We need help dialog or at least about dialog to point the user what's the plugin about and how to use it. No need to have a help in the wizard, since it should be self-explanatory.

Problem

Oliver's question:

When I download a project, I can change data in the tables and the geometry. But I can never upload the changes to the platform. The menu item “Update project” is always greyed out; I’ve tried that with different user permissions.

Problem

Oliver's question:

The project update wizard is a bit confusing. The wizard starts, then I can update the project details; then the data downloads, I can edit the data and then upload the edited data. But the wizard window needs to open the whole time. I would expect that you download a project edit data in QGIS and then when you're done you upload your changes.

It seems that it is different with mockup
see : #23

See wireframe below for the guidelines:

We need to apply git flow to this repository also. To do:

• Create develop branch as default
• Protect master branch from direct push / merge

I don't have permission to do those task, perhaps you can help @cchristelis

Problem

Oliver's question :

When downloading a project, would it be possible to implement a search, so it's easier to find the right project? (It's probably out of scope, wanted to bring it up anyway in case it's an easy fix.)

Solution

Because api doesn't provide filter (except permission filter), but we can get it based on organization or from it's user

First solution:

• make input filters for organization and username and add as parameter when check it
• maybe also add filter using project name using autocomplete to just show matched project

secondly:
get all available projects, then there is inputs that will filter it (based organization, username or project name or maybe other fields

• In project downloader menu, user can choose any public project to download.
• When user download authorized project, the update menu will be visible.
• Save basic information ( url, desc, etc ).

When I download a project for editing, party attributes don't show up in the parties table. There is a field attributes but it's empty. I used my Leipzig Project for testing.

I would expect that all attributes for a party are present; with each attribute in its own separate field.

This kind of import of PyQT using from qgis.PyQt. seems to be broken on some machines.

I think we will have to rollback to from PyQt4.

A string replacement from from qgis.PyQt. to from PyQt4. will do the trick

We need to document how we setup the development environment for this project. See some references in:

• https://github.com/inasafe/inasafe/wiki/Development-on-OSX
• https://github.com/inasafe/inasafe/wiki/Development-on-Linux

cc @meomancer @dimasciput

Oliver's question:

Related to this is the project download option. You can download a project but only look at it, but there's no way to update anything. Also, is there a way to download and join relationship and party attributes?

Problem

Users need to be logged in to the Cadasta to get access to their data.

Proposed solution

Build a class, that uses the Network mixin to initiate a session to cadasta.

Problem

When we remove a contact from the middle or beginning of the contact table, an error occurs.

Proposed solution

Fix bug and write tests to catch this error when removing an entry from the top, bottom and middle of the list.

We need to setup travis as our CI

• Remove project downloader in update wizard
• List downloaded project with update permission
• Upload basic and spatial information in one page

See the wireframe below for the guidance:

Oliver's question

When I download a project for an update, the parties get joined to the location. I don't see the relationship in the table.

Problem

The cadasta projects have a mix of data. We need to handle point, polygon and multipolygon. In shp export cadasta uses 3 shp files to handle this. We need to handle this in QGIS as well.

Travis must check if PEP8 is ok.

You can copy/paste this file :
https://github.com/inasafe/inasafe/blob/develop/safe/test/test_pep8.py

Here are the list of needed utitlities method to make the plugin works:

• Login / authentication routine
• Fetch available organisations (dimas)
• Fetch available projects (irwan)
• Fetch project
• Push dataset
• Pull dataset

Make sure all the methods have unit test.

We need to create some icon or logo for:

• plugin logo
• setting icon
• project creation icon
• project update icon
• project download icon

Entering my password in the username and my username in the password does NOT test successfully either so I think there is more wrong than just needing to switch the controls around....

I did verify my credentials work on the web site.

Can you also confirm which format the URL is expected to be (an example in the tooltip would be great....

In order to move quicker to QGIS3 in a few weeks, please use from qgis.PyQt.QtCore/QtGui instead of using from PyQt4.QtCore/QtGui.

We should have self repository to upload the plugin so that user / tester can test it regularly / easily.

References:

• We can use similar to Nightly InaSAFE: https://github.com/inasafe/nightly.inasafe.org

We need to setup translation framework. I suggest to use Transifex for the translation tools. You can use this https://github.com/inasafe/inasafe/wiki/Internationalisation as reference.

Problem

It might be a bad idea to put an alpha version of the plugin on a public repo.

Proposed solution

Make a private repository like: http://nightly.inasafe.org

instead of using our own internal fake iface, we should use the one provided by QGIS.

from qgis.testing.mocked import get_iface

You may need to run pip install mock.

Bad:

Good:

To fix:

Open designer
Select the background of the dialog
Apply a grid layout as the top level layout
Resize the dialog to a reasonable default size
Save it
Live long and prosper

Problem

We should host our plugins at plugins.kartoza.com.

License should be GPL V2 or greater I think. License should also be show in the about dialog as well as mention that the work is copyright 2016 to Cadasta.

Note:
Reference : https://github.com/inasafe/inasafe/wiki/Preparing-a-release

We can adapt the script to release:

• https://github.com/inasafe/inasafe/blob/develop/scripts/release.sh

Please see the attached document which provides their logo and schemes. We should include their logo onto each dialog. Take a look at how we did this in InaSAFE for an example of the user experience we might provide:

Cadasta guidelines are here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_TBxlUZZaVXUjB6cTUxanBzUkU

See the wireframe below for guidance:

Problem

Oliver's question:

When I have a data set with multiple geometry types only one type shows up in QGIS. I wan’t able to work out the logic behind it. I had a project with polygons and a point, only the polygon shows up. Then I had a project with polygons, a point and a line; only lines were showing up. (Here’s the project for the last case: https://platform-staging.cadasta.org/organizations/olivers/projects/leipzig; I can give you access if you need.)

Problem

Oliver's question:

Could you provide information about system requirements in the README? Which QGIS version is required? Any dependencies to install? I installed the plugin on QGIS 2.8 and got errors, but everything worked fine with 2.14.

it seems it is related with : #84

Solution

check it in 2.8 and try to fix it

For easier development, I suggest we use similar approach to manage the .ui file like in InaSAFE project. In InaSAFE project, we do like this:

• Adapt get_ui_class method from here https://github.com/inasafe/inasafe/blob/develop/safe/utilities/resources.py#L82
• Use that method to load the python UI class on runtime like in here: https://github.com/inasafe/inasafe/blob/develop/safe/gui/widgets/dock.py#L137

By doing this, we can avoid the needs to compile the ui file everytime we change the ui file and less file to be submited to the repository.

cc @dimasciput @meomancer

As a user, when I click the "contact" option on the main menu of the plugin, nothing shows up.

The project that I am using has contact information and so I would expect the name and email of the contact to show up.

Workaround: Clicking "update project" brings in the contact info.

Create user interface for options. See the wireframe below:

We need to have Transifex project to do the translation easier. Low priority though.

Problem

Oliver's question:

The attributes are shown as JSON in the attribute table. Will that be changed, so each field in the JSON is a separate field in the attribute table?

Solution

Yes, we can parse it. Although for geojson, the correct way is bring all of attributes json to just in properties. So it is separate properties.

After finishing upload, perhaps we can remove the notes under the progress bar since it gives different information with the one above the progress bar.
Perhaps we can also make the text or progress bar bigger to make it more readable and less wasting space.

Is it possible to not choose any field for the non-required one? If so, there should be an option to choose no column and set by default.

Trying to upload a project with the user and password in unit test. I got this error.
Perhaps, we can make the error message prettier.

Problem

We need to access the qgis network interface to make our call through potential firewalls etc.

Proposed solution

Create an abstraction layer of a mixin class that has simple wrappers around the QgsNetworkAccess class.

Problem

Oliver's question:

After downloading a project the party attributes (the ones which are defined in a questionnaire are not available in the table.

Problem

Oliver's question:

There are two fields in the spatial unit attribute table, which are not needed (I believe): relationship_layer_id, party_layer_id)

Please see https://github.com/inasafe/inasafe/wiki/human-interface-guidelines

save -> Save

All labels should have an initial capital and then lower case thereafter...

Problem

Oliver's question:

When creating a new project from existing data, I can’t select party type (among others) if they are in a separate table. I have to talk to our programs team if that’s a valid use case at all, there’s a chance that people just have shape files with all information in it. So, there’s nothing to do for you at this point.