ListEntry component uses FieldList field to group
textboxes. Textboxes can be text inputs, email fields
or international phone number fields. This converts
all field-lists to use:
- GovukTextInputField
- GovukEmailField
- InternationalPhoneNumber
Affects these forms:
- OrganisationDomainsForm
- GuestList
Also changes to related Javascript:
Update list-entry JS tests to match new HTML
Updates the HTML the JS operates on in the test
(a fixture representing the HTML in the page on
load) to match the new GOVUK Frontend we are
generating.
Make list-entry JS work with GOVUK Frontend HTML
The existing list-entry JS did a few things that
clashed with how the new HTML works:
- added a 'input-' prefix to the id attributes
of all text-inputs
- did not make its name and id attributes values
match
The new HTML has id and name attributes that
match so these changes remove the prefix for id
attributes and makes them match the name
attribute.
To understand these changes, it is useful to
know how the values for id and name attributes are
generated:
1. the id attribute for the component element is
stored
2. the 'list-entry-' prefix is removed and the
remainder is used to generate ids
For example, if the component's id is
'list-entry-domains', the id will be 'domains-1',
where the text-input is the first one.
This also adds some logic to the HoganJS template
to make the value attribute optional, so it is
only added if it has a non-null value. This
matches the behaviour of the text-input component
used in the new list-entry component.
Also change whitelist references to guestlist in tests
- we forgot to do it earlier, when we moved from calling this
feature whitelist to calling it guestlist.
Changes those fields in the following forms:
- SearchByNameForm
- SearchUsersByEmailForm
- SearchUsersForm
- SearchNotificationsForm
Includes changes to templates that use this form
and associated tests.
At the moment they will get a ‘technical difficulties’ error if they
try.
We probably want to do something around letting people self-approve
broadcasts in trial mode, but for now just telling them they can’t is a
better experience than ‘technical difficulties’ (and will probably be
close to what they should see on a live service as well).
This is an initial, prototype-quality attempt at introducing some kind
of tour for users new to broadcasting. A lot of the users we’re speaking
to don’t have a good concept of what broadcasting means, which is
causing usability problems down the line.
We did a similar thing in the early days of Notify to explain the
concept of message templates and personalisation.
Moves the link out of the label and increases
the hit-size for the checkbox. The intention is to
reduce the chance of clicking the wrong thing by
accident.
This includes a TODO in the checkboxes component
template code. The item meta needs to be
associated with the checkbox input by use of
`aria-describedby` but this needs changes in
govuk-frontend-jinja to happen.
Includes:
1. changes to make NestedFieldMixin work
with new fields and CSS for nested checkboxes
2. adds custom version of GOVUK checkboxes
component to allow us to:
- add classes to elements currently inaccessible
- wrap the checkboxes in a list
- add child checkboxes to each checkbox (making
tree structures possible through recursion
Change 2. should be pushed upstream to the GOVUK
Design System as a proposal for changes to the
GOVUK Checkboxes component.
Allows checkboxes to be collapsed so they take up
less space in the page. The collapsed state
includes a live summary tracking which of them are
selected.
Includes changes to the JS for collapsible
checkboxes to make it work with the GOVUK
Checkboxes component HTML.
We have a reckon that live broadcasts don’t feel prominent,
consequential or active enough on the dashboard.
This commit adds an animated component, similar to an ‘on air’ indicator
in a broadcast studio, or a ‘recording’ indicator on a video camera.
This is one option for addressing our reckon. We shouldn’t merge this
until we have a better understanding of the problem from another round
of user research.
When an element is obscured by the sticky nav,
this method allows you to scroll the page until it
is revealled.
The bulk of this code was added in: https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/2843
to ensure elements with focus were in view. This
moves that into a public method so, as well as
being called by the focus event handler, it can be
called directly by other code.
These changes include code that adds a
'sticky-scroll-area' class to scroll areas not
explicitly marked as such in the base HTML but
made to be a scroll area by the sticky JS.
Different emergencies will need broadcasts to last for a variable amount
of time. We give users some control over this by letting them stop a
broadcast early. But we should also let them set a maximum broadcast
time, for:
- when the duration of the danger is known
- when the broadcast has been live long enough to alert everyone who
needs to know about it
This code re-uses the pattern for scheduling jobs, which has some
constraints that are probably OK for now:
- end time is limited to an hour
- longest duration is 3 whole days (eg if you start broadcasting Friday
you have the choice of Saturday, Sunday and all of Monday, up to
midnight)
If a broadcast definitely shouldn’t go out (for example because it has a
spelling mistake or is going to the wrong areas) then we should have a
way of removing it. Once it’s removed no-one else can approve it, and it
isn’t cluttering up the dashboard.
This is a link (because it’s a secondary action) and red (because it’s
destructive, in that it’s throwing away someone’s work).
Since new broadcasts will go into `pending-approval`, we now need a way
of approving them.
This commit adds a button to this page to start (or approve) the
broadcast. This button is wrapped in a bordered box, to emphasise that
it’s something consequential.
Moves the link out of the label and increases
the hit-size for the checkbox. The intention is to
reduce the chance of clicking the wrong thing by
accident.
This includes a TODO in the checkboxes component
template code. The item meta needs to be
associated with the checkbox input by use of
`aria-describedby` but this needs changes in
govuk-frontend-jinja to happen.
Includes:
1. changes to make NestedFieldMixin work
with new fields and CSS for nested checkboxes
2. adds custom version of GOVUK checkboxes
component to allow us to:
- add classes to elements currently inaccessible
- wrap the checkboxes in a list
- add child checkboxes to each checkbox (making
tree structures possible through recursion
Change 2. should be pushed upstream to the GOVUK
Design System as a proposal for changes to the
GOVUK Checkboxes component.
Allows checkboxes to be collapsed so they take up
less space in the page. The collapsed state
includes a live summary tracking which of them are
selected.
Includes changes to the JS for collapsible
checkboxes to make it work with the GOVUK
Checkboxes component HTML.
This brings it back a bit closer to the page with the map, so the two
feel cohesive, while still making the selected areas look different to
textboxes.
This is borrowed from an earlier prototype, and is meant to be temporary
– something better than just plain text.
Text in generated content isn’t always announced by screen readers, so
we should definitely move away from that once we understand what text
will be shown on the phone and where it comes from.
Gives them some colours, borders and stuff to make them visually
consistent with the rest of Notify.
The idea is the tags and polygons have a similar affordances (i.e.
border thickness, colour) to visually link them and imply that they are
two representations of the same thing.
Since these two paragraphs sit on a blue background, they should have
white text. But this was getting overridden when the `govuk-body` class
was added in a previous commit, and the paragraphs appeared with black
text.
Previously these paragraphs were inheriting their colour from a parent
element. But a class applied directly to the element is more specific.
So this commit fixes the problem by being more specific again, by
applying the colour to the element, in the context of it’s parent’s
class.
International letters aren’t sent by first or second class post. In
keeping with the little touch of skeumorphism, let’s label them with the
commonly recognised marker of international mail instead.
Includes:
1. changes to make NestedFieldMixin work
with new fields and CSS for nested checkboxes
2. adds custom version of GOVUK checkboxes
component to allow us to:
- add classes to elements currently inaccessible
- wrap the checkboxes in a list
- add child checkboxes to each checkbox (making
tree structures possible through recursion
Change 2. should be pushed upstream to the GOVUK
Design System as a proposal for changes to the
GOVUK Checkboxes component.
Allows checkboxes to be collapsed so they take up
less space in the page. The collapsed state
includes a live summary tracking which of them are
selected.
Includes changes to the JS for collapsible
checkboxes to make it work with the GOVUK
Checkboxes component HTML.
At the moment the first AJAX call is triggered as soon as the page
loads. We then look at its response time to work out how long to wait
until making the next call.
This isn’t great because:
- stuff is unlikely to have changed straight away, so it’s a waste of a
call
- while the DOM is being updated it seems to introduce a delay in
clicks on links, which is either more pronounced or more noticeable
when it’s happening straight away, making the UI feel less snappy
I chose a value of 2 seconds as a rough proxy for the minimum time we’d
expect to see a notification go from created to delivered. Median
time-to-delivered was 2.9 seconds when we analysed it for
https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/2974#discussion_r286101286
By default our AJAX calls were 2 seconds. Then they were 5 seconds
because someone reckoned 2 seconds was putting too much load on the
system. Then we made them 10 seconds while we were having an incident.
Then we made them 20 seconds for the heaviest pages, but back to 5
seconds or 2 seconds for the rest of the pages.
This is not a good situation because:
- it slows all services down equally, no matter how much traffic they
have, or which features they have switched on
- it slows everything down by the same amount, no matter how much load
the platform is under
- the values are set based on our worst performance, until we manually
remember to switch them back
- we spend time during incidents deploying changes to slow down the
dashboard refresh time because it’s a nothing-to-lose change that
might relieve some symptoms, when we could be spending time digging
into the underlying cause
This pull request makes the Javascript smarter about how long it waits
until it makes another AJAX call. It bases the delay on how long the
server takes to respond (as a proxy for how much load the server is
under).
It’s based on the square root of the response time, so is more sensitive
to slow downs early on, and less sensitive to slow downs later on. This
helps us give a more pronounced difference in delay between an AJAX call
that is fast (for example the page for a single notification) and one
that is slow (for example a dashboard for a service with lots of
traffic).
*Some examples of what this would mean for various pages*
Page | Response time | Wait until next AJAX call
---|---|---
Check a reply to address | 130ms | 1,850ms
Brand new service dashboard | 229ms | 2,783ms
HM Passport Office dashboard | 634ms | 5,294ms
NHS Coronavirus Service dashboard | 779ms | 5,977ms
_Example of the kind of slowness we’ve seen during an incident_ | 6,000ms | 18,364ms
GOV.UK email dashboard | `HTTP 504` | 😬
24px with 19px is what we use on the uploads page. On notifications page
we use 19px with 16px.
There’s some loose idea that the bigger size is for items that contain
other items.
This also increases the line height for recipients of PDF letters to
make things line up.
Replaced `$gutter` and similar variables such as `$gutter-half` with the
`govuk-spacing()` static spacing function. This uses `govuk-spacing()`
instead of `$govuk-gutter` because `$govuk-gutter` should only be used
for the gaps in between grid columns and we were mostly using `$gutter`
to add more space around elements.
There are other places in the SCSS files where we had hardcoded a
measurement in px which could be replaced with `govuk-spacing`, but this
commit only replaces the existing uses of `$gutter`.
