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Our research and prototyping around ‘basic view’ found that: - a lot of users who send messages rarely or never look at the dashboard (yet it’s the first page they see when they sign in) - team managers like the idea of taking away things that users don’t need in order to make the interface simpler We’ve disentangled the simpler way of sending messages from being part of ‘basic view’. This means we can give managers the option of taking away the dashboard as an independent choice, not something that’s wrapped up in a separate ‘view’. I think that this checkbox is a more straightforward proposition than ‘basic view’ ever was (despite all the work we did to explain it and develop the nested checkbox pattern). In research users would often explain the feature back to us as being about hiding the dashboard – we should try to make Notify operate in terms of concepts that come naturally to people wherever possible.
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
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 FLASK_APP=application.py
export FLASK_DEBUG=1
export WERKZEUG_DEBUG_PIN=off
"> 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
Updating application dependencies
requirements.txt file is generated from the requirements-app.txt in order to pin
versions of all nested dependencies. If requirements-app.txt has been changed (or
we want to update the unpinned nested dependencies) requirements.txt should be
regenerated with
make freeze-requirements
requirements.txt should be committed alongside requirements-app.txt changes.