This commit:
- uses WTForms email fields wherever we collect email addresses
- makes sure we don’t let the default HTML5 form validation get trigged
(using `novalidate`[1])
We don’t want to use the default validation because:
- it looks out of place
- it’s not well supported by assistive technology
1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/form#attr-novalidate
Entering, or reading back sequences of digits is easier when they’re a
bit more spaced out.
This is because we read words as shapes, but read numbers
digit-by-digit.
So this commit adjusts the tracking of the type to put a bit more space
in for textboxes that are going to accept digits.
We started tracking upload errors in eb264f34b7
This has been useful.
This commit adds tracking of other form validation errors, so we can
pick up if there’s a form field that’s causing people particular
trouble.
Also had to rewrite a very old test to look for page content in a
smarter way.
Notify is now available, as a pilot, to local government and the NHS. So
telling people that it’s only for government departments and agencies is
- wrong
- might stop them from signing up
The word ‘organisation’ matches what’s used on the list of services, and
on the hint text on the email field on the sign up page.
If you miss ‘postcode’ from your file then you get told that you need
‘address_line_1’, ‘address_line_2’, ‘address_line_3’, etc.
This is incorrect – the only required address columns are lines 1 and 2,
plus the postcode. So this commit corrects the error message to be
factually accurate.
We had a user report this to Fajer as a bug.
Frontloads the ‘not’ part of the message, and makes it shorter, so
it’s more likely to be read and understood. Also makes it fit better
with the new ‘Can’t be used to send letters’ message.
When trying to send letters using the API, the ‘team and whitelist’ key
is confusing. We don’t have addresses for your team members, nor is
there a whitelist for letter addresses. The actual behaviour is that
you’ll get an error if you try to use this key to send letters.
So, for services who have letters available, we should add a hint
telling users that team and whitelist is probably not the key they’re
looking for.
Pembrokeshire County Council
G Cloud Team
Government Whips' Office
DCLG Housing and Planning Data Collection Team
Returner team - Government Equalities Office
Most user will only have one reply to address. Which means they should
never have to worry about IDs. And if you only have one then you never
need its ID, because the last remaining address will always be the
default.
So IDs should only be shown when a service has created more than one
reply to address.
This required a bit of visual tweaking of the _user list_ pattern,
because its spacing wasn’t defined in a way that worked when only the
name of the thing, and not its details were shown on the page.
Something in a new version of GOV.UK Elements, Template, or Frontend
Toolkit has introduced a rules which removes padding for the last
column in a table.
This is undesirable in the case of email message previews.
‘Change’ as a label for the link is misleading, because this is also the
page you go to in order to get the ID of a given reply to address.
‘Manage’ feels a bit more general.
The first users of multiple email reply to addresses will be using the
API. This means that the need to be able to specify the ID of the reply
to address they want.
We chose to implement it like this instead of by passing the address in
directly because that means deploying code. For some teams deploying
code can take weeks, and we’d like to let teams have the flexibility to
make changes faster than this.
Same as for templates, you shouldn’t have to go to the _edit_ page in
order to get the ID. This means listing them on the page where you see
all the reply to addresses.
Listing the IDs like this means that it’s not really a table any more,
because the information isn’t organised in columns. So I think it makes
sense to reuse the pattern from the manage team page, which has a
similar relationship between the information.
