kellpossible / avalanche-report

A simple self-hosted web server for creating and managing an avalanche forecast for a region, along with accepting public observations.
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Forecast entry form #20

Open kellpossible opened 1 year ago

kellpossible commented 1 year ago

The current google drive spreadsheet template has some problems. It's really easy to make mistakes and mess up the functionality by accidentally modifying a formula, or even copy pasting cells (due to "intelligent behaviour" of google sheets). It has served its purpose as a prototype, but it should be replaced with functionality implemented directly on the avalanche-report server, which should be more robust, less prone to user error.

kellpossible commented 1 year ago

As mentioned in #31, we could perhaps use https://github.com/json-editor/json-editor to rapidly prototype this. But it probably won't integrate well with our translations which is a downside.

kellpossible commented 1 year ago

This feature will require some kind of description editor.

Some options for rich text:

Perhaps it's better to keep rich text out of most of the forecast fields though, and just use rich text for things like the news/blog section, and the home page, and about page descriptions?

kellpossible commented 1 year ago

When we migrate the data to the database, we should first clear the cache because there may be some demo forecasts in there.