alphagov/whitehall — pull request #114 by chrismdp (2012-12-21 15:47:41+00:00)
Title: Importer validation changes

Suite of changes to allow imported editions slightly more freedom about their content, to get imported documents into our system earlier and allow us to more easily operate on them. This way we won't have to send CSV files to departments for tagging.

See this story for details:

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/41333909

Highlights:

- Importing a new file now allows you to set an organisation, which is used as the default.
- Importing now has a more relaxed set of validations, so documents can get in quicker. See the feature file for details of the exact changes.
- You can choose to see a list of imported editions from the main admin interface
- You can edit imported editions freely.
- When imported editions are ready to go to draft, a 'convert to draft' button will appear. When the button isn't there, it means there is a problem with the edition that still needs to be fixed.

This will degrade the UI for correcting and tagging editions for departments, but we plan to improve the admin UI to help with that very soon.

See the `importing-new-editions.feature` file for (many) more details.