There are a bunch of services that just have one text message template
and one email template.
In this case the template navigation is essentially the same as the
list of templates – a user can just differentiate by looking at the two
templates. Adding the nav would just be noise in this case.
There are lots of services that only send emails, or only send text
messages. For these services, being able to filter the list of templates
but type is pointless – it won’t cut the list down at all.
This commit adds some logic to only show the navigation if the service
has some variety of template types.
When users are trying to find a template there’s a fair chance that they
know whether or not it’s an email/text message/(letter) that they’re
looking for.
Making them scroll past a whole bunch of templates of a different type
means it will take them longer to find the template they are looking
for.
We already have search on the templates page, but this is only good for
where they can remember the name of the template. This will be
sometimes but not always.
This commit adds some navigation to filter down the list of templates to
only show one type at a time. By default it will show all templates. It
adapts the pattern we use for filtering notifications by
sending/failed/delivered, but without the counts of how many things are
in each bucket (I don’t think there’s any value in knowing you have X
text message templates; on this page you only really care
about the one template you’re looking for).
_Note: required re-arranging the functions in `templates.py`. The route
for `/template/:uuid` needs to come before the route for
`template/:string` otherwise Flask tries to interpret a template’s ID
as its type.
Bug was happening because:
```python
bool(list())
>>> False
```
```python
bool((item for item in list()))
>>> True
```
i.e. generator expressions cast to boolean are `True`, even if they’re
empty – Python doesn’t evaluate them.
This was causing the functional tests to fail because it was taking too
long for any table rows to appear on the page.
We’ve removed the template on the jobs page, so you can no longer see
which template a job is about to be sent with.
This is removing information which might enable you to undo a costly
mistake.
I don’t think we need to bring back the whole template – giving its
name, and a link to it meets the need just as well.
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.
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.
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 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 😢
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
See parent commit for the reason we’re doing this.
Currently our AJAX requests only work as `GET` requests. So this commit
does a bit of work to make them work as `POST` requests. This is
optional behaviour, and will only happen when the element in the page
that should be updated with AJAX has the `data-form` attribute set. It
will take the form that has the corresponding `id`, serialise it, and
use that data as the body of the post request. If not form is specified
it will not do the serialisation, and submit as a `GET` request as
before.
Phone numbers and email addresses are showing up in URLs where we let
users search for sent notifications by phone number or email address.
`GET` requests put the form data as a query string in the URL. This is
problematic when people are searching by a recipient’s phone number or
email address, because the URL may show up:
- in our server logs
- in our analytics
- in the user’s browser history
This is bad because these are all places where we don’t want
people’s personal information. It’s not too bad when this is happening
a handful of times. But it would be bad if we kept aggregating this
information because it would allow us to track users across services.
So, while it’s not especially RESTful, it’s better for the search form
to submit as a `POST` request. This way the phone number or email
address goes in the body of the request and does not show up in the URL.
> Once an inbound message has been received, there should be a way to
> see the other messages in the system from the same service to the same
> number. Both in and outbound. Nice inbox/whatsapp stylee view or some
> such. This way the context of the reply is understood.
>
> Initially will only see the outbound template, not the actual message,
> but we’re going to change this for the rest (soon), so that you can
> always see the full message for all outbound.
Users might be interested in inbound SMS. And when it’s fully
available, they’ll probably be able to control whether it’s on/off for
their service.
Until they point, the only way of getting it is to ask us. So let’s make
an in-the-meantime page that directs them to ask us, from the place
where they’d be able to do it themselves.
Cool URIs don’t change 😎https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
We still have links to `/feedback` in our emails. These will live in people’s inboxes forever.
Only services that have inbound SMS turned on should be able to see the
dashboard and ‘Received messages’ page.
There’s probably a cleaner way (decorator) of doing this permissions
stuff, but I think it can wait until we ship this.
This commit adds two things:
a section on the dashboard to show how many inbound messages the
service has received in the last 7 days, and how recently an inbound
message has been received
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Doesn’t show the contents of any messages, just like how the rest of the
dashboard is an aggregation, never individual messages.
a page to show all the inbound messages the service has received in
the last 7 days
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This shows the first line of the message. Eventually this will link
through to a ‘conversation’ page, where a service can see all the
messages it’s received from a given phone number.
If clicked you will be prompted to enter a sms sender number, when setting the permission on or off.
Team members will always be able to see the number, but will only be able to change it if the inbound_sms permission is off.
