# Evaluation — Attempt 2

## Overall Verdict: NEEDS REVISION

## Overall Assessment
This iteration materially improves the admin system: migrated pages now use named admin page/panel/form/record patterns, mobile navigation resolves to real destinations, member output and images are safer, flash feedback is toast-only, and modal/table behavior is more accessible. The forest-glass direction is now credible, but the portal and several representative pages still contain visible encoding corruption and legacy/template remnants that keep the system from feeling fully coherent and production-ready.

## Scores
| Criterion | Score | Status | Weight | Notes |
|-----------|-------|--------|--------|-------|
| Design Quality | 1/3 | FAIL | HIGH | The visual system is coherent at the CSS level, but portal home remains a separate older composition and multiple migrated pages still carry legacy Bootstrap columns, breadcrumbs, button classes, template comments, footers, and unrelated dashboard content. |
| Originality | 2/3 | PASS | HIGH | The dark church-photo environment, restrained luminous glass cards/icons, and lemon-green operational accents form a distinct ecclesiastical admin identity rather than a stock dashboard theme. |
| Craft | 1/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | Responsive form grids, record cards, focus rings, safe-area navigation, image fallback, and modal focus handling are solid improvements. Visible mojibake, mixed component naming, tiny inline action styling, and residual dead markup limit polish. |
| Functionality | 1/3 | PASS | MEDIUM | The previous broken Profile link, placeholder module links, inline alert duplication, unsafe member image path, and basic modal keyboard failures are corrected. Remaining concerns include portal authorization/count scoping, generated rather than server-rendered table labels, and misleading/static operational content. |

## What's Working Well

- The shared account destination now points to `change_password`, avoiding the invalid member-profile route without a `member_id`.
- Placeholder Finance, Communication, and Events modules are removed from the permission map and therefore no longer render as dead portal links.
- Inline session alerts were removed from the representative member pages; the shared toast renderer now uses `role="alert"` for errors, `role="status"` otherwise, and an encoded multiplication symbol for close.
- `adminSafeImage()` normalizes filenames, checks the intended directory, URL-encodes the basename, and provides the church logo fallback.
- `member_view.php` now escapes member identity fields and image alternatives.
- Migrated views introduce coherent `admin-page`, `admin-page-intro`, `admin-panel`, `admin-form-grid`, `admin-field`, `admin-records`, and `admin-action` patterns instead of relying exclusively on legacy layout classes.
- The table helper now adds accessible search labeling and a live result count; mobile styles hide table headers/footers and stack record cells.
- The shared modal controller now moves focus, traps Tab, closes on Escape, restores focus, sets dialog semantics, and locks body scrolling.
- The strongest visual qualities remain intact: deep forest photographic overlay, lemon accent, readable pale glass panels, tactile app icons, and fixed mobile glass navigation.

## Issues Found

### Issue 1: Visible encoding corruption remains
- **What**: Portal text still contains `Â·` in the document title, service metadata, and module metadata. Representative legacy remnants still include corrupted copyright text.
- **Where**: `admin/portal.php` and at least `admin/welcome.php`/other migrated pages with retained footer content.
- **Why it matters**: Mojibake is visible client-facing breakage, contradicts the brief, and prevents the interface from reaching professional polish.
- **Suggested fix**: Normalize all live admin PHP to UTF-8 and replace corrupted punctuation with `&middot;`, `&copy;`, or correct UTF-8. Run a binary-safe scan for `\xC2`, `\xC3`, and replacement sequences across the complete admin scope.

### Issue 2: Page migration is structurally incomplete
- **What**: New component wrappers coexist with old Bootstrap columns (`col-sm-6`, `col-12`), breadcrumb markup, generic `.btn` classes, inline font sizing, empty wrapper whitespace, obsolete vendor/template comments, and hidden legacy footer blocks. `welcome.php` retains large sections of unrelated template dashboard content such as social follower statistics.
- **Where**: `member_view.php`, `member_add.php`, `profile.php`, `welcome.php`, `service_days.php`, and analogous migrated pages.
- **Why it matters**: The source and rendered hierarchy remain harder to maintain and can still produce visual inconsistencies. The experience reads as a partial conversion rather than one purpose-built portal.
- **Suggested fix**: Remove the unused old wrappers/comments/footer content, replace Bootstrap columns and breadcrumbs with shared admin intro/action components, replace remaining `.btn` and inline styles with `admin-action` variants, and strip irrelevant sample dashboard widgets from `welcome.php`.

### Issue 3: Portal home is still outside the shared shell
- **What**: `portal.php` duplicates its own top bar, icons, navigation, role query, and escaping helper, while loading both `portal.css` and `admin.css`. It does not call `adminShellHeader()`, `adminShellNav()`, or the shared toast helper.
- **Where**: `admin/portal.php`.
- **Why it matters**: Two navigation/component implementations will drift and make the portal home feel subtly different from every destination page. It also preserves the old gold-oriented stylesheet underneath the new overrides.
- **Suggested fix**: Require `admin_shell.php`, migrate portal home to the same header/nav/toast components, move app-grid-specific styles into the admin stylesheet, and stop loading the old portal design system on admin routes.

### Issue 4: Dashboard permission and data scoping need tightening
- **What**: `portal.php` requires staff authentication but does not explicitly require `dashboard.view`. It queries all dashboard counts before deciding which modules the role can see, so aggregate data may be rendered even when the corresponding module permission is absent.
- **Where**: `admin/portal.php` metrics/count initialization.
- **Why it matters**: The brief requires permission-aware visible content, not only permission-filtered app links. Aggregate member, visitor, attendance, and department data may leak beyond a role's intended scope.
- **Suggested fix**: Call `appRequirePermission($dbh, 'dashboard.view')`, render/query each metric only when its permission allows it, and use department-aware queries where the existing RBAC model requires scoped data.

### Issue 5: Some portal content appears static rather than truthful
- **What**: Morning Service time/location and “Recent activity” entries are hard-coded, as is the Arrange button's “coming soon” toast. These elements look like live operational data.
- **Where**: Portal “Today” section and app-grid heading controls.
- **Why it matters**: Staff can reasonably rely on dashboard status, times, and activity. Static examples create misleading product behavior and reduce trust.
- **Suggested fix**: Populate the service card and activity feed from real application data, or clearly label them as unavailable/preview content and remove Arrange until it performs a real action.

### Issue 6: Mobile tables still depend on JavaScript for labels
- **What**: Cell labels are injected after page load from `<thead>`. With JavaScript unavailable or delayed, the mobile card layout hides the header and shows unlabeled values.
- **Where**: `.admin-records` tables and `assets/portal/js/admin.js`.
- **Why it matters**: Critical identity and operational records become ambiguous in degraded conditions.
- **Suggested fix**: Render `data-label` attributes server-side on every table cell, keeping the JavaScript helper only as a fallback. Add an actual visible empty-filter state, not only an off-screen result count.

### Issue 7: Representative action styling remains inconsistent
- **What**: The Archive action uses the new `admin-action`, while View Profile remains a generic `.btn.btn-info` with `font-size: 8px` and icon-only content.
- **Where**: `admin/member_view.php` action column and similar list views.
- **Why it matters**: An 8px icon-only control is visually weak, less discoverable, and below the intended clear Apple-like interaction quality even if its container reaches the shared minimum height.
- **Suggested fix**: Use a consistent `admin-action` variant with a visible “View” label and accessible icon; group row actions with a dedicated responsive action container.

## Priority Fixes for Next Attempt
1. Finish the structural migration: remove legacy/template remnants, irrelevant welcome widgets, old Bootstrap classes, hidden footer markup, inline styling, and generic button treatments.
2. Move `portal.php` onto the shared shell, enforce dashboard/data permissions, eliminate the old portal stylesheet dependency, and replace static operational examples with real data or honest empty states.
3. Correct all mojibake and make mobile record labels/empty states server-rendered and reliable without JavaScript.

## Should the next attempt REFINE or PIVOT?
REFINE. The visual direction and shared component foundation now work; the remaining problems are completion, consistency, truthful data, permission scoping, and polish rather than a failed aesthetic concept.
