TTA Tools Sprint Feedback Page

Jeff:

• Why are there no Specifications under the VLA Continuum (is this a configuration issue for the solicitation or something else)?

Dana:

• Home
  • I can now see the Solicitations without logging in first.
• Allocation Request

  • When in edit mode, if I click the Allocation Request tab (on left) I see "Allocation Request +Add". My intuition was that I had to click the "+Add" to create an Allocation Request, but if I do this it creates a second Allocation Request. What I should have done was to click "Allocation Request" to start filling in the first one.

  • Not sure if there was suppose to be any way to input information for the VLA Continuum Capability.
  • I still cannot save an Allocation Request, but I can delete one.
  • When in edit mode, if I cancel (click the "x" in the top right-hand corner), I am brought back to the view with the 2-D layout of cards. I would have expected to see the view with the 1-D column of cards on the left with the proposal that I just cancelled on the right.

Allie:

• Home page
  • delete the trailing quote+period on the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA)".  line
  • is it necessary to have two different create proposal buttons? For example, would the button next to the open solicitations automatically have that solicitation checked?
  • How is the priority set for the list of proposals in "My Proposals"? The newest created proposal is not at the top of the list as I would expect.
  • TonyattaMember and TommyttaMember have different home pages. Is this expected behavior because they have different profiles?
• Editing a Proposal
  • Allocation Request
    • When I add a Capability to an Allocation Request, the changes pending bar behaves as expected: the bar does appear until I make changes. It does not go away when I hit Save though. The save button doesn't appear to work. Maybe that isn't implemented yet.
    • When I make multiple Allocation Requests and then try to delete one, it sometimes deletes all of them instead. I'm having trouble consistently replicating this behavior but it did happen at least 4 times.
    • Is this expected behavior?
      • Create Allocation Request and Allocation Request 2
      • Delete Allocation Request
      • Add an Allocation Request makes a new allocation request with the name of "Allocation Request 2" such that now there are two Allocation Request 2s.
      • When adding more Allocation Requests (AR 3, AR4), the tabs reorder themselves as
        • AR3, AR4, AR2, AR2
    • Capabilities do not persist when switching between allocation requests (maybe the aforementioned save issue?).
    • Cannot rename the AR or the Capability
  • Clicking between "Basic Information", "Scientific Justification", "Allocation Request" very briefly changes the wording at the top left from "Edit Proposal" to "New Proposal" and back again to "Edit Proposal".
  • When clicking back to "Basic Information" from "Scientific Justification" or "Allocation Request", the check box with the "test solicitation" sometimes briefly displays the words "[object Object] " instead.

Dana:

• Home Tab
  • Looks better. Need to think what we really want here. If we list Open Solicitation maybe we should list Draft Proposals instead of My Proposals. That is, these are the things that I am currently working on. Then again, Submitted Proposals can be edited before the deadline and re-submitted for Semester Solicitations. So maybe only list proposals that can be modified.
• Proposals Tab

  • Added a bunch of proposals to see how this looks when viewing proposals (either in the 2-D layout of cards or the 1-D column of cards when viewing a selected proposal). I think this will work as long as we are able to use filters to keep the number of proposals down to a reasonable number.

  • Basic Information. Cleaned up the "Changes Pending" feedback. Works well. Still cannot leave to another section without loosing my edits (if I do not click Save first), but okay.

  • Scientific Justification. Known issues with persistence; otherwise okay.
  • Allocation Request. Known issues with persistence; otherwise okay. Layout seems reasonable. This will probably evolve as we include details so we probably do not want to fine tune this at this stage. But since each Allocation Request has only one Facility we might want to include the Facility when showing the list of Allocation Requests.

Consensus Feedback

• Really nice overall
• Before the user is logged in the open solicitations are not shown.  During the sprint review this was demonstrated to be a 401 error.
  •   STT-591 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Want to discuss the overall navigation (like the top w/ icons, lower ones are confusing)
  • Try to isolate functional roles using UX
• Consistent & Persistant Filtering
• Changes pending is not working correctly.  At least one of us didn't notice the changes pending notification.
  •   STT-593 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Note: Track OS and Browser 
• Note: Need to do the only authors can edit a proposal story at some point. 
  • STT-592 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• Is delete supposed to work?
• Edit button on detailed view took a while to find, 

•  Jeff:
  • For the solicitation I am not sure we want to display capabilities (there may be too many), I suspect we want to display the facilities for each solicitation though (maybe the capabilities as a redirect?)
  • What is the purpose of having the proposals section under the home page, I agree with Dana that this is confusing.
  • I think there is a question of if we want to be able to select the role we are logged in as?
  • Filter should persist when going to a detail view.
• Dana:

o Initial View
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- Overall the interface is very clean. Easy to read, easy to
navigate, and fast.

- Before login I cannot view the Solicitations.

- Maybe

"NRAO + GBO Telescope Time" --> "NRAO/GBO Telescope Time"
"Greenbank Observatory (GBT)" --> "Green Bank Telescope (GBT)"

and add:

"High Sensitivity Array (HSA)"
"Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA)".

- The purpose of JWT at the top right is not clear. If I click
on it nothing happens.

o Login as SallyScientist
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- Once I login I can view the Solicitations only after I reload the
page.

- On Home there are two buttons to create a proposal: one at the top
and the other under the "test solicitation". I was expecting the
latter to have already selected "test solicitation" once the proposal
was created.

- If I click on "View Past Awarded Proposals" I should only see those
proposals that were awarded time (no draft proposals). I realize
that this concept is probably not yet in the system.

- There are two ways to view Proposals. One is by clicking the
Proposal tab next to Home (where one can filter on the proposal), and
the other is by clicking the My Proposals tab next to Open
Solicitations. I can see the value of different displays of this
information but the functionality is a bit confusing. If I edit the
Proposal under My Proposal I am taken to the Proposal tab.

- Proposal View Mode

Maybe reduce the size of the left section that lists the proposals.

If I click on View under Scientific Justification I am placed back on
the Home page. I am not able to see the scientific justification
(which was already uploaded).

- Proposal Edit Mode

I cannot re-size the abstract window; seems like there is a little
widget for this but it does not work.

After I have clicked Save on the Basic Information page the there is a
temporary window that indicates the proposal is saved, but I still see
the blue bar at the top indicating "Changes Pending". This is
confusing since I have not made any changes yet.

If I edit the abstract on the Basic section and then move to the
scientific justification section without saving I loose the edit. It
would be useful to have some warning or indication of the edit status
and if information will be lost.

After I upload a scientific justification PDF, which works fine, if I
leave the proposal and come back I can no longer see (or can view) the
uploaded scientific justification. There is just a button "Select New
PDF".

o Login as TonyaTtamember
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- Proposals Tab

Seems like the filter settings should persist. For example, if I select
SHOW->My, then go to the Home tab and back to the Proposal tab the filter
is set to SHOW->All.

What determines the placement of proposals cards?

Need to include a search to the filtering of proposals.

- Solicitation

Clicking on "Create a Solicitation" does not do anything.
Presumably not implemented yet.

If I click on "View Proposals" I was expect to see
only the proposals from the specified Solicitation but
all were listed.

- During the session multiple browser tabs were opened; not clear
when this happened and why.

Allie

1. This may not have real application but it might indicate an unwanted behavior
   1. I login with JohnDoe and edit test proposaleeeeeee
   2. While on that page, I login as Sally Scientist. I can now edit and save edits to this proposal. Even after a refresh
      
   3. I can do this with any other log in.
   4. The edits show up in test proposaleeeeeee when I login again as JohnDoe.
   5.  I can do the same to proposal  My test proposal 2 W4 HMXB, which only has JohnDoe as an author
      
   6. Sometimes I can see in the list of proposals test proposaleeeeeee in SallyScientists' list
   7. Returning to item (b), if I refresh, I see SallyScientist's proposals listed but I can still edit JohnDoe's
      1. This image shows John Doe's proposal but logged in as sally without refreshing first
         1. prefresh_as_Sally
      2. This image shows the screen after the refresh
         1. postrefresh_as_sally
   8. Finally, logging out leaves the information open (e.g., the edit proposal page) but I can no longer edit it, so that's good.
2. Again this may not be a practical issue, but I had multiple tabs open editing proposals as different users and it seemed to behavior well.
   1. Having the same person logged in editing the same proposal in different tabs creates problems. If I save an edit in one tab and do not refresh in the other, what ever I save in the "other" tab will overwrite the first. A refresh shows the first tab's update. This is a fair behavior perhaps.
   2. The same behavior happens when I am trying to edit the same proposal with two logged in accounts, which may be a problem. There is tandem editing in the current tool (to what ever degree it does or doesn't exhibit this problem).
3. Is it expected behavior that Tommy Ttamember and TonyaTtamember have different items in the "Review tab"? It looks like TonyaTtamember is a reviewer while Tommy Ttamember is admin?
   
4. It seems that there is a proposal listed as "My proposal" for Tommy Ttamember that has Tammy Ttamember as the primary author. Are these supposed to be the same person?
   1. If not, is Tommy ttamember exercising admin-powers to edit/create a proposal for Tammy?
   2. If Tommy ttamember has no intention of being on this proposal, should it show up under "my proposals"?
   3. Can users create  a proposal without being on it? That seems like a policy question, and I know the author portion has some work to do on it still.
5. I had the same experience as Dana with the abstract not saving upon navigation
   1. Happily though, I can't seem to accidentally navigate backwards using the mac track pad short cut.
6. On the landing page once i log in as anyone, I find it a bit unsightly to see duplicate tabs for navigation at the top.
7. Hitting the Review tab takes me back to home, not a separate interface for reviews and not even to the review tab at the bottom.
8. I can't seem to delete a proposal.

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The second set of tabs on the home page were only intended to get some "quick start" areas there - likely actions a person wants to take e.g. working on the most proposals edited or viewing the responses numbers for recently closed solicitations. We do need to do some UX work to really flesh out what should be here, but for now the tabs were removed so they are less confusing.

Multiple tabs: local storage is used to save the logged in user's JWT (identifies who is logged in). Local storage in a browser is organized by domain name and stores simple key/value pairs. Having multiple tabs open in one browser and logging in as different people won't work so well because the domain name is the same, so whatever tab logs in last overwrites who is logged in for all tabs.

The "JWT" button: This is for developers, so it doesn't look like does anything for users and it will go away when we have "real" authentication.

Clicking the "create proposal" button on the home page next to an open solicitation is going to have that solicitation already selected when the creation form opens - but that isn't hooked up yet so it doesn't work. The assessment of what should happen was correct - it just isn't implemented yet.  Perhaps we make that a story so it doesn't get lost. The same is true for clicking "view proposal" on a solicitation card - that is also not hooked up yet.

Switching between sections of proposal editing does lose the changes on that page without warning. We should make a story to address that. 

the scientific justification pdf upload is set up in the UI, but isn't set up in the backend, so saving doesn't actually work right now. We have stories for this already.

Filtering of proposal cards is handled by the back end, so any search or sorting will need to happen there as well in case we need to introduce pagination (which we will at some point). We will need stories for this.

Filters do not persist, but should. This is all front end work and we should make a story for it. 

Anyone with a role of TTAT member can see all proposals, but the "my" filter should still work to restrict what is shown. Because authorization is fake, we have a different list of users in the frontend than the backend, so sometimes things look funny. We can fix this or ignore it until we get to more default test data or real authorization.