limit testimony committee length

[mertbagt]

Summary

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• [n/a] On the frontend, I've made my strings translate-able.
• [n/a ] If I've added shared components, I've added a storybook story.
• I've made pages responsive and look good on mobile.

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Known issues

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Steps to test/reproduce

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1. go to Browse Testimony
2. be in a mobile viewport
3. make sure no committee name exceeds 35 characters

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[Mephistic]

I'll let a designer speak to the minimum viewport (though I'd guess it's Bootstrap's sm or xs), but as for the committee data:

• There is a fixed list of committees that we scrape daily and keep in Firestore
• There are currently 61 committees in General Court 194
• This includes House committees, Senate committees, Joint committees, and Temporary committees
• A committee will have the following relevant fields:
  • Branch (e.g. House of Representatives)
  • FullName (e.g. House Committee on Rules)
  • ShortName (e.g. Rules (H))
  • CommitteeCode (e.g. H33) (Probably only relevant to API users)

Here are the short names for the committees in 194:

[
  'Rules (H)',
  'Ways and Means (H)',
  'Bills in the Third Reading (H)',
  'Ethics (H)',
  'Human Resources and Employee Engagement(H)',
  'Post Audit and Oversight (H)',
  'Climate Action and Sustainability (H)',
  'Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)',
  'Operations, Facilities and Security(H)',
  'Federal Funding, Policy and Accountability (H)',
  'Intergovernmental Affairs',
  'Municipalities and Regional Government (J)',
  'Financial Services (J)',
  'Economic Development and Emerging Technologies (J)',
  'Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities (J)',
  'Education (J)',
  'Election Laws (J)',
  'Public Health (J)',
  'Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure (J)',
  'Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery (J)',
  'Judiciary (J)',
  'Environment and Natural Resources (J)',
  'Public Safety and Homeland Security (J)',
  'Public Service (J)',
  'Health Care Financing (J)',
  'State Administration and Regulatory Oversight (J)',
  'Revenue (J)',
  'Transportation (J)',
  'Housing (J)',
  'Higher Education (J)',
  'Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development (J)',
  'Veterans and Federal Affairs (J)',
  'Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets',
  'Ad Info Tech/Cybersecurity',
  'Racial Equity, Civil Rights, and Inclusion',
  'Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy (J)',
  'Agriculture',
  'Ways and Means (J)',
  'Rules (J)',
  'Labor and Workforce Development (J)',
  'Elder Affairs (J)',
  'Community Development and Small Businesses (J)',
  'Cannabis Policy (J)',
  'Emergency Preparedness and Management',
  'Rules (S)',
  'Ways and Means (S)',
  'Bills in the Third Reading (S)',
  'Post Audit and Oversight (S)',
  'Steering and Policy (S)',
  'Climate Change and Global Warming (S)',
  'Personnel and Administration (S)',
  'Intergovernmental Affairs (S)',
  'Ethics (S)',
  'Census (S)',
  'Juvenile and Emerging Adult Justice (S)',
  'Temp Rules',
  'Temporary Ways and Means',
  'Subcommittee on Rules',
  'Temporary Rules (TS)',
  'Temporary Ways and Means',
  'Temporary Bills in the Third Reading'
]

[mertbagt]

components\search\testimony\TestimonyHit.tsx

the Testimony component gets its committee data from bill?.currentCommittee which in turn has the following types:

if I can get an object with the committee list data, I can compare bill.currentCommittee.name against that list and write some code that will

display the short name (or possibly a truncated short name as some as still kinda long)

and

hide the long name, but when the user taps the screen it can be displayed as a tool tip or something along those lines

[mertbagt]

forget my prior comments

Matt. V wants to just stick with the 35 char limit with elipses for now

[Mephistic]

Looks fine to me, just the one nit.

[Mephistic]

nit: We added a utility function in formatting.tsx for this a while back - we may want to standardize on that going forward:

maple/components/formatting.tsx

Line 69 in cbca688

export const truncateText = (s: string | undefined, maxLength: number) =>