Email notification that it's time to clean your drain per storm event trigger about adopt-a-drain HOT 13 CLOSED

related: #14

We need to determine how the app is sending out emails to begin with, then figure out an easy interface to send out notifications.

Do you want to be able to send out notifications at will, or on regular intervals? All in one blast, or each drain to be notified separately (if time scheduled, on the same timetable or varying depending on drain)?

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@therebelrobot,

There is https://github.com/sfbrigade/adopt-a-drain/blob/production/app/mailers/thing_mailer.rb, which is capable sending a reminder now. There doesn't appear to be an interface for this yet.

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@therebelrobot,
Notifications would be good to be sent all at once based on a single trigger (i.e. a storm event from this data or, more specifically, this data I think).

Here is the info on automated retrieval.

If I read your questions correctly, I don't think we need to send notifications "at will" to specific drains. That feels a little too 1984/proactive. I think we need to rely on automated activation of the adopters. Perhaps there's a feature in the future to confirm that they cleared their drain. Unnecessary at the moment until we see how people use it.

Did that answer some of the questions?

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Can we implement this initially as a simple human trigger?

I think we need an interface. In the absence of a robust interface can we use a url that triggers if you're logged in with a privileged account or something really simple.

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happy to chat through Use Cases, before designing the Feature

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Jason Lally [email protected]
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Can we implement this initially as a simple human trigger?

I think we need an interface. In the absence of a robust interface can we
use a url that triggers if you're logged in with a privileged account or
something really simple.

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Discussed with @jasonlally and @hackajesse offline after the last hack night. The consensus was that we'd start with just allowing admins to trigger emails. Specific use cases from @hackajesse @jasonlally would be needed to move forward on this though (we could even split each into its own story).

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@jasonlally @hackajesse I think this feature will require a bit of upfront design and use cases to make sure what is built satisfies the requirements. Would either of you be up for writing user stories here?

I think it is, but it'd be good to clarify if this is still required for the MVP.

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Not required for MVP (removing the label), but I created this IFTTT recipe: https://ifttt.com/recipes/359668-send-me-a-reminder-to-check-on-my-adopted-drain-if-the-forecast-calls-for-rain

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Nice! That seems like a cool intermediate step.

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@jasonlally where would this reminder link appear?

note that we are currently able to manually export user info and email users when heavy rains are forecast -- that works for me.

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I think the adhoc approach is definitely the best for now.

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I'm fine closing this out if ppl agree.

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I'm 👍 on the ad hoc approach for the foreseeable future.

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