For someone who has retrieved a template ID from their system the only way to find it in Notify is: - hack the URL - click through every template, visually inspecting the ID shown on the page until you find the right one Neither of these is ideal. This commit adds searching by ID, for those services who have an API integration. This means we don’t need to confuse teams who aren’t using the API by talking about IDs. This is similar to how we let these teams search for notifications by reference[1] 1. https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-admin/pull/3223/files
notifications-admin
GOV.UK Notify admin application - https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/
- Register and manage users
- Create and manage services
- Send batch emails and SMS by uploading a CSV
- Show history of notifications
Setting up
Python version
At the moment we run Python 3.6 in production.
NPM packages
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 long term support (LTS) version of Node.
npm install -g n
n lts
environment.sh
In the root directory of the application, run:
echo "
export NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT='development'
export FLASK_APP=application.py
export FLASK_ENV=development
export WERKZEUG_DEBUG_PIN=off
"> environment.sh
AWS credentials
To run parts of the app, such as uploading letters, you will need appropriate AWS credentials. See the Wiki for more details.
To run the application
# install dependencies, etc.
make bootstrap
# run the web app
make run-flask
Then visit localhost:6012.
To test the application
# install dependencies, etc.
make bootstrap
make test
Common tasks
Updating application dependencies
requirements.txt is generated from the requirements.in in order to pin versions of all nested dependencies. If requirements.in has been changed, run make freeze-requirements to regenerate it.
Automatically rebuild 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