While test messages technically have a file and are a job, there’s not
much reason to ever revisit them. So all they end up doing is cluttering
the dashboard and making it harder to find the actual files you’ve
actually uploaded from your computer.
So this commit:
- abstracts the name of test messages into config
- filters out any files whose filename represents a test message
- adds some more thorough tests for the jobs on the dashboard
> 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
_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.
The dashboard looked a bit table-y. This commit makes four main changes:
- show a bar chart (drawn in CSS) for template usage (only shown if
you’ve used more than one template recently)
- only break down template usage by template name, not template type
(because that’s happening with the big numbers)
- change the style of the ‘show more’ links under each section so that
they are all consistent, and a little less busy (one less keyline)
- remove the ‘recent templates‘ title so that the first two sections of
the page group under ‘in the last 7 days’
Takes the number of emails and SMS fragments sent from:
https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api/pull/273
Using these numbers it’s possible to show:
- how much of your allowance is left
- or how much you have spent
For now the allowance and rates are hard coded.
Only for users that have manage service.
If they API returns no statistics for a given time period we should
assume that this is equivalent to 0. This means that the template can
always rely on the dictionary having the same keys.
Requested, delivered and failed are the three states stored in the
notification statistics table. They are not discrete, eg a message can
be counted in delivered and failed.
`requested` is incremented *when a notification is created*, and has no
chance of being incremented twice for the same notification.
The template statistics are incremented *when a notification is created
only*.
Therefore the only way to make the numbers line up is to count:
- messages sent as being `requested`
- failure rate being `failed`/`requested` *not*
`failed`/`failed`+`delivered`
The dashboard should only talk about notifications that are *successful* or
*failed*. It should not count notifications that are still queued.
This will stop:
- a situation like ‘0 emails, 14.1% failed’
- the big numbers and the template statistics numbers not adding up to
the same total
> We show the last weeks template usage on the dashboard, which is
> great, but if you're looking for longer term trends, you're out of
> luck...
> So, let's let you see more on a more detailed page (linked from the
> dashboard). Initially this should just show you all templates that you
> have used ever and the count for each. Order same as dashboard, most
> popular first.
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/117614585
Previous the table of templates on the dashboard was for all time.
This commit uses the `limit_days` parameter of the API endpoint to only
show template usage from the last 7 days, aligning with the big numbers
shown above.
We want to align all our stats to be for the last 7 days.
This means summing up the stats response from the API to make the Big
Number. Previously the big number was counting sent notifications as
successful. This commit changes it to only look at delivered
notifications.
Right now, the API doesn’t have a way of filtering to only show the last
7 days. So for the moment the dashboard will show statistics for all
time.
The upshot of this is that we can link from the dashboard to the
activity page when there are failures.
When you add a new service, it’s probably the one you want to do stuff
with.
When you get invited, the service you’ve been invited to is probably the
one you want to use.
This commit adds the ID of the new service or service you’ve been
invited to to the session.
There’s no content in the tour that’s specific to a service. And since
we can now take a pretty good guess at what service you last used, or
which service we should send you to if you only have one service,
there’s no need to make the URLs for the tour service-specific.
This also means that you don’t need to be logged in to see the tour
pages, and we have no good reason to only restrict these pages to users
with accounts.
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/116960703
Template stats should show the most-used template first.
This commit:
- re-writes the `aggregate_usage` function to use `itertools.groupby`,
which can do aggregation, and can return data in a structure that’s
easy to sort on
- uses generators so that we’re not keeping lots of rows of template
stats in memory
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/117348893
A new permission has been added, view_activity, to resolve this issue.
Another pull request in notifications-admin will be required to update all users with a default permission of view_activity.
https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/116052359
- add absolute numbers for failures
- make percentages accurate to 1 decimal place (50.0%)
- make error colour appear if failures go above 3.0%
- make error colour boolean (don’t interpolate between the colours)
This commit adds two new sections to the dashboard
1. A banner telling you about trial mode, including a count of how many messages
you have left today, which is a restriction of trial mode
2. Panels with counts of how many emails and text messages have been sent in a
day, plus the failure rates for each
It does **not**:
- link through to any further information about what trial mode is (coming
later)
- link through to pages for the failure rates (coming later)
- change the ‘recent jobs’ section to ‘recent notifications’
