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When a team has lots of templates the choose template page gets very long. It gets hard to find the template that you are looking for. Our initial reckon was that teams would not be giving their templates very useful names, and therefore a preview would be helpful. What we have found is that: - teams actually do give their templates useful names, and refer to these template names elsewhere - the previews are less useful for emails and text messages, because they have so much content (which for emails also makes it harder to `ctrl` + `f` the template name) The other problem we found was that this page presented the user with a _lot_ of options. For each template there were 4 actions, plus the click-to-preview action for letters, plus the ‘see previous version’ action for templates that had been edited multiple times. It was a very busy page. And the final problem (that we recently introduced) was that there was no way, other than the visual cues, to know whether a template was a letter, email, or text message. So this commit strips back the choose template page to be very focused on finding the right template, by only showing the template name and type. The user can then click through to a page that shows just a single template, and perform actions relevant to that template from that page.
notifications-admin
GOV.UK Notify admin application.
Features of this application
- Register and manage users
- Create and manage services
- Send batch emails and SMS by uploading a CSV
- Show history of notifications
First-time setup
Brew is a package manager for OSX. The following command installs brew:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Languages needed
brew install node imagemagick ghostscript cairo pango
NPM is Node's package management tool. n is a tool for managing
different versions of Node. The following installs n and uses the latest
version of Node.
npm install -g n
n latest
npm rebuild node-sass
The app runs within a virtual environment. We use mkvirtualenv for easier working with venvs
pip install virtualenvwrapper
mkvirtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python3 notifications-admin
Install dependencies and build the frontend assets:
workon notifications-admin
./scripts/bootstrap.sh
Rebuilding the frontend assets
If you want the front end assets to re-compile on changes, leave this running in a separate terminal from the app
npm run watch
Create a local environment.sh file containing the following:
echo "
export NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT='development'
export ADMIN_CLIENT_SECRET='notify-secret-key'
export API_HOST_NAME='http://localhost:6011'
export DANGEROUS_SALT='dev-notify-salt'
export SECRET_KEY='notify-secret-key'
export DESKPRO_API_HOST="some-host"
export DESKPRO_API_KEY="some-key"
"> environment.sh
AWS credentials
Your aws credentials should be stored in a folder located at ~/.aws. Follow Amazon's instructions for storing them correctly
Running the application
workon notifications-admin
./scripts/run_app.sh
Then visit localhost:6012