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.