Since we send all one off messages as priority now[1], we don’t need to
explicitly mark this template as being priority.
This stops the (potential) problem of people skipping the tour, still
having this template and then modifying it to send other messages,
potentially in high volumes from CSV files or the API. I don’t think
this is a real problem now, but worth cleaning this up.
Currently:
- 827 priority templates in the database
- 195 of which are not deleted
- 18 of which are not called ‘Example text message template’
- 3 of which look like genuine use cases, not from services that we run
[1]: https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api/pull/1722
Excel stores dates as floating point numbers, counting the days (or
fraction thereof) since 1900 (except when it counts from 1904).
However it also, incorrectly, recognises 1900 as a leap year. This means
that it’s ambiguous whether day 59 is February 28th, or February 27th,
depending if you’re counting up or down. In fact any number less than 60
is, therefore, ambiguous.
This shouldn’t really matter since no-one is going to be using dates in
the year 1900 in Notify messages. _Except_ when Excel misidentifies a
cell as containing a date. For example, if you have the number `9`
inside a cell, it means _house number 9_ if the next cell contains
_example_ street. but Excel is all like ‘oh they must want January 9th
1900!’ No. Bad Excel.
There’s not much we can do about this, but we can at least give people
an error message with the workaround, which is what this commit does.
Most of this commit message is paraphrased from:
http://xlrd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dates.html
Having SMS senders that start with 00 can cause issues with Firetext due
to Firetext's validation rules, so we shouldn't allow SMS senders to start
with 00.
Firetext treats a double 00 at the start of the senderID as an international
prefix, so removes them. A sender of 00447876574016 would become 447876574016.
Under Firetext's validation rules, an SMS sender of five 0s (00000) would
become 4400. This is because the first 00 are removed (as the international
prefix). The third 0 is seen as the start of a phone number, and becomes 44,
leaving the final 00 = 4400.
When downloading a report of a which messages from a job have been
delivered and which have failed we currently only include the Notify
data. This makes it hard to reconcile or do analysis on these reports,
because often the thing that people want to reconcile on is in the data
they’ve uploaded (eg a reference number).
Here’s an example of a user talking about this problem:
> It would also be helpful if the format of the delivery and failure
> reports could include the fields from the recipient's file. While I
> can, of course, cross-reference one report with the other it would be
> easier if I did not have to. We send emails to individuals within
> organisations and it is not always easy to establish the organisation
> from a recipient's email address. This is particularly important when
> emails fail to be delivered as we need to contact the organisation to
> establish a new contact.
– ticket 677
We’ve also seen it when doing research with a local council.
This commit takes the original file, the data from the API, and munges
them together.
Done using isort[1], with the following command:
```
isort -rc ./app ./tests
```
Adds linting to the `run_tests.sh` script to stop badly-sorted imports
getting re-introduced.
Chosen style is ‘Vertical Hanging Indent’ with trailing commas, because
I think it gives the cleanest diffs, eg:
```
from third_party import (
lib1,
lib2,
lib3,
lib4,
)
```
1. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/isort
We require that a user has a real reply-to email address before going
live. We can partially automate this by at least telling users who
haven’t done this.
This only applies for users that have email templates; we shouldn’t
bother users who aren’t going to send emails about this.
We need users to have created some templates before they go live, so we
can see what kind of messages they intend to send.
We can do this automatically based on the work done in
https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1892
One of the things that we want to check before a service goes live is
that they have at least two team members with the manage service
permission. Anyone who can make a request to go live has this
permission, so that means one additional user is needed. This is what we
can automatically communicate to the user.
Under the hood this makes use of the logic added in
https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1891
A lot of users aren’t reading or paying attention to the checklist on
the request to go live page. We think that we can get more people to
read it by putting it on its own page, where users won’t jump straight
to filling in the form.
This will, later on, let us make this page smarter by automatically
detecting if they’ve done the necessary things.
previously we were just using the wtforms builtin email validator,
which is much more relaxed than our own one. It'd catch bad emails when
POSTing to the API, resulting in an ugly error message. It's easy work
to make sure we validate email addresses as soon as they're entered.
It’s weird that `/services/<service_id>` returns `404`. The home page
for every service is the dashboard – should be possible to get there
from any other page just by stemming the URL.
Also makes it consistent with organisations, which will have
`/organisations/<org_id>`.
Notifications-api now needs the service_id to check the uniqueness of
the service name when trying to change it. This is to allow a user to
successfully change the pluralization or the case of their service name.
We pin pointed the problem to a bad loop that was calling the format_phone_number_human_readable 216 for 25 rows, yikes.
This PR fixes that performance problem.
We have a team who want their (short) web address as the text message
sender. This commit updates the validation of text message senders to
allow `.` as a valid character, which is currently blocking them from
doing this.
We can be fairly confident this works because:
- the team are sending large volumes of messages already with their
existing provider
- we’ve tested it with all combinations of
- both our text message providers
- an Android phone and n iPhone
Using a separate validator class to check for appropriate characters in
a text message sender means that we’re not doing this validation in a
different way from the other checks (length and required). So the code
is cleaner.
Another thing we did for templates, when they started to get
unmanageable, was add a find-as-you type search. We’ve observed real
users interacting with this to great effect, so I think it makes sense
for users too.
Like for templates, it only shows up when there are more than 7, so that
it’s not clutter for teams who don’t have a lot of members.
Some teams have a lot of users now (I think the record is 172). So we
should make it easier for teams to manage large numbers of users.
This is the same change we made for templates (from most recent to
alphabetical) when the number of templates was getting unmanageable.
Sorted on email address because invited users don’t have a name (and
not sorted on both, because a lot of departments have a
`lastname.firstname` scheme for email addresses, but people generally
enter their names as `Firstname Lastname`).
Users can choose whether to have these features on or off now. And
a platform admin can still use the same controls to switch the features
on or off on behalf of a user. There’s no need for the separate buttons.
Our support ticket analysis shows that the most common action request
after going live is turning on letters.
We just do this for any team that requests it – there’s no gatekeeping.
So we should just allow people to make the change themselves.
This will be a better experience for our users, and less work for us.
The design of the page replicates roughly what we have for international
text messaging.
When we first made this form you couldn’t send one off messages with
Notify. It’s interesting to us because it might help identity teams who
would benefit from email auth, or other features that we build in the
future for caseworkers.
