Difficult to add proposals to RFP

[RichardRed0x]

I added a proposal to the RFP and I had to find the full length proposal token for the RFP I was submitting on, I don't know if this is used much on proposals site any more but I got it from the dcrdata proposals page. If it could be a drop-down of currently open RFP proposals that would be much easier UX.

[lukebp]

This would require backend changes first.

[lukebp]

For future reference, you can find the token on the proposal page.

[lukebp]

One of the limitations the new tlog backend has is the inability to query random pieces of data like you can with a normal database. Adding nice to have gui features, like populating a RFP dropdown menue, becomes far more difficult. In order to add these additional queries there has to be a substancial ROI to UX, which this wouldn't qualify for.

The way I would suggest improving the UX here is by adding an information icon, like we do with the deadline, that tells the user they can find the RFP token on the RFP proposal page.

[victorgcramos]

On the Frontend-side we can use the same approach as we do on CMS invoice proposal links (#2041) . The only problem is that it may take a bit longer to load all RFP proposals, since we only have the token info (we can manage the time by caching the proposal info).

IMO, the RFP is (still) not the main feature from the application, and since the user would only have to deal with this "waiting time" once in a while, this sound okay from the UX point-of-view.

I can work on a PoC to demonstrate it better, so we can avoid backend changes.

[lukebp]

@victorgcramos this creates edge cases where the RFP isn't cached and therefor doesn't show up in the dropdown list. I don't want that added to pi. I'd rather keep it simple and have the user paste the proposal token manually. Adding the information icon will suffice.

[victorgcramos]

sounds fair, @lukebp