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Better UX for mapping form inputs to eligibility checks

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Domain
frontend

Research direction

Start with the form editor's Components section and review issue #357 alongside the current mapping behavior in the main branch. Clarify the two proposed modes or tabs, their validation behavior, and what completion means for both form-focused and eligibility-focused workflows.

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Description

big lift frontend research

Originally surfaced by #357

There is a "chicken or egg" issue when creating the form and sometimes you want to focus on the questions and sometimes you want to focus on ensuring all eligibility checks are accounted for.

Idea:

Allow the user to toggle between "modes". One mode where the eligibility checks are less emphasized but with a way to validate mapping t to form inputs (this is the current functionality in main branch) and another mode that is focused on the eligibility checks with the form possible form inputs that could be implemented for them (this is the concept presented in #357).

This could take the form of two different tabs in the "Components" section of the form editor; one that shows all components, the other that allows you to select/map only the components that are possible for a given (selected) eligibility check.

Dominant language
Java
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16
Forks
5
Avg merge
17h 24m
Merged PRs (30d)
23

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