For emails and text messages we sort by the time the user (or API) sent
them.
This makes sense for broadcasts too, since most users will receive the
alert within seconds of it being broadcast.
For alerts that haven’t started yet we can sort by `updated_at`, which
is when the user preparing the broadcast submitted it for approval.
Now that pending alerts aren’t in their own section there’s nothing to
label them as pending. So this commit replaces the extra metadata we
show for a pending alert (the name of the person who created it, which
was only ever a reckon) with an explicit label that says it’s waiting
for approval.
Splitting the dashboard into multiple sections was confusing, and people
sometimes mistook the headings as labels, especially when a section was
empty. It just wasn’t clear what the hierarchy of the page was.
This commit combines the current and pending broadcasts into one list
on the dashboard. Previous broadcasts have already moved to their own
page.
If you refresh the page on a current broadcast while someone has
cancelled it you’ll see the wrong navigation item selected. This commit
adds redirects to take you to the correct endpoint in these edge cases.
Once a broadcast has been submitted for approval it either lives on the
‘Current alerts’ or ‘Previous alerts’ page, depending on where it is
in its lifecycle.
Therefore when clicking into a broadcast from one of those pages the
same navigation item should remain selected.
Because we select the navigation items based on the request endpoint,
this means we need an endpoint for each navigation page, even if the
content of the pages will be the same in both cases.
This commit adds the two new end points, removes the old, single
endpoint and updates links to point to the new endpoint.
The most important part of the broadcast is what content was sent where
(and when).
This commit reduces the priority of the ‘meta’ information, like who
prepared and approved the broadcast. I also think that the ‘end’ time is
a lot less important than the start time, since most people will receive
the alert at or near to the start time.
The idea was that this would be a place to document all the design
patterns used in Notify. However it hasn’t been kept up to date, and,
looking at the `git blame`[1] no new patterns have been added for 5
years.
I think it’s better to get rid of it than have to keep maintaining
something which is inaccurate.
1. 64aa0d359c/app/templates/views/styleguide.html
Our style for areas is pale blue background with black keylines or bold
black text.
This commit makes the display of area names on the dashboard consistent
with that visual style.
This also means that we’re not truncating the list of areas, which is
appropriate because no one area is more important than any of the
others.
Broadcast services only have broadcast templates. But we show the
template type under the name of the template. This is redundant. It
would be better to preview the content of the template instead.
This then makes the templates page consistent with the dashboard.
Depends on:
- [ ] https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api/pull/2996
The dashboard for normal services is quite general, because it tells
you a bit about channels, templates and spend.
What is now the dashboard for broadcast services is much more specific,
therefore less like a dashboard. We can reflect this by giving it a more
specific name. This should reduce the amount of navigation surfing
people need to do in order to find the thing they’re looking for.
Previous alerts are much less important than ones that are live or
waiting for approval.
Therefore we can make the dashboard more focused by moving previous
alerts to their own page.
This prefixes everything to do with areas/the map with `area-list`, so
from looking at one element you know which `.scss` file will contain the
relevant code.
It’s not clear where 103 is coming from unless you know that the code is
doing the slightly unintuitive thing of displaying the max of all return
values.
We don't need these anymore as all users will use the `one-off/step`
routes.
This has mostly involved tidying up the tests which are still a little
disorganised and not as good as I'd like but it's a step in the right
direction.
More refactoring is still possible to the routes, it may come in a later
PR if I have time.
When we add a new property to the broadcast model, we need to delete any
cached broadcasts from Redis that are missing the new property. So this
adds an option to do this to the cache page in platform admin.
I’ve also tried to make it more obvious what the magic numbers in the
test fixture are doing.
