Fec-cms: Design Election Cycle Summary pages

Created on 4 Jun 2020 · 14Comments · Source: fecgov/fec-cms

Summary

What we are after:
_The election cycle summaries produced by the Press Office are still on transition and because we want to get off transition, they would like to put them into Wagtail, starting with the home page._

Page to bring over: https://transition.fec.gov/press/campaign_finance_statistics.shtml (main page) and https://transition.fec.gov/press/summaries/2020/ElectionCycle/2020DataTitle.shtml (example for a cycle) but that page links to many other transition pages. We may want to have @JonellaCulmer take a look at the best way to bring these summaries over and then plan for that work in PI13 because the next deadline for these pages is August.

Completion criteria

[x] Mockup the migrated pages
[ ] Share preliminary mockups with Press office and make mockup adjustments
[x] Tickets for future implementation work are created

Tech steps or considerations (optional)

We want to keep it simple and make sure that the Press Office will be able to use the new pages going forward.

Future work

_Other future work that may be needed following this issue's completion._

Pairing opportunity Content UDesign

Source

dorothyyeager

Most helpful comment

@AmyKort @dorothyyeager We call these chunks of data different things. I think we need to come to a decision on what to call these moving forward. And hopefully reduce this list down to one.

Historical statistics
Campaign finance statistics
Data summary tables
Data summaries
Data summaries of financial activity
Statistical tables

There's also: Congressional candidates and Campaign summary tables.

When we move these pages over I think we need to try to reduce this list down to one or two names.

JonellaCulmer on 16 Jul 2020

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Breakdown of pages we need to account for in this work:

Campaign finance statistics:
https://transition.fec.gov/press/campaign_finance_statistics.shtml

Election cycle page: (Do we still need these? Is it important that we link to press releases still? Perhaps we can find a new home for them? Maybe on the page listed below?)
https://transition.fec.gov/press/summaries/2020/ElectionCycle/2020DataTitle.shtml

X-Month Candidate or committee page:
https://transition.fec.gov/press/summaries/2020/ElectionCycle/15m_PresCand.shtml
*Expecting 6 segments of data: 6-month, 12-month, 15-month, 18-month, 21-month, and 24-month

@AmyKort @dorothyyeager Please advise if there's anything I'm missing.

JonellaCulmer on 14 Jul 2020

I agree with your breakdown @JonellaCulmer - we do need to link these to press releases though (or have a conversation with press about eliminating those). The election cycle page is sort of the table of contents for the election cycle, so it would be the point of entry for someone wanting access to all of the statistics from a cycle.

dorothyyeager on 14 Jul 2020

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Per a discussion on these pages: (cc: @AmyKort @dorothyyeager @patphongs)

Mock-up how these pages can coexist in a searchable fashion, or another dynamic way. What's the IA for these pages?
Which wagtail templates do we want to use, for which pages? For easy editing and future maintenance.
Find a new home to link press releases

JonellaCulmer on 14 Jul 2020

@AmyKort @dorothyyeager We call these chunks of data different things. I think we need to come to a decision on what to call these moving forward. And hopefully reduce this list down to one.

Historical statistics
Campaign finance statistics
Data summary tables
Data summaries
Data summaries of financial activity
Statistical tables

There's also: Congressional candidates and Campaign summary tables.

When we move these pages over I think we need to try to reduce this list down to one or two names.

JonellaCulmer on 16 Jul 2020

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Preliminary mockups are here. I plan to share these with the Press Office when we meet with them later this week.

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JonellaCulmer on 22 Jul 2020

Thank you @JonellaCulmer !

AmyKort on 22 Jul 2020

Thanks @JonellaCulmer, I have one note about these mock ups. I'm wondering what the importance of the "Published date" column is in the filtered table view. We did not give these dates in the HTML view on transition, so I'm wondering if the start and end dates would be more useful for these reports.

patphongs on 23 Jul 2020

@patphongs Great point. I included them on the preliminary mockup but I'm really hoping to get from the Press Office an idea of what is most important at this stage and hopefully get a list from them of people (or groups of people) whom they think would be appropriate to user test.

JonellaCulmer on 23 Jul 2020

A meeting with the Press Office has been scheduled for Friday. Moving this to blocked while we wait for that discussion and resulting takeaways.

JonellaCulmer on 23 Jul 2020

Other resource to track: https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/presidential-campaign-finance-summaries/

Need to consider how we can include this information into the presidential page.

JonellaCulmer on 24 Jul 2020

@JonellaCulmer I've set up a prototype for the congressional data summary table on feature. I attempted to put all the data in one page, but it was too much HTML to insert into one page as I got an error. So we'll split them up by Summary table type.

patphongs on 28 Jul 2020

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I've sent the below updated mockups to the Press Office for their content additions and any other last feedback. This is blocked while we wait for that information.

Historical stats_1
Historical stats_2
Historical stats_3

JonellaCulmer on 31 Jul 2020

After incorporating feedback from the Press office. Below are the mock-ups with which we are moving forward. Here is the approved content and other details needs for this project:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gw1ZrXzXjKP1GavgsLW1HkcCdlGvJDaDyxilODSAkDE/edit#heading=h.3mlmgt6o1ktz