Create a generic text / banner that dispatchers can fill from Dispatch and displays on the rider home page

[teesloane]

Example use case:

1. There is a last minute need for riders for a specific delivery
2. A dispatcher goes into dispatch to set the banner
3. The banner can have general html / links in it.
4. The banner can expire after a certain point.

The Example use case that came up during our last meeting was the last minute milk delivery, which linked to an external spreadsheet.

[teesloane]

@mveytsman - I'm wondering how to take this on.

• Is it a good idea to create a table just for storing a single banner message?
  • Perhaps if we have other banner messages that would be displayed around the application?
• Or maybe it's something we store in gen-server state / ets?
• Or is it something that we could shoe-horn into another table?

[mveytsman]

Hmm @teesloane this is a good question

I think I'd make a table that had

• message (in markdown?)
• created_by
• turn_on_at
• turn_off_at

so we track who made the announcement and have them automatically stop displayingw hen they expire.