Chris Hill-Scott 8c03feb334 Show one field at a time on send yourself a test ...

The send yourself a test feature is useful for two things:
- constructing an email/text message/letter without uploading a CSV file
- seeing what the thing your going to send will look like (either by
  getting it in your inbox or downloading the PDF)
- learning the concept of placeholders, ie understanding they’re thing
  that gets populated with _stuff_

The problem we’re seeing is that the current UI breaks when a template
has a lot of placeholders. This is especially apparent with letter
templates, which have a minimum of 7 placeholders by virtue of the
address.

The idea behind having the form fields side-by-side was to help people
understand the relationship between their spreadsheet columns and the
placeholders. But this means that the page was doing a lot of work,
trying to teach:
- replacement of placeholders
- link between placeholders and spreadsheet columns

The latter is better explained by the example spreadsheet shown on the
upload page. So it can safely be removed from the send yourself a test
page – in other words the fields don’t need to be shown side by side.

Showing them one-at-a-time works well because:
- it’s really obvious, even on first use, what the page is asking you to
  do
- as your step through each placeholder, you see the message build up
  with the data you’ve entered – you’re learning how replacement of
  placeholders works by repetition

This also means adding a matching endpoint for viewing each step of
making the test letter as a PDF/PNG because we can’t reuse the view of
the template without any placeholders filled any more.

2017-05-22 10:50:10 +01:00

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app

Show one field at a time on send yourself a test

2017-05-22 10:50:10 +01:00

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spreadsheet_files

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__init__.py

Updated service settings for international sms

2017-04-24 13:52:10 +01:00

conftest.py

Update rates to avoid confusion

2017-05-03 13:19:15 +01:00