Viewer release

[myieye]

Final TODOs before we can release the viewer:

• [x] https://github.com/sillsdev/languageforge-lexbox/issues/687
• [x] #862
• [x] 🗣️Decide how it will be branded (FLEx-Lite, FieldWorks Lite, FieldWorks Viewer, Language Forge Viewer, ...)
• [ ] 🗣️Add a Feedback button (next to "Configure") that goes to a Google Form? #637
• [ ] Prepare an introduction statement about it (@myieye will make a draft for discussion):
  • What data is being shown
  • Why this new app exists (aiming to replace older tools that are hard to maintain: LF & WeSay)
  • Where we want to take it (assure people that we are ultimately building something: offline-first and cross-platform/mobile-friendly)
  • Why we're releasing it now (to get feedback/ideas: what is missing, terrible, good, refreshing....)
  • What it is and is not intended to be/become (not a FLEx replacement. Not a DAB replacement. Not a Webonary replacement)
  • etc.
• [x] 🗣️Make it not look terrible on mobile?
• [ ] 🗣️Add a stats/numbers dialog?
• [ ] 🗣️Decide who we send an announcement to. All project members (or only managers) of Lexbox projects that are currently on LF?

[hahn-kev]

For feedback I 100% want this as a feature and I like the idea of a google form, however there's no way to pass metadata to a google form (IE what the URL was where they clicked feedback), so I don't think that will work for us unless we want zero context on their feedback. That said I feel like a prefilled email is probably the simplest way to go, we can prefill the body of the email with a mailto link, then the user can just provide their feedback, we also get their email address even if they aren't a registered user. Just a thought, I'm sure there's services out there that will do it for us but I don't really want yet another tool, and anything else we already have would require an account. The only other option would be that we build our own feedback feature (since they already have an account with us) but I don't want to spend the time on that.

[megahirt]

I like the idea of a google form, however there's no way to pass metadata to a google form (IE what the URL was where they clicked feedback)

Actually, ChatGPT says you can pre-populate a google form with URL encoded GET values and assigning them to form elements using their IDs (which you get by inspecting the form). https://chat.team-gpt.com/lt-lexical-tools/6656ebe4ca989092547d2c1e

[hahn-kev]

Based on a stack overflow post it's not possible, so I suspect the AI might be making that up, can you test it to verify if it's correct?

[myieye]

You can edit the query param values in this URL and it works: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8p-hiEZZHse3yEvqVQnAYVoFHdBRVPTuLXISC4Q8F8u_ULw/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.1828162391=Test+tim+edited&entry.1256080784=Option+3

[hahn-kev]

oh awesome. I just realized I made an issue #637 for this already, so I'll copy your response into it