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Adding Event Overview Route in Open Event Frontend

In Open Event Frontend we have an event overview route which is like a mini dashboard for an event where information regarding event sponsors, general info, roles, tickets, event setup etc. is present. All of the information is present in their corresponding components and this dashboard is made up of those components. To create this dashboard we will first create its components.

To create a component we will use following ember command-

ember -g component <component-name>

This command will give us three files: a template, a component and a test file corresponding to that component. We will use this command to generate all our components.

Now let’s discuss each component separately and see how many of them are combined to form this route-

The event-setup-checklist component contains semantic ui’s steps to maintain checklist of basic-details, sponsors, session & microlocation, call for speakers, session and speakers form customization so that it becomes easy to identify which step is complete and which is not.

Next is general-info component which shows basic information about an event like start-time, end-time, location, number of speakers, number of sponsors etc. It also shows whether the event is live or not.

In manage-roles component, manage the role for a given person, add people and assign different roles to them, edit roles for different people. Also we can see who are invited for a given role and who accepted them.

In event-sponsors component we manage the sponsors for the event, edit an existing sponsor, add a new sponsor with their logo, name, type and level. Also we can delete an existing sponsor.

Next is the ticket component which displays the details of number of orders, number of tickets sold, and total sales. Also it displays the number of types of tickets are sold.

Next is our app-component which has two choices. First is to generate android app for the event and second is to generate webapp of the event.

And finally in our view.index template, we add these components using ui stackable grid layout. Whenever we want to conditionally show or hide a component, we can do that in our event.index template and hence it becomes very easy to manage huge amounts content on a single page.

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File Upload Validations on Open Event Frontend

In Open Event Frontend we have used semantics ui’s form validations to validate different fields of a form. There are certain instances in our app where the user has to upload a file and it is to be validated against the suggested format before uploading it to the server. Here we will discuss how to perform the validation.

Semantics ui allows us to validate by facilitating pass of an object along with rules for its validation. For fields like email and contact number we can pass type as email and number respectively but for validation of file we have to pass a regular expression with allowed extension.The following walks one through the process.

fields : {
  file: {
    identifier : 'file',
    rules      : [
      {
        type   : 'empty',
        prompt : this.l10n.t('Please upload a file')
      },
      {
        type   : 'regExp',
        value  : '/^(.*.((zip|xml|ical|ics|xcal)$))?[^.]*$/i',
        prompt : this.l10n.t('Please upload a file in suggested format')
      }
    ]
  }
}

Here we have passed file element (which is to be validated) inside our fields object identifier, which for this field is ‘file’, and can be identified by its id, name or data-validate property of the field element. After that we have passed an array of rules against which the field element is validated. First rule gives an error message in the prompt field in case of an empty field.

The next rule checks for allowed file extensions for the file. The type of the rule will be regExp as we are passing a regular expression which is as follows-

/^(.*.((zip|xml|ical|ics|xcal)$))?[^.]*$/i

It is little complex to explain it from the beginning so let us breakdown it from end-

 

$ Matches end of the string
[^.]* Negated set. Match any character not in this set. * represents 0 or more preceding token
( … )? Represents if there is something before (the last ?)
.*.((zip|xml|ical|ics|xcal)$) This is first capturing group ,it contains tocken which are combined to create a capture group ( zip|xml|ical|ics|xcal ) to extract a substring
^ the beginning of the string

Above regular expression filters all the files with zip/xml/ical/xcal extensions which are the allowed format for the event source file.

References

  • Ivaylo Gerchev blog on form validation in semantic ui
  • Drmsite blog on semantic ui form validation
  • Semantic ui form validation docs
  • Stackoverflow regex for file extension
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Adding Settings and Contact Info Route to Open Event Frontend

In Open Event Frontend, while dealing with an issue, we had to create the ‘contact-info’ route as a subroute of the ‘settings’ route. We have given the user a facility to update his/her information thereby allowing them to change it whenever they want.

Thus to generate the route, we are using ember cli:

ember g route settings/contact-info

Thus, the above command will generate three files:

  • routes/settings/contact-info.js
  • templates/settings/contact-info.hbs
  • tests/unit/routes/settings/contact-info-test.js

1) contact-info.hbs

In this file, we have a form which we have made a component for easy use. Thus following is the content of the contact-info.hbs file:

{{settings/contact-info-section}}

Thus ultimately, we are having a component called ‘contact-info-section’ which contains our markup for the contact-info form.
To generate the component, we do:

ember g component settings/contact-info-section

This command will generate two files:
1. templates/components/contact-info-section.hbs
2. components/contact-info-section.js

Following is the markup in contact-info-section.hbs:

<form class="ui form" {{action 'submit' on='submit'}} novalidate>
  <div class="field">
    <label>{{t 'Email'}}</label>
    {{input type='email' name='email' value=email}}
  </div>
  <div class="field">
    <label>{{t 'Phone'}}</label>
    {{input type='text' name='phone' value=phone}}
  </div>
  <button class="ui teal button" type="submit">{{t 'Save'}}</button>
</form>

In the form, we are having two fields for inputs ‘Email’ and ‘Phone’ respectively. We are using Ember input helpers so as to achieve easy data binding. The name is used as an identifier for the validation.
We have one submit button at the bottom which saves the information that the user wants to update.

The contact-info-section.js file contains all the validation rules which validate the form when the user submits it. If a user enters any field empty, the form prompts the user with a message. Following is an example of the validation rules for the email field:

email: {
          identifier : 'email',
          rules      : [
            {
              type   : 'empty',
              prompt : this.l10n.t('Please enter your email ID')
            },
            {
              type   : 'email',
              prompt : this.l10n.t('Please enter a valid email ID')
            }
          ]
        }

Similar rules are there for the ‘phone’ field input.

2) contact-info.js
The contact-info.js renders our route. Thus it contains the ‘titletoken’ method which returns the ‘titletoken’ method which returns the page title.

Thus, after doing all the things above, we get the following as a result.

Resources:

Source code: https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-frontend

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Implementing Registration API in Open Event Front-end

In this post I will discuss how I implemented the registration feature in Open Event Front-end using the Open-Event-Orga API. The project uses Ember Data for consumption of the API in the ember application. The front end sends POST request to Open Event Orga Server which verifies and creates the user.

We use a custom serialize method for trimming the request payload of the user model by creating a custom user serializer. Lets see how we did it.

Implementing register API

The register API takes username & password in the payload for a POST request which are validated in the register-form component using the semantic-ui form validation. After validating the inputs from the user we bubble the save action to the controller form the component.

submit() {
  this.onValid(() => {
    this.set('errorMessage', null);
    this.set('isLoading', true);
    this.sendAction('submit');
  });
}

In controller we have `createUser()` action where we send a POST request to the server using the save() method, which returns a promise.

createUser() {
  var user = this.get('model');
  user.save()
    .then(() => {
      this.set('session.newUser', user.get('email'));
      this.set('isLoading', false);
      this.transitionToRoute('login');
    })
    .catch(reason => {
      this.set('isLoading', false);
      if (reason.hasOwnProperty('errors') && reason.errors[0].status === 409) {
        this.set('errorMessage', this.l10n.t('User already exists.'));
      } else {
        this.set('errorMessage', this.l10n.t('An unexpected error occurred.'));
      }
    });
}

The `user.save()` returns a promise, therefore we handle it using a then-catch clause. If the request is successful, it executes the `then` clause where we redirect to the login route. If the request fails we check if the status is 409 which translates to a duplicate entry i.e the user already exists in the server.

Serializing the user model using custom serializer

Ember lets us customise the payload using serializers for models. The serializers have serialize function where we can trim the payload of the model. In the user serializer we check if the request is for record creation using `options.includeId`. If the request is for record creation we trim the payload using the lodash `pick` method and pick only email & password for payload for POST request.

serialize(snapshot, options) {
  const json = this._super(...arguments);
  if (options && options.includeId) {
    json.data.attributes = pick(json.data.attributes, ['email', 'password']);
  }
  return json;
}

Thank you for reading the blog, you can check the source code for the example here.

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Maintaining Aspect Ratio of Images while Uploading in Open Event Frontend

In Open Event Frontend, we are using the image-upload at many places such as the cover photo of the event on the create event page, also at the system images (in the admin routes) where the user gets to change the image uploaded by him earlier, and also at the ‘profile’ route where the user can change his photo. But at different places, different dimensions of photos are needed since we are keeping standard in Open Event Frontend.

Therefore the image needs to be in a size with the correct ratio at the time of uploading. We are using the cropper component  for achieving this. The cropper is a modal which pops up after the image upload modal so that a user can crop the image according to the aspect ratio kept specific for that purpose. It looks as follows:

While dealing with an issue in Open Event Frontend, we had to have change in aspect ratio for ‘avatar’ images, unlike the other images. So, we had to modify our cropper modal so as to have different aspect ratios for different images when needed.

We solved the above problem as follows:

In our image-modal, we pass the aspect ratio as a parameter. So in our case, we wanted to set the aspect ratio 1:1 for the ‘avatar’ images only. Following is the code snippet of what we wanted:

{{widgets/forms/image-upload
needsCropper=true
label=(t 'Update Image')
id='user_image'
aspectRatio=(if (eq subTopic.name 'avatar') (array 1 1))
icon='photo'
hint=(t 'Select Image')
maxSizeInKb=10000
helpText=(t 'For Cover Photos : 300x150px (2:1 ratio) image.
For Avatar Photos : 150x150px (1:1 ratio) image.')}}

Thus, we passed the ‘aspectRatio’ as a parameter to the ‘image-upload’ modal. The image-upload further calls the cropper modal and passes ‘aspectRatio’.

{{#if needsCropper}}
{{modals/cropper-modal isOpen=cropperModalIsShown imgData=imgData onImageCrop=(action 'imageCropped') aspectRatio=aspectRatio}}
{{/if}}

Thus, we can use the passed param i.e ‘aspectRatio’ in our cropper to modify the logic for the aspect ratio. Following is what we did so as to obtain the aspect Ratio of 1:1 for ‘avatar’ images only. The default aspect ratio for all other images is 2:1.

onVisible() {
let viewPort = {};
let factor = 150;
const aspectRatio = this.getWithDefault('aspectRatio', [2, 1]);
viewPort.width = aspectRatio[0] * factor;
viewPort.height = aspectRatio[1] * factor;
viewPort.type = 'square';
this.$('.content').css('height', '300px');
this.$('img').croppie({
customClass : 'croppie',
viewport : viewPort,
boundary : {
height: 250
}
});
},

As shown above, we have kept a multiplying factor which is fixed. According to the aspect ratio specified, we calculate and set the width and height in the viewport object.

Thus, following is the thing (Aspect Ratio 1:1 ) we achieved for the ‘avatar’ images:


Resources
Official Ember JS guide: https://guides.emberjs.com/v1.10.0/templates/actions/

Blog on making our own modals: http://ember.guru/2014/master-your-modals-in-ember-js

Source code: https://github.com/sumedh123/open-event-frontend/tree/system-images

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Acceptance Testing of a Feature in Open Event Frontend

In Open Event Frontend, we have integration tests for ember components which are used throughout the project. But even after those tests, user interaction could pose some errors. We perform acceptance tests to alleviate such scenarios.

Acceptance tests interact with application as the user does and ensures proper functionality of a feature or to determine whether or not the software system has met the requirement specifications. They are quite helpful for ensuring that our core features work properly.

Let us write an acceptance test for register feature in Open Event Frontend.

import { test } from 'qunit';
import moduleForAcceptance from 'open-event-frontend/tests/helpers/module-for-acceptance';

moduleForAcceptance('Acceptance | register');

In the first line we import test from ‘ember-qunit’ (default unit testing helper suite for Ember) which contains all the required test functions. For example, here we are using test function to check the rendering of our component. We can use test function multiple times to check multiple components.

Next, we import moduleForAcceptance from ‘open-event-frontend/tests/helpers/module-for-acceptance’ which deals with application setup and teardown.

test('visiting /register', function(assert) {
  visit('/register');

  andThen(function() {
    assert.equal(currentURL(), '/register');
  });
});

Inside our test function, we simulate visiting  /register route and then check for the current route to be /register.

test('visiting /register and registering with existing user', function(assert) {
  visit('/register');
  andThen(function() {
    assert.equal(currentURL(), '/register');
    fillIn('input[name=email]', 'opev_test_user@nada.email');
    fillIn('input[name=password]', 'opev_test_user');
    fillIn('input[name=password_repeat]', 'opev_test_user');
    click('button[type=submit]');
    andThen(function() {
      assert.equal(currentURL(), '/register');
      // const errorMessageDiv = findWithAssert('.ui.negative.message');
      // assert.equal(errorMessageDiv[0].textContent.trim(), 'An unexpected error occurred.');
    });
  });
});

Then we simulate visiting /register route and register a dummy user. For this, we first go to /register route and then check for the current route to be register route. We fill the register form with appropriate data and hit submit.

test('visiting /register after login', function(assert) {
  login(assert);
  andThen(function() {
    visit('/register');
    andThen(function() {
      assert.equal(currentURL(), '/');
    });
  });
});

The third test is to simulate visiting /register route with user logged in and this is very simple. We just visit /register route and then check if we are are at / route or not because a user redirects to / route when he tries to visit /register after login.

And since we checked for all the possible combinations, to run the test we simply use the following command-

ember test --server

But there is a little demerit to acceptance tests. They boot up the whole EmberJS application and start us at the application.index route. We then have to navigate to the page that contains the feature being tested. Writing acceptance tests for each and every feature would be a big waste of time and CPU cycles. For this reason, only core features are tested for acceptance.

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Implementing Tickets API on Open Event Frontend to Display Tickets

This blog article will illustrate how the tickets are displayed on the public event page in Open Event Frontend, using the tickets API. It will also illustrate the use of the add on, ember-data-has-query, and what role it will play in fetching data from various APIs. Our discussion primarily will involve the public/index route. The primary end point of Open Event API with which we are concerned with for fetching tickets for an event is

GET /v1/events/{event_identifier}/tickets

Since there are multiple  routes under public  including public/index, and they share some common event data, it is efficient to make the call for Event on the public route, rather than repeating it for each sub route, so the model for public route is: 

model(params) {
return this.store.findRecord('event', params.event_id, { include: 'social-links' });
}

This modal takes care of fetching all the event data, but as we can see, the tickets are not included in the include parameter. The primary reason for this is the fact that the tickets data is not required on each of the public routes, rather it is required for the index route only. However the tickets have a has-many relationship to events, and it is not possible to make a call for them without calling in the entire event data again. This is where a really useful addon, ember-data-has-many-query comes in.

To quote the official documentation,

Ember Data‘s DS.Store supports querying top-level records using the query function.However, DS.hasMany and DS.belongsTo cannot be queried in the same way.This addon provides a way to query has-many and belongs-to relationships

So we can now proceed with the model for public/index route.

model() {
const eventDetails = this._super(...arguments);
return RSVP.hash({
  event   : eventDetails,
  tickets : eventDetails.query('tickets', {
    filter: [
      {
        and: [
          {
            name : 'sales-starts-at',
            op   : 'le',
            val  : moment().toISOString()
          },
          {
            name : 'sales-ends-at',
            op   : 'ge',
            val  : moment().toISOString()
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }),

We make use of this._super(…arguments) to use the event data fetched in the model of public route, eliminating the need for a separate API call for the same. Next, the ember-has-many-query add on allows us to query the tickets of the event, and we apply the filters restricting the tickets to only those, whose sale is live.
After the tickets are fetched they are passed onto the ticket list component to display them. We also need to take care of the cases, where there might be no tickets in case the event organiser is using an external ticket URL for ticketing, which can be easily handled via the is-ticketing-enabled property of events. And in case they are not enabled we don’t render the ticket-list component rather a button linked to the external ticket URL is rendered.  In case where ticketing is enabled the various properties which need to be computed such as the total price of tickets based on user input are handled by the ticket-list component itself.

{{#if model.event.isTicketingEnabled}}
  {{public/ticket-list tickets=model.tickets}}
{{else}}
<div class="ui grid">
  <div class="ui row">
      <a href="{{ticketUrl}}" class="ui right labeled blue icon button">
        <i class="ticket icon"></i>
        {{t 'Order tickets'}}
      </a>
  </div>
  <div class="ui row muted text">
      {{t 'You will be taken to '}} {{ticketUrl}} {{t ' to complete the purchase of tickets'}}
  </div>
</div>
{{/if}}

This is the most efficient way to fetch tickets, and also ensures that only the relevant data is passed to the concerned ticket-list component, without making any extra API calls, and it is made possible by the ember-data-has-many-query add on, with very minor changes required in the adapter and the event model. All that is required to do is make the adapter and the event model extend the RestAdapterMixin and ModelMixin provided by the add on, respectively.

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Dynamic Segments in Open Event Frontend

In the Open Event Frontend project we have a page where we show all types of events. We have classified events into six classes like live, draft, past etc. Now each event type should have it’s own page describing it. What should we do now? Make six different routes corresponding to each class of event? Isn’t that too cumbersome. Is there any other method to do it?

Dynamic segment is the answer to the above question. Dynamic segment is that segment of the path for a route that will change based on content of  the page. Dynamic segments are frequently used in Open Event Frontend.

One such use is in /admin/events. Here we have button for different categories of events. We do not make separate routes for each of them, instead we use dynamic segments. We’ll have a single route and we will change the data in the route corresponding to the tab chosen.

Lets now add dynamic segments to /admin/events. First of all we’ll add the following code snippet in router.js.

this.route(‘events’, function() {
      this.route(‘list’, { path: ‘/:events_status’ });
      this.route(‘import’);
    });

Here : signifies the presence of dynamic segment and it is followed by an identifier. It’s the identifier by which the route matches the corresponding model to show.

Now as our route would show data depending upon the tab selected, we must change the title of page depending upon the same. For this we add the following code snippet in admin/events/list.js. Here we set the title of the page using titleToken() function and access the dynamic portion of url using params.events_status

export default Route.extend({
  titleToken() {
    switch (this.get(‘params.events_status’)) {
      case ‘live’:
        return this.l10n.t(‘Live’);
      case ‘draft’:
        return this.l10n.t(‘Draft’);
      case ‘past’:
        return this.l10n.t(‘Past’);
      case ‘deleted’:
        return this.l10n.t(‘Deleted’);
    }
  },
  model(params) {
    this.set(‘params’, params);
    return [{
    // Events data
    }];
  }
});

We’ll now link the tabs template/admin/events to the corresponding models using Link-to the helper.Here we have linked ‘Live’, ‘Draft’, ‘Past’, ‘Deleted’ buttons to dynamic segments. Let’s understand how it works.Let’s take example of Live button.Live button is linked to admin/events/list and this list is replaced by ‘live’. So our final route becomes admin/events/live.

<div class=“ui grid stackable”>
  <div class=“row”>
    <div class=“sixteen wide column”>
      {{#tabbed-navigation isNonPointing=true}}
        {{#link-to ‘admin.events.index’ class=’item’}}
          {{t ‘All Events’}}
        {{/link-to}}
        {{#link-to ‘admin.events.list’ ‘live’ class=’item’}}
          {{t ‘All Live’}}
        {{/link-to}}
        {{#link-to ‘admin.events.list’ ‘draft’ class=’item’}}
          {{t ‘All Draft’}}
        {{/link-to}}
        {{#link-to ‘admin.events.list’ ‘past’ class=’item’}}
          {{t ‘All Past’}}
        {{/link-to}}
        {{#link-to ‘admin.events.list’ ‘deleted’ class=’item’}}
          {{t ‘All Deleted’}}
        {{/link-to}}
        {{#link-to ‘admin.events.import’ class=’item’}}
          {{t ‘Import’}}
        {{/link-to}}
      {{/tabbed-navigation}}
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class=“row”>
    {{outlet}}
  </div>
</div>

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Create Discount Code Component in Open-Event-Frontend

We in Open-Event-Frontend have given the event organiser the feature to create discount coupons for his or her event. Here the organiser can either enter the discount amount or discount percentage and can set even set the total number of coupons he wants to make available for his customers. We have also automatically generated an unique link for each discount coupon.

We’ll be creating a separate component create-discount-code for creating discount codes.To create the component we’ll run the following command

ember g component forms/events/view/create-discount-code

This will create

1.Create-discount-code.hbs

Here we have designed our form.We have nested all the fields used, inside semantic’s ui form class.Some of the helpers used in the form are

We have used the ember input helper in following way for all the input fields.The

attribute name,value corresponds to the id and value attached with the helper

{{input type=‘text’ name=‘discount_code’ value=data.code}}

Ember radio buttons are used by the organizer to select between discount

{{ui-radio label=(t ‘Amount (US$)’)
           name=‘discount_type’  
           value=‘amount’
           current=‘amount’
           onChange=(action (mut selectedMode))}}

 

We have given the organizer an additional option to set the validity of the discount code. For this we have used date-picker and time-picker component already present in Open-Event-Frontend in the following manner.

<div class=“fields”>
        <div class=“wide field {{if device.isMobile ‘sixteen’ ‘five’}}”>
          <label>{{t ‘Valid from’}}</label>
          {{widgets/forms/date-picker id=’start_date’ value=data.validFromDate rangePosition=’start’}}
          <div class=“ui hidden divider”></div>
          {{widgets/forms/time-picker id=’start_time’ value=data.validFromTime rangePosition=’start’}}
        </div>
        <div class=“wide field {{if device.isMobile ‘sixteen’ ‘five’}}”>
          <label>{{t ‘Expires on’}}</label>
          {{widgets/forms/date-picker id=‘end_date’ value=data.validTillDate rangePosition=‘end’}}
          <div class=“ui hidden divider”></div>
          {{widgets/forms/time-picker id=‘end_time’ value=data.validTillTime rangePosition=‘end’}}
        </div>
      </div>

The above snippet will the following output

2.Create-discount-code.js

Here we validate the form and provide it with an unique discount code url. We have generated the url using the event id and the discount code.

discountLink: computed(‘data.code’, function() {
  const params = this.get(‘routing.router.router.state.params’);
  return location.origin + this.get(‘routing.router’)
                          .generate(‘public’, params[‘events.view’]                          .event_id,
         { queryParams: { discount_code: this.get(‘data.code’) } });
 }),
actions: {
  submit() {
    this.onValid(() => {
    });
  }
}

3.Create-discount-code-test.js

This is where we check whether our component is compatible with other components of the system or not. Here, for now, we are just making sure if our component renders or not, by checking the presence of ‘Save’.

import { test } from ’ember-qunit’;
import moduleForComponent from ‘open-event-frontend/tests/helpers/component-helper’;
import hbs from ‘htmlbars-inline-precompile’;

moduleForComponent(‘forms/events/view/create-discount-code’, ‘Integration | Component | forms/events/view/create discount code’);

test(‘it renders’, function(assert) {
  this.render(hbs`{{forms/events/view/create-discount-code routing=routing}}`);
  assert.ok(this.$().html().trim().includes(‘Save’));
});

Now, our component is ready, and the only part remaining is to place it in our application. We place it in app/templates/events/view/tickets/discount-codes/create.hbs in the given form.

{{forms/events/view/create-discount-code data=model}}

Here we have passed model from create-discount-code.js to data used in Create-discount-code.hbs

Now our create discount code page is up and running

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Adding Messaging Route in Ember.js for Admin UI of Open Event Frontend

In this blog post I am explaining how we implement a messages page for admins to keep track of all types of system messages sent to users in the Open Event Frontend. The page shows the types of messages sent out to various users at one place and as well as additional details. It offers configuration options to control which messages get sent out  as emails or notifications or both. And, the page shows when and what message should be sent via notification or mail.
To create the messages page we’ll run the following command

ember generate route admin/messages

This will create

This command will also add  this.route(‘messages’);  to router.js. As admin is the parent route for messages, messages will be nested inside admin in router.js

this.route(‘admin’, function(){
   this.route(‘messages’);
});

Let’s now understand the content of each of above files.

  1. Messages.js

In admin/messages.js we have used titletoken helper to set the title of the tab. Here we have created the message model and added attribute like recipient, trigger, emailMessage, notificationMessage, options and sentAt. We have returned this model from the js file to template.

import Ember from ’ember’;
const { Route } = Ember;
export default Route.extend({
  titleToken() {
    return this.l10n.t(‘Messages’);
  },
  model() {
    return [{
      recipient: [
        {
          name: ‘Organizer’
        },
        {
          name: ‘Speaker’
        }
      ],
      trigger      : ‘Title1’,
      emailMessage : {
        subject : ‘Email subject1’,
        message : ‘Hi, the schedule for session1 has been changed’
      },
      notificationMessage: {
        subject : ‘Notification subject1’,
        message : ‘Hi, the schedule for session1 has been changed’
      },
      option: {
        mail         : true,
        notification : false,
        userControl  : true
      },
      sentAt: new Date()
    }];
  }
});

 

  1. Messages.hbs

In template we have created a table and added classes like stackable and compact. Stackable class makes the table responsive and stacks all the rows for devices with smaller screen size. Compact class helps to show more number of rows at a time.

Then in the template we iterate through the model using a loop. Here we have used other semantic-ui elements like ui ordered list , ui header, ui-checkbox inside the table. For options column we have three attributes denoting how the admin wants to send the message to the user. Here we have grouped three fields using the class grouped fields .In each field we have used semantic’s  ui-checkbox .In check-box we are mutating values on click by using mut helper.

<div class=“grouped fields”>
  <div class=“field”>
    {{ui-checkbox checked=message.option.mail
                  label=(t ‘Mail’)      
                  onChange=(action (mut message.option.mail))}}
  </div>
  <div class=“field”>
    {{ui-checkbox checked=message.option.notification
                 label=(t ‘Notification’)  
                onChange=(action (mut message.option.notification))}}
  </div>

 <div class=“field”>
    {{ui-checkbox checked=message.option.userControl
                label=(t ‘User Control’)  
                onChange=(action (mut message.option.userControl))}}
  </div>
</div>

We are getting date object from js and to convert it into human readable format we have used moment like {{moment-format message.sentAt ‘dddd, DD MMMM YYYY’}}

  1. Messages-test.js
import { test } from ’ember-qunit’;
import moduleFor from ‘open-event-frontend/tests/helpers/unit-helper’;

moduleFor(‘route:admin/messages’, ‘Unit | Route | admin/messages’, []);

test(‘it exists’, function(assert) {
  let route = this.subject();
  assert.ok(route);
});

Using this we can test the existence of our route. These tests are run using the command ember t.

Our message page is ready now. The admin can have a check at all the messages sent to users.

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