Beta Mode for Full-Time

[ninosamson]

User Story: As a SIMS team, we want to allow certain students to participate as Beta users for Full-Time prior to launch.

Acceptance Criteria:

• update beta validation feature to allow ONLY beta users:

  • submit Full-Time applications (only beta users will be able to select full time when completing an application)
  • view over awards (only beta users will be able to see the overawards section)

• Remove the students from previous beta list and reuse the table (release instructions only)

• Note: to enable full-time beta mode, we will need to do the following, in this order:

  • enable beta validation
  • enable full-time

Technical

• Change the current behavior and validations for the beta user (previously used for part-time) to allow only registered users to create full-time applications and access overawards.
  • Ensure the validation on the API to prevent the user access is removed.
  • Ensure the validation in the Web portal to redirect a non-beta user to the login page is also removed.
• Enable UI/API to accept full-time applications and for beta-users.
• Enable UI/API to show overawards.
• Ensure supporting-users for full-time can provide parents information.
• Schedulers are expected to work without modifications once the isFulltimeAllowed is enabled.
• Adapt E2E tests in place for beta users.

[andrewsignori-aot]

@ninosamson should we plan to have some schedulers disabled alongside the release?
For instance, some institution-related integrations.

[ninosamson]

@andrewsignori-aot depends on what we plan for beta. we may want to do beta with a student that will result in an IER/ECE

[andrewsignori-aot]

@ninosamson @CarlyCotton do we still required the env variable ALLOW_BETA_USERS_ONLY? Is the behavior below the expected behavior?

IS_FULL_TIME_ALLOWED	ALLOW_BETA_USERS_ONLY	User configured on beta users table	Is Full-time allowed?
TRUE	TRUE	TRUE	TRUE
FALSE	TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
FALSE	TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
TRUE	FALSE	TRUE	TRUE
TRUE	FALSE	FALSE	TRUE

IS_FULL_TIME_ALLOWED is still the master configuration, and the ALLOW_BETA_USERS_ONLY would allow the bypass of any "User configured on beta users table", does it sound right?

[ninosamson]

@andrewsignori-aot @CarlyCotton - yes we will need it since my plan was to be able to configure the following in this order:

1. enable beta user only
2. enable full time
3. enable institution only
4. disabled beta user only
5. disable institution only (this is the last config before launch)