If you’re in trial mode you can’t send letters for real. But you can
still upload a spreadsheet with multiple rows, and there’s no reason why
you shouldn’t be able to explore how Notify populate the letter for each
row of the spreadsheet (since this is something we let you do when you
can send the messages for real).
A new platform admin page Email complaints has been added to surface those complaints.
Eventually the complaints will be visible to the services so they can remove the email address from their mailing list.
Next thing to implement is "x email complaints" warning on the platform admin summary page.
At the moment branding is an undocumented feature. We get a bunch of
support tickets from teams asking its possible.
This commit:
- lets people know it’s possible, and what the options are
- is the first step towards making this process as self-service as
possible
In some cases we will be able to infer a user’s organisation from there
email address, and Google image search their logo. So the experience for
them is that they press a button and government just sorts it out for
you (also known as "the dream").
In other cases we will have to get back to people asking for a copy of
their logo, or to find out about their service, but this is what we have
to do at the moment anyway.
On the page where signed in users can download the agreement:
> The second sentence of that could probably just be 'You can [download
> a copy]'. And could go at the end of the previous paragraph. (We try
> to avoid 'here', and the 'if you need to' is probably unnecessary).
On the page where we give users a choice of agreement to sign:
> We could probably edit that callout down a bit to: '[Contact us] if
> you're not sure whether your organisation is a crown or non-crown
> body.'
>
> (Try to keep callouts to a single sentence if we can)
When you’re not signed in you can still have a service in your session.
But there’s no point trying to get to its dashboard until you’re signed
in – you’ll just be sent back to the ‘sign in’ page.
Currently we have a bunch of users who aren’t signed in asking us for
the agreement.
This is bad because:
- it’s slower (for them) than just being able to download it
- it creates work for us
We can’t just offer the agreement to anyone, but we can offer to it to
anyone who’s signed in because we now let people self-select which
version to download when we can’t tell which one to give them.
If we don’t know whether people belong to a crown organisation we should
give them the option of self-selecting, because they might themselves
know.
This commit adds a new version of the ‘agreement’ page which gives
people exactly that choice. It doesn’t link to it yet.
Adds a platform admin button to the service settings to turn on/off
'upload_document' service permission. The permission allows uploading
documents to document-download-api through the post notification API
endpoint.
For both SMS senders and email reply to addresses this commit adds:
- a delete link
- a confirmation loop
It doesn’t let users delete:
- default SMS senders or reply to addresses (they always have to have
one)
- inbound numbers
It assumes that the API will allow updating of an attribute named
`active` on the respective database rows. It could work in a different
way. We can’t do complete deletion though because these will still be
keyed to notifications.
p1 == "should notify team be alerted of this (via pagerduty)"
urgent == "should the user be told we'll look at it"
* If it's in office hours, it's always urgent. It's never a P1 because
we'll notice it anyway
* If it's outside of office hours, it's urgent and P1 if it's severe,
otherwise it's neither
It is standard practice when using GOV.UK template to highlight the
selected navigation item in the propositional navigation (black bar) by
colouring it blue.
This commit adds a new subclass of `Navigation` with the mapping needed
to decide which pages belong to which item in the navigation (or none
at all).
Because we have multiple navigations, which will share the same methods
(by subclassing) but different mappings of navigation items to endpoints
by overriding the `.mapping` and `.exclude` attributes.
In research I’ve sometimes seen people click the wrong nav item. I
reckon that people’s concept of which pages live behind which navigation
items isn’t very strong.
We can reinforce this relationship by showing, for every page, which is
the corresponding nav item. The conventional way of doing this is either
with some kind of emphasis, typically colour or bold. I’ve gone for bold
because colour would be weird.
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The implementation of this is quite loosely coupled to our application
code because:
- our application code is not well structured (eg we don’t make any use
of blueprints)
- spreading this change across lots of files in our application would
make it harder to test without actually hitting each endpoints; such
tests would be slow and verbose
So I’ve gone for more of a meta approach. Rather than testing that each
endpoint has a specific navigation item selected, I’ve gone for
validating that:
- all endpoints being mapped to are real
- all endpoints have _a_ selected navigation item (or are specifically
excluded)
This means that it’s impossible to add, change or remove an endpoint
without also updating which navigation item should be selected. And the
actual mapping is so declarative that it testing it would be redundant.
Changed the Python link on the Documentation page to link to the new
Python docs (docs.notifications.service.gov.uk/python.html) instead of
the Python client GitHub repo.
* Juror Central Summoning Bureau - Online – HM Courts & Tribunals Service
* Richmond and Wandsworth Council – Richmond and Wandsworth Council
* ESFA feedback – Department for Education
* PINS Digital Service – Planning Inspectorate
* HMPO Belfast – Home Office
* food.gov.uk – Food Standards Agency
* NCC Mobile Team – Newcastle City Council
* Cambs CC Emergency planning – Cambridgeshire County Council
* HMPO Durham – Home Office
* HMPO London – Home Office
* HMPO Glasgow – Home Office
* HMPO Peterborough – Home Office
* HMPO Southport – Home Office
* Student Loans Company. Password Reset. – Student Loans Company
* DigITS – Crown Commercial Service
* Ofsted Reports Beta – Ofsted
* Revenue Accounts – Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
* Luton Council - Electoral Registration – Luton Council
* Cael eich Pensiwn y Wladwriaeth – Department for Work and Pensions
* Warwick Crown Court – Ministry of Justice
* ProLive - Housing Repairs – Pembrokeshire County Council
* Wirral Council – Wirral Council
* DfT Bus Open Data – Department for Transport
* Paris File Watcher – Pembrokeshire County Council
* WFDC Electoral Services – Wyre Forest District Council
Adding a ‘testing’ template it not enough. It needs to have some real
looking content, so that we can:
- work out what a service is doing
- assess whether that’s a reasonable (ie meeting the terms of use) thing
to be doing with Notify
At the moment we’re having to go back to services quite a lot when they
request to go live and ask them for this stuff.
