Showing the template on the job page was semi-useful when you couldn’t
see the contents of each individual message. It was still a bit weird
because it just showed the template, never the actual messages that
went out, with the placeholders.
Now that users can click through to see individual messages, and can see
a short preview of the content on each row I think we can safely lose
the template preview on this page.
In tables where we show rows and rows of information we used to give
some meta information about the notification, or at least as much as we
could give in the very limited space available.
This information is now on the notifications page, so the information we
show in these tables should just be whatever helps users identify the
right message. I reckon that this is:
- the content of the message for text messages
- the subject for emails and letters
This also makes these pages consistent with:
- the inbound SMS page
- the way the people’s inboxes work for their text
messsages/Whatsapps/emails
For consistency’s sake this makes the job page work the same way. It may
be slightly less useful here because on the job page every message is
sent from the same template, so will have broadly the same content.
‘Report’ jobs are what we used to have for one-off messages. The page
for a report job doesn’t contain any extra info from what’s on the
notification page. We will still have ‘Report’ jobs while we transition
to sending one-off messages through the API. So while we still have
these jobs, let’s hide any links to them because they’re not useful
pages.
If a notification has been sent from a job then that’s important context
to know about it. So we should surface that information on the page.
It also gives users an easy way of going back, if that’s the page
they’ve come from.
The meta info about a notification (who sent it, when they sent it)
won’t ever change, so there’s no need for it to reload it using AJAX.
Putting it above the message and under the `<h1>` makes it match how
this information is displayed on the job page.
On the job page this information is bold, but visually the job page is
using too much bold now (nothing is emphasised/differentiated if
everything is bold). So this commit also makes this line of info regular
on both the notification and job pages.
Having a file name for single messages made sense when they were called
‘Test message’. They made a bit of sense when single messages still had
a file, which had to be called _something_.
Now that individual messages don’t come from a file, and don’t land you
on a page that looks like a ‘report’.
We’ve had a few teams talk about wanting to go back and check what their
users are sending out, including the content of any placeholders.
We already provide this functionality through the API, this commit makes
it the default in the admin app too.
We couldn’t do this before because we didn’t have the individual
notification page.
It’s better to do this by re-hydrating the template than pulling the
content from the API, because things like letters have multiple areas
of content – this is more complex than what we can get from API at the
moment.
Since we’ve removed the table of notifications from the single
notification page there’s no way of knowing the status of a
notification.
This re-adds it in a way that’s similar to how it looks on inbound
messages.
Since we removed the notifications table from this page we need a
different way of showing who the message was sent to.
Our `Template` classes already have a way of doing this, and we have a
flag to switch this on (which is what this PR changes).
The counts on the notification page will only ever show 1 thing. Which
feels like overkill, especially if you’re only sending one-off messages.
It’s also confusing when you come from the job/activity pages which
have one set of numbers to then be confronted with a different set of
numbers.
The important stuff on this page is:
- what the message was
- some meta information about it
Sorry Leo 😢
We have a page for individual notifications now.
On the job and activity pages each row of the table represents an
individual notification. So it makes sense for these things to be linked
together, so that a user can navigate from one to the other.
This will make more sense once we make some more changes to the
individual notification page.
Status code was overcomplex, given how we control the inputs. Now, it
expects a single value, rather than a comma separated list, and if you
give something it doesn't expect it just returns all. Note, it won't
select the correct box - but if you've been manually editing the URL
that's your own problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also, as this page will only ever be shown from the tour (tutorial),
it doesn't need some non-help things - such as the download csv button
and associated endpoint.
completely mimicks the job status page, and as such, all the code and
templates have been taken from the job page. This page performs
exactly the same as the job page for now
* total, sending, delivered, failed blue boxes (though they'll just
read 0/1 for now.
* download report button (same as with job download, except without job
or row number in file)
* removed references to scheduled
* kept references to help (aka tour/tutorial) as that'll eventually
change over from a job to a one-off too
Normally, fixed position elements are positioned at `top: 0`.
The code that stops them from overlapping the footer does so by:
- setting the position to absolulte
- setting `top` to a calculated value (eg `1500px`) which makes it sit
above the footer
The problem is caused because we’re animating `top`, so when scrolling
back up the page elements are getting animated from `1500px` to `0px`,
ie flying up from the bottom of the screen.
The transition between something being static in the page and fixed to
the top of the viewport is a bit jarring.
This commit adds a bit of animation so that, as elements become fixed,
they appear to catch up with the scrolling of the page.
Not good to be storing people’s phone numbers in browser autocomplete.
And increases the chance of accidentally sending the wrong thing to the
wrong person.
