Clearer labelling and/or auto-population of reporting-org/@narrative

[emmajclegg]

We're seeing many users mistakenly complete the reporting-org/@narrative field in Organisation Data with an organisation description, when it should be their organisation name. The long text strings that they're entering are causing problems for other IATI tools, so we want to make it clearer to users what this field is and, ideally, populate it for them.

In cases where the organisation has signed up as a primary reporter (almost all cases), reporting-org/@narrative should equal iati-organisation/name

For example, in my test account below, I've registered with publisher name "Emma's test publisher v.2" and as a primary reporter (reporting-org/@secondary-reporter = false)

My iati-organisation/name has been auto-populated, whereas the reporting-org/@narrative is left blank.

To make things clearer to users:

1. can we replace the word "narrative" by "name" in the reporting-org user interface? (highlighted in the two screenshots below)
2. what options are there for auto-populating this field with the publisher's organisation name? (in cases when reporting-org/@secondary-reporter = false). If missing default language is the problem, we can consider collecting this at point of registration.

[praweshsth]

Approach

• When there is new sign up, the narrative will be populated with the name of the organisation.
• The narrative, though, will be editable by the user, which will not update the existing name of the organisation element.
• For existing organisation, deploy the script to change the narrative to the name of the organisation and republish organisation and published activitiy file

Issue/ concern/ question

• For existing organisations, if there are multiple narrative in multiple languages, what should we do?
• For existing organisations, the organisation file and the activity file needs to republish. Would that be okay?

@emmajclegg

[emmajclegg]

@praweshsth - the approach above sounds good for new sign ups; that's what I was focusing on.

I don't think we need to retrospectively apply it to existing organisations' data. In Support, we've already contacted a few publishers to ask them to correct their reporting-org/@narrative so we can continue doing that for those that need to change it.

[praweshsth]

Added estimation.

[sarinasindurakar]

@PG-Momik

• Issue 1: Change the placeholder text as " Type name".

• Issue 2: Change the "Add additional narrative" to "Add additional name ".

• Issue 3. The placeholder not shown in organisation level languages.

• Issue 4: The language is not preselected in organisation information.

[PG-Momik]

This has been deployed to staging.

[emmajclegg]

Looks great!