Program-Booking Pages

This is a quick overview of the main pages (or page segments) needed to support the most urgent features of the Program Booking System. They are sorted by order of development. In each case the page will go through at least the following development stages (although the order may vary):

• Textual Page Description entered here.
• Page prototype created in static html with $codes where dynamic data should appear (a basic webmacro template)
• Initial basic page functionality added to server
• Functionality completed
• Appearance improved

Contents

• Login
• New User
• Forgot My Password
• Home Page
• Search Page
• Program Entry

Pages

Login

By default there will be no access to program-booking except to users who have logged in. Therefore the first requirement is for a simple login screen.

There needs to be fields for username and password. To keep things simple and to avoid duplication we will enforce using a valid email address as a user name. This has a number of advantages.

• It is easier to remember for end users.
• It avoids potential duplicates
• We can check that the email address is in a list of potential users (taken from an email address book). Thus automatically including a security check that will prevent non approved people being created.

The password will be system generated and assigned to ensure that the passwords are at least somewhat secure. The passwords will be case sensitive, may contain digits and will be 6 characters long. Users will not be allowed to change their password (at least initially).

There will be links for Help, Login, Forgot my password and New User.

New User

We need to allow new users to register themselves in the system. The new user form will include the following fields:

• email address (only addresses in the address book will be allowed)
• Full Name
• Details used to check identity when password has been forgotten:
  • Personal Question
  • Answer to personal question
  • Date of Birth
• Office Phone number
• Office Fax number

There will be the following links:

• Login: Back to Login Page
• Save: Save new user
• Clear: clear the form

When the user clicks save the form will be verified. The email address will be checked and all other fields validated, the the user will be redirected to the forgot my password page.

Forgot My Password

This page (with different titles) is used when a user clicks the "Forgot my Password" link on the login page and also when the user is first created (ie after clicking the save link on "New User").

The page is actually in two parts.

First user has to enter their email address and press a continue link.

Then the system will show their personal question and they have to enter the answer and their date of birth. If both are correct their password is emailed to them.

If the user is coming from the Login page and they have already entered their username on that page then they will skip the first part of this page and go straight to the questions.

Home Page

The system will have a simple home page with the following sections

• News
• My Bookmarks
• Our Bookings
• Updated Projects
• My Queries

There will also be the following links:

• Search
• Power Search
• Logout

Search Page

This search provides a number of simple ways to search:

• By Region (drill down into country)
• By Region (Priority Listing)
• By Country
• By Category
• By Text Search

There are a number of filters that can be used to control which programs are visible:

• Unfunded/Funded/Both
• Unbooked/Booking Requested/Partially Booked/Fully Booked/All booked/All
• Minimum Value
• Maximum Value

Program Entry

Each program entry will be displayed in a table row. This row will contain the following information (it may appear on more than 1 line):

• Program Code
• Link to Country
• Title
• Regional Priority (only for unfunded!?)
• Funding Status
• Booking Status
• Value
• Description