Having links in the middle of a form distracts users from the task of
filling in the form, and following a link before submitting the form
will mean whatever has been filled in is lost.
And the budgets form is already very long and hard to fill in. Having
the phases table in the middle of it made it even harder. And, since
we're planning to add the option to manage groups and headings from the
same page, it's better to have a dedicated page for the form.
Since we aren't very consistent in the styles for submit buttons in the
admin section, it was possible to accidentally press the "Calculate
Winner Investments" link after filling in the form. This wouldn't submit
the form and so the changes wouldn't be saved.
It's also a bit confusing for users. After filling in a form, users
expect a submit button. When finding two buttons, they've got to stop to
think which one is the one they've got to press.
Furthermore, the "Calculate Winner Investments" link would work better
as a button instead of a link, for the reasons mentioned in commit
5311daadf. Since HTML forms can't be nested, that would mean treating
this button in a different way than the rest of the buttons in the
application.
Moving the link before the form solves the issue.
Since now we've got the budget actions before the budget form, we're
grouping these actions together with the "Preview" action. We're not
adding the "Publish budget" button as well to this group because it's
got an associated message.
We're going to change it a bit, and using a component allows us to use
the `header` method and easily add a title to this page, which lacked
the `<title>` tag.
Previously the draft mode was a phase of the PB, but that had some
limitations.
Now the phase drafting disappears and therefore the PB can have the
status published or not published (in draft mode).
That will give more flexibility in order to navigate through the
different phases and see how it looks for administrators before
publishing the PB and everybody can see.
By default, the PB is always created in draft mode, so it gives you
the flexibility to adjust and modify anything before publishing it.
We're going to add help content here and having a floating button would
make the button disappear when creating content for mobile phones.
I'm not sure having the link in the <header> tag is semantically
correct, but is consistent to what we did to create local targets in the
SDG content section.
Note we're changing the style of the link to create local targets so
it's consistent with the link to create budgets/groups/headings.
The current tracking section had a few issues:
* When browsing as an admin, this section becomes useless since no
investments are shown
* Browsing investments in the admin section, you're suddenly redirected
to the tracking section, making navigation confusing
* One test related to the officing dashboard failed due to these changes
and had been commented
* Several views and controller methods were copied from other sections,
leading to duplication and making the code harder to maintain
* Tracking routes were defined for proposals and legislation processes,
but in the tracking section only investments were shown
* Probably many more things, since these issues were detected after only
an hour reviewing and testing the code
So we're removing this untested section before releasing version 1.1. We
might add it back afterwards.
Tags and help links can be edited, but aren't used anywhere. Since we
don't know what the intended behavior was, I'm removing them for now.
My best guess is tags were supposed to be used so investments for a
budget can only be assigned tags present in the budget. Achieving that
behavior wouldn't be a trivial task.
We need to add a hidden field for each group of check boxes, so if we
don't check anything, the hidden field is sent to the server, indicating
nothing was selected. Without the hidden field, the server will not know
anything has been done to the check boxes.
The easiest way to do it is using `collection_check_boxes`, which also
adds labels to every check box.
We were using two different systems to set translations in JavaScript:
to set the text for languages, we were using data attributes, and to set
the text for staff members, we were using AJAX calls.
I find data attributes keep the code more simple, since there's no need
to define an extra route and controller action. Furthermore, the user
experience is better because response times are faster.
So now both places use data attributes.
This way we can simplify the way we generate form fields. In some cases,
we also use the human attribute in table headers, which IMHO makes
sense.
I haven't moved all of them: for example, sometimes a label is
different depending on whether it's shown to administrators, valuators,
or users. And I haven't touched the ones related to devise, since I
wasn't sure about possible side effects.
Note I've also removed placeholders when they had the same text as their
labels, since they weren't helpful. On the contrary, the added redundant
text to the form, potentially distracting users.
To make it more consistent with the rest of the Admin panel,
the CRUD for budget groups and headings has been changed
from the old "all-in-one" form to a separate form for each resource.
