One of the things that came out of the support analysis was that people
were asking how much inbound SMS costs. There wasn’t a significant
volume of these requests, but the fix seems low-effort and
non-disruptive enough that we should do it.
Content by Thom.
We’ve seen people come back to this page once signed in and be confused what it’s for and how they get back to Notify.
The best way to avoid confusion is (we think) getting people to close this tab.
* Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs – DAERA Assisted Digital
* The National Archives – The National Archives
* Falkirk Council – My Falkirk
* Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government – MHCLG
When we first made this form you couldn’t send one off messages with
Notify. It’s interesting to us because it might help identity teams who
would benefit from email auth, or other features that we build in the
future for caseworkers.
It’s noticeable when clicking from row to row in the spreadsheet that
the page jumps around a fair bit on load because there are a couple of
Javascript-powered components.
This commit makes sure:
- the radio select component doesn’t change height when rendering for
the first time
- the scrollable table doesn’t show parts of the table that should be
hidden by overflow for a fraction of second before all the JS has
run
- the right-hand shadow on horizontally scrollable tables doesn’t fade
in on initial page load but shows at 100% opacity immediately
Spreadsheets start at row 1 (the header row), and the values don’t start
until row 2. The row numbers in our URLs start at 0, which is a concept
that only makes sense to programmers.
It’s more predictable and consistent to make the number in the URL match
the row number displayed on the page when previewing the spreadsheet.
Fitt’s law[1] states that bigger click areas are quicker and easier for
people to click. Therefore we should make click areas as big as
possible, without being ambiguous about what the outcome of clicking
will be or increasing the potential for accidental clicks.
The click areas of the row numbers in the table were very small – this
commits makes them as big as the containing table cells.
Uses this technique to achieve the bigger click areas without disrupting
the layout:
http://authenticff.com/journal/css-pro-tip-expanding-clickable-area
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
We’ve heard from some users, especially those sending letters, that
they’d like to check that a spreadsheet they’ve uploaded has populated
the template correctly.
My reckon is that seeing just one row of the spreadsheet populate the
template isn’t enough to give people confidence that everything’s
working properly.
This commit adds links to all but the currently-previewed row. Clicking
that link will populate the preview with values from that row. These
pages already exist; they were created in this PR:
https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/1696
