Some teams have started uploading quite a lot of letters (in the
hundreds per week). They’re also uploading CSVs of emails. This means
the uploads page ends up quite jumbled.
This is because:
- there’s just a lot of items to scan through
- conceptually it’s a bit odd to have batches of things displayed
alongside individual things on the same page
So instead we’re going to start grouping together uploaded letters. This
will be by the date on which we ‘start’ printing them, or in other
words the time at which they can no longer be cancelled.
This feels like a natural grouping, and it matches what we know about
people’s mental models of ‘batches’ and ‘runs’ when talking about
printing.
This grouping will be done in the API, so all this commit need to do is:
- be ready to display this new type of pseudo-job
- link to the page that displays all the uploaded letters for a given
print day
24px with 19px is what we use on the uploads page. On notifications page
we use 19px with 16px.
There’s some loose idea that the bigger size is for items that contain
other items.
This also increases the line height for recipients of PDF letters to
make things line up.
Uploads page is where all the stuff you’ve uploaded lives. Now you can
upload contact lists they should live here too.
They always come first because they’re the most-removed from stuff
you’ve sent.
We didn’t have a test that checked for the first two lines of the
address being displayed when rendering one-off letters on the uploads
page.
I double checked in the database and we store addresses in the `to`
field with newlines, not commas.
Includes:
- turning off :visited styles to match existing
design
- swapping heading classes used to make links bold
for the GOVUK Frontend bold override class
- adding visually hidden text to some links to
make them work when isolated from their context
We may need to revisit whether some links, such as
those for documentation and features, may benefit
from having some indication that their target has
been visited.
This is the same thing we do for caseworking users who don’t have the
dashboard. Since we’re going to summarise scheduled jobs on the
dashboard instead of listing them they need to be listed here instead
(which is where we’ll link to from the dashboard).
Design of this will probably evolve as we work out how to style single
letter uploads and letter jobs, but that’s OK for now because no-one
has the uploads page at the moment.
Includes:
- turning off :visited styles to match existing
design
- swapping heading classes used to make links bold
for the GOVUK Frontend bold override class
- adding visually hidden text to some links to
make them work when isolated from their context
We may need to revisit whether some links, such as
those for documentation and features, may benefit
from having some indication that their target has
been visited.
This follows the pattern of what we’ve done with services, users and
events.
It gives us a way of neatly instantiating a model for each item in the
list we get back from the API and reduces the complexity of the view
layer code.
Now is a good time to do this because we’re going to be making a bunch
of changes to the jobs pages, and those changes will be easier to code
and understand with a sensible model behind them.
New units tests have not been written for this page because it is very like this will be refactor and probably a new template created for the page. Some design needs to go into this page.
But we needed something ready for user research.
For scheduled files we say ‘sending today at 5:00pm’ or ‘sending
tomorrow at 11:00am’. But once we’ve started processing these files we
say ‘Sent 27 September at 5:00pm’. This makes it sound like 27 September
is not today.
This commit makes the dates shown on the dashboard consistent, by saying
‘today’ and ‘yesterday’ instead of absolute dates.
The diffDOM Javascript sometimes throws an error if it can’t calculate
a diff between the original content of the page and the updated HTML
delivered via AJAX. The problem seems to be when there’s not one,
consistent top-level element for it to base its calculations on.
This commit:
- makes sure that all AJAX-delivered partials have a wrapping `<div>`
- that this `<div>` has a consistent class name to make it clear why
it’s there
On the dashboard:
- adds a new ‘in the next 24 hours’ section to the dashboard which lists
upcoming jobs
- tweaks some spacing on the dashboard so that it doesn’t look like too
much of a mess
- don’t show scheduled jobs in the table of normal jobs
On the jobs page:
- don’t show scheduled jobs
It’s weird when the sending number ramps up to ~200 or so and then
just floats around as new rows are being added and older ones are being
marked as delivered/failed.
It’s also not great that you don’t know how many rows are in a file, if
you haven’t uploaded it yourself. But the only reason you want to know
this is to know how much work Notify has remaining to do.
So ‘sending’ should start from the total number of rows in the file
and count down.
Previously, the AJAX update for the dashboard was returning a big blob
of JSON with one key.
This commit splits it up to return:
- one key for each section of the page
- each containing a smaller chunk of HTML rendered from a partial
The jobs page was already working this way (pretty much) but just needed
a little tweaking to get it the same.
> When we have jobs that have over 3% failure rates we should highlight
> those so that peoples attention is drawn to deal with the failure.
>
> They would then go to the job view to see what the details are where
> they could filter by failure, but that's a different story...
>
> This is just about calculating and highlighting those that need their
> attention.
— https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/121206123
This commit:
- calculates the failure rate for each job
- makes jobs with a failure rate of > 3% go red on the dashboard
With sending, delivered and failed all on one line there’s not much
space. When these numbers get relatively big (in the 000s) they can
start mushing into each other.
This commit makes them smaller so that they remain separate.
a9f79bcf07 made all tables have a `fixed`
layout. This causes issues with the spreadsheet-looking tables.
This commit treats tables with half-width first columns as the
exception, not the rule, and makes other tables display as before.
The first columns of our tables are always headings for the
subsequent columns, even though they go horizontally.
HTML has the `<th>` tag, which doesn’t just have to be used for headings
along the top of a table. So this commit changes the first column to be
a `<th>`.
This then allows us to style these elements differently, specifically
making them 50% wide. This makes pages like the dashboard align more
nicely.
