‘Print a test letter’ seems to be closer to what people’s expectations
of what this feature does are.
The word ‘generate’ sounded too much like something the system was
doing, rather than something you, the user, were doing.
Letter templates have (or will have) multiple different editable
regions. I think that the most intuitive way for this to work is to have
- an edit link for each of these areas
- positioned next to the thing to be edited
Again, this isn’t fully hooked up, but since no-one is using letters
live yet this is a good way of getting research feedback and pointing
towards where we want the feature to go.
Uses percentages for the positioning so that the alignment is maintained
on mobile.
In pages specific to a service (e.g. dashboard and sub pages) the title
needs to distinguish which service it applies to. This is mainly to give
context to screen reader users who could be managing multiple services.
Implementing this uses template inheritance:
`page_title` includes `per_page_title` includes `service_page_title`
‘GOV.UK Notify’ is inserted into every page title.
Pages that set `service_page_title` get the service name inserted too.
Posit that examples of where you can put different parts of the address
is more helpful than ‘example, example, example’. Also shows that you
don’t have to fill all of the address columns.
Spot the Easter egg 🎅
Implements https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-utils/pull/81
Handles addresses as multiple columns:
- in ‘Send yourself a test’
- in example CSV files
- in validating that a CSV file has recipients (eg at least an ‘address
line 1’ and ‘postcode’ column)
- when showing the contents of a CSV file
As few UI changes as possible, once we have the thing working end-to-end
we can think about how the UI might need to work differently.
Let users create/edit/delete letter templates.
Let them upload a CSV file or send a test against a letter template.
Big assumption at the moment is that addresses only have one line, and
therefore one column in the CSV file.
Our templates are a littered with `request.args.get('help', '0')`.
This commit refactors these into a single helper method, which can be
used by the view functions, then passed to the template.
This makes the templates cleaner, and should make it easier to refactor
`help` out of the query parameters entirely in the future.
We’ve seen people land on this page and expect the message to be on
their phone already.
‘Check and confirm’ sounds a lot like ‘check your phone’, which is
language that we use earlier on when we _have_ sent a message.
Hopefully ‘preview’ is a better indication that it’s not sent yet.
This changes it back to how it was when we first introduced this
feature:
https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/181
It’s kind of lost on the page where you upload a file, which is a shame
because it’s a good teaching aid.
While the blue should help reinforce the relationship between the placeholders
and the column headings, it makes the column headings very busy visually, and
less like column headings. Which make the relationship harder to see. I think.
_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.
This commit does two main things:
- adds textboxes to the send yourself a test page, so you can replace
((name)) with ‘Chris’, or whatever your name is
- rejigs the send page a bit to make it clearer what the CSV upload is
for and how to use it
The idea being that, since most users go into ‘send yourself a test’
first, it teaches them about how placeholders work by making them do the
replacing themselves.
