The text that tells the user how many search results are being shown is not tied into the filter counts. It always displays the total number of returned records regardless of applied filters.

Note in the screen cap, we have selected schools and there are 15 of them but the "Showing" line still reads 25.

We had this problem before... ITT Tech needs to stay uppercase and I think the rakefile is making the first character of each word upper case.

Also any school name with a "-" the following word is lower case. Since the IPEDS/WEAMS naming standard doesn't have spaces before and after the hypen this will high frequency issue.

Moving these to a separate issue for myself

• Radio buttons for "will you be taking classes online?"
• building out top timeline navigation bar and replacing the screenshot.
• Treatment for "Use the VA's GI Bill Comparison Tool to make the most of your GI Bill Benefit.

For both the search results and school profiles we need to pull in the caution flag data value and style it per the wires (samples included here) and design standards.

If the caution flag value is null, no flag treatment should be rendered.

Turbolinks is bad. Also, the team has sworn to not use it.

On the current version of the GI Bill Comparison Tool we link directly to the Yellow Ribbon Scholarship information for a school (based on the state of the school), link to the SVA group on campus and the mail address of the VSOC counselor.

Right now those very helpful links are missing... The Yellow Ribbon link is the most important link we need to bring back in.

Doing the initial setup, but couldn't get past bundle install because of dependency on a private repo:

Tried a work-around by not including development and test groups, but didn't work for some reason:

For now, just locally commenting out the group this dependency is enclosed in to get past.

I'm a newbie to Capistrano. Is this required? (cc @mphprogrammer )

We will need to work out several items related to Responsive D:

• Div stack order
• About you menu
• Filter Menu
• Modal scaling

I am sure there will be others.

Two identical rows (facility_code: 24805535 Academy of Court Reporting) save the dodmou column (one is yes the other no). The facility codes should be unique. Assuming dodmou = yes as per existing tool.

Two identical rows (facility_code: 2803638 All-State Career School - Lester) save the dodmou column (one is yes the other no). The facility codes should be unique. Assuming dodmou = yes as per existing tool.

Two identical rows (facility_code: 14927423 ANOKA TECHNICAL COLLEGE) save the dodmou column (one is yes the other no). The facility codes should be unique. Assuming dodmou = yes as per existing tool.

Two identical rows (facility_code: 14965423 ANOKA-RAMSEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE) save the dodmou column (one is yes the other no). The facility codes should be unique. Assuming dodmou = yes as per existing tool.

There are many more with dup data save the dodmou column.

The modal looks perfect! One little bug...

The close icon does not close the modal, it only sets the page to the header behind the modal. Clicking on the canvas is the only way to close the modal currently.

Using chrome... the timeline and estimator icons are like "mini me's"...

We have a bit of an issue with the type-ahead.

In the current GI Bill Tool (https://department-of-veterans-affairs.github.io/gi-bill-comparison-tool/), the type ahead results are rendered in a fixed height window that the user can scroll through to find an exact match. The stakeholders BADLY want this functionality to be retained.

@emilyville took a most appreciated stab at this and was able to restrict the number of results shown, but sadly, this will not meet the stakeholders needs. There are a variety of reasons for it which I can tell you but will make this too long.

Is there another solution that meets the following requirements:

• Will work with @mphprogrammer's application (see Marc)
• Will provide a fixed height window of results (either by number of results or dimensions) that will;
• Allow us to set up an overflow: scroll scenario so all matching results are accessible from this feature?

This working to the requirements above is actually more of a big deal than it may appear on the surface.

Having this working for Monday would be a huge plus!!

The logo in the header is currently appears to be flush left to the browser viewport. is it supposed to be this way or is it supposed to be flush left to the container?

There is no need to include zip codes in the search results

Just a text change

• Search dropdown styling
• Increase margin between search element so that type ahead treatment does not overflow on top of footer.

Just a few refinements that map to wires, please. THANKS!!

• Icons (fontawesome) for Tuition, Housing, Books.
• Need a graphical way to represent N/A or null results. (For now, proposing big N/A in light gray)
• Caution Flag styling when available.

@mphprogrammer,

TL;dr: Change Type of School filter from check boxes to dropdown.

This is not a massive priority, but if we get a chance, can we change the Type of Schools filter interaction from check boxes to a dropdown. The more I use this tool, the less the check boxes make sense since each institution can only be one type.

The label should have the record count for the current selection. The default selection should be "All".

GI Bill is trademarked and VA actively requires any user of the mark to include the (r).

At some point not long after the Curt Coy meeting (assuming no product breaking changes) we need to get an AWS staging environment deployed.

We want to be able to test this with a small user group prior to launch if possible. Plus we have a large number of stakeholder reviewers that will not be capable of installing and running the app on a local environment.

Any way to speed this up? Can we revert back to a 3 character entry delay?

Need a way to paginate the search results. A few considerations:

• FE Filtering effects result count and subsequently page count.
• Not opposed to a lazy load if it is both 508 compliant and responds to filter inputs (although in thinking that through, this will likely face the same challenges as any pagination solution)
• There is no way around some form of pagination. If necessary, we may need to trigger a page reload to accomplish it. As unfortunate as this would be, it might be a more acceptable LOE than trying to integrate with FE filtering. I looked at amazon and home depot as analogs. They both seem to be pinging the server following engagement with the filters - Amazon reloads, Home Depot appears to be working some Ajaxy pixie dust.
• No pressure, but the filtering is a core part of the functionality, so if additional brain power is needed to pull this off in a usable manner, let's assemble it sooner than later. :-)

@EricSchles the visualization seem to be working great! Thanks!

They do need some styling, however, and there are a few issues that I am seeing as I look through the code. I am pretty sure I could make these changes, but I do not want to mess with this as if seems a bit fragile.

• The 'vets' and 'all' bars need to be different classes. I need to be able to style each separately.
• We need to set a min-max for the numeric text as it relates to the height of the bars. Currently, if the bar is representing 0% (as shown) the value covers the label. The idea behavior would set a minimum height that, in the case of a bar that is shorter than the height of the value itself, places the value above the bar.
• There is quite likely a good reason for the way you implemented but I am curious as to why we did not put all of the code for each viz in its own erb and just render partials on the profile page? Would be much easier to sort everything out. Is this a reason this needed to be done this way?

I am pretty sure that I can handle the remainder of the styling. I am going to move the if/else statements to simply not render the divs if no data is available for the entire chart, instead of displaying a message.

@mphprogrammer: is there a way to simply not render the entire accordion if there is no data for a specific entity at all? Instead of showing an empty accordian?

After searching, there's some extra space at the way way bottom of the page with numbers in it that relates to the search box.

Wires show overall styling requirements.

Accordions use USDS standards. All accordions open by default for the time being.

For the benefits calculator, please refer to the screencap below. Mirror layout but style to match ours.

Also included is wires file below screencap.

for 10292015_v3.pdf

If a user clicks on the header "GI Bill Comparison Tool" it should take user back to the start page of the tool.

otherwise there is not way to start over.

Replacing the image based timeline.

This will make developer setup slightly quicker and simplify the dependencies for running unit tests that require a database.

These are currently set up as 'and' filters, and selecting both filters to null results.

Proposed fix:

Add a selector for "all" that is the default filter (above School and Employer)
Change School and Employer filters to 'or' filters.

FOR MONDAY:

Need at least one functioning data viz on the school profile page.

If this is not going to happen, please let @rickleegit know by Sunday evening so that I can plan accordingly. Plan B is to insert the attached graphic into the layout, but would prefer this be a last resort.

Known Issue. Logging it for posterity!

Taking all online classes FOR Monday:

On the "Taking all online classes?" question, the label should be "Will you be taking classes online?"

This UI element should appear ABOVE the search field. It is currently below it.

Options should be - All, None, Both online and on-campus classes. (all, yes) (None, no) (Both, no)

AFTER Monday
The responses should be radio buttons each with the following labels All, None, Both online and on-campus classes. (I know we need to work out how this works on pgs 2-3.

Please add a "Back to Search Results" text link above the school name. Standard link styling.

Do we need to resend the query with this link?

Can we make this the Design Standards Pattern with the text field connected to the search button?

Also, can we change the hint to "Search by School, Employer or State"?

We know we need to break with width standards on these. Just recording for posterity!

Oxnard College has a graduation rate of 0% and should show up accordingly.

if the data is I provided was blank then it should say no data (or something similiar).

Back to search results should be disabled when you arrive at the profile page directly from the autocomplete (a single school is returned). If it is clicked in this instance, the entire set of schools will be returned on the search page.

This is a known issue. Just logging it...

The value labels in the dropdowns are a little hinky. Looks as if they are using the browser UI components and the alignment is off.

I may have miscommunicated the placement of this element.

The online classes menu should be in the Step 2 container and above the search field.

Currently it appears in the Step 1 container below the length of service element as shown in the screencap. The screencap is incorrect.

Odd thing. If I execute a search and select a school from the type ahead list, the schools facilities code seems to appear for a second. If I use the browser native back button to initiate a new search, the facilities code is already populated in the search field.

Existing Accounts:

from Patrick Campbell:

Ideally we would have two GA account running at the same time (POE Account and VA DAP)... that means we can have historical data since launch.
· POE GA Account - UA-46533988-2
· VA GA Account - ???

Remove the Advanced Search link for the time being. I would just hide the div for the time being. It may need to come back.

EDIT: Actually let's discuss this. I am not confident that the proposed solution originally attached to this issue is the bet solution.

Possible to hide filters with zero record counts?

The most glaring use case is as follows:

User selects 'Employer'
All filters have zero matching records except OJT

BTW, Can we spell out OJT to read On-the-job Training?

The section of filters shown in the image needs to be relabeled.

Change "Location" to "School Features".

We need to add the links listed below between our content and the footer:

The urls for these links can be found on the existing tool (https://department-of-veterans-affairs.github.io/gi-bill-comparison-tool/)

These are looking great! Just a few refinements:

• set width so overflow is not hidden.
• For dependent fields, can we use a version of the focus state that is red instead of blue to highlight possible required user selections if the parent parameter is changed?

For example... you should be able to click on "principles of excellence" to find out what it means.

This is current feature of the tool.

@mphprogrammer

Not sure what is going on here. For some reason in the horizontal version of the "yourself" filters, the status: Spouse > Spouse active duty/Spouse not on active duty dropdown is rendering as it does on the start page. Same size, and same interaction icon.

Probably a styling thing, but I can't seem to find it.

Just kidding. Not really that bad, but god help the user that attempts this behavior! :-)

What can we do to enhance this experience?

In the search results... For example Indiana should be in "IN" not "In"

Also "USA" appears "Usa" in the filter results