This page allows registered aPix users to manage their hollas and hollas preferences. The user must be logged in and be the personal home page owner (PHP) to see and interact with this page.
Hollas! are sent exclusively from the user's phone. A Holla! cannot be initiated from the web. Here are the differences in posts:
- Shout - is a text only post initiated from the web or phone and cannot be rated or commented on - user has no editing control - the shouts are first in first out
- Holla - is a text and image entry that can only be initiated from the phone and can be submitted to and rated in a contest and commented on - user has no editing control besides deleting it via the web only
- Blog - is a text and image entry that may be initiated from the phone or web, it cannot be submitted to a contest to be rated but may be commented on - user has editing control over text and image and may delete the blog via the web only
None of the items represented in the form are required. Once submitted all elements are stored in the user DB.
Menu Item
The "Hollas!" label is shown as ON in the left side navigation box.
The Form (Top to Bottom)
All form elements shuld be validated and stored in in the DB in the user's profile.
- Who may view hollas?
- Three radio options
- Only one selection may be made
- Anyone - any registered and logged in user may view this user's Hollas
- Friends only - only logged in friends in the user's network may view this user's Hollas
- Just Me - No member is allowed to view this user's Hollas except for that user
- Anyone is selected by default
- No possible errors on submit
- Who may comment on hollas?
- Three radio options
- Only one selection may be made
- Anyone - any registered and logged in user may comment on this user's Hollas
- Friends only - only logged in friends in the user's network may comment on this user's Hollas
- Nobody - No member including the owner is allowed to comment on this user's Hollas
- Anyone is selected by default
- No possible errors on submit
- Save Submit Button
Once this button is selected all of the form elements are validated. If the form validates then the user is shown a message at the top of the page that their settings have been successfully updated. Once the form validates all of the form elements get stored in the DB.
Hollas Supporting Controls
There is a set of controls that will be available to the user to help them manage their hollas.
- Sorting - hollas may be sorted using the column links at the top of the hollas list.
Sorting cannot be stacked so there is no boolean functions like seeing the oldest hollas with 5 star ratings first, sorting works on the whole pool of hollas not just the hollas displayed on the current page. The sort is defaulted to Date Posted with the newest items first descending to oldest date.
- Topic - sorts alphabetically - click once sorts topics A-Z, click again without selecting another sort link then the sort goes from Z-A
- Rating - click once topics are arranged from 5 to 0 stars, click again without selecting another sort link then the sort goes from 0-5 stars
- Date Posted - If this is the first sort link to be selected after page load then the order switches from newest to oldest to oldest to newest. Select the link again and the order goes back to newest to oldest.
- Sort Icon - Since this column is the default column for sorting it also has a sorting indicator icon at the top of the column. The order is newest to oldest but if the column is selected again the sort would be oldest to newest and the icon would be flipped to indicate the change. If a different cloumn is selected then that column would receive the icon while being removed from its current column
- Status
- a holla is automatically entered in the holla contest as such it must be cleared by FM. Therefore Hollas may either be accepted or rejected by FM staff for the contest.
- Accepted
- the holla will appear in the user's hollas area and in the hollas contest area
- 1st click - puts all of the accepted hollas at the top of the list with post date as a secondary sort
- Rejected - the holla will appear in the user's hollas area but not in the hollas contest area
- 2nd click - puts all of the rejected hollas at the top of the list with post date as a secondary sort
- Comments - click once and all topics with new comments are shown at the top first, cklick again and the most commented topics are listed first
Hollas Display
General
- If there are no Hollas a message should display where the line items normally would be that says something like, "You have no hollas at this time."
- If the user is an existing member of apix andis using the site for the first time then their hollas will automatically be shown here.
- Hollas are displayed with the newest first - so by post date
- There are 20 hollas displayed before pagination begins
- There should be an indicator of what chunck of 20 is being viewed and of how many ie 1-20 of 130
- There should also be a way to traverse ahead or back with next and previous buttons to go back and forwared a page and also allow user's to skip to any page with a page link indicator button ie < Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next >
- Each line item has these components
- Delete button - removes the holla from the DB
- Topic - First words of the holla truncated at 25 characters - hyperlinked to actual holla entry in the user's hollas section
- Rating - displays how many stars the holla has received as a result of being in the hollas contest
- Posted - displays the date of when the holla was posted
- Contest Status - displays either accepted or rejected based on how FM staff has approved the holla
- Comments - displays the number of comments associated with the Holla. If there are new Comments the comment number will have a new indicator next to it
- When a holla row is rolled over by the user the whole row highlights with a color (HEX and function TBD but for now use the demoed color and fade)
- The whole row should be selectable so if the mouse is highlighting a row even though it is not over a text link the onclick should take the user to the actual holla.
- If the holla has been flagged by users and the moderator decides to remove the post, the offending user will see the line item has a "reddish" background and in the status column a flag icon has been added with a status note of "removed"
- this use case should be rare since the holla already goes through the submission process on the phone and that is the only way to submit a holla
- Their is no way of getting the post back or traverse to it, so all liks will be removed in the hollas list shown above - once it has been removed it has been removed forever
- No reason will be given to the user for removal .
- Any user who tries to traverse to the offending page will see a notice that, "The requested page has been removed by FunMobility Staff." Actual copy TBD.
- If the holla is removed then the user will receive a message from FM Staff in their System Messages inbox letting them know what piece of content has been removed and why. (Actual messaging TBD)