---
+
+## Rollback
+
+Pick the case that matches.
+
+### Case A — nginx won't start, or the CSP header is missing
+
+The database is untouched by this, so this is a code-only rollback. In Portainer,
+redeploy the stack pinned to the **previous Git commit** recorded in step 0
+(Portainer → the stack → change the Git reference to that commit → Pull and
+redeploy). Then re-run step 3 and step 4.
+
+**Before you do:** grab the log, because it is what I need to fix this.
+
+```bash
+docker logs nginx_webserver --tail 100
+```
+
+Send me that output. If the container is in a restart loop the log still works.
+
+### Case B — `wp_api` is restarting / a migration failed
+
+```bash
+docker logs wp_api --tail 100
+```
+
+Send me that output. **Do not restore the database and do not roll the API back
+without contacting me first.** Which migration got as far as committing decides what
+is safe, and they are not the same:
+
+- **`a7c31f9e5b02`** (the new columns) is additive. If only this one ran, rolling
+  the API back to the previous image is safe on its own — the old code simply
+  ignores the extra columns. Nothing needs converting.
+- **`b41c7ae90d52`** (the `users.role` rewrite) is not. If that one committed,
+  rolling the API back without converting those values back **will break logins**.
+  That conversion is a one-line command, but it has to match what actually ran.
+
+The `alembic current` output from step 0, plus the `Running upgrade …` lines in the
+log above, are exactly what tells us which case you are in — please include both.
+
+Reach me at n.siegfried@prime-controls.com.
+
+### Case C — restoring the backup (only if I ask for it)
+
+Destructive: this drops and recreates the current schema and data. For an
+encrypted dump, on the Docker host, in the `backups` directory:
+
+```bash
+export BACKUP_ENC_PASSPHRASE='<the passphrase — from the stack env vars>'
+openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -pass env:BACKUP_ENC_PASSPHRASE \
+  -in wpsuite-<timestamp>.sql.gz.enc \
+  | gunzip \
+  | docker exec -i wp_db psql -U wpsuite -d wpsuite
+unset BACKUP_ENC_PASSPHRASE
+```
+
+For an unencrypted dump, drop the `openssl` stage and pipe `gunzip` straight
+into `psql`. Substitute the real values if `POSTGRES_USER` / `POSTGRES_DB` are
+not `wpsuite`.
+
+---
+
+## Notes
+
+- Do not add or change environment variables for this deploy.
+- Do not run `docker compose down -v` — the `-v` flag deletes the `pgdata`
+  volume and with it the entire database.
+- `docker compose …` commands are avoided throughout this runbook on purpose:
+  for a Portainer-managed Git stack the compose project lives under Portainer's
+  own data directory, so `docker compose` from an SSH session usually can't find
+  it. The `docker exec <container-name>` form used here works from any directory.
+- Full background documentation: `DEPLOYMENT.md` in the repository.

DEPLOYMENT.md

@@ -209,11 +209,11 @@ users on the same project see the same server-stored SOP and Work Packages.
 
 | Table | Holds | Key columns |
 |-------|-------|-------------|
-| `projects` | top-level construction projects | `name`, `number`, `client`, `division`, `site`, `sample`, `data` |
+| `projects` | top-level construction projects | `name`, `number`, `client`, `division`, `site`, `sample`, `archived_at`, `data` |
 | `sops` | project SOP baselines | `project_id` → projects, `name`, `number`, `complete`, `data` (full SOP JSON) |
 | `work_packages` | individual IWPs | `project_id` → projects, `sop_id` → sops, `parent_id` (split instances), `number`, `subject`, `type`, `status`, `assignee_id` (owner), `issued_at`, `archived_at`, `data` (full WP JSON) |
 | `comments` | feedback from any page | `source`, `sop_id`, `wp_id`, `step`, `author`, `text`, `extra` |
-| `users` | login accounts | `username`, `password_hash` (bcrypt), `role`, `full_name`, `email`, `is_active`, login-lockout + `token_version` fields |
+| `users` | login accounts | `username`, `password_hash` (bcrypt), `role`, `full_name`, `email`, `is_active`, `auto_add_projects` + `auto_add_role` (default membership on new projects), login-lockout + `token_version` fields |
 | `project_members` | per-project access control | `user_id` → users, `project_id` → projects |
 | `audit_log` | append-only activity trail | `actor`, `action`, `entity_type`, `entity_id`, `project_id`, `summary`, `detail` |
 | `notifications` | in-app record + email outbox | `user_id`, `kind`, `wp_id`, `subject`, `status` (pending / sent / failed / skipped) |
@@ -224,18 +224,23 @@ column; frequently-listed fields are promoted to real columns for filtering.
 
 ### Endpoints (summary)
 
-Projects `GET/POST /api/projects`, `GET/DELETE /api/projects/{id}` ·
+Projects `GET/POST /api/projects`, `GET/DELETE /api/projects/{id}`,
+`POST /api/projects/{id}/archive` ·
 SOPs `GET/POST /api/sops`, `GET /api/sops/latest`, `GET/DELETE /api/sops/{id}` ·
 Work Packages `GET/POST /api/wps`, `GET/DELETE /api/wps/{id}`,
 `POST /api/wps/{id}/issue`, `POST /api/wps/{id}/status`, `POST /api/wps/{id}/archive`,
 `GET /api/wps/metrics` ·
 Comments `POST /api/comments` (and `/api/feedback`), `GET /api/comments` ·
 Auth `POST /api/auth/login` / `logout`, `GET /api/auth/me`, admin user management
-under `/api/auth/users` · Admin-only `GET/PUT /api/settings`,
+under `/api/auth/users` (including `POST /api/auth/users/{id}/auto-add`) ·
+Admin-only `GET/PUT /api/settings`,
 `POST /api/settings/test-email`, `GET /api/notifications`,
 `GET /api/projects/{id}/members`.
-List/latest/metrics accept a `project_id` (and `sop_id`) filter. Full reference
+List/latest/metrics accept a `project_id` (and `sop_id`) filter. `GET /api/projects`
-and request shapes: `/api/docs` and [`server/README.md`](server/README.md).
+and `GET /api/wps` both take `archived=exclude|only|all` and **default to
+`exclude`** — anything that needs to see archived rows (the admin console, the demo
+cleanup) must ask for them. Full reference and request shapes: `/api/docs` and
+[`server/README.md`](server/README.md).
 
 ---
 
@@ -416,8 +421,9 @@ not get a second bar.
 - Switching project reloads the current page with `?project=<id>`; every page
   already resolves its project from that parameter.
 - Search calls `GET /api/search?q=`, which is **scoped to the caller's projects**
-  (`scope_to_access`) and hides archived work packages. LIKE wildcards in the query
+  (`scope_to_access`) and hides archived work packages, archived projects, and
-  are escaped, so searching `100%` matches a literal `100%`. Two-character minimum.
+  anything belonging to an archived project. LIKE wildcards in the query are escaped,
+  so searching `100%` matches a literal `100%`. Two-character minimum.
 - Ctrl/Cmd-K focuses the field from anywhere.
 
 ## Schema migrations (Alembic)
@@ -470,6 +476,53 @@ the project's members plus app admins, each with their effective role on that
 project. A project with nobody assigned shows only the admins, which is why
 assigning people is the first step on a new job.
 
+### Default members on new projects
+
+Memberships are also created automatically. **Admin console → Default members on
+new projects** flags accounts (`users.auto_add_projects`) that belong on every job —
+the PM who runs them all, the QC lead — with the role they should hold there
+(`users.auto_add_role`, sharing `project_members.role`'s value space, `''` =
+inherit the account's own).
+
+- It applies **only to projects created after the flag is set**. Nothing is
+  back-filled onto existing jobs; use **Project access** for those.
+- App admins are skipped (they already reach every project) and the flag is cleared
+  if an account is promoted to admin. Inactive accounts are skipped.
+- Runs in `add_default_members()` on the `is_new` branch of `upsert_project`, so it
+  covers every route into project creation — the home page, the sample project, the
+  demo seeder. An update never re-runs it.
+- If the creator is themselves a flagged member, the membership created for them as
+  creator carries their `auto_add_role`, so they aren't silently downgraded on the
+  one job they started.
+- Audit-logged once per project as `project_access_granted` with
+  `detail.reason = "auto_add_projects"`.
+
+## Archiving a project
+
+A finished job is archived rather than deleted: `projects.archived_at`, set from
+**Admin console → Projects** (or `POST /api/projects/{id}/archive`, which needs
+Project Admin **on that project**, same bar as deleting it).
+
+An archived project is **hidden and frozen**:
+
+- It leaves the home picker, the app-bar switcher and global search, because
+  `GET /api/projects` defaults to `archived=exclude`.
+- It is still readable by id, so a deep link renders it — with a read-only banner
+  from `wp-chrome.js` — and the admin console still lists it under
+  `?archived=all`.
+- Every write that lands on it is refused with **409** by
+  `require_project_writable()`: saving a project, SOP or work package, deleting
+  either, issuing, status changes, WP archiving, and comments on its WPs/SOPs.
+  Moving a work package *into* or *out of* an archived project is refused too.
+  409 rather than 403 is deliberate — nobody lacks a permission, the project's state
+  is the objection, and the browser outbox (`html/project-data.js`) retires 4xx ops
+  instead of retrying them forever.
+- Unarchiving and **deleting** stay allowed: unarchive is the one write an archived
+  project must accept, and archive-then-delete is a normal sequence.
+
+Nothing is removed, and unarchiving restores all of it. `server/smoketest.py`
+asserts the whole round trip.
+
 ## Asset freshness (why the app can't run half-updated)
 
 A page must never run against a stylesheet or script from a previous deploy. Three

KNOWN-ISSUES.md

@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+# Known issues — Work Package Suite
+
+Defects and limitations we know about and have decided not to fix yet. An entry
+here is a commitment to a decision, not a bug tracker: it says what is wrong, what
+it costs, why it is still open, and what closing it takes.
+
+Anything genuinely urgent does not belong here — it belongs in the next deploy.
+
+Close an entry by deleting it in the same commit that fixes it.
+
+| # | Issue | Severity | Raised | Status |
+|---|-------|----------|--------|--------|
+| 1 | XSS via SOP discipline names in the WP creator | Medium (internal), High if externally reachable | 2026-08-05 | Open |
+| 2 | Archived projects: the two big apps don't grey out their own controls | Low | 2026-08-05 | Open |
+
+---
+
+## 1. XSS via SOP discipline names in the WP creator
+
+**Files:** `html/wp-creation-app.js` lines 684, 723, 727, 729 · escaping helper at
+line 63
+**Predates:** the 2026-08-05 archive/admin-console work. Not introduced by it.
+
+### What is wrong
+
+Discipline names are rendered into inline event handlers escaped with `esc()`,
+which maps `'` to `'`. That is correct for text and wrong here. The browser
+decodes entities in an attribute value **before** the JavaScript parser sees it, so
+`'` becomes a bare `'` inside the handler's string literal and closes it early.
+
+```js
+// html/wp-creation-app.js:684 — esc() is not sufficient for a handler argument
+onchange="toggleDiscipline('${esc(d)}',this.checked)"
+```
+
+Escaping for an inline handler has to happen in this order: **backslash, then
+quote** (for the JS string literal), **then HTML** (for the attribute carrying it).
+`esc()` only does the last part.
+
+### How it is reached
+
+1. `gov_disciplines` (`html/work-package-suite.html:219`) is a free-text field. Its
+   value is comma-split with no validation at `work-package-suite-app.js:1224`.
+2. It is saved into `sops.data` and syncs to the server via `ProjectData.pushSOP`.
+3. Every other member of that project pulls it with `pullProject()` and renders it
+   in the WP creator — so this is **stored** and **cross-user**, and it fires on
+   page load rather than needing the victim to click anything.
+
+Any **project_user** on the job can set it while the SOP is a draft (after the SOP
+is marked complete it takes project_admin). The victim is anyone who opens the WP
+creator for that project, which includes administrators.
+
+### What it costs
+
+**The likely cost is a broken screen, not an attack.** A discipline named
+`Owner's Equipment` — an ordinary thing to type — produces a syntax error in the
+handler, so the discipline pill and its scope-step buttons silently stop
+responding. No error message, nothing a field user can diagnose.
+
+**The security ceiling is project_user → admin.** The session cookie is HttpOnly so
+the token cannot be read, but the injected code does not need it: it runs in the
+victim's page and can call any API the victim can, including
+`POST /api/auth/users/{id}/role`.
+
+Two controls that look like they would contain this do not:
+
+- **CSP does not mitigate it.** `nginx-wp-suite.conf:58` serves
+  `script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'`, and `'unsafe-inline'` is what permits inline
+  event handlers in the first place.
+- **The CSRF gate does not mitigate it.** `_csrf_ok` (`server/app.py:67`) only
+  requires a same-origin `Origin`, and code running inside our own page is
+  same-origin.
+
+### Why it is still open
+
+The suite is internal, behind a login, on the corporate network, with a small set
+of named employee accounts and no anonymous input path. Exploiting it means an
+employee deliberately attacking colleagues, and the audit log carries their name on
+the SOP edit. The accidental-breakage case is far more likely to be met than the
+malicious one.
+
+**Re-rate this as High and fix it immediately if any of these become true:** the
+suite is exposed outside the corporate network, accounts are issued to
+subcontractors or clients, or self-registration is added.
+
+### What closing it takes
+
+Small — roughly half an hour. The helper already exists; it was added to the SOP
+builder on 2026-08-05 for the same bug in custom constraint names:
+
+```js
+// html/work-package-suite-app.js:1120
+function escHandlerArg(v){ return escAttr(String(v==null?'':v).replace(/\\/g,'\\\\').replace(/'/g,"\\'")); }
+```
+
+1. Add the same helper to `html/wp-creation-app.js` alongside `esc()`.
+2. Use it at lines 684, 723, 727 and 729 in place of `esc(d)`.
+3. Sweep the other inline handlers in that file for the same pattern. The remaining
+   ones interpolate server-generated ids that `check_id()` already constrains to a
+   safe charset, or hardcoded enum values, so they are not currently reachable —
+   converting them anyway keeps the pattern from coming back.
+4. Confirm with a discipline named `Owner's Equipment`: the pill must respond to
+   clicks and the name must display intact.
+
+The equivalent fix on the admin side is `jsq()` in `html/admin.js` — same ordering,
+same reasoning, worth reading before starting.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Archived projects: the two big apps don't grey out their own controls
+
+**Files:** `html/wp-creation-app.js`, `html/work-package-suite-app.js`
+**Raised:** 2026-08-05, with the project-archiving work.
+
+### What is wrong
+
+Archiving a project freezes it server-side — every write returns 409 (see
+`require_project_writable` in `server/app.py`, and the *Archiving a project*
+section of `DEPLOYMENT.md`). The front end tells the user, but does not stop them:
+`wp-chrome.js` shows a read-only banner and sets `data-wp-archived="1"` on the
+document element, and nothing reads that attribute yet. So on an archived project
+the WP creator and the SOP builder still present working Save and Issue buttons.
+
+### What it costs
+
+Low, and it fails safe — the server refuses the write, so nothing is corrupted and
+no data is lost. The cost is wasted effort and a confusing moment: someone deep-
+linked to an archived job can fill in a form and only learn it was refused when the
+sync indicator reports the change did not save.
+
+Reaching an archived project at all takes a deep link or a stale tab, since it is
+gone from every picker, switcher and search — which is why this is a rough edge
+rather than a defect.
+
+### Why it is still open
+
+Gating every control in two large single-page apps is materially bigger than the
+archive feature itself, and the server is the real enforcement boundary either way.
+The banner plus the sync indicator were judged enough for a first release.
+
+### What closing it takes
+
+`data-wp-archived` is already on the document element for exactly this purpose.
+Either add `[data-wp-archived]` rules in `wp-chrome.css` that disable and dim the
+save/issue controls, or add a boot check in each app that disables them and shows a
+read-only notice inline. Decide separately how the embedded creator
+(`wp-creation-index.html`) surfaces it, since it runs in an iframe where the shared
+app bar — and therefore the banner — is deliberately skipped.

docker-compose.yml

@@ -35,12 +35,22 @@ services:
       # default and enabled from the Admin console; this is the only email
       # secret and it is never stored in the DB. Leave unset until configured.
       SMTP_PASSWORD: ${SMTP_PASSWORD:-}
+      # Optional — read-only SQL Server connection to the Micron asset catalog,
+      # which backs the asset picker in the work package creator. Leave unset and
+      # the picker cleanly falls back to manual entry (see server/assets_db.py).
+      # Use a db_datareader login: the app only ever SELECTs.
+      MICRON_DB_URL: ${MICRON_DB_URL:-}
     restart: unless-stopped
     depends_on:
       db:
         condition: service_healthy        # waits for postgres to accept connections
     networks:
       - internal
+      # Reaching the Micron database means leaving this compose project, and
+      # `internal` is deliberately egress-free. `outbound` is attached to the api
+      # container ONLY — the database and backup containers stay sealed. Detach it
+      # again if you are not using the Micron asset picker.
+      - outbound
 
   db:
     image: postgres:16-alpine
@@ -82,7 +92,6 @@ services:
     volumes:
       - ./scripts:/scripts:ro
       - ./backups:/backups
-    entrypoint: ["/bin/sh", "/scripts/backup-cron.sh"]
     restart: unless-stopped
     depends_on:
       db:
@@ -99,4 +108,12 @@ networks:
     name: proxy
     external: true
   internal:
-    internal: true    # no outbound internet access from api/db
+    internal: true    # no route off the host for anything on this network alone
+  outbound:
+    # An ordinary bridge network, i.e. one that HAS a default gateway. `internal`
+    # above removes the gateway entirely, which blocks not just the internet but
+    # the LAN and the VPN too — so the api container needs this second network to
+    # reach the Micron asset database. Attached to `api` alone: `db` and `backup`
+    # remain on `internal` only and still have no way off the host.
+    # Detach it from api if you are not using the Micron asset picker.
+    driver: bridge

html/admin.html

@@ -14,58 +14,198 @@
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="theme-light.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="wp-chrome.css">
 <style>
+  /* ══ TOKENS ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+     The console is the only page in the suite that is mostly dense tables, so
+     it carries its own sheet. The palette, the square corners and the type are
+     Carbon's — the same ones theme-light.css sets — so it still reads as one
+     product with the rest of the suite. Two scales do all the spacing and all
+     the control sizing; nothing in here should invent its own. */
   :root{ --bg:#f4f4f4; --surface:#fff; --border:#e0e0e0; --border-strong:#8d8d8d; --text:#161616;
-    --muted:#525252; --dim:#8d8d8d; --accent:#0f62fe; --green:#198038; --green-bg:#defbe6;
+    --muted:#525252; --dim:#8d8d8d; --accent:#0f62fe; --accent-hover:#0353e9; --accent-soft:#edf5ff;
-    --red:#da1e28; --red-bg:#fff1f1; --amber:#8e6a00; --amber-bg:#fdf6dd; --mono:'IBM Plex Mono','Cascadia Mono',Consolas,monospace; }
+    --green:#198038; --green-bg:#defbe6;
+    --red:#da1e28; --red-bg:#fff1f1; --amber:#8e6a00; --amber-bg:#fdf6dd;
+    --head-bg:#f4f4f4; --zebra:#fafafa; --row-hover:#eef0f2;
+    --mono:'IBM Plex Mono','Cascadia Mono',Consolas,monospace;
+    --s1:4px; --s2:8px; --s3:12px; --s4:16px; --s5:20px; --s6:28px;
+    --ctl:32px;        /* every button / input / select that sits in a form row */
+    --ctl-sm:26px; }   /* every control that sits inside a table cell */
   *{ box-sizing:border-box; }
   body{ margin:0; font-family:'IBM Plex Sans',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,sans-serif; background:var(--bg); color:var(--text); }
-  .wrap{ max-width:860px; margin:0 auto; padding:28px 20px 80px; }
+
-  h1{ font-size:20px; margin:0 0 2px; }
+  /* ══ PAGE ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-  .sub{ color:var(--muted); font-size:13px; margin-bottom:18px; }
+     1240px, not 860: the user table is nine columns wide and at 860 it spilled
-  .card{ background:var(--surface); border:1px solid var(--border); border-radius:0; padding:18px 20px; margin-bottom:16px; }
+     straight out of its own white card. Wide enough for that table, still a
-  .card h2{ font-size:14px; margin:0 0 12px; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:.03em; color:var(--accent); }
+     readable measure for the prose, which is capped separately. */
-  button{ font:inherit; font-size:13px; font-weight:600; border-radius:0; padding:8px 14px; cursor:pointer;
+  .wrap{ max-width:1240px; margin:0 auto; padding:var(--s6) var(--s5) 80px; }
+  h1{ font-size:20px; line-height:1.2; margin:0 0 2px; }
+  .sub{ color:var(--muted); font-size:13px; line-height:1.5; margin:0 0 var(--s3); max-width:96ch; }
+  a.home{ color:var(--accent); font-size:13px; text-decoration:none; white-space:nowrap; }
+  a.home:hover{ text-decoration:underline; }
+
+  /* ══ CARDS ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ */
+  .card{ background:var(--surface); border:1px solid var(--border); border-radius:0;
+    padding:var(--s4) var(--s5) var(--s5); margin-bottom:var(--s4); }
+  /* One card header everywhere: small uppercase accent label on a hairline.
+     admin.js also emits h2 for sub-sections inside a card (Localization
+     defaults, Step views, Actions) with an inline margin-top — the same
+     treatment reads correctly as a divider there, so both get it. */
+  .card h2{ font-size:12px; font-weight:600; letter-spacing:.08em; text-transform:uppercase;
+    color:var(--accent); margin:0 0 var(--s3); padding-bottom:var(--s2); border-bottom:1px solid var(--border); }
+  .wrap code{ font-family:var(--mono); font-size:.92em; background:var(--bg); padding:1px 4px; }
+
+  /* ══ CONTROLS ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+     Every button, input and select in a form row is exactly --ctl tall, so a
+     toolbar is one clean band instead of a ragged one. */
+  button{ font:inherit; font-size:13px; font-weight:600; line-height:1; white-space:nowrap;
+    height:var(--ctl); padding:0 var(--s3); border-radius:0; cursor:pointer;
     border:1px solid var(--border-strong); background:#fff; color:var(--text); }
   button:hover{ border-color:var(--accent); color:var(--accent); }
+  button:focus-visible{ outline:2px solid var(--accent); outline-offset:-3px; }
+  button:disabled, button:disabled:hover{ color:var(--dim); border-color:var(--border); background:#fff; cursor:default; }
   button.primary{ background:var(--accent); border-color:var(--accent); color:#fff; }
-  button.primary:hover{ background:#1e54bb; color:#fff; }
+  button.primary:hover{ background:var(--accent-hover); border-color:var(--accent-hover); color:#fff; }
   button.danger{ border-color:var(--red); color:var(--red); }
-  button.danger:hover{ background:var(--red-bg); }
+  button.danger:hover{ background:var(--red-bg); border-color:var(--red); color:var(--red); }
-  .row{ display:flex; gap:10px; flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; }
+  .row{ display:flex; gap:var(--s2); flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; }
-  .banner{ padding:10px 14px; border-radius:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:600; margin-top:10px; border:1px solid var(--border); background:var(--surface); }
+  /* The filter / search / button strip at the top of a card. */
-  .banner.ok{ background:var(--green-bg); color:var(--green); border-color:var(--green); }
+  .toolbar{ display:flex; gap:var(--s2); flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; margin:0 0 var(--s3); }
-  .banner.bad{ background:var(--red-bg); color:var(--red); border-color:var(--red); }
+  .toolbar + .banner{ margin-top:0; }
-  pre.out{ background:#0f1525; color:#d7e0f5; border-radius:0; padding:12px 14px; font-family:var(--mono);
+  .urow{ display:flex; gap:var(--s2); flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; }
-    font-size:12px; line-height:1.55; white-space:pre-wrap; max-height:340px; overflow:auto; margin:12px 0 0; }
+  /* Checkboxes are excluded: they are drawn by the platform and want none of a
+     text field's height, padding or border. */
+  .toolbar input:not([type=checkbox]), .toolbar select,
+  .urow input:not([type=checkbox]), .urow select{
+    height:var(--ctl); padding:0 var(--s2); font:inherit; font-size:13px; line-height:normal;
+    border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:0; background:#fff; color:var(--text); }
+  .toolbar select, .urow select{ cursor:pointer; padding-right:var(--s1); }
+  .toolbar input:focus-visible, .toolbar select:focus-visible,
+  .urow input:focus-visible, .urow select:focus-visible{ outline:2px solid var(--accent); outline-offset:-2px; }
+  .toolbar > input{ flex:1 1 240px; min-width:150px; }
+  .urow input:not([type=checkbox]){ flex:1 1 140px; min-width:0; }
+  /* Inline checkbox + label, sized to sit on the same line as the buttons. */
+  .chk{ display:inline-flex; align-items:center; gap:var(--s2); height:var(--ctl); padding:0 var(--s1);
+    font-size:13px; color:var(--muted); white-space:nowrap; cursor:pointer; }
+  .chk input{ width:16px; height:16px; margin:0; accent-color:var(--accent); cursor:pointer; }
+
+  /* ══ FEEDBACK: banners, notes, console output, key/value ═════════════════ */
+  .banner{ margin:var(--s3) 0 0; padding:9px var(--s3); border-radius:0; font-size:13px; font-weight:600;
+    line-height:1.4; border:1px solid var(--border); border-left:3px solid var(--border-strong);
+    background:var(--surface); color:var(--text); }
+  .banner.ok{ background:var(--green-bg); color:var(--green); border-color:#a7f0ba; border-left-color:var(--green); }
+  .banner.bad{ background:var(--red-bg); color:var(--red); border-color:#ffd7d9; border-left-color:var(--red); }
+  /* These three start life as empty divs that admin.js fills on demand, so they
+     only earn their gap once they are actually saying something. */
+  #users-banner:not(:empty), #projects-banner:not(:empty), #defmem-banner:not(:empty){ margin-bottom:var(--s3); }
+  /* --muted, not --dim: #8d8d8d on white is 3.3:1, under the 4.5:1 floor at 12px,
+     and #features-box / #settings-box are themselves .note — their primary toggle
+     labels inherit this colour. */
+  .note{ font-size:12px; line-height:1.55; color:var(--muted); margin-top:var(--s2); }
+  .note strong, .note em{ color:var(--text); }
+  pre.out{ background:#0f1525; color:#d7e0f5; border-radius:0; padding:var(--s3) var(--s4); font-family:var(--mono);
+    font-size:12px; line-height:1.55; white-space:pre-wrap; max-height:340px; overflow:auto; margin:var(--s3) 0 0; }
   pre.out .p{ color:#56d364; font-weight:700; } pre.out .f{ color:#ff7b72; font-weight:700; }
-  table.kv{ border-collapse:collapse; font-size:13px; margin-top:8px; }
+  table.kv{ border-collapse:collapse; font-size:13px; margin-top:var(--s2); }
-  table.kv th{ text-align:left; padding:5px 18px 5px 0; color:var(--muted); font-weight:600; }
+  table.kv th{ text-align:left; padding:var(--s1) var(--s5) var(--s1) 0; color:var(--muted); font-weight:600; white-space:nowrap; }
-  table.kv td{ padding:5px 0; font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums; font-weight:700; }
+  table.kv td{ padding:var(--s1) 0; font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums; font-weight:700; color:var(--text); }
-  .note{ font-size:12px; color:var(--dim); margin-top:10px; }
+
-  .gate-overlay{ position:fixed; inset:0; background:var(--bg); display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center; padding:20px; }
+  /* ══ DATA TABLES ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-  .gate-box{ background:var(--surface); border:1px solid var(--border); border-radius:0; padding:28px; max-width:380px; width:100%; box-shadow:0 8px 30px rgba(20,30,50,.12); }
+     table.users is the name admin.js already emits; table.grid is the same
-  .gate-box h2{ margin:0 0 4px; font-size:17px; }
+     object under the shared name. One rule set serves both, so existing markup
-  .gate-box p{ color:var(--muted); font-size:13px; margin:0 0 16px; }
+     picks up the dense styling without being rewritten. border-collapse is
-  .gate-box input{ width:100%; padding:10px 12px; font-size:14px; border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:0; margin-bottom:12px; }
+     separate rather than collapse because a collapsed border does not travel
-  .gate-msg{ color:var(--red); font-size:12px; min-height:16px; margin-bottom:8px; }
+     with a sticky header. */
-  .secwarn{ background:var(--amber-bg); color:var(--amber); border:1px solid var(--amber); border-radius:0; padding:9px 13px; font-size:12px; margin-bottom:16px; }
+  table.grid, table.users{ width:100%; border-collapse:separate; border-spacing:0;
-  a.home{ color:var(--accent); font-size:13px; text-decoration:none; }
+    font-size:13px; color:var(--text); background:var(--surface); }
-  .urow{ display:flex; gap:8px; flex-wrap:wrap; align-items:center; }
+  table.grid th, table.users th{ position:sticky; top:0; z-index:2; background:var(--head-bg);
-  .urow input, .urow select{ padding:8px 10px; font:inherit; font-size:13px; border:1px solid var(--border-strong);
+    text-align:left; padding:var(--s2) var(--s3); white-space:nowrap;
-    border-radius:0; background:#fff; color:var(--text); }
+    font-size:11px; font-weight:600; letter-spacing:.04em; text-transform:uppercase; color:var(--muted);
-  .urow input{ flex:1; min-width:130px; }
+    box-shadow:inset 0 -1px 0 var(--border); }
-  table.users{ border-collapse:collapse; width:100%; font-size:13px; }
+  /* Cells never wrap: a wrapped cell turns one user into a 100px tall band and
-  table.users th{ text-align:left; padding:7px 10px; color:var(--muted); font-weight:600; border-bottom:1px solid var(--border); white-space:nowrap; }
+     the table stops reading as rows. Anything genuinely long truncates (.ell)
-  table.users td{ padding:7px 10px; border-bottom:1px solid var(--border); vertical-align:middle; }
+     or is exempted by name further down. */
-  table.users tr:last-child td{ border-bottom:none; }
+  table.grid td, table.users td{ padding:var(--s1) var(--s3); border-bottom:1px solid var(--border);
-  .tag{ display:inline-block; padding:1px 9px; border-radius:11px; font-size:11px; font-weight:700; }
+    vertical-align:middle; white-space:nowrap; }
-  .tag.admin{ background:#edf5ff; color:#0f62fe; } .tag.user{ background:#e8e8e8; color:#525252; }
+  table.grid tbody tr:last-child td, table.users tbody tr:last-child td{ border-bottom:none; }
-  .tag.on{ background:var(--green-bg); color:var(--green); } .tag.off{ background:var(--red-bg); color:var(--red); }
+  table.grid tbody tr:nth-child(even) td, table.users tbody tr:nth-child(even) td{ background:var(--zebra); }
-  button.mini{ padding:4px 9px; font-size:12px; }
+  /* A neutral hover, not --accent-soft: that is .tag.admin's fill, and an "all
-  .me-tag{ font-size:11px; color:var(--dim); margin-left:6px; }
+     projects" pill sitting on its own colour disappears the moment you hover it. */
-  select.role-select{ padding:4px 8px; font:inherit; font-size:12px; border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:0; background:#fff; color:var(--text); cursor:pointer; }
+  table.grid tbody tr:hover td, table.users tbody tr:hover td{ background:var(--row-hover); }
+  /* Truncation has to hang off a block INSIDE the cell. max-width on a <td> is
+     advisory under table-layout:auto — the cell just grows to fit and the ellipsis
+     never appears, which is the usual reason this trick looks like it works in the
+     stylesheet and doesn't on the page. admin.js emits <td class="ell"><span>. */
+  .ell{ max-width:240px; }
+  .ell > span{ display:block; max-width:240px; overflow:hidden; text-overflow:ellipsis;
+    white-space:nowrap; }
+  /* Every action cell admin.js renders is a .cellactions, and it must not wrap:
+     unwrapped, the three buttons stack and the row grows fourfold — which is what
+     the console looked like before this pass. */
+  .cellactions{ display:flex; flex-wrap:nowrap; align-items:center; gap:var(--s1); white-space:nowrap; }
+  /* Controls that live in a cell are one step smaller, which is what keeps a
+     row at ~34px instead of ~100px. .chk is form-row sized by default, so it needs
+     saying again here or the default-members rows stand 6px taller than the rest. */
+  button.mini{ height:var(--ctl-sm); padding:0 var(--s2); font-size:12px; }
+  table.grid td .chk, table.users td .chk{ height:var(--ctl-sm); }
+  select.role-select{ height:var(--ctl-sm); max-width:170px; padding:0 var(--s1) 0 var(--s2);
+    font:inherit; font-size:12px; border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:0;
+    background:#fff; color:var(--text); cursor:pointer; }
   select.role-select:hover{ border-color:var(--accent); }
-  select.role-select.is-admin{ color:var(--accent); border-color:var(--accent); font-weight:700; }
+  select.role-select.is-admin{ color:var(--accent); border-color:var(--accent); font-weight:600; }
+  .tag{ display:inline-block; padding:1px 8px; border-radius:11px; font-size:11px; font-weight:600;
+    line-height:1.55; white-space:nowrap; vertical-align:middle; }
+  .tag.admin{ background:var(--accent-soft); color:var(--accent); }
+  .tag.user{ background:#e8e8e8; color:var(--muted); }
+  .tag.on{ background:var(--green-bg); color:var(--green); }
+  .tag.off{ background:var(--red-bg); color:var(--red); }
+  .tag.archived{ background:var(--amber-bg); color:var(--amber); }
+  .me-tag{ font-size:11px; color:var(--dim); margin-left:6px; white-space:nowrap; }
+
+  /* A wide table scrolls inside its own box so the page never scrolls sideways,
+     and the capped height is what gives the sticky header something to do. Every
+     container admin.js paints a table into is one, so a sticky header always has
+     a scrollport of its own rather than sliding up behind the app bar. */
+  .tscroll, #users-table, #comments-admin, #audit-admin, #notif-box, #usage-admin,
+  #projects-table, #defmem-table{
+    overflow:auto; max-height:min(70vh,640px); overscroll-behavior:contain; }
+  /* If admin.js wraps its table in its own .tscroll, the outer box steps aside
+     so one table never ends up with two scrollbars. */
+  #users-table:has(.tscroll), #comments-admin:has(.tscroll), #audit-admin:has(.tscroll),
+  #notif-box:has(.tscroll), #usage-admin:has(.tscroll), #projects-table:has(.tscroll),
+  #defmem-table:has(.tscroll){
+    overflow:visible; max-height:none; }
+
+  /* Column exceptions, addressed by card because admin.js emits these tables
+     without per-cell classes. Email is the one user cell long enough to stretch
+     a row, so it truncates; comment text and audit detail are the two columns
+     you are actually here to read, so they wrap inside a sane width instead. */
+  #users-table table.users td:nth-child(3){ max-width:230px; overflow:hidden; text-overflow:ellipsis; }
+  #comments-admin table.users td:nth-child(5){ white-space:normal; min-width:260px; max-width:640px; }
+  #audit-admin table.users td:nth-child(6){ white-space:normal; max-width:420px; }
+
+  /* ══ GATES & WARNINGS ════════════════════════════════════════════════════ */
+  .gate-overlay{ position:fixed; inset:0; background:var(--bg); display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center; padding:var(--s5); z-index:9999; }
+  .gate-box{ background:var(--surface); border:1px solid var(--border); border-radius:0; padding:var(--s6); max-width:380px; width:100%; box-shadow:0 8px 30px rgba(20,30,50,.12); }
+  .gate-box h2{ margin:0 0 var(--s1); padding:0; border:0; font-size:17px; text-transform:none; letter-spacing:0; color:var(--text); }
+  .gate-box p{ color:var(--muted); font-size:13px; margin:0 0 var(--s4); }
+  .gate-box input{ width:100%; height:var(--ctl); padding:0 var(--s3); font:inherit; font-size:14px; border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:0; margin-bottom:var(--s3); }
+  .gate-msg{ color:var(--red); font-size:12px; min-height:16px; margin-bottom:var(--s2); }
+  .secwarn{ background:var(--amber-bg); color:var(--amber); border:1px solid var(--amber); border-radius:0; padding:9px 13px; font-size:12px; margin-bottom:var(--s4); }
+  /* The denial notice is a sentence, not a table — don't stretch it to 1240px. */
+  #admin-denied .card{ max-width:560px; }
+
+  /* ══ NARROW SCREENS ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+     The page itself must never scroll sideways; the wide tables scroll inside
+     their own box instead, and there they get the full page height to do it. */
+  @media (max-width:900px){
+    .wrap{ padding:var(--s4) var(--s3) 60px; }
+    .card{ padding:var(--s3) var(--s4) var(--s4); }
+    .toolbar > input{ flex:1 1 100%; }
+    .tscroll, #users-table, #comments-admin, #audit-admin, #notif-box, #usage-admin,
+    #projects-table, #defmem-table{ max-height:none; }
+  }
+  @media (max-width:620px){
+    .urow input, .urow select, .urow button{ flex:1 1 100%; }
+  }
 </style>
 </head>
 <body>
@@ -82,34 +222,34 @@
 <div class="wrap" id="admin-denied" style="display:none">
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Admins only</h2>
-    <p class="sub" style="margin:0 0 12px">Your account doesn’t have admin access. Sign in with an admin account, or ask an administrator to grant you the admin role.</p>
+    <p class="sub">Your account doesn’t have admin access. Sign in with an admin account, or ask an administrator to grant you the admin role.</p>
     <div class="row"><a class="home" href="index.html">← Back to site</a> <button onclick="wpLogout()">Sign out</button></div>
   </div>
 </div>
 
 <!-- CONSOLE -->
 <div class="wrap" id="admin-main" style="display:none">
-  <div class="row" style="justify-content:space-between">
+  <div class="row" style="justify-content:space-between; margin-bottom:var(--s5)">
-    <div><h1>Admin Console</h1><div class="sub">Stack diagnostics &amp; tests · talks to <code>/api</code> on this host</div></div>
+    <div><h1>Admin Console</h1><div class="sub" style="margin:0">Stack diagnostics &amp; tests · talks to <code>/api</code> on this host</div></div>
     <div class="row"><a class="home" href="index.html">← Site</a></div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- CONNECTIVITY -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>API connectivity</h2>
-    <div class="row"><button class="primary" onclick="checkHealth()">Check /api/health</button></div>
+    <div class="toolbar"><button class="primary" onclick="checkHealth()">Check /api/health</button></div>
     <div class="banner" id="health-banner">—</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- USER ADMINISTRATION -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>User administration</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Login accounts for the portal. Requires an <strong>admin</strong> role on your own account.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Login accounts for the portal. Requires an <strong>admin</strong> role on your own account.</div>
-    <div class="row"><button onclick="loadUsers()">Refresh users</button></div>
+    <div class="toolbar"><button onclick="loadUsers()">Refresh users</button></div>
     <div id="users-banner"></div>
-    <div id="users-table" style="margin-top:12px"></div>
+    <div id="users-table"></div>
 
-    <h2 style="margin-top:22px">Add a user</h2>
+    <h2 style="margin-top:var(--s6)">Add a user</h2>
     <div class="urow">
       <input id="nu-username" placeholder="Username *" autocomplete="off">
       <input id="nu-fullname" placeholder="Full name" autocomplete="off">
@@ -126,17 +266,44 @@
     <div id="users-create-msg" class="note"></div>
   </div>
 
+  <!-- PROJECTS (ARCHIVE / UNARCHIVE) -->
+  <div class="card">
+    <h2>Projects</h2>
+    <div class="sub">Archiving a project hides it from every picker, switcher and search, and freezes it
+      read-only — nothing is deleted and every work package, SOP and comment is kept exactly as it is.
+      Unarchive here to bring it back; the project returns unchanged.</div>
+    <div class="toolbar">
+      <button onclick="loadProjects()">Refresh projects</button>
+      <label class="chk"><input type="checkbox" id="proj-show-archived" onchange="renderProjects()"> Show archived</label>
+      <input id="proj-search" placeholder="Search name / number / client…" oninput="renderProjects()">
+    </div>
+    <div id="projects-banner"></div>
+    <div id="projects-table"><div class="note">Click “Refresh projects” to load.</div></div>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- DEFAULT MEMBERS ON NEW PROJECTS -->
+  <div class="card">
+    <h2>Default members on new projects</h2>
+    <div class="sub">Everyone flagged here is added automatically to every project created from now on,
+      with the role chosen here. It does not touch projects that already exist — for those, use
+      <strong>Project access</strong> in the user table above. Administrators are listed with nothing
+      to set: they already reach every project.</div>
+    <div class="toolbar"><button onclick="loadDefaultMembers()">Refresh</button></div>
+    <div id="defmem-banner"></div>
+    <div id="defmem-table"><div class="note">Click “Refresh” to load.</div></div>
+  </div>
+
   <!-- FEATURE FLAGS -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Features</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Switches that change what the suite offers on every project.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Switches that change what the suite offers on every project.</div>
     <div id="features-box" class="note">Loading…</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- NOTIFICATIONS / EMAIL -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Notifications &amp; email</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Email notifications for work-package assignments, and self-service password resets. <strong>Off by default</strong> — turn this on only once SMTP is configured. The SMTP <strong>password</strong> is read from the <code>SMTP_PASSWORD</code> environment variable and is never stored here.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Email notifications for work-package assignments, and self-service password resets. <strong>Off by default</strong> — turn this on only once SMTP is configured. The SMTP <strong>password</strong> is read from the <code>SMTP_PASSWORD</code> environment variable and is never stored here.</div>
     <div id="settings-box" class="note">Loading…</div>
     <div id="notif-box" class="note" style="margin-top:14px"></div>
   </div>
@@ -144,20 +311,20 @@
   <!-- ALL FEEDBACK / COMMENTS -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>All feedback &amp; comments</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Every comment submitted across the suite — who wrote it, what they said, and where they were (page &amp; step) when they commented.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Every comment submitted across the suite — who wrote it, what they said, and where they were (page &amp; step) when they commented.</div>
-    <div class="row">
+    <div class="toolbar">
       <button onclick="loadComments()">Refresh comments</button>
       <select id="cmt-filter" onchange="renderComments()"><option value="">All sources</option></select>
-      <input id="cmt-search" placeholder="Search text / author…" oninput="renderComments()" style="flex:1;min-width:160px;padding:8px 10px;font:inherit;font-size:13px;border:1px solid var(--border-strong);border-radius:0;">
+      <input id="cmt-search" placeholder="Search text / author…" oninput="renderComments()">
     </div>
-    <div id="comments-admin" class="note" style="margin-top:12px">Click refresh to load.</div>
+    <div id="comments-admin" class="note">Click refresh to load.</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- ACTIVITY LOG (AUDIT TRAIL) -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Activity log</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Who changed what, and when — across projects, SOPs, work packages, and user accounts. Stored server-side in the shared database.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Who changed what, and when — across projects, SOPs, work packages, and user accounts. Stored server-side in the shared database.</div>
-    <div class="row">
+    <div class="toolbar">
       <button onclick="loadAudit()">Refresh</button>
       <select id="audit-type" onchange="renderAudit()">
         <option value="">All types</option>
@@ -166,42 +333,42 @@
         <option value="project">Projects</option>
         <option value="user">User accounts</option>
       </select>
-      <input id="audit-search" placeholder="Search actor / action / item…" oninput="renderAudit()" style="flex:1;min-width:160px;padding:8px 10px;font:inherit;font-size:13px;border:1px solid var(--border-strong);border-radius:0;">
+      <input id="audit-search" placeholder="Search actor / action / item…" oninput="renderAudit()">
     </div>
-    <div id="audit-admin" class="note" style="margin-top:12px">Click refresh to load.</div>
+    <div id="audit-admin" class="note">Click refresh to load.</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- USAGE LOGS -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Usage logs</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:10px">Engagement recorded by the suite — sessions, step views, and actions. Note: stored locally per browser, so this reflects activity on <strong>this</strong> machine.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Engagement recorded by the suite — sessions, step views, and actions. Note: stored locally per browser, so this reflects activity on <strong>this</strong> machine.</div>
-    <div class="row">
+    <div class="toolbar">
       <button onclick="loadUsage()">Refresh</button>
       <button onclick="downloadUsage()">Download JSON</button>
     </div>
-    <div id="usage-admin" class="note" style="margin-top:12px">Click refresh to load.</div>
+    <div id="usage-admin" class="note">Click refresh to load.</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- DB SNAPSHOT -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Database snapshot</h2>
-    <div class="row"><button onclick="snapshot()">Refresh counts</button></div>
+    <div class="toolbar"><button onclick="snapshot()">Refresh counts</button></div>
     <div id="snapshot-out" class="note">Click refresh to read row counts from SQL via the API.</div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- SMOKE TEST -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>End-to-end smoke test</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:8px">Creates a throwaway project, exercises the issue gate / status / metrics / comments, then deletes it (cascade). Mirrors <code>server/smoketest.py</code>.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Creates a throwaway project, exercises the issue gate / status / metrics / comments, then deletes it (cascade). Mirrors <code>server/smoketest.py</code>.</div>
-    <div class="row"><button class="primary" onclick="runSmokeTest()">Run smoke test</button></div>
+    <div class="toolbar"><button class="primary" onclick="runSmokeTest()">Run smoke test</button></div>
     <pre class="out" id="smoke-out">Ready.</pre>
   </div>
 
   <!-- DEMO DATA -->
   <div class="card">
     <h2>Demo data</h2>
-    <div class="sub" style="margin-bottom:8px">Seed a realistic <code>DEMO</code> project (SOP + a spread of Work Packages) into SQL, or remove all <code>DEMO-</code>/<code>SMOKE-</code> projects.</div>
+    <div class="sub">Seed a realistic <code>DEMO</code> project (SOP + a spread of Work Packages) into SQL, or remove all <code>DEMO-</code>/<code>SMOKE-</code> projects.</div>
-    <div class="row">
+    <div class="toolbar">
       <button class="primary" onclick="seedDemo()">Seed demo project</button>
       <button class="danger" onclick="cleanDemo()">Clean DEMO / SMOKE projects</button>
     </div>

html/admin.js

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ function reveal(){
   fillProjectRoleOptions();
   checkHealth();
   loadUsers();
+  loadProjects();
+  loadDefaultMembers();
   loadSettings();
   loadNotifications();
   loadComments();
@@ -53,15 +55,18 @@ async function checkHealth(){
 // ── db snapshot ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 async function snapshot(){
   const out = document.getElementById('snapshot-out'); out.textContent='Loading…';
+  // archived=all: /api/projects now hides archived projects by default, and a row
+  // count that silently drops them is not a snapshot of the database.
   const [p,s,w,c] = await Promise.all([
-    api('GET','/api/projects'), api('GET','/api/sops'),
+    api('GET','/api/projects?archived=all'), api('GET','/api/sops'),
     api('GET','/api/wps'), api('GET','/api/comments')]);
   if(p.status!==200){
     out.innerHTML = `<div class="banner bad">API not reachable (HTTP ${p.status}). Fix /api/ routing first.</div>`; return;
   }
   const n = r => Array.isArray(r.json) ? r.json.length : ('err '+r.status);
+  const archived = Array.isArray(p.json) ? p.json.filter(x => x && x.archived).length : 0;
   out.innerHTML = `<table class="kv">
-    <tr><th>Projects</th><td>${n(p)}</td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Projects</th><td>${n(p)}${archived ? ` <span class="note">(${archived} archived)</span>` : ''}</td></tr>
     <tr><th>SOPs</th><td>${n(s)}</td></tr>
     <tr><th>Work Packages</th><td>${n(w)}</td></tr>
     <tr><th>Comments</th><td>${n(c)}</td></tr></table>`;
@@ -95,6 +100,14 @@ async function runSmokeTest(){
     r = await api('GET','/api/wps/metrics?project_id='+pid); chk('metrics aggregate', r.status===200 && r.json && r.json.total>=1, JSON.stringify(r.json));
     r = await api('POST','/api/feedback',{type:'wp_review_comment',name:'admin-console',wp_id:wid,text:'SMOKE TEST comment — safe to delete'}); chk('post comment', r.status===200 && !!(r.json && r.json.id));
     r = await api('GET','/api/wps?project_id='+pid); chk('list WPs by project', r.status===200 && r.json.some(w=>w.id===wid));
+    // Archive round-trip: out of the default list, still there with archived=all,
+    // frozen against writes, and all three undone by unarchiving.
+    r = await api('POST','/api/projects/'+pid+'/archive',{archived:true}); chk('archive project', r.status===200 && r.json.archived===true, 'status '+r.status);
+    r = await api('GET','/api/projects'); chk('archived project leaves the default list', r.status===200 && !r.json.some(p=>p.id===pid));
+    r = await api('GET','/api/projects?archived=all'); chk('archived project visible with archived=all', r.status===200 && r.json.some(p=>p.id===pid));
+    r = await api('POST','/api/wps',{id:wid,project_id:pid,sop_id:sid,number:'WP01-SMOKE',subject:'edited while archived',type:'Conduit Install',status:'Scheduled',data:{disciplines:['Electrical'],hours:'40'}});
+    chk('write to an archived project refused (409)', r.status===409, 'status '+r.status);
+    r = await api('POST','/api/projects/'+pid+'/archive',{archived:false}); chk('unarchive project', r.status===200 && r.json.archived===false, 'status '+r.status);
   } catch(e){ chk('unexpected error', false, String(e)); }
   finally {
     if(pid){ const r=await api('DELETE','/api/projects/'+pid); chk('cleanup — delete project (cascades SOP+WPs)', r.status===200, 'status '+r.status); }
@@ -141,7 +154,9 @@ async function seedDemo(){
 async function cleanDemo(){
   if(!confirm('Delete ALL projects whose number starts with DEMO- or SMOKE- (and their SOPs/WPs via cascade)?')) return;
   const o=document.getElementById('demo-out'); o.innerHTML='';
-  const r = await api('GET','/api/projects');
+  // archived=all, or an archived DEMO-/SMOKE- project becomes unreachable from
+  // this button — the default list hides it and nothing else here can delete it.
+  const r = await api('GET','/api/projects?archived=all');
   if(r.status!==200){ demoLog('❌ API unreachable (HTTP '+r.status+').'); return; }
   const targets=(r.json||[]).filter(p=>/^(DEMO-|SMOKE-)/.test(String(p.number||'')));
   if(!targets.length){ demoLog('Nothing to remove.'); return; }
@@ -153,6 +168,22 @@ async function cleanDemo(){
 // ── user administration ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 function uesc(v){ return v==null ? '' : String(v).replace(/&/g,'&amp;').replace(/</g,'&lt;').replace(/>/g,'&gt;').replace(/"/g,'&quot;'); }
 
+// A value bound into an inline handler — onclick="fn('…')" — is escaped TWICE: once
+// for the JS string literal it lands in, and again for the HTML attribute carrying
+// it. The order is the whole point. Escape the backslashes FIRST, then the quotes,
+// then hand the result to uesc: uesc leaves \ and ' alone, so the JS escaping
+// survives, and the browser decodes the entities before the JS parser runs.
+//
+// Doing it the other way round — uesc(v).replace(/'/g,"\\'") — silently fails on a
+// value containing a backslash: the \ we add is itself escaped by the stored one,
+// the quote closes the literal, and everything after it runs as code. Project names
+// and full names are free text that any signed-in user can write, so that is a real
+// path from a project_user to whatever an admin's session can do. Use jsq() for
+// EVERY value that lands inside an inline handler.
+function jsq(v){
+  return uesc(String(v==null ? '' : v).replace(/\\/g,'\\\\').replace(/'/g,"\\'"));
+}
+
 async function currentUserId(){
   if(window.WP_USER && window.WP_USER.id) return window.WP_USER.id;
   const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/auth/me');
@@ -206,7 +237,7 @@ function fillProjectRoleOptions(){
 let _userProjectCounts = {};      // user id -> number of assigned projects
 
 function projAccessCell(u){
-  const uname = uesc(u.username).replace(/'/g, "\\'");
+  const uname = jsq(u.username);
   if(normRole(u.role) === 'admin'){
     return '<span class="tag admin" title="Admins can access every project">all projects</span>';
   }
@@ -214,7 +245,7 @@ function projAccessCell(u){
   const label = (n === undefined) ? 'Projects…'
               : (n === 0 ? 'No projects yet' : n + ' project' + (n === 1 ? '' : 's'));
   return '<button class="mini' + (n === 0 ? ' danger' : '') +
-         '" onclick="manageProjects(\'' + u.id + '\',\'' + uname + '\')"' +
+         '" onclick="manageProjects(\'' + jsq(u.id) + '\',\'' + uname + '\')"' +
          ' title="Choose which projects this user can access, and their role on each">' +
          label + '</button>';
 }
@@ -245,19 +276,20 @@ function renderUsers(list, meId){
     const active = u.is_active;
     const disableBtn = me
       ? '<button class="mini" disabled title="You can’t disable yourself">—</button>'
-      : '<button class="mini" onclick="toggleActive(\''+u.id+'\','+(!active)+')">'+(active?'Disable':'Enable')+'</button>';
+      : '<button class="mini" onclick="toggleActive(\''+jsq(u.id)+'\','+(!active)+')">'+(active?'Disable':'Enable')+'</button>';
     const delBtn = me
       ? ''
-      : '<button class="mini danger" onclick="deleteUser(\''+u.id+'\',\''+uesc(u.username).replace(/'/g,"\\'")+'\')">Delete</button>';
+      : '<button class="mini danger" onclick="deleteUser(\''+jsq(u.id)+'\',\''+jsq(u.username)+'\')">Delete</button>';
     // Role can be changed at any time via an inline dropdown. Your own row is
     // locked (a shown-as-tag) so an admin can't accidentally demote themselves.
-    const escUname = uesc(u.username).replace(/'/g,"\\'");
+    const escUname = jsq(u.username);
+    const escUid = jsq(u.id);
     // PERMISSIONS role — what the account may do. Your own row is locked (shown as
     // a tag) so an admin can't accidentally demote themselves.
     const role = normRole(u.role);
     const roleCell = me
       ? '<span class="tag '+(role==='admin'?'admin':'user')+'">'+uesc(PERM_LABELS[role]||role)+'</span><span class="me-tag">locked</span>'
-      : '<select class="role-select'+(role==='admin'?' is-admin':'')+'" title="Change what this account may do" onchange="changeRole(\''+u.id+'\',this.value,\''+escUname+'\')">'+
+      : '<select class="role-select'+(role==='admin'?' is-admin':'')+'" title="Change what this account may do" onchange="changeRole(\''+escUid+'\',this.value,\''+escUname+'\')">'+
           PERM_ROLES.map(function(r){
             return '<option value="'+r+'"'+(role===r?' selected':'')+'>'+uesc(PERM_LABELS[r])+'</option>';
           }).join('')+
@@ -265,7 +297,7 @@ function renderUsers(list, meId){
     // PROJECT role — the person's job function. Descriptive only; grants nothing.
     const pr = u.project_role || '';
     const projRoleCell =
-      '<select class="role-select" title="Job function on the project" onchange="changeProjectRole(\''+u.id+'\',this.value,\''+escUname+'\')">'+
+      '<select class="role-select" title="Job function on the project" onchange="changeProjectRole(\''+escUid+'\',this.value,\''+escUname+'\')">'+
         '<option value=""'+(pr?'':' selected')+'>— none —</option>'+
         PROJECT_ROLES.map(function(r){
           return '<option value="'+uesc(r)+'"'+(pr===r?' selected':'')+'>'+uesc(r)+'</option>';
@@ -276,25 +308,29 @@ function renderUsers(list, meId){
     return '<tr>'+
       '<td><strong>'+uesc(u.username)+'</strong>'+(me?'<span class="me-tag">you</span>':'')+'</td>'+
       '<td>'+uesc(u.full_name||'')+'</td>'+
-      '<td>'+uesc(u.email||'')+'</td>'+
+      // The address is truncated with the full value on the title: a long one used
+      // to wrap mid-word and push the whole row onto three lines.
+      '<td class="ell" title="'+uesc(u.email||'')+'"><span>'+uesc(u.email||'')+'</span></td>'+
       '<td>'+roleCell+'</td>'+
       '<td>'+projRoleCell+'</td>'+
-      '<td>'+projAccessCell(u)+'</td>'+
+      '<td><div class="cellactions">'+projAccessCell(u)+'</div></td>'+
       '<td><span class="tag '+(active?'on':'off')+'">'+(active?'active':'disabled')+'</span></td>'+
       '<td style="white-space:nowrap;color:var(--muted)">'+fmt(u.last_login_at)+'</td>'+
-      '<td style="white-space:nowrap"><div class="row" style="gap:6px">'+
+      '<td><div class="cellactions">'+
-        '<button class="mini" onclick="resetPw(\''+u.id+'\',\''+uesc(u.username).replace(/'/g,"\\'")+'\')">Reset password</button>'+
+        '<button class="mini" onclick="resetPw(\''+escUid+'\',\''+escUname+'\')">Reset password</button>'+
         disableBtn+delBtn+
       '</div></td>'+
     '</tr>';
   }).join('');
-  wrap.innerHTML='<table class="users"><thead><tr>'+
+  // Nine columns outrun even the widened card, so the table scrolls inside .tscroll
+  // rather than forcing every cell to wrap. The explanatory note stays outside it.
+  wrap.innerHTML='<div class="tscroll"><table class="users grid"><thead><tr>'+
     '<th>Username</th><th>Name</th><th>Email</th>'+
     '<th title="What this account may do in the app">Permissions</th>'+
     '<th title="Job function on the project — descriptive only">Project role</th>'+
     '<th title="Which projects this user can access, and their role on each">Project access</th>'+
     '<th>Status</th><th>Last login</th><th>Actions</th>'+
-    '</tr></thead><tbody>'+rows+'</tbody></table>'+
+    '</tr></thead><tbody>'+rows+'</tbody></table></div>'+
     '<div class="note" style="margin-top:10px"><strong>Permissions</strong> — '+
     '<em>Administrator</em>: manages users, settings and every project. '+
     '<em>Project Admin</em>: on their assigned projects, may delete work packages, '+
@@ -383,6 +419,10 @@ function openProjectModal(userId, username, projects, assigned, userObj, roles){
   roles = roles || {};
   // Each project row: access tick + the role ON THAT project. "Same as account"
   // inherits the account's Permissions, so the common case needs no thought.
+  // Live jobs first — an archived one is still listed (an existing assignment has to
+  // stay removable) but it is finished work, so it doesn't belong at the top of a
+  // list you're using to staff someone.
+  projects = projects.slice().sort((a,b) => (a.archived?1:0) - (b.archived?1:0));
   const items = projects.length ? projects.map(p => {
     const on = assigned.has(p.id);
     const cur = roles[p.id] || '';
@@ -397,7 +437,8 @@ function openProjectModal(userId, username, projects, assigned, userObj, roles){
         '<input type="checkbox" value="'+uesc(p.id)+'"'+(on?' checked':'')+(isAdmin?' disabled':'')+
         ' onchange="projRowToggled(this)">'+
         '<span style="overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;"><strong>'+uesc(p.name||'(unnamed)')+'</strong>'+
-        (p.number?' <span style="color:var(--muted)">'+uesc(p.number)+'</span>':'')+'</span>'+
+        (p.number?' <span style="color:var(--muted)">'+uesc(p.number)+'</span>':'')+
+        (p.archived?' <span class="tag archived" title="Archived — read-only until an admin unarchives it">archived</span>':'')+'</span>'+
       '</label>'+ sel +
     '</div>';
   }).join('') : '<div class="note">No projects exist yet.</div>';
@@ -435,6 +476,223 @@ function openProjectModal(userId, username, projects, assigned, userObj, roles){
   };
 }
 
+// ── projects: archive / unarchive ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Archiving is the answer to "this job is over but I can't throw the data away".
+// An archived project disappears from every picker, switcher and search in the
+// suite and is frozen read-only; nothing is deleted. That makes this card the ONLY
+// place an archived project is still visible, so it asks for archived=all and does
+// the hiding itself — otherwise an admin could never find one to unarchive.
+let _adminProjects = [];
+
+async function loadProjects(){
+  const banner=document.getElementById('projects-banner');
+  const wrap=document.getElementById('projects-table');
+  if(!banner || !wrap) return;
+  banner.className='banner'; banner.textContent='Loading…'; banner.style.display='';
+  const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/projects?archived=all');
+  if(status===403){
+    banner.className='banner bad';
+    banner.textContent='❌ Your account is not an admin, so you can’t archive or delete projects here.';
+    wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
+  }
+  if(status===401){
+    banner.className='banner bad'; banner.textContent='❌ Not signed in. Reload and log in again.'; wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
+  }
+  if(status!==200 || !Array.isArray(json)){
+    banner.className='banner bad'; banner.textContent='❌ Could not load projects (HTTP '+status+').'; wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
+  }
+  banner.style.display='none';
+  _adminProjects = json;
+  renderProjects();
+}
+
+function renderProjects(){
+  const wrap=document.getElementById('projects-table');
+  if(!wrap) return;
+  const showArchived = !!(document.getElementById('proj-show-archived')||{}).checked;
+  const q = (((document.getElementById('proj-search')||{}).value)||'').trim().toLowerCase();
+  const total = _adminProjects.length;
+  if(!total){ wrap.innerHTML='<div class="note">No projects yet.</div>'; return; }
+  const list = _adminProjects.filter(p => {
+    if(!showArchived && p.archived) return false;
+    if(!q) return true;
+    return ((p.name||'')+' '+(p.number||'')+' '+(p.client||'')+' '+(p.site||'')).toLowerCase().indexOf(q) >= 0;
+  });
+  const count = '<div class="note">'+list.length+' of '+total+' project'+(total===1?'':'s')+
+    (showArchived ? '' : ' <span title="Tick “Show archived” to include them">· archived hidden</span>')+'</div>';
+  if(!list.length){
+    wrap.innerHTML = count + '<div class="note">Nothing matches'+
+      (showArchived ? '' : ' — archived projects are hidden. Tick “Show archived” to include them')+'.</div>';
+    return;
+  }
+  const fmt = s => s ? wpFormatDateTime(s) : '—';
+  const rows = list.map(p => {
+    // Project names are free text written by whoever created the job — jsq(), not
+    // uesc(), is what makes them safe to bind into the handlers below.
+    const pid = jsq(p.id);
+    const pname = jsq(p.name||'(unnamed)');
+    const arch = !!p.archived;
+    return '<tr>'+
+      '<td><strong>'+uesc(p.name||'(unnamed)')+'</strong>'+
+        (p.number ? ' <span class="note">'+uesc(p.number)+'</span>' : '')+'</td>'+
+      '<td class="ell" title="'+uesc(p.client||'')+'"><span>'+uesc(p.client||'—')+'</span></td>'+
+      '<td class="ell" title="'+uesc(p.site||'')+'"><span>'+uesc(p.site||'—')+'</span></td>'+
+      '<td style="white-space:nowrap;color:var(--muted)">'+fmt(p.created_at)+'</td>'+
+      '<td>'+(arch
+        ? '<span class="tag archived" title="Hidden everywhere and read-only until unarchived">archived</span>'
+        : '<span class="tag on">active</span>')+'</td>'+
+      '<td><div class="cellactions">'+
+        '<button class="mini" onclick="archiveProject(\''+pid+'\',\''+pname+'\','+(arch?'false':'true')+')">'+
+          (arch?'Unarchive':'Archive')+'</button>'+
+        '<button class="mini danger" onclick="deleteProjectAdmin(\''+pid+'\',\''+pname+'\')">Delete</button>'+
+      '</div></td>'+
+    '</tr>';
+  }).join('');
+  wrap.innerHTML = count +
+    '<div class="tscroll"><table class="grid"><thead><tr>'+
+      '<th>Project</th><th>Client</th><th>Site</th><th>Created</th><th>Status</th><th>Actions</th>'+
+    '</tr></thead><tbody>'+rows+'</tbody></table></div>'+
+    '<div class="note"><strong>Delete</strong> is not archive: it removes the project, its SOP and every '+
+    'work package on it for good. Archive first if there is any doubt.</div>';
+}
+
+// Both directions are explained in full before anything happens: archiving makes a
+// project vanish for everyone else in the company, and there is no undo prompt on
+// the other side of that.
+async function archiveProject(id, name, archived){
+  const ask = archived
+    ? 'Archive “'+name+'”?\n\n'+
+      '• It disappears from every project picker, switcher and search across the suite.\n'+
+      '• It becomes read-only — nobody can add or change its SOP or work packages.\n'+
+      '• Nothing is deleted. Unarchive here at any time to bring it back.'
+    : 'Unarchive “'+name+'”?\n\n'+
+      'It becomes visible in the pickers again and can be edited as normal.';
+  if(!confirm(ask)) return;
+  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/projects/'+id+'/archive',{archived:!!archived});
+  if(status===200) loadProjects();
+  else alert('Could not '+(archived?'archive':'unarchive')+' '+name+': '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
+}
+
+// Named deleteProjectAdmin, not deleteProject: every function in this file is a
+// global shared with the other scripts the page loads, and "deleteProject" is broad
+// enough to collide with one of them later. The -Admin suffix also says which of the
+// two project deletions this is — the console's, not a project member's.
+async function deleteProjectAdmin(id, name){
+  if(!confirm('DELETE “'+name+'” permanently?\n\n'+
+    'Its SOP, EVERY work package on it and every access assignment are deleted with it '+
+    '(database cascade). This cannot be undone.\n\n'+
+    'If you only want it out of the way, cancel and use Archive instead.')) return;
+  const { status, json } = await api('DELETE','/api/projects/'+id);
+  if(status===200) loadProjects();
+  else alert('Could not delete '+name+': '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
+}
+
+// ── default members on new projects ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+// A rule about the FUTURE: flagged users are auto-added to every project created
+// from now on. It is not a bulk assignment — existing projects are untouched, which
+// is what the note under the table is there to say.
+let _defMemUsers = [];
+
+async function loadDefaultMembers(){
+  const banner=document.getElementById('defmem-banner');
+  const wrap=document.getElementById('defmem-table');
+  if(!banner || !wrap) return;
+  banner.className='banner'; banner.textContent='Loading…'; banner.style.display='';
+  const { status, json } = await api('GET','/api/auth/users');
+  if(status===403){
+    banner.className='banner bad';
+    banner.textContent='❌ Your account is not an admin, so you can’t change who is added to new projects.';
+    wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
+  }
+  if(status===401){
+    banner.className='banner bad'; banner.textContent='❌ Not signed in. Reload and log in again.'; wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
+  }
+  if(status!==200 || !Array.isArray(json)){
+    banner.className='banner bad'; banner.textContent='❌ Could not load users (HTTP '+status+').'; wrap.innerHTML=''; return;
+  }
+  banner.style.display='none';
+  _defMemUsers = json;
+  renderDefaultMembers();
+}
+
+// Same idea as projRowToggled() — the role only matters while the tick is on — but
+// here the select sits in a sibling <td>, so the lookup is scoped to the row.
+function defMemToggled(cb){
+  const row = cb.closest('tr');
+  const sel = row && row.querySelector('select');
+  if(sel) sel.disabled = !cb.checked;
+}
+
+function renderDefaultMembers(){
+  const wrap=document.getElementById('defmem-table');
+  if(!wrap) return;
+  if(!_defMemUsers.length){ wrap.innerHTML='<div class="note">No users yet.</div>'; return; }
+  const rows = _defMemUsers.map(u => {
+    const uid = jsq(u.id);
+    const uname = jsq(u.username);
+    const role = normRole(u.role);
+    const who = '<td><strong>'+uesc(u.username)+'</strong>'+
+        (u.full_name ? ' <span class="note">'+uesc(u.full_name)+'</span>' : '')+'</td>'+
+      '<td class="ell" title="'+uesc(u.email||'')+'"><span>'+uesc(u.email||'—')+'</span></td>';
+    // Admins reach every project already, so there is nothing to add them to —
+    // the same thing projAccessCell() says in the user table.
+    if(role === 'admin'){
+      return '<tr>'+who+
+        '<td><span class="tag admin">'+uesc(PERM_LABELS.admin)+'</span></td>'+
+        '<td colspan="2"><span class="tag admin" title="Admins can access every project">all projects</span>'+
+          ' <span class="note">Administrators already reach every project.</span></td>'+
+      '</tr>';
+    }
+    const on = !!u.auto_add_projects;
+    const cur = u.auto_add_role || '';
+    return '<tr>'+who+
+      '<td><span class="tag user">'+uesc(PERM_LABELS[role]||role)+'</span></td>'+
+      '<td><label class="chk">'+
+        '<input type="checkbox" id="defmem-cb-'+uesc(u.id)+'"'+(on?' checked':'')+
+          ' title="Add this user to every project created from now on"'+
+          ' onchange="defMemToggled(this);setAutoAdd(\''+uid+'\',\''+uname+'\')"> Add automatically'+
+      '</label></td>'+
+      '<td><select class="role-select" id="defmem-role-'+uesc(u.id)+'"'+(on?'':' disabled')+
+        ' title="The role this user gets on those projects"'+
+        ' onchange="setAutoAdd(\''+uid+'\',\''+uname+'\')">'+
+        '<option value=""'+(cur===''?' selected':'')+'>Same as account ('+uesc(PERM_LABELS[role]||role)+')</option>'+
+        '<option value="project_admin"'+(cur==='project_admin'?' selected':'')+'>Project Admin here</option>'+
+        '<option value="project_user"'+(cur==='project_user'?' selected':'')+'>Project User here</option>'+
+      '</select></td>'+
+    '</tr>';
+  }).join('');
+  wrap.innerHTML =
+    '<div class="tscroll"><table class="grid"><thead><tr>'+
+      '<th>User</th><th>Email</th>'+
+      '<th title="What this account may do in the app">Account permissions</th>'+
+      '<th title="Add this user to every project created from now on">Add to new projects</th>'+
+      '<th title="Their role on those projects">Role on those projects</th>'+
+    '</tr></thead><tbody>'+rows+'</tbody></table></div>'+
+    '<div class="note">This only affects projects created <strong>from now on</strong> — existing projects '+
+    'are untouched. Use <strong>Project access</strong> in the user table above to add someone to a project '+
+    'that already exists.</div>';
+}
+
+// Saves on every tick and every dropdown change — there is no Save button, so a
+// failure must not leave a control showing something the server never accepted.
+// On success we swap in the row the server returned (it clears the role whenever
+// the flag is off); on failure we reload so the controls snap back to the truth.
+async function setAutoAdd(id, username){
+  const cb = document.getElementById('defmem-cb-'+id);
+  if(!cb) return;
+  const sel = document.getElementById('defmem-role-'+id);
+  const auto_add = !!cb.checked;
+  const { status, json } = await api('POST','/api/auth/users/'+id+'/auto-add',
+    { auto_add, role: auto_add ? ((sel && sel.value) || '') : '' });
+  if(status===200 && json && json.id){
+    _defMemUsers = _defMemUsers.map(u => u.id===json.id ? json : u);
+    renderDefaultMembers();
+  } else {
+    alert('Could not change the new-project default for '+username+': '+((json && json.detail)||('HTTP '+status)));
+    loadDefaultMembers();
+  }
+}
+
 // ── all feedback / comments ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 let _comments = [];
 async function loadComments(){

html/help.js

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
       <h4>Key fields</h4>
       <ul>
         <li><strong>Subject / Title</strong> (required) and <strong>WP Type</strong> (required, from the SOP).</li>
-        <li><strong>Assets</strong> — link each controls.dev asset the package covers.</li>
+        <li><strong>Assets</strong> — search the Micron DB by asset ID and add each asset the package covers. Anything not in the Micron DB can still be typed in by hand.</li>
         <li><strong>Disciplines</strong> — which trades the package covers (see <a data-help-jump="disciplines">Disciplines &amp; Split</a>).</li>
         <li><strong>Scope &amp; Work</strong> — the sequenced steps the crew performs (per-discipline in multi-discipline mode).</li>
         <li><strong>Labor – Est. Hrs.</strong> — drives the sizing check (see <a data-help-jump="sizing">Sizing</a>).</li>
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
         <tr><td><strong>Sequence</strong></td><td>SOP-defined construction phases; a WP can name a predecessor step.</td></tr>
         <tr><td><strong>Bagged &amp; tagged</strong></td><td>Materials on site, kitted, and labelled — part of the Materials constraint.</td></tr>
         <tr><td><strong>MIMO</strong></td><td>Material In / Material Out — kitting and staging logistics.</td></tr>
-        <tr><td><strong>Asset</strong></td><td>A controls.dev record (equipment/system) a package is built around.</td></tr>
+        <tr><td><strong>Asset</strong></td><td>An asset ID from the Micron DB that a package is built around. The Micron DB is read-only here — picking an asset never changes it.</td></tr>
         <tr><td><strong>Hold / Witness point</strong></td><td>Hold = work stops until inspection sign-off; Witness = inspection offered but work may proceed.</td></tr>
         <tr><td><strong>Active project</strong></td><td>The currently selected project; all data is scoped to it.</td></tr>
       </table>` },

html/index.html

@@ -292,6 +292,10 @@
       padding: 1.25rem; }
     .proj-empty p { margin: 0 0 0.9rem; color: var(--cds-text-secondary); }
     .proj-actions { display: flex; gap: 0.75rem; flex-wrap: wrap; }
+    /* Shown once when the project someone had open turns out to have been archived
+       rather than deleted — otherwise the picker just silently resets on them. */
+    .proj-archived-note { background: #fdf6dd; border: 1px solid #f1c21b; color: #8e6a00;
+      padding: 0.7rem 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; }
     .proj-form { margin-top: 1rem; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid var(--cds-ui-03, #e0e0e0); background: var(--cds-ui-01, #fff); }
     .proj-form-grid { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(220px, 1fr)); gap: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 0.9rem; }
     .proj-form-grid label { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 0.3rem; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; color: var(--cds-text-secondary); }
@@ -414,12 +418,34 @@
         _projects = list || [];
         // Reconcile the active project against the list; clear if it's gone.
         const active = ProjectData.getActive();
-        if(active && !_projects.some(p => p.id === active.id)) ProjectData.setActive(null);
+        const dropped = (active && !_projects.some(p => p.id === active.id)) ? active : null;
+        if(dropped) ProjectData.setActive(null);
         renderProjectPicker();
         applyActiveProject();
+        // "No longer in the list" used to mean one thing — deleted. Now it also
+        // means archived, and resetting someone to "Select a project" with no word
+        // about it sends them hunting for a job that is merely finished.
+        if(dropped) explainDroppedProject(dropped);
       });
     }
 
+    function explainDroppedProject(p){
+      // The project is still readable when it's archived; a delete (or access being
+      // taken away) fails here, and that case genuinely has nothing to say.
+      ProjectData.get(p.id).then(full => {
+        if(!full || !full.archived) return;
+        const box = document.getElementById('project-picker');
+        if(!box || document.getElementById('proj-archived-note')) return;
+        const note = document.createElement('div');
+        note.id = 'proj-archived-note';
+        note.className = 'proj-archived-note';
+        note.innerHTML = `<strong>${esc(p.name || 'The project you had open')}</strong> has been
+          archived — it is read-only and no longer listed here. An administrator can unarchive it
+          from the Admin Console.`;
+        box.insertBefore(note, box.firstChild);
+      }).catch(() => {});
+    }
+
     function createFormHtml(){
       return `<div class="proj-form" id="proj-form" style="display:none">
         <div class="proj-form-grid">

html/project-data.js

@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@
         });
     },
 
+    // Archiving a project lives in the admin console (html/admin.js), which doesn't
+    // load this file — deliberately not mirrored here, so there's only one
+    // implementation of it rather than two that can disagree.
+
     // ── active project context ────────────────────────────────────────────────
     getActiveId: function () { try { return localStorage.getItem(LS_ACTIVE) || ''; } catch (e) { return ''; } },
     getActive: function () { try { return JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(LS_ACTIVE_OBJ) || 'null'); } catch (e) { return null; } },
@@ -208,7 +212,8 @@
     qWrite(q);
   }
   // Permanently-failed op (a 4xx client error) — keep it for visibility but stop
-  // retrying, so a rejected write can't loop forever.
+  // retrying, so a rejected write can't loop forever. `err` is the server's own
+  // explanation when it sent one; it is what the sync badge shows the user.
   function markDead(opId, err) {
     var q = qRead();
     for (var i = 0; i < q.length; i++) { if (q[i].opId === opId) { q[i].dead = true; q[i].lastErr = err; break; } }
@@ -229,7 +234,16 @@
           var status = r ? r.status : 0;
           var done = r && (r.ok || (op.kind === 'wp-del' && status === 404));  // 404 on delete = already gone
           if (done) { qWrite(qRead().filter(function (o) { return o.opId !== op.opId; })); }
-          else if (status >= 400 && status < 500 && status !== 429) { markDead(op.opId, 'HTTP ' + status); }
+          else if (status >= 400 && status < 500 && status !== 429) {
+            // Refused once, refused forever — so the only useful thing left is the
+            // reason. A 409 here is the archived-project gate, whose detail tells
+            // the user the project is read-only and how to get it unarchived; a
+            // bare "HTTP 409" would leave them staring at a change that vanished.
+            return r.json().catch(function () { return null; }).then(function (j) {
+              var why = (j && typeof j.detail === 'string' && j.detail) || ('HTTP ' + status);
+              markDead(op.opId, why);
+            });
+          }
           else { anyFail = true; bumpTries(op.opId, 'HTTP ' + status); }
         }).catch(function (e) { anyFail = true; bumpTries(op.opId, String(e)); });
       });
@@ -250,12 +264,17 @@
   }
 
   // ── sync status (drives the indicator + any listeners) ──────────────────────
+  // `failed` stays the total not-getting-through count (what listeners already
+  // read); `dead` splits out the ops the server has permanently refused, with the
+  // first reason it gave, because those two states need different words.
   function syncCounts() {
-    var q = qRead(), pending = 0, failed = 0;
+    var q = qRead(), pending = 0, failed = 0, dead = 0, reason = '';
     for (var i = 0; i < q.length; i++) {
-      if (q[i].dead || (q[i].tries || 0) >= 3) failed++; else pending++;
+      if (q[i].dead) { dead++; if (!reason && q[i].lastErr) reason = String(q[i].lastErr); }
+      else if ((q[i].tries || 0) >= 3) failed++;
+      else pending++;
     }
-    return { pending: pending, failed: failed, syncing: _flushing };
+    return { pending: pending, failed: failed + dead, dead: dead, reason: reason, syncing: _flushing };
   }
   ProjectData.syncStatus = syncCounts;
   function notifySync() {
@@ -281,7 +300,17 @@
       document.body.appendChild(el);
     }
     if (_badgeHideTimer) { clearTimeout(_badgeHideTimer); _badgeHideTimer = null; }
-    if (c.failed) {
+    // A dead op is a refusal, not a hiccup — "retrying" would be a lie, and the
+    // reason is the only thing that tells the user what to do (e.g. the project is
+    // archived). Stack it under the headline; the badge never hides in this state.
+    el.style.flexDirection = c.dead ? 'column' : 'row';
+    el.style.alignItems = c.dead ? 'flex-start' : 'center';
+    el.style.maxWidth = c.dead ? 'min(340px, calc(100vw - 32px))' : 'none';
+    if (c.dead) {
+      el.innerHTML = '<span>✕ ' + c.dead + ' change' + (c.dead === 1 ? '' : 's') + ' rejected — not saved</span>' +
+        (c.reason ? '<span style="font-weight:400">' + esc(c.reason) + '</span>' : '');
+      el.style.color = '#a2191f'; el.style.borderColor = '#ffd7d9'; el.style.background = '#fff1f1'; el.style.display = 'inline-flex';
+    } else if (c.failed) {
       el.textContent = '⚠ ' + c.failed + ' change' + (c.failed === 1 ? '' : 's') + ' not saved — retrying';
       el.style.color = '#8a6d00'; el.style.borderColor = '#f1c21b'; el.style.background = '#fdf6dd'; el.style.display = 'inline-flex';
     } else if (c.pending) {

html/work-package-suite-app.js

@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ function renderCustomConstraints(){
       <strong>${escAttr(c.name)}</strong>
       <span style="display:flex; align-items:center; gap:0.75rem;">
         ${criticalToggle(c.name, true, !!c.critical)}
-      <button onclick="removeCustomConstraint('${c.name.replace(/'/g,"\\'")}')" title="Remove" style="background:var(--danger); color:#fff; border:none; border-radius:4px; width:28px; height:28px; cursor:pointer; font-weight:600;">✕</button>
+      <button onclick="removeCustomConstraint('${escHandlerArg(c.name)}')" title="Remove" style="background:var(--danger); color:#fff; border:none; border-radius:4px; width:28px; height:28px; cursor:pointer; font-weight:600;">✕</button>
       </span>
     </div>`).join('') : `<div style="font-size:12px; color:var(--text-dim);">No custom constraints added yet.</div>`;
 }
@@ -1111,6 +1111,13 @@ const DEFAULT_SOURCES = [
 // SharePoint "Copy Link" URLs contain & (and labels/notes may contain & " < >),
 // so attribute values must be escaped or a re-render corrupts the field.
 function escAttr(v){ return String(v==null?'':v).replace(/&/g,'&amp;').replace(/</g,'&lt;').replace(/>/g,'&gt;').replace(/"/g,'&quot;'); }
+// A value bound into an inline handler — onclick="fn('…')" — needs BOTH escapes, in
+// this order: backslash, then quote (for the JS string literal), then escAttr (for
+// the attribute carrying it). Quote-escaping alone breaks on a value containing a
+// backslash — the backslash escapes the backslash, the quote closes the literal, and
+// the rest runs as code. Constraint names travel with the SOP to everyone on the
+// project, so they are not this browser's own input.
+function escHandlerArg(v){ return escAttr(String(v==null?'':v).replace(/\\/g,'\\\\').replace(/'/g,"\\'")); }
 function renderSources(){
   const container = document.getElementById('sources-list');
   if(!state.sources.length) state.sources = DEFAULT_SOURCES.map(s=>({label:s.label, system:'', notes:'', link:'', ph:s.ph, preset:true}));

html/wp-chrome.css

@@ -35,6 +35,32 @@
   --wpc-accent: #78a9ff;
 }
 
+/* ── archived-project banner ──────────────────────────────────────────────── */
+/* Inserted by wp-chrome.js as the top bar's next sibling, so it sits directly
+   under the bar in normal flow and can never overlap it or eat its height (the
+   bar is sticky; this strip scrolls away under it). `flex: 0 0 auto` is for the
+   suite page, whose shell is a flex column — without it the strip would squash.
+   Amber tokens are the suite's warning set, same as the sync badge. */
+.wpc-archived {
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: flex-start;
+  gap: 8px;
+  padding: 9px 16px;
+  background: #fdf6dd;
+  color: #8e6a00;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid #f1c21b;
+  border-radius: 0;
+  font-family: 'IBM Plex Sans', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, sans-serif;
+  font-size: 13.5px;
+  line-height: 1.35;
+}
+.wpc-archived-ico { flex: 0 0 auto; font-size: 14px; }
+.wpc-archived-text { min-width: 0; }   /* wraps instead of forcing a scrollbar */
+@media (max-width: 620px) {
+  .wpc-archived { padding: 8px 12px; font-size: 13px; }
+}
+
 /* ── project switcher ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
 .wpc-proj { position: relative; flex: 0 0 auto; }
 .wpc-proj-btn {

html/wp-chrome.js

@@ -167,6 +167,58 @@
       .catch(function () {});
   }
 
+  // ── archived-project banner ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  // An archived project is still readable and still deep-linkable (?project=<id>),
+  // but every write now 409s. With nothing on the page to say so, that reads as a
+  // silent failure — so the bar, the one thing every page has, carries the warning.
+  //
+  // The state comes from GET /api/projects/<id>, never from "it's missing from the
+  // switcher": absence also means "you have no access to it", which is a different
+  // message. Fails closed and silent — an error means no banner, not a broken page.
+  function activeProjectId() {
+    try {
+      var q = new URLSearchParams(location.search).get('project');
+      if (q) return q;
+      return (window.ProjectData && ProjectData.getActiveId && ProjectData.getActiveId()) || '';
+    } catch (e) { return ''; }
+  }
+
+  function buildArchivedBanner() {
+    var bar = el('div', 'wpc-archived');
+    bar.setAttribute('role', 'status');
+    bar.innerHTML =
+      '<span class="wpc-archived-ico" aria-hidden="true">⚠</span>' +
+      '<span class="wpc-archived-text"><strong>Archived project — read-only.</strong> ' +
+      'Unarchive it from the Admin Console to make changes.</span>';
+    return bar;
+  }
+
+  function checkArchived(host) {
+    var id = activeProjectId();
+    if (!id || !host || !host.parentNode) return;
+    var pinned = false;
+    try { pinned = !!new URLSearchParams(location.search).get('project'); } catch (e) {}
+    fetch('/api/projects/' + encodeURIComponent(id), { headers: { Accept: 'application/json' } })
+      .then(function (r) { return r.ok ? r.json() : null; })
+      .then(function (p) {
+        if (!p || !p.archived) return;
+        // The home page reconciles the stored active project against the (now
+        // archive-filtered) list while this request is in flight, and drops it. If
+        // that happened, the id we asked about is nobody's context any more —
+        // banner-ing it would contradict the picker one line below. A ?project=
+        // deep link is pinned to this page and can't be cleared out from under us.
+        if (!pinned && window.ProjectData && ProjectData.getActiveId &&
+            ProjectData.getActiveId() !== id) return;
+        // Also on the document element, so the two big apps can gate their own UI
+        // from CSS or a boot check without a second round trip. The server stays
+        // the real gate; this is only there so the UI can agree with it.
+        try { document.documentElement.setAttribute('data-wp-archived', '1'); } catch (e) {}
+        if (document.querySelector('.wpc-archived')) return;
+        host.parentNode.insertBefore(buildArchivedBanner(), host.nextSibling);
+      })
+      .catch(function () {});
+  }
+
   // ── global search ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   function buildSearch() {
     var wrap = el('div', 'wpc-search');
@@ -325,6 +377,7 @@
     if (m.before) m.host.insertBefore(chrome, m.before);
     else m.host.appendChild(chrome);
     loadProjects(switcher);
+    checkArchived(m.host);
     window.wpChromeRefresh = function () { switcher.wpcRefresh(); };
   }
 

html/wp-creation-app.js

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ function applySOP(){
   applyKind();
   if(!pkgMaterials.length){ pkgMaterials=[{qty:'',unit:'',desc:''}]; buildMaterials(); }
   if(!pkgAttach.length){ pkgAttach=[{doc:'',rev:'',link:''}]; buildAttach(); }
-  if(!pkgAssets.length){ pkgAssets=[{tag:'',desc:'',link:''}]; buildAssets(); }
+  if(!pkgAssets.length){ buildAssets(); }   // renders the "no assets yet" empty state
   if(!pkgWorkSteps.length){ pkgWorkSteps=['']; buildWorkSteps(); }
   updateNumber(); updateReleaseBanner();
 }
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ function applyKindVisibility(){
   const show = (id, on) => { const el = document.getElementById(id); if(el) el.style.display = on ? '' : 'none'; };
   show('kind-row', bimProj);
   show('bim-card', ewp);                 // model area / clash + IFF # / scan
-  show('asset-card', !ewp);              // controls.dev assets
+  show('asset-card', !ewp);              // Micron DB assets
   show('material-card', !ewp);           // bill of materials
   show('mimo-card', !ewp);               // kitting / MIMO
   show('bimlink-wrap', bimProj && !ewp); // an IWP references the BIM package that enabled it
@@ -807,20 +807,344 @@ function splitByDiscipline(){
   alert('Created '+children.length+' instances:\n\n• '+children.map(c=>c.number+'  ('+c.disciplines[0]+', '+(c.materials?c.materials.length:0)+' material line'+((c.materials&&c.materials.length===1)?'':'s')+')').join('\n• ')+'\n\nThe master '+baseNumber+' is kept as a roll-up.'+matNote);
 }
 
-// ── ASSETS (controls.dev) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// ── ASSETS (Micron asset catalog) ────────────────────────────────────────────
-// Interim: assets are linked manually back to controls.dev. A future direct
+// Assets are picked from the Micron asset catalog, a SQL Server database this app
-// integration will let the user pick them from a list instead of pasting links.
+// reads through /api/assets. The lookup is strictly read-only — picking an asset
+// never writes to the catalog, and there is no endpoint that could.
+//
+// The catalog can be absent (not configured) or unreachable (VPN/host down), and
+// neither may block someone from writing a work package: in both cases the picker
+// says so and manual entry carries on. Manually entered assets are marked
+// source:'manual' so it stays visible which rows the catalog vouches for.
+// The whole catalog is fetched once when the page loads and searched in memory —
+// it is slow-moving reference data, so a request per keystroke would buy nothing
+// and cost latency on every one.
+let assetCatalog = [];        // the full catalog, loaded once
+let assetCatalogIndex = new Map();   // lowercased id -> the Micron DB's own casing
+let assetCatalogState = 'loading';   // loading | ready | absent | error
+let assetResults = [];        // current matches; the result list indexes into this
+const ASSET_RESULT_MAX = 500;  // results shown at once — the box scrolls, not the search
+const ASSET_IMPORT_MAX = 1000;   // rows accepted from one CSV — see importAssets()
+
+function assetKey(a){ return String((a && a.tag) || '').trim().toLowerCase(); }
+function assetAlreadyAdded(tag){
+  const k = String(tag||'').trim().toLowerCase();
+  return pkgAssets.some(a => assetKey(a) === k && k);
+}
+
 function buildAssets(){
   const tb=document.getElementById('asset-body'); if(!tb) return; tb.innerHTML='';
-  pkgAssets.forEach((a,i)=>{ const tr=document.createElement('tr');
+  if(!pkgAssets.length){
-    tr.innerHTML=`<td><input type="text" value="${(a.tag||'').replace(/"/g,'&quot;')}" placeholder="controls.dev asset tag / ID" oninput="pkgAssets[${i}].tag=this.value"></td>
+    tb.innerHTML = `<tr><td colspan="3" class="asset-empty">No assets yet — search the Micron DB above to add the assets this package covers.</td></tr>`;
-      <td><input type="text" value="${(a.desc||'').replace(/"/g,'&quot;')}" placeholder="what it is (optional)" oninput="pkgAssets[${i}].desc=this.value"></td>
+    return;
-      <td><input type="url" value="${(a.link||'').replace(/"/g,'&quot;')}" placeholder="https://controls.dev/..." oninput="pkgAssets[${i}].link=this.value"></td>
+  }
-      <td class="center"><button class="row-del" onclick="removeAsset(${i})">✕</button></td>`;
+  pkgAssets.forEach((a,i)=>{
-    tb.appendChild(tr); });
+    const tr=document.createElement('tr');
+    // The asset ID on a catalog row is shown as text, not an input: the catalog
+    // is the source of truth for it and a locally edited copy would silently
+    // disagree. The note is always the user's own, so it stays editable either
+    // way. Every interpolation below is esc()'d text content or a numeric index
+    // — never a raw string inside an inline handler, which is the bug pattern
+    // recorded in KNOWN-ISSUES.md §1.
+    const idCell = a.source === 'catalog'
+      ? `<td><span class="asset-tag">${esc(a.tag)}</span> <span class="asset-badge" title="From the Micron DB">Micron DB</span></td>`
+      : `<td><input type="text" value="${esc(a.tag)}" placeholder="asset ID" oninput="pkgAssets[${i}].tag=this.value"></td>`;
+    tr.innerHTML = idCell +
+      `<td><input type="text" value="${esc(a.desc)}" placeholder="what it is / why it's in scope" oninput="pkgAssets[${i}].desc=this.value"></td>
+       <td class="center"><button class="row-del" onclick="removeAsset(${i})" title="Remove">✕</button></td>`;
+    tb.appendChild(tr);
+  });
+}
+
+// Kept for saved packages written before the picker existed: their rows have no
+// `source`, so they would render as read-only catalog rows with no way to fix a
+// typo. Anything that didn't come from the catalog is treated as manual.
+function normaliseAsset(a){
+  const o = Object.assign({ tag:'', desc:'', link:'', source:'manual' }, a||{});
+  if(o.source !== 'catalog') o.source = 'manual';
+  return o;
+}
+
+function addManualAsset(){
+  pkgAssets.push(normaliseAsset({}));
+  buildAssets();
+  track('asset_added',{source:'manual'});
+}
+
+// ── CSV IMPORT ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Bulk-add a list of asset ids. Each imported id is checked against the loaded
+// Micron DB: a hit is added as a catalog row (badge, id locked, stored with the
+// DB's own casing); a miss is added as a manual row so it is visibly NOT vouched
+// for rather than silently dropped. Nothing is ever written back to Micron.
+const ASSET_ID_HEADERS = ['asset id','assetid','asset_id','asset','asset tag','assettag','tag','id'];
+
+function importAssets(ev){
+  const f = ev.target.files && ev.target.files[0];
+  if(!f){ return; }
+  const clear = () => { ev.target.value = ''; };
+  if(/\.xlsx?$/i.test(f.name)){
+    alert('Please save the workbook as CSV first (File → Save As → CSV), then load it here.');
+    clear(); return;
+  }
+  const r = new FileReader();
+  r.onload = () => {
+    let rows;
+    try { rows = parseCSV(r.result); }
+    catch(e){ alert('Could not parse that CSV.'); clear(); return; }
+    if(!rows.length){ alert('That file has no rows.'); clear(); return; }
+    applyImportedAssets(rows);
+    clear();
+  };
+  r.onerror = () => { alert('Could not read that file.'); clear(); };
+  r.readAsText(f);
+}
+
+// Which column holds the ids, and whether row 0 is a header.
+//   - a recognised header name wins outright;
+//   - otherwise pick the column with the most Micron DB hits, so an export with
+//     the ids in column D works without the user rearranging it;
+//   - failing both (nothing matches — e.g. the DB is offline), use column 0.
+function pickAssetColumn(rows){
+  const head = (rows[0] || []).map(c => String(c || '').trim().toLowerCase());
+  const named = head.findIndex(h => ASSET_ID_HEADERS.includes(h));
+  if(named >= 0) return { col: named, start: 1 };
+
+  const width = rows.slice(0, 200).reduce((w, r) => Math.max(w, r.length), 1);
+  let best = 0, bestHits = 0;
+  for(let c = 0; c < width; c++){
+    let hits = 0;
+    for(let i = 0; i < Math.min(rows.length, 200); i++){
+      const v = String((rows[i] || [])[c] || '').trim();
+      if(v && assetCatalogIndex.has(v.toLowerCase())) hits++;
+    }
+    if(hits > bestHits){ bestHits = hits; best = c; }
+  }
+  return { col: best, start: 0 };
+}
+
+function applyImportedAssets(rows){
+  const { col, start } = pickAssetColumn(rows);
+
+  // Collect, trimmed and de-duplicated within the file itself.
+  const seen = new Set(), ids = [];
+  for(let i = start; i < rows.length; i++){
+    const v = String((rows[i] || [])[col] || '').trim();
+    if(!v) continue;
+    const k = v.toLowerCase();
+    if(seen.has(k)) continue;
+    seen.add(k); ids.push(v);
+  }
+  if(!ids.length){ alert('No asset ids found in that file.'); return; }
+
+  // Cap the import rather than building a table with thousands of rows. Reported,
+  // never silent — a truncated import that looked complete would be worse.
+  const capped = ids.length > ASSET_IMPORT_MAX;
+  const take = capped ? ids.slice(0, ASSET_IMPORT_MAX) : ids;
+
+  let matched = 0, unmatched = 0, dupes = 0;
+  take.forEach(id => {
+    if(assetAlreadyAdded(id)){ dupes++; return; }
+    const canonical = assetCatalogIndex.get(id.toLowerCase());
+    if(canonical){
+      pkgAssets.push({ tag: canonical, desc: '', link: '', source: 'catalog' });
+      matched++;
+    } else {
+      pkgAssets.push({ tag: id, desc: '', link: '', source: 'manual' });
+      unmatched++;
+    }
+  });
+
+  buildAssets();
+  renderAssetResults();      // rows just added should now read "added"
+  track('asset_imported', { matched: matched, unmatched: unmatched });
+
+  // Every id matched, nothing skipped, nothing truncated: a toast is enough.
+  // Anything the user needs to act on — unmatched ids, a silent-looking
+  // truncation, an unchecked import — interrupts with the detail instead.
+  const offline = assetCatalogState !== 'ready';
+  if(matched && !unmatched && !dupes && !capped && !offline){
+    toast('Added ' + matched + ' asset' + (matched === 1 ? '' : 's') + ' from the Micron DB');
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const parts = [];
+  if(matched) parts.push(matched + ' found in the Micron DB');
+  if(unmatched) parts.push(unmatched + ' not in the Micron DB (added as manual rows)');
+  if(dupes) parts.push(dupes + ' already on this package (skipped)');
+  let msg = 'Imported ' + (matched + unmatched) + ' asset' + ((matched + unmatched) === 1 ? '' : 's') +
+            (parts.length ? ':\n\n• ' + parts.join('\n• ') : '');
+  if(capped) msg += '\n\nThe list held ' + ids.length.toLocaleString() + ' ids — only the first ' +
+                    ASSET_IMPORT_MAX.toLocaleString() + ' were added.';
+  if(offline) msg += '\n\nNote: the Micron DB was not loaded, so nothing could be ' +
+                    'checked against it — every row was added as manual.';
+  alert(msg);
+}
+
+function removeAsset(i){
+  pkgAssets.splice(i,1);
+  buildAssets();
+  renderAssetResults();     // a removed asset becomes addable again
+}
+
+// ── Catalog lookup ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+function assetSourceNote(msg, tone){
+  const el = document.getElementById('asset-source-note'); if(!el) return;
+  el.textContent = msg || '';
+  el.style.color = tone === 'warn' ? 'var(--red)' : '';
+}
+
+function initAssetPicker(){
+  const box = document.getElementById('asset-search'); if(!box) return;
+  box.addEventListener('input', () => runAssetSearch(box.value));
+  // Re-open on focus only when the list is actually closed. Adding an asset
+  // returns focus to this box, and re-running the search there would rebuild the
+  // list under the cursor and throw away the scroll position mid-multi-add.
+  box.addEventListener('focus', () => {
+    const results = document.getElementById('asset-results');
+    if(results && results.hidden && box.value.trim()) runAssetSearch(box.value);
+  });
+  // Pasting a column of ids straight out of Excel adds them all, rather than
+  // dropping a multi-line blob into a search box that can only match one thing.
+  // Excel gives \r\n between rows and \t between columns — i.e. exactly the CSV
+  // importer's row/cell shape, so it goes through the same matching path.
+  // A single value is left alone: that is an ordinary search, not a bulk add.
+  box.addEventListener('paste', e => {
+    const cb = e.clipboardData || window.clipboardData;
+    const text = cb ? cb.getData('text') : '';
+    if(!text) return;
+    const lines = text.replace(/\r\n?/g, '\n').split('\n').filter(l => l.trim());
+    if(lines.length < 2) return;              // one id — paste it and search as normal
+    e.preventDefault();
+    applyImportedAssets(lines.map(l => l.split('\t')));
+    box.value = '';
+    assetResults = [];
+    openAssetResults(false);
+  });
+  box.addEventListener('keydown', e => {
+    if(e.key === 'Escape'){ openAssetResults(false); box.blur(); }
+    // Enter adds the first result that isn't already on the package — the common
+    // case of typing an exact tag and taking it without reaching for the mouse.
+    if(e.key === 'Enter'){
+      e.preventDefault();
+      const ix = assetResults.findIndex(tag => !assetAlreadyAdded(tag));
+      if(ix >= 0) addCatalogAsset(ix);
+    }
+  });
+  // Click-away closes, matching the .pp-menu pickers elsewhere on this form.
+  // Tested against composedPath() rather than e.target: adding an asset can
+  // re-render the row that was clicked, and a detached target reports itself as
+  // outside every container, which would close the list on every add.
+  document.addEventListener('click', e => {
+    const path = typeof e.composedPath === 'function' ? e.composedPath() : null;
+    const inside = path && path.length
+      ? path.some(n => n && n.id === 'asset-pick')
+      : !!(e.target.closest && e.target.closest('#asset-pick'));
+    if(!inside) openAssetResults(false);
+  });
+  // Delegated so result rows never need an inline handler carrying catalog text.
+  const results = document.getElementById('asset-results');
+  if(results) results.addEventListener('click', e => {
+    const row = e.target.closest('[data-asset-ix]'); if(!row) return;
+    addCatalogAsset(parseInt(row.getAttribute('data-asset-ix'), 10));
+  });
+
+  box.disabled = true;
+  box.placeholder = 'Loading asset IDs from the Micron DB…';
+  assetSourceNote('Loading asset IDs from the Micron DB…');
+
+  fetch('/api/assets', { headers:{ 'Accept':'application/json' } })
+    .then(r => r.ok ? r.json()
+                    : r.json().catch(() => ({})).then(b => Promise.reject(b.detail || 'The Micron DB could not be read.')))
+    .then(body => {
+      if(!body.configured){
+        assetCatalogState = 'absent';
+        box.placeholder = 'Micron DB not configured — add assets manually below';
+        assetSourceNote('The Micron DB is not connected, so assets are entered by hand. Use “+ Add asset not in the Micron DB”.');
+        return;
+      }
+      assetCatalog = (body.assets || []).map(a => String(a.tag || ''));
+      // Lowercased lookup for the CSV importer: it decides whether an imported id
+      // is a real Micron asset, and maps it back to the DB's own casing so an
+      // id typed as "ahu-2p-014" is stored exactly as Micron spells it.
+      assetCatalogIndex = new Map(assetCatalog.map(t => [t.toLowerCase(), t]));
+      assetCatalogState = 'ready';
+      box.disabled = false;
+      box.placeholder = 'Search asset IDs, or paste a column from Excel…';
+      assetSourceNote(assetCatalog.length.toLocaleString() + ' asset IDs loaded from the Micron DB (read-only).');
+    })
+    .catch(err => {
+      assetCatalogState = 'error';
+      box.placeholder = 'Micron DB unavailable — add assets manually below';
+      assetSourceNote(typeof err === 'string' ? err + ' You can still add assets manually.'
+                                              : 'The Micron DB could not be reached. You can still add assets manually.', 'warn');
+    });
+}
+
+// Filters the loaded catalog in memory. Exact match, then prefix, then contains —
+// so typing a full asset ID puts that asset first rather than whichever ID
+// happens to sort first.
+function runAssetSearch(q){
+  q = String(q||'').trim().toLowerCase();
+  if(!q || assetCatalogState !== 'ready'){
+    assetResults = []; renderAssetResults(); openAssetResults(false); return;
+  }
+  const exact=[], prefix=[], other=[];
+  for(const tag of assetCatalog){
+    const t = tag.toLowerCase();
+    if(t === q) exact.push(tag);
+    else if(t.startsWith(q)) prefix.push(tag);
+    else if(t.includes(q)) other.push(tag);
+    if(exact.length + prefix.length + other.length >= ASSET_RESULT_MAX) break;
+  }
+  assetResults = exact.concat(prefix, other).slice(0, ASSET_RESULT_MAX);
+  renderAssetResults();
+  openAssetResults(true);
+}
+
+function renderAssetResults(){
+  const box = document.getElementById('asset-results'); if(!box) return;
+  if(!assetResults.length){
+    box.innerHTML = `<div class="asset-result-note">No matching asset IDs. Add it manually if it isn’t in the Micron DB yet.</div>`;
+    return;
+  }
+  box.innerHTML = assetResults.map((tag,ix) => {
+    const on = assetAlreadyAdded(tag);
+    return `<button type="button" class="asset-result${on?' is-added':''}" ${on?'disabled':''} data-asset-ix="${ix}">
+        <span class="asset-result-tag">${esc(tag)}</span>
+        <span class="asset-result-add">${on ? 'added' : '+ add'}</span>
+      </button>`;
+  }).join('');
+}
+
+function openAssetResults(open){
+  const box = document.getElementById('asset-results');
+  const inp = document.getElementById('asset-search');
+  if(box) box.hidden = !open;
+  if(inp) inp.setAttribute('aria-expanded', open ? 'true' : 'false');
+}
+
+function addCatalogAsset(ix){
+  const tag = assetResults[ix]; if(!tag) return;
+  if(assetAlreadyAdded(tag)){ toast('That asset is already on this package'); return; }
+  pkgAssets.push({ tag: tag, desc: '', link: '', source: 'catalog' });
+  buildAssets();
+  // Mark just this row instead of re-rendering the list: the results stay open
+  // for the next pick, the scroll position holds, and the clicked element is
+  // never detached mid-click (see the composedPath note in initAssetPicker).
+  markAssetResultAdded(ix);
+  const box = document.getElementById('asset-search');
+  if(box) box.focus();        // keep typing straight into the next search
+  track('asset_added',{source:'catalog'});
+}
+
+function markAssetResultAdded(ix){
+  const row = document.querySelector('#asset-results [data-asset-ix="' + ix + '"]');
+  if(!row) return;
+  row.classList.add('is-added');
+  row.disabled = true;
+  const label = row.querySelector('.asset-result-add');
+  if(label) label.textContent = 'added';
 }
-function addAsset(){ pkgAssets.push({tag:'',desc:'',link:''}); buildAssets(); track('asset_added'); }
-function removeAsset(i){ pkgAssets.splice(i,1); if(!pkgAssets.length)pkgAssets=[{tag:'',desc:'',link:''}]; buildAssets(); }
 
 // ── ATTACHMENTS ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 function buildAttach(){
@@ -1189,8 +1513,8 @@ function renderPackage(pkg){
     ${pkg.bimlink?`<tr><th>Enabled by (BIM)</th><td>${/^https?:\/\//i.test(pkg.bimlink)?linkify(pkg.bimlink):cell(pkg.bimlink)}</td></tr>`:''}
     ${(pkg.lod||pkg.iff||pkg.modelArea||pkg.clash||pkg.scanLink)?`<tr><th>BIM / Model</th><td>${[pkg.modelArea?'Area: '+esc(pkg.modelArea):'', pkg.clash?'Coordination: '+esc(pkg.clash):'', pkg.iff?'IFF #: '+esc(pkg.iff):'', pkg.scanLink?'Scan: '+linkify(pkg.scanLink):'', pkg.lod?'LOD: '+esc(pkg.lod)+' (legacy)':''].filter(Boolean).join('<br>')}</td></tr>`:''}
   </tbody></table>`;
-  if(pkg.assets&&pkg.assets.length){ h+=`<h2>2.0 Assets (controls.dev)</h2><table><thead><tr><th style="width:180px">Asset Tag / ID</th><th>Description</th><th>controls.dev Link</th></tr></thead><tbody>`;
+  if(pkg.assets&&pkg.assets.length){ h+=`<h2>2.0 Assets</h2><table><thead><tr><th style="width:240px">Asset ID</th><th>Note</th></tr></thead><tbody>`;
-    pkg.assets.forEach(a=>h+=`<tr><td>${cell(a.tag)}</td><td>${cell(a.desc)}</td><td>${a.link?linkify(a.link):ns()}</td></tr>`); h+=`</tbody></table>`; }
+    pkg.assets.forEach(a=>h+=`<tr><td>${cell(a.tag)}</td><td>${cell(a.desc)}</td></tr>`); h+=`</tbody></table>`; }
   let scopeHtml;
   if(pkg.scope && Object.keys(pkg.scope).length){   // per-discipline scope sections
     scopeHtml = Object.keys(pkg.scope).map(d=>{
@@ -1688,7 +2012,7 @@ function loadPackageIntoForm(p){
   set('wp_hold', (p.hold&&p.hold.trim())?p.hold:sopValueFor('wp_hold'));
   lockQuality('wp_qc'); lockQuality('wp_photo'); lockQuality('wp_hold');
   // collections
-  pkgAssets=(p.assets&&p.assets.length)?p.assets.map(a=>({...a})):[{tag:'',desc:'',link:''}]; buildAssets();
+  pkgAssets=(p.assets||[]).map(normaliseAsset); buildAssets();
   pkgMaterials=(p.materials&&p.materials.length)?p.materials.map(m=>({...m,unit:(m.unit||'').toUpperCase()})):[{qty:'',unit:'',desc:''}]; buildMaterials();
   pkgAttach=(p.attachments&&p.attachments.length)?p.attachments.map(a=>({...a})):[{doc:'',rev:'',link:''}]; buildAttach();
   pkgWorkSteps=(p.workSteps&&p.workSteps.length)?p.workSteps.slice():(p.work?String(p.work).split('\n').filter(Boolean):['']); if(!pkgWorkSteps.length)pkgWorkSteps=['']; buildWorkSteps();
@@ -1745,7 +2069,7 @@ function newPackage(){
   setRadio('status','Draft');
   numberDims={}; buildNumberDims();
   pkgDisciplines=[]; pkgScope={}; pkgDiscStatus={}; buildDisciplinePicker(); renderScope(); onHoursChange();
-  pkgAssets=[{tag:'',desc:'',link:''}]; buildAssets();
+  pkgAssets=[]; buildAssets();
   pkgMaterials=[{qty:'',unit:'',desc:''}]; buildMaterials();
   pkgAttach=[{doc:'',rev:'',link:''}]; buildAttach();
   pkgWorkSteps=['']; buildWorkSteps();
@@ -2111,6 +2435,7 @@ function bootData(){
   bootSOP();
   setRadio('status','Draft');
   loadMembers();
+  initAssetPicker();
   initWpNavDrawer();
   renderSavedList();
   positionSectionNav();

html/wp-creation-index.html

@@ -181,12 +181,23 @@
     </div>
   </div>
 
-  <!-- ASSETS (controls.dev) -->
+  <!-- ASSETS (Micron asset catalog) -->
   <div class="card" id="asset-card">
-    <div class="sub-heading">Assets</div>
+    <div class="sub-heading">Assets<span class="help-tip" data-tip="Every work package is built around one or more assets. Search the Micron DB by asset ID, paste a column of IDs straight from Excel, or load a CSV. IDs found in the Micron DB are tagged as such; the rest are added as manual rows. The Micron DB is read-only here — picking an asset never changes it.">i</span></div>
-    <div class="notice">Every work package is based on one or more assets managed in <strong>controls.dev</strong>. Paste the controls.dev link for each asset this package covers. <span style="color:var(--text-dim)">A direct integration to pick assets from a list is planned — for now, link them manually.</span></div>
+    <div class="notice">Every work package is based on one or more assets from the <strong>Micron DB</strong>. Search by asset ID, or paste a column of IDs straight from Excel, to add each asset this package covers. <span style="color:var(--text-dim)">The Micron DB is read-only — nothing you do here changes it.</span></div>
-    <div class="table-wrap"><table><thead><tr><th style="width:200px">Asset Tag / ID</th><th>Description</th><th>controls.dev Link <span class="req">*</span></th><th style="width:44px"></th></tr></thead><tbody id="asset-body"></tbody></table></div>
+    <div class="asset-pick" id="asset-pick">
-    <button class="add-btn" onclick="addAsset()">+ Add Asset</button>
+      <input type="search" class="asset-search" id="asset-search" autocomplete="off"
+             placeholder="Search asset IDs, or paste a column from Excel…"
+             aria-label="Search the Micron DB by asset ID" aria-controls="asset-results" aria-expanded="false">
+      <div class="asset-results" id="asset-results" hidden></div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="field-hint" id="asset-source-note"></div>
+    <div class="table-wrap"><table><thead><tr><th style="width:260px">Asset ID</th><th>Note <span style="font-weight:400;color:var(--text-dim)">(what this asset is / why it's in scope)</span></th><th style="width:44px"></th></tr></thead><tbody id="asset-body"></tbody></table></div>
+    <div class="material-actions">
+      <button class="add-btn" onclick="addManualAsset()" title="Add an asset that is not in the Micron DB yet">+ Add asset not in the Micron DB</button>
+      <button class="add-btn" onclick="document.getElementById('asset-import').click()" title="Load a list of asset IDs from a CSV. IDs found in the Micron DB are tagged as such; the rest are added as manual rows.">⤒ Load from CSV</button>
+      <input type="file" id="asset-import" accept=".csv,text/csv" style="display:none" onchange="importAssets(event)">
+    </div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- DISCIPLINES -->

html/wp-creation-styles.css

@@ -645,6 +645,38 @@
     border:1px solid var(--border); border-radius:3px; }
   .pp-free .field-hint { margin-top:4px; }
 
+  /* ── asset picker (Micron asset catalog) ────────────────────────────────────
+     A search box over a read-only catalog. Results drop below the input and are
+     added to the table as rows; the catalog itself is never written to. */
+  .asset-pick { position:relative; margin-bottom:10px; }
+  .asset-search { width:100%; padding:8px 10px; font:inherit; font-size:13px;
+    border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:4px; background:var(--surface);
+    box-sizing:border-box; }
+  .asset-search:focus { outline:2px solid var(--accent); outline-offset:-2px; }
+  .asset-search:disabled { background:var(--surface2); color:var(--text-dim); cursor:not-allowed; }
+  .asset-results { position:absolute; top:calc(100% + 4px); left:0; right:0; z-index:60;
+    max-height:320px; overflow-y:auto; background:var(--surface);
+    border:1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius:4px; padding:4px 0;
+    box-shadow:0 8px 24px rgba(20,30,50,.18); }
+  .asset-results[hidden] { display:none; }
+  .asset-result { display:flex; align-items:baseline; justify-content:space-between; gap:10px;
+    width:100%; text-align:left; background:none; border:0;
+    font:inherit; font-size:13px; padding:7px 12px; cursor:pointer; color:var(--text); }
+  .asset-result:hover:not(:disabled) { background:var(--surface2); }
+  .asset-result:disabled { cursor:default; opacity:.55; }
+  .asset-result-tag { font-weight:600; overflow:hidden; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap; }
+  .asset-result-add { color:var(--accent); font-size:11.5px; font-weight:700; white-space:nowrap; }
+  .asset-result.is-added .asset-result-add { color:var(--text-dim); font-weight:400; }
+  .asset-result-note { padding:9px 12px; font-size:12.5px; color:var(--text-muted); }
+  /* Marks rows the catalog vouches for, so a manually typed asset is never
+     mistaken for a looked-up one. */
+  .asset-badge { display:inline-block; margin-left:6px; padding:1px 7px; border-radius:10px;
+    font-size:10px; font-weight:700; letter-spacing:.02em; text-transform:uppercase;
+    color:var(--accent); background:var(--accent-dim); vertical-align:middle;
+    white-space:nowrap; }   /* two words now — must not wrap under the asset ID */
+  .asset-tag { font-weight:600; }
+  .asset-empty { color:var(--text-dim); font-size:12.5px; font-style:italic; }
+
   /* Critical constraint marker (from the SOP) */
   .crit-tag { display:inline-block; margin-left:6px; padding:1px 7px; border-radius:10px; font-size:10px;
     font-weight:700; letter-spacing:.02em; color:var(--red); background:var(--red-dim);

scripts/backup-cron.sh

@@ -1,9 +1,27 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# Entry point for the `backup` sidecar container. Runs db-backup.sh on a fixed
+# Entry point for the `backup` sidecar container's periodic loop. Runs
-# interval (default: daily). Kept deliberately simple — a sleep loop instead of a
+# db-backup.sh on a fixed interval (default: daily) -- a sleep loop instead of
-# cron daemon — so it works in a bare postgres:16-alpine image.
+# a cron daemon, kept deliberately simple so it works in a bare
+# postgres:16-alpine image.
+#
+# Resolves db-backup.sh the same way entrypoint.sh resolves this file: prefer
+# the live bind-mounted copy at /scripts (so edits don't need a rebuild), fall
+# back to the copy baked into the image at build time if the mount is
+# missing, empty, or stale. Resolving fresh on every loop iteration also means
+# that if the mount comes back healthy later (e.g. someone fixes the host
+# directory) this container picks it up on the very next run, with no
+# restart needed.
 set -eu
 
+resolve() {
+  # $1 = script filename, e.g. db-backup.sh
+  if [ -f "/scripts/$1" ]; then
+    echo "/scripts/$1"
+  else
+    echo "/app/scripts-default/$1"
+  fi
+}
+
 INTERVAL="${BACKUP_INTERVAL_SECONDS:-86400}"   # 86400 = once a day
 echo "[backup] sidecar started; interval=${INTERVAL}s, keep=${BACKUP_KEEP:-14}, dir=${BACKUP_DIR:-/backups}"
 
@@ -11,6 +29,7 @@ echo "[backup] sidecar started; interval=${INTERVAL}s, keep=${BACKUP_KEEP:-14},
 # immediate restore point instead of waiting a whole interval.
 sleep 20
 while true; do
-  sh /scripts/db-backup.sh || echo "[backup] run failed; will retry next interval" >&2
+  DB_BACKUP="$(resolve db-backup.sh)"
+  sh "$DB_BACKUP" || echo "[backup] run failed; will retry next interval" >&2
   sleep "$INTERVAL"
 done

scripts/backup.Dockerfile

@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # Backup sidecar image: Postgres client tools (pg_dump/psql) + openssl for
-# at-rest encryption of dumps. The scripts themselves are bind-mounted at runtime
+# at-rest encryption of dumps.
-# (see the `backup` service in docker-compose.yml), so they're not COPYed here.
+#
+# The scripts are bind-mounted live at runtime (see the `backup` service in
+# docker-compose.yml) so they can be edited without a rebuild -- but they're
+# ALSO baked in here as a fallback default under /app/scripts-default/.
+# entrypoint.sh prefers the live mount and only falls back to this baked-in
+# copy if the mount is missing, empty, or stale. That fallback is what keeps
+# a broken bind mount from crash-looping the container into an unreachable
+# state (see entrypoint.sh for the full story).
 FROM postgres:16-alpine
 RUN apk add --no-cache openssl
+
+COPY scripts/backup-cron.sh scripts/db-backup.sh scripts/db-restore.sh /app/scripts-default/
+COPY scripts/entrypoint.sh /app/entrypoint.sh
+RUN chmod +x /app/entrypoint.sh /app/scripts-default/*.sh
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/app/entrypoint.sh"]
+CMD []

scripts/entrypoint.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Entrypoint for the `backup` sidecar. Prefers the live, bind-mounted copy of
+# backup-cron.sh at /scripts (so it can be edited without a rebuild), and
+# falls back to the copy baked into this image at build time if that bind
+# mount is missing, empty, or stale.
+#
+# Why this exists: the previous entrypoint ran `/bin/sh /scripts/backup-cron.sh`
+# directly. If that file wasn't there -- e.g. because the host directory
+# backing the ./scripts bind mount hadn't been populated by whatever deploy
+# process manages this stack -- the container failed instantly, and
+# `restart: unless-stopped` retried in a tight crash loop forever: fast enough
+# that the container was never "running" long enough for `docker exec` or
+# Portainer's console to attach. That made the failure itself undiagnosable
+# from inside the container -- you could only ever see it in the logs, and
+# only by getting lucky with timing. This wrapper guarantees something always
+# runs, and that the container always stays reachable, even in the worst case.
+set -u
+
+LIVE="/scripts/backup-cron.sh"
+FALLBACK="/app/scripts-default/backup-cron.sh"
+
+if [ -f "$LIVE" ]; then
+  echo "[entrypoint] using live scripts from /scripts (bind mount present)"
+  exec /bin/sh "$LIVE"
+fi
+
+echo "[entrypoint] WARNING: $LIVE not found." >&2
+echo "[entrypoint] The ./scripts bind mount is missing, empty, or stale on the host." >&2
+echo "[entrypoint] Check the directory backing that mount (see docker-compose.yml)." >&2
+
+if [ -f "$FALLBACK" ]; then
+  echo "[entrypoint] Falling back to the scripts baked into this image at build time." >&2
+  echo "[entrypoint] Backups will still run, on whatever version was current when this" >&2
+  echo "[entrypoint] image was last built -- not any newer live edits to ./scripts." >&2
+  exec /bin/sh "$FALLBACK"
+fi
+
+echo "[entrypoint] FATAL: no backup-cron.sh in the bind mount or the image." >&2
+echo "[entrypoint] Staying up (idle) instead of crash-looping, so this container" >&2
+echo "[entrypoint] can still be reached via 'docker exec' / the Portainer console." >&2
+while true; do
+  sleep 3600
+done

server/.env.example

@@ -30,3 +30,25 @@ AUTH_SECRET_KEY=CHANGE_ME_run_the_command_above
 # notifications are marked "skipped", nothing is sent) until both the toggle is
 # on and SMTP is configured.
 # SMTP_PASSWORD=your-smtp-app-password
+
+# ── Micron asset catalog (optional) ───────────────────────────────────────────
+# Backs the searchable asset picker in the work package creator. READ-ONLY: the
+# app only ever runs the single SELECT in server/assets_db.py, so give it a
+# db_datareader login and nothing more.
+#
+# Leave this unset and the suite works normally — the picker reports that no
+# catalog is configured and people type asset tags in by hand.
+#
+# URL-encode special characters in the password (@ = %40, # = %23, / = %2F …).
+# MICRON_DB_URL=mssql+pymssql://readonly_user:PASSWORD@sqlhost.example.com:1433/MicronDB
+#
+# To use pyodbc instead of pymssql you must also add pyodbc to requirements.txt
+# and install the Microsoft ODBC driver in the image:
+# MICRON_DB_URL=mssql+pyodbc://readonly_user:PASSWORD@sqlhost.example.com/MicronDB?driver=ODBC+Driver+18+for+SQL+Server
+#
+# Two things to check when the picker says the catalog is unreachable:
+#   1. The table/column names in ASSET_QUERY (server/assets_db.py) match the real
+#      Micron schema — that one constant is the whole schema contract.
+#   2. The api container is on the `outbound` network in docker-compose.yml. The
+#      `internal` network has no default gateway, which blocks the VPN as well as
+#      the internet.

server/alembic/versions/a7c31f9e5b02_project_archive_and_auto_add_members.py

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+"""project archive + default members on new projects
+
+Two changes that ship together:
+  • projects.archived_at — an archived project disappears from every picker,
+    switcher and search and is frozen read-only. Mirrors work_packages.archived_at
+    (47bbe76aa749): NULL means "live", which is what every existing row gets, so
+    nothing changes for current data.
+  • users.auto_add_projects / users.auto_add_role — a PM or QA lead who belongs on
+    every job is added to each new project automatically. auto_add_role shares
+    project_members.role's value space ('' = inherit the account's own role).
+
+Revision ID: a7c31f9e5b02
+Revises: d15b8c4ef207
+Create Date: 2026-08-05 10:12:47.503914
+"""
+from alembic import op
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+
+
+# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
+revision = 'a7c31f9e5b02'
+down_revision = 'd15b8c4ef207'
+branch_labels = None
+depends_on = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    op.add_column('projects', sa.Column('archived_at', sa.DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True))
+    op.create_index(op.f('ix_projects_archived_at'), 'projects', ['archived_at'], unique=False)
+    # These two are NOT NULL and land on a table that already has rows, so
+    # server_default is what backfills them (nobody is auto-added until an admin
+    # turns it on). The defaults are deliberately LEFT IN PLACE afterwards, as every
+    # other migration here does (18373f14809e, b41c7ae90d52, c93f2b1d7e04,
+    # d15b8c4ef207): dropping one needs ALTER COLUMN, which SQLite only fakes via a
+    # batch_alter_table table rebuild, and dev runs on SQLite (wpsuite.db). The ORM
+    # supplies both values on every INSERT, so the leftover default is only ever
+    # read by hand-written SQL — and there it is the answer we'd want anyway.
+    op.add_column('users', sa.Column('auto_add_projects', sa.Boolean(),
+                                     nullable=False, server_default=sa.false()))
+    op.add_column('users', sa.Column('auto_add_role', sa.String(length=20),
+                                     nullable=False, server_default=''))
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_column('users', 'auto_add_role')
+    op.drop_column('users', 'auto_add_projects')
+    op.drop_index(op.f('ix_projects_archived_at'), table_name='projects')
+    op.drop_column('projects', 'archived_at')

server/app.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from sqlalchemy import select, delete, func
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 
 from .db import Base, engine, get_db
-from . import models, auth, notify
+from . import models, auth, notify, assets_db
 
 # Schema management:
 #   • Local dev (SQLite) auto-creates tables for a zero-config run.
@@ -170,6 +170,29 @@ def require_project_admin(db: Session, user: "models.User", project_id: Optional
         )
 
 
+def require_project_writable(db: Session, user_or_none, project_id: Optional[str],
+                             what: str = "This change") -> None:
+    """An archived project is frozen: everything on it stays readable, nothing on it
+    may be written. Every mutating path that lands on a project goes through here —
+    saving a SOP or a package, issuing, status changes, deletes, comments.
+
+    It is 409 and not 403 on purpose. Nobody lacks a permission here: the state of
+    the project is the objection, and even an admin gets refused until they unarchive
+    it — hence the caller identity is accepted for symmetry with the other guards but
+    deliberately unused. 409 also matters offline: the browser outbox in
+    html/project-data.js retires any 4xx op instead of retrying it forever, so an edit
+    queued before the archive dies quietly rather than looping against a frozen job."""
+    if not project_id:
+        return
+    proj = db.get(models.Project, project_id)
+    if proj is not None and proj.archived_at is not None:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=409,
+            detail=(f"{what} — this project is archived (read-only). An administrator "
+                    f"can unarchive it from the admin console."),
+        )
+
+
 def scope_to_access(stmt, column, db: Session, user: "models.User"):
     """Restrict a SELECT to the user's accessible projects (no-op for admins)."""
     ids = accessible_project_ids(db, user)
@@ -178,16 +201,50 @@ def scope_to_access(stmt, column, db: Session, user: "models.User"):
     return stmt.where(column.in_(ids))
 
 
-def grant_project_access(db: Session, user_id: str, project_id: str) -> None:
+def grant_project_access(db: Session, user_id: str, project_id: str, role: str = "") -> bool:
-    """Add a (user, project) membership if it isn't already there."""
+    """Add a (user, project) membership if it isn't already there, carrying an
+    optional per-project role override ('' = inherit the account's own). Returns True
+    only when a row was actually added, so a caller can report what it did. Does NOT
+    commit — the caller owns the transaction."""
     exists = db.scalar(
         select(models.ProjectMember.id).where(
             (models.ProjectMember.user_id == user_id)
             & (models.ProjectMember.project_id == project_id)
         )
     )
-    if not exists:
+    if exists:
-        db.add(models.ProjectMember(id=gen_id("pm"), user_id=user_id, project_id=project_id))
+        return False
+    db.add(models.ProjectMember(id=gen_id("pm"), user_id=user_id, project_id=project_id, role=role))
+    return True
+
+
+def add_default_members(db: Session, project_id: str, actor) -> list[str]:
+    """Put the standing default members onto a brand-new project.
+
+    Some people belong on every job the moment it exists — the PM who runs them all,
+    the QC lead — and flagging their account (users.auto_add_projects) is how an admin
+    says that once instead of remembering it at every project creation. App admins are
+    skipped because they already reach every project, an inactive account is not
+    revived by a new job, and an existing membership is never duplicated or
+    overwritten. Returns the usernames added; does NOT commit, matching
+    grant_project_access."""
+    rows = db.scalars(
+        select(models.User).where(
+            (models.User.auto_add_projects.is_(True)) & (models.User.is_active.is_(True))
+        ).order_by(models.User.username)
+    ).all()
+    added = []
+    for u in rows:
+        if auth.is_admin(u):
+            continue
+        if grant_project_access(db, u.id, project_id, (u.auto_add_role or "").strip()):
+            added.append(u.username)
+    if added:
+        # One line for the batch, not one per person — this is a single automatic act.
+        log_event(db, actor, "project_access_granted", "project", project_id,
+                  project_id=project_id, summary=f"{len(added)} default member(s) added",
+                  detail={"users": added, "reason": "auto_add_projects"})
+    return added
 
 
 # ── Audit trail ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -381,6 +438,13 @@ class ProjectAssignIn(BaseModel):
     roles: dict[str, str] = Field(default_factory=dict)
 
 
+class AutoAddIn(BaseModel):
+    auto_add: bool
+    # Role to give this user on the projects they're auto-added to; '' inherits the
+    # account's own role, same value space as ProjectMember.role.
+    role: str = ""
+
+
 LOGIN_MAX_ATTEMPTS = int(os.getenv("AUTH_MAX_ATTEMPTS", "5"))
 LOGIN_LOCKOUT_MINUTES = int(os.getenv("AUTH_LOCKOUT_MINUTES", "15"))
 
@@ -690,8 +754,16 @@ def set_user_role(user_id: str, body: RoleIn, admin: models.User = Depends(auth.
             raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="Can't remove the last admin account")
     old_role = u.role
     u.role = body.role
-    log_event(db, admin, "role_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+    detail = {"from": old_role, "to": body.role}
-              detail={"from": old_role, "to": body.role})
+    # Promoting someone to admin retires their default-member flag: an admin already
+    # reaches every project, so the flag would do nothing except sit there invisibly
+    # (the console shows admins no controls) and come back to life the day they are
+    # demoted. Same reasoning as clearing the role in set_user_auto_add.
+    if body.role == auth.ROLE_ADMIN and (u.auto_add_projects or u.auto_add_role):
+        u.auto_add_projects = False
+        u.auto_add_role = ""
+        detail["auto_add_cleared"] = True
+    log_event(db, admin, "role_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username, detail=detail)
     db.commit()
     db.refresh(u)
     return u.to_dict()
@@ -714,6 +786,33 @@ def set_user_project_role(user_id: str, body: ProjectRoleIn, admin: models.User
     return u.to_dict()
 
 
+@app.post("/api/auth/users/{user_id}/auto-add")
+def set_user_auto_add(user_id: str, body: AutoAddIn, admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    """Flag a user as a default member of every project created from here on, with
+    an optional role on those projects. It only touches NEW projects — existing
+    assignments stay under the admin's hand (see set_user_projects), because
+    back-filling everyone onto historical jobs is never what this flag means."""
+    allowed = ("", auth.ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN, auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER)
+    role = (body.role or "").strip()
+    if role not in allowed:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=400,
+            detail=f"role must be '' (inherit) or one of {auth.ROLE_PROJECT_ADMIN}, {auth.ROLE_PROJECT_USER}",
+        )
+    u = db.get(models.User, user_id)
+    if not u:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="User not found")
+    u.auto_add_projects = bool(body.auto_add)
+    # A role left behind on a switched-off flag is a trap: it would quietly take
+    # effect the day someone switches the flag back on.
+    u.auto_add_role = role if u.auto_add_projects else ""
+    log_event(db, admin, "auto_add_changed", "user", u.id, summary=u.username,
+              detail={"auto_add": bool(u.auto_add_projects), "role": u.auto_add_role})
+    db.commit()
+    db.refresh(u)
+    return u.to_dict()
+
+
 @app.delete("/api/auth/users/{user_id}")
 def delete_user(user_id: str, admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_admin), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
     u = db.get(models.User, user_id)
@@ -741,7 +840,11 @@ def get_user_projects(user_id: str, _admin: models.User = Depends(auth.require_a
         "assigned": [r.project_id for r in rows],
         # Per-project role overrides, keyed by project id ('' = inherit the account's).
         "roles": {r.project_id: (r.role or "") for r in rows},
-        "projects": [{"id": p.id, "name": p.name, "number": p.number} for p in projects],
+        # Archived projects stay on this list on purpose — an existing assignment has
+        # to remain visible and removable — but they're flagged so the dialog can say
+        # so, rather than offering a finished job as though it were live work.
+        "projects": [{"id": p.id, "name": p.name, "number": p.number,
+                      "archived": p.archived_at is not None} for p in projects],
     }
 
 
@@ -775,6 +878,7 @@ def upsert_project(body: ProjectIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current
     is_new = proj is None
     if not is_new:
         require_project_access(db, user, proj.id)
+        require_project_writable(db, user, proj.id, "Editing a project")
     if proj is None:
         proj = models.Project(id=body.id or gen_id("proj"))
         db.add(proj)
@@ -789,18 +893,36 @@ def upsert_project(body: ProjectIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current
     log_event(db, user, "created" if is_new else "updated", "project", proj.id,
               project_id=proj.id, summary=(proj.name or proj.number or proj.id))
     db.commit()
-    # A project created by a non-admin auto-grants its creator access.
+    # A project created by a non-admin auto-grants its creator access. If that
+    # creator is ALSO a standing default member, this is the row that sticks —
+    # add_default_members below never overwrites an existing membership — so it has
+    # to carry the role they'd have been given, or someone whose flag says
+    # "Project Admin on every job" would silently land as a plain member on the one
+    # job they started themselves.
     if is_new and not auth.is_admin(user):
-        grant_project_access(db, user.id, proj.id)
+        creator_role = (user.auto_add_role or "").strip() if user.auto_add_projects else ""
+        grant_project_access(db, user.id, proj.id, creator_role)
+        db.commit()
+    # …and anyone flagged as a default member joins at creation time too.
+    if is_new:
+        add_default_members(db, proj.id, user)
         db.commit()
     db.refresh(proj)
     return proj.to_dict()
 
 
 @app.get("/api/projects")
-def list_projects(user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+def list_projects(
-    stmt = scope_to_access(select(models.Project), models.Project.id, db, user).order_by(models.Project.updated_at.desc())
+    archived: str = Query("exclude", description="exclude (default) | only | all"),
-    rows = db.scalars(stmt).all()
+    user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user),
+    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
+):
+    stmt = scope_to_access(select(models.Project), models.Project.id, db, user)
+    if archived == "only":
+        stmt = stmt.where(models.Project.archived_at.is_not(None))
+    elif archived != "all":
+        stmt = stmt.where(models.Project.archived_at.is_(None))   # default: hide archived
+    rows = db.scalars(stmt.order_by(models.Project.updated_at.desc())).all()
     return [p.summary() for p in rows]
 
 
@@ -827,14 +949,46 @@ def delete_project(project_id: str, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current
     return {"deleted": project_id}
 
 
+@app.post("/api/projects/{project_id}/archive")
+def archive_project(project_id: str, body: ArchiveIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
+    """Archive (or unarchive) a whole project — it drops out of every picker,
+    switcher and search, and freezes read-only, without losing a thing. This is how
+    a finished job gets out of everyone's way while staying on the record; delete is
+    still there for a job that should never have existed."""
+    proj = db.get(models.Project, project_id)
+    if not proj:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Project not found")
+    # Takes the whole job out of circulation for everyone on it, so it sits at the
+    # same bar as deleting it. Note the deliberate absence of require_project_writable
+    # — unarchiving is the one write an archived project must still accept.
+    require_project_admin(db, user, proj.id, "Archiving a project")
+    was_archived = proj.archived_at is not None
+    if body.archived and not was_archived:
+        proj.archived_at = models.utcnow()
+        log_event(db, user, "archived", "project", proj.id, project_id=proj.id,
+                  summary=(proj.name or proj.number or proj.id))
+    elif not body.archived and was_archived:
+        proj.archived_at = None
+        log_event(db, user, "unarchived", "project", proj.id, project_id=proj.id,
+                  summary=(proj.name or proj.number or proj.id))
+    db.commit()
+    db.refresh(proj)
+    return proj.to_dict()
+
+
 # ── SOPs ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 @app.post("/api/sops")
 def upsert_sop(body: SopIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
     check_id(body.id)
     require_project_access(db, user, body.project_id)
+    # Both ends are checked: the project the SOP is being written INTO here, and the
+    # one it currently sits on below — so an archived job can be neither edited nor
+    # used as a source to move a SOP out of.
+    require_project_writable(db, user, body.project_id, "Saving a SOP")
     sop = db.get(models.Sop, body.id) if body.id else None
     if sop is not None:
         require_project_access(db, user, sop.project_id)
+        require_project_writable(db, user, sop.project_id, "Saving a SOP")
         # The SOP is the project's baseline: once it's been completed, changing it
         # is a Project Admin action. Authoring and revising a draft is open to any
         # project member, including marking it complete the first time.
@@ -899,6 +1053,7 @@ def delete_sop(sop_id: str, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user),
     if not sop:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="SOP not found")
     require_project_admin(db, user, sop.project_id, "Deleting a SOP")
+    require_project_writable(db, user, sop.project_id, "Deleting a SOP")
     log_event(db, user, "deleted", "sop", sop.id, project_id=sop.project_id,
               summary=(sop.name or sop.number or sop.id))
     db.delete(sop)
@@ -1090,9 +1245,12 @@ def upsert_wp(body: WpIn, background_tasks: BackgroundTasks, user: models.User =
     check_id(body.parent_id)
     check_id(body.assignee_id)
     require_project_access(db, user, body.project_id)
+    # Destination and origin both have to be live — see upsert_sop.
+    require_project_writable(db, user, body.project_id, "Saving a work package")
     wp = db.get(models.WorkPackage, body.id) if body.id else None
     if wp is not None:
         require_project_access(db, user, wp.project_id)
+        require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Saving a work package")
     is_new = wp is None
     old_status = None if is_new else wp.status
     old_assignee = None if is_new else wp.assignee_id
@@ -1276,6 +1434,7 @@ def delete_wp(wp_id: str, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db
     # Deleting a work package is irreversible — Project Admin only. A project_user
     # who wants one out of the way can archive it instead (reversible).
     require_project_admin(db, user, wp.project_id, "Deleting a work package")
+    require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Deleting a work package")
     log_event(db, user, "deleted", "wp", wp.id, project_id=wp.project_id,
               summary=(wp.number or wp.subject or wp.id))
     db.delete(wp)
@@ -1291,6 +1450,7 @@ def issue_wp(wp_id: str, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user), db:
     if not wp:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Work Package not found")
     require_project_access(db, user, wp.project_id)
+    require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Issuing a work package")
     enforce_release_gates(db, wp.id, wp.data, "Issued", wp.status)
     wp.status = "Issued"
     wp.issued_at = models.utcnow()
@@ -1307,6 +1467,7 @@ def set_wp_status(wp_id: str, body: StatusIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.g
     if not wp:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Work Package not found")
     require_project_access(db, user, wp.project_id)
+    require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Changing a work package's status")
     old_status = wp.status
     # Same gates as /issue — this route must not be a way around them.
     enforce_release_gates(db, wp.id, wp.data, body.status, old_status)
@@ -1329,6 +1490,9 @@ def archive_wp(wp_id: str, body: ArchiveIn, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get
     if not wp:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Work Package not found")
     require_project_access(db, user, wp.project_id)
+    # An archived project is frozen whole: its packages keep the archive state they
+    # had, and tidying inside it waits until the job is unarchived.
+    require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Archiving a work package")
     was_archived = wp.archived_at is not None
     if body.archived and not was_archived:
         wp.archived_at = models.utcnow()
@@ -1399,12 +1563,23 @@ def global_search(
     pat = _like_term(term)
     esc = "\\"
 
+    # An archived project is meant to be gone from view, and search is the one place
+    # it would otherwise come back — as the project itself, or as one of its packages
+    # or SOPs. So the archived ids are read once here and filtered out of all three
+    # result sets. Rows with no project at all (orphan/legacy, admin-only) survive
+    # explicitly: SQL's NOT IN drops NULLs, and they aren't on an archived job.
+    archived_pids = set(db.scalars(
+        select(models.Project.id).where(models.Project.archived_at.is_not(None))
+    ).all())
+
     proj_stmt = select(models.Project).where(
         func.lower(models.Project.name).like(pat, escape=esc)
         | func.lower(models.Project.number).like(pat, escape=esc)
         | func.lower(models.Project.client).like(pat, escape=esc)
         | func.lower(models.Project.site).like(pat, escape=esc)
     )
+    if archived_pids:
+        proj_stmt = proj_stmt.where(models.Project.id.not_in(archived_pids))
     proj_stmt = scope_to_access(proj_stmt, models.Project.id, db, user)
     projects = db.scalars(proj_stmt.order_by(models.Project.updated_at.desc()).limit(limit)).all()
 
@@ -1417,6 +1592,11 @@ def global_search(
             | func.lower(models.WorkPackage.status).like(pat, escape=esc)
         )
     )
+    if archived_pids:
+        wp_stmt = wp_stmt.where(
+            models.WorkPackage.project_id.is_(None)
+            | models.WorkPackage.project_id.not_in(archived_pids)
+        )
     wp_stmt = scope_to_access(wp_stmt, models.WorkPackage.project_id, db, user)
     wps = db.scalars(wp_stmt.order_by(models.WorkPackage.updated_at.desc()).limit(limit)).all()
 
@@ -1424,6 +1604,10 @@ def global_search(
         func.lower(models.Sop.name).like(pat, escape=esc)
         | func.lower(models.Sop.number).like(pat, escape=esc)
     )
+    if archived_pids:
+        sop_stmt = sop_stmt.where(
+            models.Sop.project_id.is_(None) | models.Sop.project_id.not_in(archived_pids)
+        )
     sop_stmt = scope_to_access(sop_stmt, models.Sop.project_id, db, user)
     sops = db.scalars(sop_stmt.order_by(models.Sop.updated_at.desc()).limit(limit)).all()
 
@@ -1535,17 +1719,28 @@ def project_members(project_id: str, user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_curren
 # ── Comments / feedback ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 def _save_comment(body: CommentIn, db: Session, user: "models.User") -> dict:
     # A comment tied to a WP/SOP requires access to that resource's project, so
-    # a user can't write into another project's review thread.
+    # a user can't write into another project's review thread. A review thread on an
+    # archived project is frozen with the rest of it; general app feedback isn't tied
+    # to a project at all and keeps working regardless.
+    #
+    # Both ids are checked independently — NOT if/elif. The row stores whichever ids
+    # the payload carried, so a body naming a WP you may touch AND a SOP you may not
+    # would, under an elif, be authorised on the WP alone and still land in the other
+    # project's SOP thread.
+    check_id(body.wp_id)
+    check_id(body.sop_id)
     if body.wp_id:
         wp = db.get(models.WorkPackage, body.wp_id)
         if not wp:
             raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Work Package not found")
         require_project_access(db, user, wp.project_id)
-    elif body.sop_id:
+        require_project_writable(db, user, wp.project_id, "Commenting on a work package")
+    if body.sop_id:
         sop = db.get(models.Sop, body.sop_id)
         if not sop:
             raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="SOP not found")
         require_project_access(db, user, sop.project_id)
+        require_project_writable(db, user, sop.project_id, "Commenting on a SOP")
     extra = body.model_extra or {}
     c = models.Comment(
         id=gen_id("c"),
@@ -1615,6 +1810,29 @@ def list_comments(
     return [c.to_dict() for c in rows]
 
 
+# ── Micron asset catalog (read-only lookup) ────────────────────────────────────
+# Backs the asset picker in the work package creator. This is a *lookup*, not a
+# resource this app owns: there is no POST, and nothing here ever writes to the
+# Micron database. It is deliberately not project-scoped by the app's own access
+# rules — the catalog is reference data, and any signed-in user who can build a
+# work package needs to be able to name the assets it covers. Authentication is
+# still required (the auth_gate middleware covers every /api/ path).
+@app.get("/api/assets")
+def list_assets(_user: models.User = Depends(auth.get_current_user)):
+    """The whole catalog, fetched once when the creator loads. Searching happens
+    in the browser — there is no per-keystroke endpoint by design."""
+    if not assets_db.configured():
+        # Not an error — the suite is designed to run without Micron wired up.
+        # The picker reads this and switches to manual entry.
+        return {"configured": False, "assets": [], "detail": assets_db.status()["detail"]}
+    try:
+        return {"configured": True, "assets": assets_db.load()}
+    except assets_db.AssetSourceError as exc:
+        # 503, not 500: the suite is healthy, its upstream lookup is not. The
+        # picker degrades to manual entry rather than blocking the package.
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail=str(exc))
+
+
 # ── Local dev convenience: serve the static site from this app ──────────────────
 # In production NGINX serves html/ and only proxies /api/ here, so this app never
 # receives "/" requests, and the api Docker image doesn't even include html/ — so

server/assets_db.py

@@ -0,0 +1,199 @@
+"""Read-only reader for the Micron asset catalog.
+
+The work package creator used to ask people to paste a controls.dev link for
+every asset. Assets actually live in the Micron database — a SQL Server instance
+that is NOT part of this repo and whose schema is not managed here. This module
+gives the API a *read-only* window onto it so the creator can offer a searchable
+picker instead of free-text links.
+
+How it works: the whole catalog is fetched in one query and handed to the browser
+when the creator loads. Searching then happens in the browser with no round trip
+at all. The catalog is a list of asset IDs — about 9k of them today and not
+expected past 100k — so it is small enough to send whole, and it is slow-moving
+reference data, so there is nothing to gain from querying it per keystroke and a
+lot of latency to lose. A short server-side cache keeps a room full of people
+opening the page from turning into a query each.
+
+Other deliberate constraints:
+
+  * **Read-only, always.** The only statement in this file is the SELECT below.
+    Point it at a login with `db_datareader` and nothing else.
+  * **No prime_db dependency.** A plain SQLAlchemy connection built from a
+    connection string, kept separate from the app's own engine in `db.py`, so a
+    Micron outage can never affect the suite's own database.
+
+Unconfigured is a first-class state: with no `MICRON_DB_URL` set, `configured()`
+returns False, the API says so, and the UI falls back to manual entry. The suite
+boots and runs fine without the Micron database being reachable.
+"""
+import os
+import time
+import logging
+import threading
+
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
+from sqlalchemy.exc import SQLAlchemyError
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+try:
+    from dotenv import load_dotenv
+    load_dotenv()
+except Exception:
+    pass
+
+
+# ── The query ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# The only place the Micron schema appears; everything else here is plumbing.
+# Returns one row per asset, aliased `tag`. No row cap: the catalog is small
+# enough to hand over whole, and a partial list would silently hide assets.
+#
+# Add a WHERE clause here if some rows should never be offered at all
+# (decommissioned assets, other sites, …). Filtering at the source keeps the
+# payload small, which matters more than anything else here.
+ASSET_QUERY = """
+    SELECT a.AssetID AS tag
+      FROM Asset.Asset AS a
+     ORDER BY a.AssetID
+"""
+
+# How long a fetched catalog is reused before the next page load re-queries.
+CACHE_SECONDS = int(os.getenv("MICRON_ASSETS_CACHE_SECONDS", "300"))    # 5 min
+CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 8
+
+
+class AssetSourceError(RuntimeError):
+    """The catalog is configured but could not be read."""
+
+
+# ── Engine (lazy, process-wide) ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+# A full SQLAlchemy URL, e.g.
+#   mssql+pymssql://user:pass@host:1433/MicronDB
+#   mssql+pyodbc://user:pass@host/MicronDB?driver=ODBC+Driver+18+for+SQL+Server
+# URL-encode any special characters in the password.
+_engine = None
+_engine_lock = threading.Lock()
+
+
+def _db_url() -> str:
+    return os.getenv("MICRON_DB_URL", "").strip()
+
+
+def configured() -> bool:
+    return bool(_db_url())
+
+
+def _validate_url(url: str) -> None:
+    """Catch the one URL mistake that produces a baffling error message.
+
+    A password containing an unencoded '@' makes the URL ambiguous: the parser
+    splits on the first '@', so part of the password ends up parsed as the host.
+    The driver then reports a connection failure against a nonsense hostname that
+    happens to contain a fragment of the password — confusing to read and unsafe
+    to display. Detect it here and say plainly what is wrong.
+
+    Nothing from the URL is included in the message; it never leaves this process.
+    """
+    authority = url.split("://", 1)[-1].split("/", 1)[0]
+    if authority.count("@") > 1:
+        raise AssetSourceError(
+            "MICRON_DB_URL is ambiguous: the username or password contains an "
+            "unencoded '@'. Percent-encode the special characters — @ = %40, "
+            ": = %3A, / = %2F, # = %23, ? = %3F, %  = %25."
+        )
+
+
+def _connect_args(url: str) -> dict:
+    """Per-driver connect timeouts, so an unreachable Micron host fails fast
+    instead of tying up a worker until the OS gives up."""
+    if url.startswith("mssql+pymssql"):
+        return {"login_timeout": CONNECT_TIMEOUT, "timeout": CONNECT_TIMEOUT}
+    if url.startswith("mssql+pyodbc"):
+        return {"timeout": CONNECT_TIMEOUT}
+    return {}
+
+
+def _get_engine():
+    global _engine
+    if _engine is not None:
+        return _engine
+    url = _db_url()
+    if not url:
+        raise AssetSourceError("The Micron DB is not configured.")
+    _validate_url(url)
+    with _engine_lock:
+        if _engine is None:
+            try:
+                _engine = create_engine(
+                    url,
+                    connect_args=_connect_args(url),
+                    pool_pre_ping=True,   # a recycled dead connection retries instead of erroring
+                    pool_recycle=1800,
+                    pool_size=1,          # one catalog query now and then, not a workload
+                    max_overflow=1,
+                    future=True,
+                )
+            except Exception as exc:      # bad URL, missing driver package, …
+                # See the note on load() — the exception text can echo the
+                # connection string, so it is logged and not propagated.
+                log.error("Micron asset catalog: could not open the connection: %s", exc)
+                raise AssetSourceError(
+                    "Could not open a connection to the Micron DB. "
+                    "Check MICRON_DB_URL and the API log for the driver error."
+                ) from exc
+    return _engine
+
+
+# ── Cache ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Every page load asks for the whole catalog, so without this a shift change
+# would be one full-table query per person. Held per worker process.
+_cache: list[dict] | None = None
+_cached_at = 0.0
+_cache_lock = threading.Lock()
+
+
+def load(force: bool = False) -> list[dict]:
+    """Return the whole catalog as [{'tag': …}, …]. Never writes."""
+    global _cache, _cached_at
+    with _cache_lock:
+        if _cache is not None and not force and (time.monotonic() - _cached_at) < CACHE_SECONDS:
+            return _cache
+
+    engine = _get_engine()
+    try:
+        with engine.connect() as conn:
+            result = conn.execute(text(ASSET_QUERY)).mappings().all()
+    except SQLAlchemyError as exc:
+        # The driver's message is NOT propagated. AssetSourceError text reaches the
+        # browser, and connection errors quote the host, the login, and — when the
+        # URL is malformed — fragments of the password. Operators get the detail
+        # from the API log, where it belongs; users get a message they can act on.
+        log.error("Micron asset catalog query failed: %s", exc)
+        raise AssetSourceError(
+            "The Micron DB could not be read. Check that the host is "
+            "reachable, that the login has SELECT on the asset table, and that "
+            "ASSET_QUERY matches the real schema — the API log has the driver error."
+        ) from exc
+
+    # Drop rows with no identifier — an asset with no tag is not selectable and
+    # would render as a blank line in the picker.
+    rows = [{"tag": str(r["tag"])} for r in result if r.get("tag") not in (None, "")]
+    with _cache_lock:
+        _cache, _cached_at = rows, time.monotonic()
+    return rows
+
+
+def status() -> dict:
+    """Describe the source for the UI, so it can explain itself rather than just
+    showing an empty dropdown."""
+    if not configured():
+        return {
+            "configured": False, "ok": False, "count": 0,
+            "detail": "The Micron DB is not configured — enter assets manually.",
+        }
+    try:
+        rows = load()
+    except AssetSourceError as exc:
+        return {"configured": True, "ok": False, "count": 0, "detail": str(exc)}
+    return {"configured": True, "ok": True, "count": len(rows),
+            "detail": f"{len(rows):,} asset IDs from the Micron DB."}

server/models.py

@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ class Project(Base):
     division: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(200), default="")
     site: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(300), default="")
     sample: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
+    # Archived projects are hidden from every picker, switcher and search but kept
+    # for the record — a finished job still has to be readable years later. Unlike
+    # an archived work package they are also FROZEN read-only: the API refuses any
+    # write to the project or to anything under it until an admin unarchives it.
+    archived_at: Mapped[Optional[datetime]] = mapped_column(DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True, index=True)
     data: Mapped[dict] = mapped_column(JSON, default=dict)
     created_by: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(200), default="")
     created_at: Mapped[datetime] = mapped_column(DateTime(timezone=True), default=utcnow)
@@ -42,7 +47,9 @@ class Project(Base):
         return {
             "id": self.id, "name": self.name, "number": self.number,
             "client": self.client, "division": self.division, "site": self.site,
-            "sample": self.sample, "created_by": self.created_by,
+            "sample": self.sample,
+            "archived_at": _iso(self.archived_at), "archived": self.archived_at is not None,
+            "created_by": self.created_by,
             "created_at": _iso(self.created_at), "updated_at": _iso(self.updated_at),
         }
 
@@ -140,6 +147,13 @@ class User(Base):
     role: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(20), default="project_user")  # permissions role
     # Job function on the project — free text, offered from a suggested list.
     project_role: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(120), default="")
+    # A PM or QA lead who belongs on every job shouldn't have to be ticked into each
+    # new project by hand, so flagged accounts get a ProjectMember row the moment a
+    # project is created. `auto_add_role` is the role they land with and shares
+    # ProjectMember.role's value space: '' = inherit the account's own role,
+    # otherwise 'project_admin' | 'project_user'.
+    auto_add_projects: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False)
+    auto_add_role: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(20), default="")
     # Display preferences. Empty means "fall back to the app default, then to the
     # browser". A stored value follows the person between devices, which matters on
     # shared field tablets where the browser locale isn't theirs.
@@ -162,6 +176,8 @@ class User(Base):
             "id": self.id, "username": self.username, "email": self.email,
             "full_name": self.full_name, "role": self.role,
             "project_role": self.project_role or "", "is_active": self.is_active,
+            "auto_add_projects": bool(self.auto_add_projects),
+            "auto_add_role": self.auto_add_role or "",
             "locale": self.locale or "", "timezone": self.timezone or "",
             "created_at": _iso(self.created_at), "last_login_at": _iso(self.last_login_at),
         }

server/requirements.txt

@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ gunicorn==26.0.0
 sqlalchemy==2.0.51
 alembic==1.18.5             # database migrations
 psycopg[binary]==3.3.4
+pymssql==2.3.13             # read-only lookups against the Micron asset DB (SQL Server).
+                            # Chosen over pyodbc because it ships self-contained wheels —
+                            # pyodbc would also need msodbcsql18 + unixODBC installed in
+                            # the image. To use pyodbc instead, add it here, install the
+                            # Microsoft ODBC driver in the Dockerfile, and switch
+                            # MICRON_DB_URL to mssql+pyodbc://…?driver=ODBC+Driver+18+for+SQL+Server
 pydantic==2.13.4
 python-dotenv==1.2.2
 bcrypt==5.0.0               # password hashing

server/seed_demo.py

@@ -79,8 +79,11 @@ def main():
     if st != 200:
         print(f"ABORT: /api/health returned {st}"); return 1
 
-    # --clean: remove any prior demo projects (cascade removes their SOP + WPs)
+    # --clean: remove any prior demo projects (cascade removes their SOP + WPs).
-    st, projects = call("GET", "/api/projects")
+    # archived=all because /api/projects hides archived projects by default — an
+    # archived DEMO project is still a DEMO project, and --clean has to find it.
+    # (Deleting one is still allowed; only writes to its contents are frozen.)
+    st, projects = call("GET", "/api/projects?archived=all")
     demos = [p for p in (projects or []) if str(p.get("number", "")).startswith("DEMO-")]
     if args.clean:
         for p in demos:

server/smoketest.py

@@ -168,8 +168,32 @@ def main():
         st, wps = call("GET", f"/api/wps?project_id={project_id}")
         check("list WPs by project", st == 200 and any(w.get("id") == wp_id for w in wps), f"status={st}")
 
+        # 12) Archiving a project: it leaves the default list, stays reachable with
+        # archived=all, and freezes read-only — then unarchiving restores all three.
+        # The freeze is the whole point of the feature, so it is asserted, not assumed.
+        st, arch = call("POST", f"/api/projects/{project_id}/archive", {"archived": True})
+        check("archive project", st == 200 and arch.get("archived") is True, f"status={st}")
+        st, lst = call("GET", "/api/projects")
+        check("archived project drops out of the default list",
+              st == 200 and not any(p.get("id") == project_id for p in lst), f"status={st}")
+        st, lst = call("GET", "/api/projects?archived=all")
+        check("archived project is still there with archived=all",
+              st == 200 and any(p.get("id") == project_id for p in lst), f"status={st}")
+        st, refused = call("POST", "/api/wps", {
+            "id": wp_id, "project_id": project_id, "sop_id": sop_id,
+            "number": "WP01-SMOKE", "subject": "edited while archived", "type": "Conduit Install",
+            "status": "Scheduled", "data": {"disciplines": ["Electrical"], "hours": "40"}})
+        check("writing to an archived project is refused (409)", st == 409, f"status={st} body={refused}")
+        st, unarch = call("POST", f"/api/projects/{project_id}/archive", {"archived": False})
+        check("unarchive project", st == 200 and unarch.get("archived") is False, f"status={st}")
+        st, _ = call("POST", "/api/wps", {
+            "id": wp_id, "project_id": project_id, "sop_id": sop_id,
+            "number": "WP01-SMOKE", "subject": "Smoke test package", "type": "Conduit Install",
+            "status": "In Progress", "data": {"disciplines": ["Electrical"], "hours": "40"}})
+        check("writing succeeds again once unarchived", st == 200, f"status={st}")
+
     finally:
-        # 12) Cleanup — deleting the project cascades to its SOPs and WPs (FK ON DELETE CASCADE).
+        # 13) Cleanup — deleting the project cascades to its SOPs and WPs (FK ON DELETE CASCADE).
         if project_id and not args.keep:
             st, _ = call("DELETE", f"/api/projects/{project_id}")
             check("delete project (cascades SOP + WPs)", st == 200, f"status={st}")