2017-05-30 Meeting notes

Date

May 30, 2017

7am PDT (Seattle)

Meeting Link

https://www.uberconference.com/villagereach-isg

Optional dial in:
Dial in: 401-283-5773
PIN: 66343

• note the changed dial in number and pin

Attendees

• @Josh Zamor (Deactivated)

• Sebastian Brudziński

• Nikodem Graczewski

• @Paweł Albecki (Deactivated)

• @Paweł Gesek

• @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

• @Chongsun Ahn (Unlicensed)
  
  

Goals

• Continue discussion of gaps as seen from Malawi impl project

Discussion items

Notes

FTAP

Currently has no update ability

• FTAP is by facility type, program, orderable (/product)

• Update doesn't make much sense

• deleting would make more sense / potentially archiving

  • for archiving we'd need to figure out if another service (e.g. Requisition) needs to know about a historical/original FTAP

    • Requisition service likely could tolerate a delete operation

    • don't know about Fullfillment and Stock Management

  • Requisition that is initiated would not want to change if the FTAP changed

No search endpoint (to get all)

• POST /ftap/search

  • program

  • facility type

Email Templates

• Desire to incl geo zones in Requisition status change emails

• Currently placeholders are limited and hardcoded (status, program, etc)

• Could we pass in a more complex object and traverse it (e.g. using dot notation)?

  • We're not sure if it'd work "out of the box"

  • If it did we think it'd be enough to pass the Requisition object

• Next steps:  check if it works "out of the box", if not just add a few more fields (expect MW team PR)

System Settings

• Currently in DB (Requisition service?). No endpoints to modify them

• Fullfillment uses these settings, and also store email templates in these settings

  • email templates moved over to transifex

• Req

  • timezone and fromEmail (this is already moved to .env)

• We should delete all of these settings endpoints (Req and Fullfillment)

For Malawi, if they need to change an email template, they'd create a Transifex project for the country/impl (e.g. en_MW) and change it...  Any changes to this need to wait until the next release of the Service.  Malawi team thinks this is acceptable.

Language list comes from Transifex

System could have a default language that all users default to.

Currently Malawi is using the UI extension technique to change translations, instead of Transifex.

• suggestion is to use Transifex

Currently:

• might use cookie on back-end, not sure if UI uses that cookie

• default if no cookie is to use english

Quick next:

• make the default system language part of the .env file

Ideal Next: 

• User has a profile with a language setting

• System has a default language that's used for a user that doesn't have a profile yet or for a new user's profile

• For Malawi this ideal next is a low priority, IF the Quick Next is done.

Action items

@Sebastian Brudziński & team to issue PR for FTAP search operation

@Sebastian Brudziński and @Josh Zamor (Deactivated) to research FTAP update as delete OR archive - what would Stock Management and Fulfillment service do if FTAP is removed or changed?  What should be the general strategy for Reference Data Service for update / delete operations.

@Sebastian Brudziński & team to issue PR to Requisition service for new email template fields (and possibly new technique to pass complex objects and navigate them within the template)?

@Paweł Albecki (Deactivated) to write ticket to remove the now defunct system settings api(s) of Fulfillment and Requisition - OLMIS-2612: Remove defunct configuration settings APIDonePreview

@Ben Leibert to followup with @Nick Reid (Deactivated) on Malawi's UI approach in translations.  Malawi is using the UI "override" extension technique to change translations, as well as for new screens developed.  @Josh Zamor (Deactivated) doesn't think this would be recommended.  @Ben Leibert would write tickets for changing this in the MW project if we're all in agreement.

@Paweł Gesek to write ticket for a default language setting that's set via the system environment (i.e. the .env file) - OLMIS-2611: Add a system wide default language settingDonePreview

@Josh Zamor (Deactivated)  and @Nick Reid (Deactivated) to followup OLMIS-2147: Show back-end API errors in users languageBacklogPreview

@Josh Zamor (Deactivated) and @Ben Leibert to provide wiki page on Transifex limits: projects, strings, users, groups.  Goal is to ensure that community can continue to rely on Transifex's open source donation, even for implementation projects

@Josh Zamor (Deactivated) to write "ideal next" ticket for language settings