Category Archives: New Feature
New Features
It’s been a while since we’ve added features to Testament so this past weekend, Andrew and I had a hack day to add functionality suggested by books to prisoners projects using Testament. We’re pleased to announce these new features: Adding, … Continue reading
Changes to Interface
Changed Step 2:Prison & Address Interface I had noticed that many volunteers were confused by the interface of Step 2 of the Log a Package workflow. The old interface showed both the pulldown menu to select a prison that is … Continue reading
Traceback e-mails
Andrew just modified the Testament service to eliminate unsightly errors and immediately e-mail the service developers when an unexpected error occurs. At some point, most Testament users will probably have encountered an uncaught exception (in non-programmer-speak, that’s an error that … Continue reading
Satisfaction for questions and support
After using this web service for other online tools, I decided that using Satisfaction for reporting bugs or questions about Testament was the way to go. I liked that it allows all users to see other users’ questions and allows … Continue reading
Improved Requests Interface
In the requests view, you can now specify whether you want to see requests for just your user or for all users. The requests view, by default is filtered to open requests for all states for your user. Finally, you … Continue reading
Fixed some bugs, added new fields to prison records
I fixed a bug that caused an error to occur when a package was being logged to a new inmate at a new prison. I also added Phone and Website fields to prison records. At the Midwest Pages to Prisoners … Continue reading
Requests as feed
Requests are now available as RSS feeds. This would be a useful feature if you wanted to provide a dynamic list of pending requests on your project’s website. The feeds are accessible at the following paths: /feeds/requests/[username]/normal : General requests … Continue reading