We have tickets from people asking how long the process takes. I suspect
that this is because they’re not getting to the bottom of the form
before they’re ready to go live.
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.
MoJ O2 Transition Project – Ministry of Justice
Academies Financial Reporting Division – Department for Education
Money Claims Service Line – HM Courts & Tribunals Service
HR and Organisational Development – Calderdale Council
Family & Civil Service Line – HM Courts & Tribunals Service
Electronic Patient Discharge Questionnaire – Public Health England
Both `<button type='submit'>Submit<button>` and
`<input type='submit' value='Submit'>` can be used to submit a form.
We have historically[1] used `<input>` because it’s better-supported by
IE6 in that:
- the `submit` attribute is mandatory on `<button>`, not on `<input>`
- the `innerHTML` of a button will be submitted to the server, not the
value (as in other browsers)
Reasons to now use `<button>` instead:
- IE6/7 support is no longer a concern (especially with deprecation of
TLS 1.0 on the way)
- Because an `<input>` element can’t have children, the pseudo-element
hack[2] used to ensure the top edge of the button is clickable doesn’t
work. We’re seeing this bug[3] affect real users in research.
1. We inhereted our buttons from Digital Marketplace, here is me making
that change in their code: 8df7e2e79e (diff-b1420f7b7a25657d849edf90a70ef541)
2. 24e1906c0d (diff-ef0e4eb6f1e90b44b0c3fe39dce274a4R79)
3. https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_elements/issues/545
In research we saw developers having difficulty getting back to Notify once they’d
navigated to the documentation.
One way we think this might be alleviated is by keeping Notify open in the same tab,
and having the documentation open in a new tab.
It’s polite to tell users that this is going to happen.
`rel=noopener` stops the site we’re redirecting people to (Github) have script
access to the orginal Notify tab (see https://mathiasbynens.github.io/rel-noopener/ )
original Notify
It’s confusing showing green ticks for cancelled invites. This commit
changes the appearance so that only pending or active users (ie those
that could actually do some damage) get green ticks.
Also fixes missing edit links caused by instances of `User` having
`.state` but instances of `InvitedUser` having `.status`.
Right now these are two separate lists. Which makes it harder to add
improvements that will make large numbers of users easier to manage.
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.
Letters is now a mature enough feature that we should:
- be raising awareness amongst our users that it’s a thing we offer
- not have letters be a surprise to anyone creating a Notify account for
the first time
Shouldn’t be merged until:
- [ ] https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api/pull/1600
* ESFA IDAMS – Department for Education
* SRFT Care Call – Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
* Data Statistics – Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
* Home Office Atlas – Home Office
* Bracknell Forest Council - Waste & Recycling – Bracknell Forest Council
It’s ‘per month’ – ‘a month’ is a colloquialism.
Large numbers should be chunked using commas; ‘20,000’ already is, this commit makes ‘1000’ consistent.
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.
