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.
We don’t want one person going full yolo and start broadcasting without
any oversight. This commit changes the flow so that the button on the
‘preview’ page puts the broadcast into `pending-approval`, rather than
directly into `broadcasting`.
When we have an approval flow, `pending-approval` will be the state a
broadcast is in between being a draft and broadcasting.
This means it is the earliest stage at which a broadcast can appear on
the dashboard, so this commit adds a new section at the top of the
dashboard to display these broadcasts (since the dashboard is in a
reverse chronological order).
Rather than displaying the scheduled time, the extra information shown
is the person who drafted the broadcast, since I reckon you’ll be coming
to this page because they’ve asked you to approve their broadcast.
Same technique as we use for other pages that update via AJAX.
I’ve split the page up into separate chunks because the DiffDOM library
we use finds it easier to work out what’s changed when there are fewer
elements/a shallower tree.
This commit adds a page to view a single broadcast. This is important
for two reasons:
- users need an audit of what happened when, and who else was involved
in approving or cancelling a broadcast
- we need a place to put actions (approving, cancelling) on a broadcast
so that you can confirm details of the message and the areas before
performing the action
Shows the broadcasts with the longest time still to live at the top. At
the moment this will be the same as the newest broadcasts, so we may
want to revisit this sort order when we have broadcasts of variable
duration.
For no-longer-live broadcasts we show the most-recently-finished at the
top, whether it finished naturally or was cancelled.
Currently this is a `get` request from the dashboard. Once we have a page
for viewing an individual broadcast it should probably show there
instead and be a `get`/confirm/`post` loop like for deleting a template.
Shows current and previous broadcasts. Does not add a page for viewing
an individual broadcast.
Broadcasts are split into live and previous.
Draft broadcasts are excluded from the dashboard.
This commit removes the code the puts areas into the session and instead
creates and then updates a draft broadcast in the database.
This is so we can avoid session-related bugs, and potentially having a
large session when we start adding personalisation etc.
Once a broadcast is ready to go it is set to `broadcasting` straight
away with no approval. We’ll revisit this as we learn more about how
users might want to manage who can create and approve broadcasts.
The tests are a bit light in terms of checking what’s on the page, but
clicking through the pages is probably good enough for now.
There are lots of places where we redirect people to the dashboard, for
example after logging in. Rather than add logic to all these places to
check for the broadcast permission, let’s just redirect from the normal
dashboard to the broadcast dashboard.
Other places like the main navigation can still link directly to the
broadcast dashboard, where we do care about speed and not going through
multiple redirect jumps.
These are just so we have some pages to click through for now. They
don’t use real templates, or any of the broadcast stuff from the
database.
But I think it’s useful to get some skeleton pages in first so that we
can see the map etc working in production, then build on that, without
having to do it all in one mega PR.
For that reason there are two short term things I’ve done in this commit
which should be revisited soon:
- no tests for the endpoints
- data about which areas are selected is stored in the session
