# Evaluation — Attempt 3

## Overall Verdict: NEEDS REVISION

## Overall Assessment
The main portal and most migrated operational views now express a coherent forest-glass admin system: portal home uses the shared shell, authorization and metric visibility are permission-aware, app destinations are real, and responsive record/action patterns are substantially stronger. It is close, but the explicitly scoped Permissions, Location Settings, and Change Password pages still use the old dual-stylesheet portal layout, while visible mojibake and remaining unsafe/brittle legacy output prevent a professional final approval.

## Scores
| Criterion | Score | Status | Weight | Notes |
|-----------|-------|--------|--------|-------|
| Design Quality | 1/3 | FAIL | HIGH | Core portal/list/form pages are coherent, but three important settings/access pages remain structurally and visually on the prior portal system, so the “one main portal” experience still breaks at high-value destinations. |
| Originality | 2/3 | PASS | HIGH | The church-photo backdrop, deep forest overlay, luminous glass applications, and fresh lemon details create a distinctive identity tied to this church rather than a generic admin template. |
| Craft | 1/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | Shared responsive components, server-rendered record labels, consistent row actions, safe-area navigation, focus styles, and accessible dialogs are solid. Encoding defects, remaining old CSS/classes, inline profile styling, and incomplete output sanitation keep execution at baseline rather than polished. |
| Functionality | 1/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | Dashboard authorization/data visibility and previously broken navigation are corrected. Member profile missing-record handling, unsafe ministry/profile output, and inconsistent shared-shell behavior remain meaningful but localized limitations. |

## What's Working Well

- `portal.php` now requires `dashboard.view`, uses `admin_shell.php`, loads only `admin.css`, and shares the same header, bottom navigation, toast mechanism, and typography as destination pages.
- Dashboard metrics are only queried/rendered for permissions the current staff member possesses, avoiding the previous unconditional aggregate display.
- Portal applications are real, permission-filtered destinations with a truthful empty state; placeholder Finance/Communication/Events actions and fake search/Arrange controls are gone.
- The new portal grid has a strong, distinctive glass-instrument quality with restrained translucent surfaces and lemon highlights over the heavily darkened church photograph.
- Representative member tables now render `data-label` attributes server-side, use safe image fallback paths, escape displayed record values, and provide visible consistent View/Archive action labels.
- Page intros, panels, forms, records, action groups, responsive grids, bottom navigation, and toasts now share purposeful admin component names.
- `welcome.php` no longer appears to retain the irrelevant social follower sample content identified in attempt 2.
- Mobile table footers are hidden, rows become bordered record cards, form grids collapse cleanly, and bottom navigation reserves safe-area/content space.
- No live migrated page references the legacy sidebar include or preloader; the remaining `admin/includes/header.php` preloader appears to be an unused legacy include rather than part of the evaluated routes.

## Issues Found

### Issue 1: Three explicitly scoped pages remain on the old portal shell
- **What**: `permissions.php`, `location_settings.php`, and `change_password.php` still load both `portal.css` and `admin.css`, use old `.shell`, `.main`, `.hero`, `.panel`, `.two-column`, `.app-grid`, `.button.gold`, and related portal components, and do not consistently render the shared admin header/bottom navigation/toast shell.
- **Where**: Admin permissions, GPS/location settings, and password/account pages.
- **Why it matters**: These are central administrative workflows. Moving from the unified app grid into a visibly different layout breaks the requested “one main portal” experience and leaves gold-era semantics underneath the lemon system.
- **Suggested fix**: Require `admin_shell.php` in all three pages; render `adminShellHeader()`, `adminShellNav()`, and `adminToastFlashes()`; convert content to `admin-page-intro`, `admin-panel`, `admin-form-grid`, `admin-field`, and `admin-action`; remove `portal.css`, `portal.js`, and `.gold` dependencies.

### Issue 2: Mojibake is still visible in live scoped pages
- **What**: Text includes `Todayâ€™s` in portal application descriptions and `Â·` in Permissions, Location Settings, and Change Password titles/metadata.
- **Where**: `admin/portal.php`, `admin/permissions.php`, `admin/location_settings.php`, and `admin/change_password.php`.
- **Why it matters**: Visible character corruption is an immediate production-quality defect and directly fails the brief's encoding requirement.
- **Suggested fix**: Replace the apostrophe with `&rsquo;` or plain ASCII and middle dots with `&middot;`; save all scoped files as UTF-8 without double encoding; run a final scan limited to live admin application files for `Â`, `Ã`, and `â` sequences.

### Issue 3: Member profile output remains unsafe and brittle
- **What**: The profile image directly concatenates `images/` with the database filename instead of using `adminSafeImage()`. The displayed full name is not escaped. If the supplied member ID does not exist, `$member` is false but the template continues dereferencing it. Missing `member_id` redirects to a potentially nonexistent `error_page.php`.
- **Where**: `admin/profile.php`.
- **Why it matters**: A malformed/stored filename can escape the expected image path, stored names can break markup or inject content, and nonexistent IDs can produce warnings or a broken page.
- **Suggested fix**: Cast/validate `member_id` as a positive integer, redirect back to `member_view` with a toast when no record exists, use `adminSafeImage()`, and wrap every displayed member value with `appEscape()`.

### Issue 4: Member creation still emits ministry options unsafely
- **What**: Ministry IDs and names are concatenated directly into `<option>` markup.
- **Where**: `admin/member_add.php`.
- **Why it matters**: Stored ministry text can break the form or enable stored XSS for staff users.
- **Suggested fix**: Render the ID as an integer and the label with `appEscape()` using normal PHP template output rather than string concatenation.

### Issue 5: Some legacy structure and presentation remain in representative pages
- **What**: Member pages still retain generic document titles (“JSOTW Admin Dashboard”), unused favicon references, large blank/template whitespace, `id="example" class="display"`, obsolete comments, and extra closing wrappers. `profile.php` retains Bootstrap-like rows/columns, an inline `<style>` block, and extreme inline border-radius values.
- **Where**: `member_view.php`, `member_add.php`, `profile.php`, and analogous mechanically migrated pages.
- **Why it matters**: Even when CSS masks these remnants, they reduce maintainability and can cause subtle responsive/layout errors. Page titles also fail to communicate the current task to browser and assistive-technology users.
- **Suggested fix**: Normalize page `<title>` values, remove unused legacy IDs/classes/comments/wrappers, move profile presentation into admin CSS, and use the shared profile/identity panel components throughout.

### Issue 6: Department scoping is not demonstrated in dashboard metrics
- **What**: Portal metrics are permission-gated but remain church-wide SQL counts even for staff assigned to specific department scopes.
- **Where**: `admin/portal.php` metric queries.
- **Why it matters**: Permission gating is correct, but department/ministry heads may still see organization-wide aggregates where the intended RBAC model expects their assigned scope.
- **Suggested fix**: Confirm the product rule for aggregate dashboard metrics. If department scope applies, join/filter counts through the user's assigned departments; if church-wide aggregates are intentionally allowed, document that permission policy explicitly.

## Priority Fixes for Next Attempt
1. Migrate Permissions, Location Settings, and Change Password fully onto the shared admin shell and eliminate their `portal.css`/legacy gold component dependency.
2. Correct all visible mojibake, then harden `profile.php` and `member_add.php` output/image/not-found handling.
3. Remove remaining legacy markup/inline profile styles and confirm whether department scoping applies to dashboard metrics.

## Should the next attempt REFINE or PIVOT?
REFINE. The core visual direction and shared architecture now succeed; the remaining work is a contained consistency and hardening pass across three outlier pages and a few legacy data-rendering paths.
