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Feature Request/Idea: Inform users that their message (from 'Contact' or 'Contact Owner') has actually been sent #8719

Open BPeuch opened 2 years ago

BPeuch commented 2 years ago

Overview of the Feature Request Users should receive a confirmation / a message to confirm, in one way or another (or several), that their message was actually sent either to a dataset owner or to a Dataverse admin contact after they have completed the form with the 'Contact' or 'Contact Owner' buttons:

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What kind of user is the feature intended for? All users using the GUI.

What inspired the request? When we're tired or not 100% focussed, it can be easy to doubt whether we have just clicked the 'Send' or the 'Cancel' button. Further, connection problems can short-circuit completing and validating a form on a website (we click 'Send', the page reloads, sometimes leading to a 404). If there is no formal confirmation, there is literally no way for the user to be 100% sure their communication has been handled up to the very last stage of the procedure.

What existing behavior do you want changed? Not so much changed but inspired from existing features:

  1. The webpage could reload and a colored banner (the Alerts), just like the ones already in use, could notify users that their message was properly sent.
  2. And/or there could also be an email notification with a copy of the message that was just sent.

Any brand new behavior do you want to add to Dataverse? That doesn't sound absolutely necessary to me, though there is talk in some issues of new pop-up notifications.

Any related open or closed issues to this feature request?

pdurbin commented 1 year ago

there could also be an email notification with a copy of the message that was just sent

I like this idea. And the UI should say "sent" as well, yes.

pdurbin commented 5 months ago

@BPeuch in this pull request we added a notice at the top of the page that says "message sent":

Does that help?