Requirements File Name: find_friends_reqs.html
Find/Invite Friends Page Requirements
Change Log |
Version |
Date |
Author |
Changes |
Notes |
1.0 |
11/10/2006 |
Kevin Puleo |
Added requirements |
|
Introduction
This is the third step of a three step registration process. Step Three, demonstrated here, is not required to start a profile page. NOTE: This page is displayed only if the user has selected next from step two or after they have verified their phone.
Requirements
Inviting friends can happen in three ways to of which are covered here. The third is covered in the
registering with your FM Universal Login ID and Password.
- 3rd Party Webmail Scraping
- Yahoo! Mail address book may be scraped - selecting the button takes the user to the next step of entering their webmail login information
- Hotmail address book may be scraped - selecting the button takes the user to the next step of entering their webmail login information
- Gmail address book may be scraped - selecting the button takes the user to the next step of entering their webmail login information
- Invite Friends Form
- Email Addresses
- Unrequired text field however required if submit button is selected
- Unlimited characters
- All characters accepted
- Empty by default
- User enters friends emails seperated by commas
- Validate
- check for entry
- Errors
- None
- Message
- Unrequired text area however required if submit button is selected
- 225 character max on input with feedback mechanism below text area - as the user types the character amount left for the user should notch down showing the characters the user has left to use. If the user goes beyond the charcter limit those characters will not appear in the text area field
- All characters accepted
- The text area is defaulted with a canned message invite crafted by FM so the user doesn't have to think about what to say. The exact copy of this message is TBD but, the character use should be debited the ammount of characters used in the canned message
- Validate
- Check for entry
- Possible errors
- Empty field
- Message - You must send a greeting to your friends
- Submit
- On submit, the emails in the Email Addresses field get checked against registered profiles already in the mLab DB
- Email Invites will be sent to Mlab members via their message center inbox on mlab and their registered email account
- The message defined by the user is emailed along with a URL for the senders profile page
- On submit, emails that do not match up with email addresses on Mlab, those friends will be sent to their email account a the user defined message along with a URL link to the user's profile page on mlab
- The next page will show the results of the lookup and also share any errors with the user