security-force-monitor/sfm-ui

User interface showing maps, organizational charts and command histories of security force units and commanders around the world

sfm-ui's Issues

Map - Can't use Organization's Classification to filter

The Filter functionality doesn't load any classifications from the Organizations. I would expect to be able to use the Filter function to select only to display Organizations with the classification of Police or Army or Military.

Map - List Area of Operations Names

Since we are using a stylized map base - it would be helpful to list the Area of Operations for an Organization in the pop-up on the maps. We could have that instead of the Aliases so as an example:

These would all be the Geoname for the organization's area operations (Area:geonames_name)

This would be incredibly helpful - I find myself unsure of what states in Nigeria are being covered by the Organizations just by looking at the map and I suspect many users will have difficulty as well.

Dossier - renaming Headquarters to Installations

@sam-ffctn - Can we rename the section that is currently titled "Headquarters" to "Installations"? It will be nice to standardize terminology from the Map Legend across other functionalities.

Chart - Zooming

Zoom does not seem to work with mouse button - and there is no "+" or "-" buttons either

Events - Event:classification not displaying

@sam-ffctn

Map - Mini Dossier - Sources Need Numbering

In the Mini Dossier on the side of the Map function the various citations are numbered but when the user scroll to the bottom to Sources they are listed but not numbered

(example screenshot at top of mini dossier)

(example screenshot at bottom of same mini dossier)

Map - Installations not Filtering

@sam-ffctn - The filter function works well for the Area of Operations on the Map, but it doesn't seem to effect the installations. I'd expect selecting Army from the Filter drop down would mean I would only see Areas of Operations and/or Installations of Organizations with a classification of Army.

Person Dossier - Mini Dossier/Full Dossier - Sources not displaying

@sam-ffctn - The sources don't seem to be displaying on either the mini or full dossiers for people.

Example screenshot, mini-dossier:

Example screenshot, full dossier:

Person Dossiers no longer loading

@evz has there been an API change that could have caused this? For example every person related to http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M20/#country/ng/o/358c956b-29ca-4dc4-b1ff-847d040d0fbc!date=2014-01-01&focus=map&classifications=Army&overlay=organization-dossier - now no longer has their job history display. The only data that seems to be loading is alternative names.

Dossiers - Only Display Direct Child/Parents

@sam-ffctn - creating an issue as discussed in #39

Map - Filtering Doesn't seem to work

When a user uses the "Legend" to filter the map to only display events, jurisdictions, or installations they can still bring up the information for any of the layers when they hover over it - even though it is not displayed.

Screenshot example of map where only Jurisdictions is selected - hovering over an area suddenly brings up an event.

Back button not working?

Just noticed this right now - its across the Map and Chart functionalities

Map - Overlapping Areas of Operation

@sam-ffctn - can we implement something so that if a user hovers over an Area of Operation for a number of seconds the tooltip/selection will move from the top layer to the layer below?

Right now the smallest Area of Operation is the top layer which is good - however there will be Organizations whose Area of Operation will be completely covered by smaller Areas of Operation for other organizations

Mini/Full Dosser - Area of Operations not reading data?

@sam-ffctn - related to #26 the Area of Operations is not being loaded - even though an area of operations is loaded on the Map

http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M16/#country/ng/o/1596e4f4-85a4-47a5-8bef-39f2e72cc98f!date=2014-01-01&focus=map&overlay=organization-dossier

Mini/Full Dossier - Headquarters not reading correct data?

@sam-ffctn - The Headquarters appears to be reading the administrative_level_1 but not the administrative_level_2

http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M16/#country/ng/o/1596e4f4-85a4-47a5-8bef-39f2e72cc98f!date=2014-01-01&focus=map&overlay=organization-dossier

Relatedly - the Current Location map doesn't seem to be reading any data (I would expect to show the headquarters location surronded by the area of operations)

Events - not loading sources

@sam-ffctn - Events do not seem to have their sources displayed anywhere in the mini-dossier - screenshot example:

Error message?

There is some latin text at the top of the page - I'm not sure what's triggering it.

Slow loading...

@sam-ffctn @evz - I'm having difficulties accessing the latest build - http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M18/#country/ng!date=2014-01-01 - sometimes I hit it where I'm waiting 10 minutes + for things to load (to no avail). I think there has been an issue with the queries the UI is running that generate a huge ton of data, but it could be something else. Right now I'm not able to test much.

Map - Country summary

I'm not sure where the country summary "lives" and how it will be updated --- I know this requires me to finalize a country summary for the countries of the SFM(!)

I can email text for each country that we will then address in future versions of the Monitor as far as updating it.

Map - Tooltip for Installations?

@sam-ffctn Can we have a tooltip appear when a user hovers over an installation?

Map/Dossiers - Peacekeeping orgs/people not displaying

@evz clicking on Sierra Leon, DRC or Liberia (example link: http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M19/#country/lr!date=2014-01-01) brings up a blank map with no Organizations.

I'm not sure if this is an API or data issue.

Change display for Confidence Scores

The current Red, Yellow and Green Diamonds to indicate confidence score aren't working as well as I hoped. We should change them to text displays, similar to how they were envisioned in older versions of the mockups:

Map - Not displaying Installations

@sam-ffctn - the map isn't displaying any Installations - this may be relatd to #26

Search Needs to go to dossier

Search returns user to Map page, rather than taking them to a dossier or map with mini-dossier as expected

Example:

• From home page, choose Nigeria.
• Select “ Search"
• Select “Persons"
• Search "Dahiru Bako”
• Four results are returned, choose any of them
• The overlay is removed and the user is returned to the map screen.
• Expected behavior is that it would take the user to the Person dossier, showing that Person in the command hierarchy

Dossier - Displaying dates for Superior and Subordinate Organizations?

@sam-ffctn - Can we display the dates for the superior and subordinate organizations in the mini and full dossiers? That extra context would be quite helpful.

Map - selection different areas of operation doesn't work

When scrolling over large areas of operation its not possible to select the smaller areas contained within the larger area -- for example its not possible to select the smaller areas within the Special Task Force's Area of Operations.

As areas of operations will overlap frequently it should be possible for a user to hover over an area and be able to select one of the several units that operate there.

Person Mini Dossier/Full Dossier - need to remove place of birth and death date

@sam-ffctn - The mini dossier and full dossiers for people have a birth place and death date listed - the Monitor doesn't capture data on either of these things currently so they should be removed from the UI.

Dossier - Sources not displaying?

@sam-ffctn - The sources in the dossier aren't displaying any more - we had implemented a fix so that anything in the dossier that had sources was being displayed but currently only the sources for the Organization's name seem to be displaying.

Tooltip - Need to display multiple Areas of Operation

@sam-ffctn - Currently the tooltip only lists one Area of Operation - even if the Organization has multiple areas of operation listed in its dossier - example: http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M19/#country/ng/o/358c956b-29ca-4dc4-b1ff-847d040d0fbc!date=2014-01-01&focus=map

Can we have the tooltip list all the Areas of Operation for an Organization with each Area comma separated?

Events - Site Name loading from Site ID

Hey @sam-ffctn @evz - not sure where the issue lies, but the instead of the Event:geonames_name it's loading the Event:geonames_id. The Event:admin_level_1_geonames_name is displaying fine however. (I know we've switched over to OSM, but I wasn't sure how those classes were renamed so I kept them the same as they are in the Classes Sheet).

Example screenshot below:

Mexico Data not displaying?

@sam-ffctn @evz - Not sure what the issue is here, when I go to the Map it is mostly blank - http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M19/#country/mx!date=2014-01-01&focus=map

However, when I search multiple units that aren't displayed are in the system: http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M19/#country/mx/o/33c5c094-fb41-4d45-9d9c-074ce428acf2!date=2014-01-01&focus=map&overlay=organization-dossier

Map - Fix Date display

We should make it easier for the user to see what date they have selected -- right now the date box does not seem prominent enough and the full numbered date does not even fit into the box (example screenshot below)

Mini/Full Person Dossier - Unclear what N/A is referring to

@sam-ffctn - Under a Person's name in their mini and full dossiers there is a bold N/A - I'm not sure what this is supposed to be reading.

It may be left over from an old idea - if so we can just get rid of it

Dossiers - Founding Date/First Citation Date and Dissolution/Last Citation Date

@sam-ffctn - Can we get rid of these two sections of the mini/full dossiers? There was a complicated plan around this - but we are capturing the same data with the Sites of each organization.

Create Summary text for Mexico and peacekeeping countries

To do for Tony

Chart - Needs Timeline

Currently the Chart does not have a timeline functionality

Mini/Full Dossier - Adding Dates for Commanders?

@sam-ffctn - could we add the dates for current and former commanders on an Organization's Mini and/or Full Dossier? It would be really helpful for users to get a quick sense of who served when

Chart - not displaying properly?

The Chart function isn't really working anymore - chart lines of command not lining up properly, organizations "floating" unconnected anything, etc.

Did perhaps something change in the API that effected this @evz?

Dossier - Area of Operation repeated multiple times?

@sam-ffctn - sometimes the Area of Operation for an Organization is repeated multiple times - I can't find a reason in the CMS why this would be the case - @evz not sure if this is something from the API?

For example: the 1 Mechanised Division - http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M19/#country/ng/o/e7d0a9ac-708c-495d-b5da-5ce1a9fe08ee!date=2014-01-01&focus=map&classifications=Army&overlay=organization-dossier

Chart - Doesn't Display Hierarchy

@sam-ffctn -

Steps:

1. A user selects an Organization from the drop down menu on the Map page
2. From the Organization's mini dossier they select Chart
3. On the Chart page the selected Organization is at the "top" of the hierarchy - with no way to see what the parent organizations are.

Example http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M13/#country/ng/o/03e9b83d-ddeb-491d-baaf-c09a49f1f64d!date=2014-01-01&focus=chart - and screen:

Example http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M13/#country/ng/o/04bf35af-87de-4c13-a9c3-b727a08ce891!date=2014-01-01&focus=chart - and screen:

Chart - Shuffling around selected organization/person

When an Organization is selected in the Chart - it's Parent/superior Organization is often several screens to the right or left - making it impossible for the user to be able to read the chart

This seems to be a result of the Chart being a static image -- a solution could be that the Chart "shuffles" or otherwise rearranges itself around the Organization selected - so that the parent/superior organization is always directly above it

There may be other ways to solve this issue - I'm open to other fixes

Full Dossier - Current Location, Map, Area of Operations

@sam-ffctn - the Person's full dossier - has the same featuers of the Organization's dossier - the Current Location, Map, Headquarters, Location, and Area of Responsibility --- I think we can get rid of all of it since it isn't relevant to how we capture data on a Person currently.

http://ffctn.com/clients/on/sfm/M16/#country/ng/p/f0366f30-4621-4d46-bbaa-13381d2b4149!date=2014-01-01&focus=map&classifications=Army&overlay=person-dossier

Map - Rename Legend Options

Rename Jurisdictions as Area of Operations

Mini Dossier/Full Dossier - No click through to Commander

From an Organization's mini-dossier on the Map page, or their full dossier I would expect to be able to click on a Commander's name and be taken to their dossier - this functionality doesn't exist

Export Features

@sam-ffctn - I don't think we have everything in order to implement the Export CSV or Export Text functionalities currently listed on various pages.

Can we just change to Export Data (coming soon!) - or remove that section all together?

How should we flatten lists of things for CSV serialization?

The three API endpoints that, according to the spec, should optionally return a CSV version, are:

• /organizations/:id
• /people/:id
• /countries/:id/search/organizations
• /countries/:id/search/people
• /countries/:id/search/events

(If there are more, let's identify them below)

As mentioned in the call, these responses return nested lists of things (so an organization will have many aliases, areas, sites, etc) and it's not obvious how we should serialize that into a tabular format. It seems like there are a few different approaches to this:

• Come up with some kind of delimiter When we stick the list of values into one column in the CSV, we could just put a semicolon (";") or a pipe ("|") or something in between each of the values and it'd be up to the person who downloads the CSV to unpack that. This might work for things like lists of roles and ranks for people but it'd be a bit clunky for something more complicated like lists of sources.
• Create a new row in the output for each variant This is probably the cleanest and easiest thing to do (since ultimately that's kinda how the database works) but it's not super user friendly.
• Create multiple CSV files Instead of packing all of the data into a single file, we could create a relational database of sorts and, when a user downloads a CSV of the dossier for an organization, what they'd get is one main file that has all of the simple attributes in it and then several other files that had things like sources for the different attributes and lists of more complex things. This also seems pretty easy to implement but might not be super easy for users to unravel.
• Some combination of the above Sticking former commanders of an organization in a separate CSV might be sane but sticking the other_names for each of those in a separate file seems slightly insane. What might make more sense is to use a delimiter for each of the other names.

Any other ideas as to how we might tackle this? @tonysecurityforcemonitor Do you have any use cases in mind that might inform this?

Map - Zoom needs to be clear

Having "+" and "-" buttons would be helpful

Events - displaying Alleged Perpetrator Classification

So I somehow missed this - but is it possible to add the Alleged Perpetrator Classification field for Events?

@evz this is Column N in the Events tab in the Import Master Sheet.

@sam-ffctn - I was thinking that it could look like this:

I realize this is very late in the game to raise this - so if it throws off work on other Issues let's table it.

UI issues in IE

@sam-ffctn - the UI is having issues displaying properly in IE - I'm testing on IE 11 version 11.0.9600.18537

Both on the initial summary screen:

And the overall Map page:

Organization Classification not displaying/loading properly

@evz @sam-ffctn I'm not sure if this is an API or UI issue...

1. Currently Organizations all seem to have the classification of Unknown. As far as I can see in the CMS every organization has at least one classification - so no organization should be listed with an Unknown classification.
2. The other classifications are merged together, rather than being counted as two (or more) separate classifications - example screenshot below:

It should be clear that this organization has multiple classifications - which I think would mean that it would like this: