# Evaluation — Attempt 1

## Overall Verdict: NEEDS REVISION

## Overall Assessment
The implementation establishes a coherent pastoral-operations experience within the existing dark church-photo, frosted-glass, lemon-green admin system. The core repair and reporting logic are largely sound: location settings now has its staff context, absentee queries use the required `NOT EXISTS` definition, contact actions are explicit, and PDF generation is text/table-only. It needs one refinement pass because the requested report-date control is absent and the group-message privacy guidance is not explicit enough for a church member-contact workflow.

## Scores

| Criterion | Score | Status | Weight | Notes |
|-----------|-------|--------|--------|-------|
| Design Quality | 2/3 | PASS | HIGH | The report center consistently uses the established photo-backed shell, glass panels, lemon accent, calm language, and clear section hierarchy. Downloads and pastoral follow-up are visually separated without resembling an accounting grid. |
| Originality | 2/3 | PASS | HIGH | “Reports with purpose,” pastoral queue framing, glass download rows, and restrained contact tools feel tailored to this church system rather than dropped in from a generic dashboard template. |
| Craft | 2/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | Responsive grids collapse at 800/720px, tables become labeled record cards, controls meet the 44px target, focus styling exists, and PHP lint passes for all inspected pages. Fresh authenticated runtime checks returned HTTP 200 for the three admin pages and all three PDF variants. Visual breakpoint conclusions are based on fresh static inspection because browser automation was unavailable in this environment. |
| Functionality | 1/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | The principal flows are implemented and permission-protected, but the report-center brief explicitly calls for a date defaulting to today and no date control is rendered. The group SMS disclosure also omits the key possibility that recipient numbers may be visible to one another. |

## What's Working Well

- `location_settings.php` restores `$staff=appRequireStaff($dbh)` before `settings.manage`, then passes the valid staff record into the shared shell. With production error display disabled in bootstrap, this addresses the reported background-only failure without leaking warnings.
- Authenticated runtime verification returned HTTP 200 for Location Settings, Attendance, and Reports, confirming the restored location content is not failing during page load.
- Both attendance pages and the absentee PDF use `member_type='Active Member'` plus a correlated `NOT EXISTS` attendance query for `CURRENT_DATE()`, matching the required definition. An independent database query matched the implementation counts in the current data set.
- `welcome.php` correctly changes “Absent today” to “Not checked in” when there is no scheduled service and explicitly explains that absence is only meaningful on a service day. Division by zero is guarded.
- Individual phone actions use normalized `tel:` and `sms:` destinations. Bulk calling is not falsely promised; the interface directs staff to the individual call queue.
- The copy workflow produces a newline-delimited normalized list and reports success/failure with an accessible toast rather than `alert()`.
- `generate_pdf.php` allowlists `members`, `absentees`, and `attendance`, defaults to members, escapes all dynamic table content, has row counts and empty states, and contains no logo path, `<img>`, image API, or header-image call. This removes the GD/Imagick dependency that caused the TCPDF alpha-channel error.
- Runtime requests for all three PDF types returned HTTP 200, `Content-Type: application/pdf`, valid `%PDF-` signatures, and non-empty output (8,119 / 7,923 / 7,999 bytes respectively).
- Portal routing now points Reports to the actual `reports` destination and retains permission filtering.

## Issues Found

### Issue 1: Requested report date control is missing

- **What**: The absentee panel is fixed to `CURRENT_DATE()` with no visible date input, selected-date label, or disabled/future-state explanation.
- **Where**: `admin/reports.php`, particularly the page intro and “Today's queue” section.
- **Why it matters**: The brief explicitly asks for an absentee report date that defaults to today. Even if the actionable queue remains current-day-only, staff need to see that scope as a selected report date rather than an implicit hard-coded limitation.
- **Suggested fix**: Add an accessible date field defaulted to today. Either fully support the selected date with a bound SQL parameter across the queue/PDF link, or make it clearly read-only/disabled with copy explaining that historical attendance reporting is coming later. Do not imply a working historical filter unless it is implemented.

### Issue 2: Group-text privacy warning is incomplete

- **What**: The note says device support varies and that a draft opens, but does not warn that some SMS apps create a group conversation where recipients can see one another’s phone numbers.
- **Where**: `admin/reports.php`, “Prepare follow-up” panel and the “Prepare group text” action.
- **Why it matters**: Member phone numbers are private pastoral data. A technically valid multi-recipient `sms:` URI can still expose the recipient list depending on the device and messaging app.
- **Suggested fix**: Add concise text beside the action: “Some phones may show all recipients to the group. Review recipient privacy before sending; send individually when unsure.” Consider renaming the button to “Open multi-recipient draft” to make the behavior unmistakable.

### Issue 3: No-service metric wording is less precise on Reports than on Attendance

- **What**: The report metric always says “Awaiting check-in,” even when `$service` is false; only the small caption says “No service scheduled.”
- **Where**: `admin/reports.php`, third overview card.
- **Why it matters**: On a non-service day, “awaiting” implies members are expected to check in and conflicts with the accurate explanatory wording farther down the page.
- **Suggested fix**: Mirror `welcome.php`: use “Absent today”/“Not checked in” or “Awaiting check-in”/“Not checked in today” conditionally, and change the supporting label to “Current service day” or “No service scheduled.”

## Priority Fixes for Next Attempt

1. Add the requested today-defaulted report date control with honest, implemented behavior.
2. Add an explicit recipient-visibility privacy warning to the multi-recipient SMS flow.
3. Make the no-service overview metric use the same precise language as the attendance page.

## Should the next attempt REFINE or PIVOT?

REFINE. The visual direction, underlying absentee logic, responsive record pattern, permission boundary, and image-free PDF architecture are all sound. The remaining work is localized UX and scope clarification rather than a structural or aesthetic redesign.
