We’ve seen lots of users unsure what the ‘template name’ field is for,
especially on first use. Is it the subject line of the text message?
Will it be who the message comes from? Answer: neither.
So this commit adds a hint to make that clearer.
Because ‘Send text messages’ isn’t very helpful if you’re looking to
edit a template.
It also helps front-load the navigation, ie ‘Team’ is the first word,
rather than the more generic ‘Manage’.
This commit makes the ‘how to do placeholders’ box part of the tour,
with the same blue background.
It also adds some Javascript enhancement so that:
- it responds to the contents of the message template
- has a ‘show me’ link which inserts ‘Dear ((name))’ into the template
contents textbox
We’ve found that this has helped people understnad what placeholders
are, and how to do them.
This commit adds a 3 screen tour, similar to those used on GOV.UK Verify
and Passports.
We guerilla tested this on Friday, and it really helped users to build a
mental model of how Notify works, so that when they’re playing around
with it they have a greater sense of what they’re aiming to do. This
makes concepts like templates and placeholders click more quickly.
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/116710119
Previously the ‘get started’ block on the dashboard pushed users into
starting with a text message. This led to users writing email content
into a tet message template because it didn’t match their expectations.
Also, the ‘send yourself a test’ link from the dashboard:
- wasn’t much used, because users responded to the similar call to
action on the choose template page instead
- was confusing if you had created an email template because it
presupposed that you’d created a text message template
So this commit changes the ‘get started’ block to be a choice between
creating an email template or a text message template. We reckon that
the language of ‘set up’ will help establish that templates are not
equivalent to individual messages. This language is now repeated on the
‘choose template’ page when you don’t have templates as well.
A new permission has been added, view_activity, to resolve this issue.
Another pull request in notifications-admin will be required to update all users with a default permission of view_activity.
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/116052359
- add absolute numbers for failures
- make percentages accurate to 1 decimal place (50.0%)
- make error colour appear if failures go above 3.0%
- make error colour boolean (don’t interpolate between the colours)
Some pages with AJAX should update quickly, because the data is likely
to be changing quickly, and be finished changing sooner. Other pages we
want to have tick over a bit slower.
This commit adds an optional ‘interval’ parameter to the updateContent
modules, which sets how often the page should ping the server for an
update.
It then sets the interval for the dashboard page to be 10 seconds,
rather than the default 1.5 seconds.
The yes/no pattern didn’t work too well, because:
- it didn’t read naturally as a question and answer
- often users left them completely unclicked if they didn’t want to set
the permission (rather than clicking no)
This commit changes both the invite and edit user pages to use
checkboxes to set permissions. If also rewords these pages to read more
naturally, and explain what the permissions mean.
This meant changing some of the view logic around invites and
persmissions, and I ended up refactoring a bunch of it because I found
it hard to understand what was going on.
There is no need to make the API endpoints environment-specific. But it
is still useful to know what the endpoint is.
Also fixes a broken link on the integration page.
