bcgov / MFIN-Data-Catalogue

The Finance Data Catalogue enables users to discover data holdings at the BC Ministry of Finance and offers information and functionality that benefits consumers of data for business purposes. The product is built using Drupal and adheres to the Government of BC's Core Administrative and Descriptive etadata Standard.
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In notification emails about published revisions, link to the revisions page #560

Open david-fong-bc opened 1 month ago

david-fong-bc commented 1 month ago

https://github.com/bcgov/MFIN-Data-Catalogue/labels/Idea


User story

As a user of the bookmarks feature looking to be notified about changes to an asset of interest, I would like a convenient way to reach information about what has changed since the previous published revision from the notification email about a new published revision.

Background

The current email template at the time of this writing looks like this:

Dear \<name>,

In the Finance Data Catalogue, you previously bookmarked the metadata record “foo“, which is a Form.

It has just been updated. Click to view the updated record:

In the above, there are actually two links to the same page- one in the first sentence on the name of the MR, and one in the bulleted list. I feel like there is opportunity here to be more helpful to the user.

Describe the idea

One option is, in the bullet point link, link to the overall revisions page for the record, and change "Click to view the updated record" to instead say "Click to see the latest revisions"

A step up from that would be to link to an inline comparison view comparing the newly published revision with the published revision before it (saving the user the step of selecting those revisions and clicking the compare button).

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