captools/capcreator

Web client for simple CAP 1.2 authoring

capcreator's Issues

Alternate screen layout (or width limiting) for full-size screens

Validate manually-created polygons

The interactive map tool should only accept a polygon that is properly formed (no intersecting sides), with correct winding order, minimum of 4 points and the first vertex = last vertex.

Enable easy configuration of client analytics

Integrate with a system like Google Analytics and record stats like

• Number of alerts published
• Number of views of the XML and HTML alert feeds and pages

Make it easy to configure by adding id to settings_prod.py in CAP Collector.

Improve styling of "Message published successfully" message

Template loads from server for alerts and for areas

Include the element "note" when the element "status" has the value of "Exercise"

The tool should include the element "note" when the element "status" has the value of "Exercise". The CAP standard states in the notes for "status":
“Exercise”- Actionable only by designated exercise participants; exercise identifier should appear in
The "note" element is free text.

"Describe the alert area" field re-populates deleted text after adding additional area templates

Area template selection: Deleting the content from the “Describe the alert area” and selecting another template re-populates all the old content in the field again

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go through the alert creation workflow until you reach the alerting area section
2. Select at least two area templates and see the text appear in the "Describe the alert area" field
3. Delete one or more of the values in the "Describe the alert area" field
4. Select any new area template from the drop down
5. You can see the “Describe the alert area” is filled in with all your old selected values again

Pre-populate CAP object and forms from previous message for UPDATE

Add a default message on the "Current alerts" tab if there are no current alerts

"No active alerts; go here to see expired alerts" message on current tab if no alerts

Same is true for the default alert feed.

Format the display of individual alerts (on popup from current alerts list)

Need to render as HTML, either from caplib.js or (more elegant) using an XSLT

Caution against usage of "Unknown" urgency, severity, certainty

Although the CAP standard allows use of the value "Unknown" in the elements "urgency", "severity" and "certainty", the tool should warn against using these values. Coding "Unknown" can cause the alert to be ignored by CAP implementations that treat unknown as equivalent to insignificant.

Bottom-align Authorize and release sections

Let the alert preview take up the rest of the visible space

Pre-populate CAP object and forms from previous message for CANCEL

Add option to apply custom ordering to message template drop downs

Use case: After creating message templates, the drop down that shows the list of templates on the alert creation page sorts the list alphabetically by template name.

It would be more user friendly if the ordering could be customized to correspond to the order in which alerts would be issued or any other ordering that is useful for alert issuer.

As a workaround, I currently pre-pend numbers to the template names to arrange custom ordering.

Ability to have a single alert update multiple active alerts

To do this, we'd need something like a checkbox next to each of the "Currently active" alerts, a way to select multiple checkboxes, then click an "Update all" button. The key thing is that is populated with references to each of the checked alerts.

Web administration tools

Especially for accounts, pw updates, PKI

"restrictions" is required when the element "scope" has the value of "Restricted" or "Private"

The tool should enforce that the element "restrictions" is required when the element "scope" has the value of "Restricted" or "Private". The CAP standard states:
“Private” - For dissemination only to specified addresses (see , below)
The notes for the "addresses" element state:
Each recipient SHALL be identified by an identifier or an address;
Multiple space-delimited addresses MAY be included. Addresses including whitespace MUST be enclosed in double-quotes.

When updating an alert, give context at the top of the "New", "Message" and "Area" tabs

Add "Updating " or similar to the top of each of these tabs. Similar for cancel.

Make template selection more obvious than picking from a dropdown

I18N of labels, placeholders, explanatory texts

Support missing CAP fields, as necessary

references
eventCode
effective
onset
code
incidents
note

Plug-in framework for checking messages against profiles (IPAWS, Canada, Australia, etc.) prior to enabling release panel

Enable creating alerts with multiple <info>s

The tool currently only allows creation of alerts with a single . CAP supports multiple, for instance, to specify the same alert content in different languages.

Current workaround is to issue separate alerts.

Add extended info to Urgency / Severity / Certainty selectors

As offered in. CAP 1.2 spec

Unit Tests

Focus map on area selected from template

Use case:

1. Define area templates with polygons or circles
2. Go through the alert creation workflow and select an area from the area template drop down. Depending on the size each circle or polygon and the overall responsibility area for the agency, it is difficult to locate the selected alerting area on map.

It may be helpful to to focus the map on the area selected in the case of polygons or circles.

Fix centering of alert details popup window for narrow screens

On the "current alerts" tab, clicking the alert title opens a popup to view, update, and cancel an alert.

For narrow and short screens, that popup isn't centered properly.

Enable easy posting of an alert to social media

Integrate with various social media APIs and enable, via checkboxes during the "Release alert" step, every CAP alert to be accompanied by a post to those social media sites. Posts can link to the html version of the alert.

"restrictions" required when the element "scope" has the value of "Restricted"

The tool should enforce that the element "restrictions" is required when the element "scope" has the value of "Restricted". The CAP standard states:
“Restricted” - For dissemination only to users with a known operational requirement (see , below)
The "restriction" element is free text.

Avoid page reload when manually adding templates

When adding message and area templates, use jQuery style pop-up instead of opening a new window.
When pop-up closes, refresh the templates list, defaulting to the previously selected value.