When you’re dropped straight into the ‘edit template’ page it’s still
a bit confusing what the thing you’re typing is—the mental model isn’t
quite there yet.
I think it will help (rather than redirect to the dashboard) to redirect
to the choose template page. You can then choose to edit the example or
add your own template.
This should help people understand that the example is one of a number
of templates that you create.
_The code for this is quite hacky and light on tests. But I’d really like to get
it in the app for the research tomorrow to see how well the feature works._
This commit changes the tour from being a set of static screens to some help
which guides you through the process of sending your first test message.
The theory behind this is that what users are really struggling with is the
concept of a variable, rather than the relationship between the placeholders and
the column headers. And like learning to program, the best way to learn is by
taking an example and modifying it to your own needs.
This means that when someone adds their first service we set them up an
example email template and an example text message template. Then there is a
guided, three step process where _all_ the user can do is send a test message to
themselves.
Once the message is sent, the user still has the example templates which they
can edit, rather than having to remember what they’re supposed to be doing.
We saw lots of people in the lab clicking activity hoping for…
something. But it’s not really where you go to do a thing, so they
weren’t finding what they were looking for.
Since you can now get to the activity from the dashboard, let’s remove
the link in the nav, to make thing less ambiguous.
Elsewhere (eg the dashboard, the activity page) we have email first.
Emails are also anticipated to be slightly more popular in terms of the
number of services sending them.
Therefore it makes sense to have emails first in the main navigation.
Statuses used to be:
- failed
- complaint
- bounce
- sent
- delivered
Now they are:
- sent
- sending
- delivered
This change broke the notifications page on the admin app.
It also made me realise that we should be ignoring ‘sending’ messages in
the history page—it should only show messages we’ve tried to deliver.
The code for this is a bit of a bodge, but it will get things working
again for now.
We have lots of keylines in our pages, eg tables, email message previews
This makes the pages look quite cluttered, especially because the
keylines don’t always align.
I think it looks much cleaner without the keylines in the nav, and we
have few enough nav items that we don’t need to chunk them up.
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’.
In the navigation you should see either:
- manage team
- view team members
This depends on which permissions you have. You shouldn’t see both at
once. There was a bug which meant you could see both. This commit fixes
that bug.
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/116608291
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.
Each service on the list is linked to the dashboard page of the service.
The platform admin user can see/edit templates, see/invite users, see/edit service settings.
The platform admin user can not send messages, see/edit api keys and developer docs.
> If you have the Edit templates permission but not the Send messages permission, the navigation should read
>
> - Text message templates
> - Email templates
> - Letter templates
>
> The page headings should also read
>
> - Text message templates
> - Email templates
> - Letter templates
respectively
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/115488955
Templates now have:
- a type (email or sms)
- a subject (if they are email templates)
We don’t want two completely separate view files for email and SMS, because they
would have an enormous amount of repetition.
So this commit adds
- different templates for SMS and email templates
- different form objects for SMS and email templates
…and wires them up.
The ‘manage templates’ page was almost identical to the ‘send text messages’
page.
This commit consolidates them into one and makes them all hang together.
Part of this means tweaks to the javascript so that files upload as soon as
you’ve chosen them.
This takes the original prototype version of this page, and, using the same
fake data (ie nothing is wired up):
- adds an invite users page
- adds an edit (and delete) user page
Both these pages allow the user to set another user’s permissions.
This commit adds images for the ticks and crosses, so we have control over their
appearance.
