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# Pre-UAT Readiness Review
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Project: Training Management System (TMS)
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Review date: 2026-06-18
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Scope: Sprint 1-6 modules before Sprint 7
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## Executive Summary
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The system is close to UAT-ready. Core authentication, organization scoping, training records, HRD review, dashboard, import, announcements, notifications, and responsive work are in place and the main protected routes use server-side session checks.
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The most important pre-UAT risk found in this review was file exposure through direct `public/uploads/...` URLs for certificates and announcement attachments. That issue has been fixed in code during this review by moving user-facing file access to protected API download routes with authorization checks.
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After that fix, there are no remaining critical blockers for UAT. The main open items are performance hardening in notifications, documentation drift in RBAC documentation, and a few UX/state consistency gaps that should be cleaned up before production hardening.
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## UAT Readiness Score
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- UAT Readiness: **87/100**
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- Go-Live Readiness: **81/100**
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Interpretation:
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- Good candidate for controlled UAT
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- Not yet ideal for unrestricted production rollout without another hardening pass
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## Issues By Severity
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### Critical
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1. Direct access to uploaded certificates and announcement attachments bypassed business authorization
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Status: **Fixed in this review**
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Previous behavior:
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- Certificate and announcement files were stored under `public/uploads/...`
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- Serialized API responses exposed direct public URLs
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- Anyone with the path could access the file without record-level authorization
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Fixed in:
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- [src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/[certificateId]/download/route.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/[certificateId]/download/route.ts)
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- [src/app/api/announcements/[id]/attachment/route.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/api/announcements/[id]/attachment/route.ts)
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- [src/features/training-records/server/training-record-data.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/features/training-records/server/training-record-data.ts)
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- [src/features/announcements/server/announcement-data.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/features/announcements/server/announcement-data.ts)
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- [src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/route.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/route.ts)
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### High
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None open after the file-access fix.
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### Medium
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1. Notification listing is not paginated efficiently at the database level
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Evidence:
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- [src/features/notifications/server/notification-data.ts:77](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/features/notifications/server/notification-data.ts:77)
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- [src/features/notifications/server/notification-data.ts:83](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/features/notifications/server/notification-data.ts:83)
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- [src/features/notifications/server/notification-data.ts:85](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/features/notifications/server/notification-data.ts:85)
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Current behavior:
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- The service loads all matching rows
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- Filters notification type in memory
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- Then slices the array for pagination
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Risk:
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- Will degrade as notification volume grows
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- Can affect dashboard header responsiveness and notification panel latency during UAT with larger datasets
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2. Audit coverage for certificate changes was incomplete
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Status: **Fixed in this review**
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Fixed in:
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- [src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/route.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/route.ts)
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- [src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/[certificateId]/route.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/[certificateId]/route.ts)
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### Low
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1. RBAC documentation is outdated and still references Clerk and client-side authorization concepts
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Evidence:
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- [docs/nav-rbac.md:5](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/docs/nav-rbac.md:5)
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- [docs/nav-rbac.md:7](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/docs/nav-rbac.md:7)
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- [docs/nav-rbac.md:19](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/docs/nav-rbac.md:19)
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- [docs/nav-rbac.md:79](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/docs/nav-rbac.md:79)
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Risk:
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- Future maintenance confusion
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- Incorrect onboarding assumptions for access control changes
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2. Announcements route segment does not yet have route-level `loading.tsx` / `error.tsx` coverage
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Evidence:
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- [src/app/dashboard/announcements/page.tsx](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/dashboard/announcements/page.tsx)
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- [src/app/dashboard/announcements/[id]/page.tsx](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/dashboard/announcements/[id]/page.tsx)
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Note:
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- Component-level loading/error handling already exists, so this is not a blocker
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- This is mainly consistency debt versus other dashboard modules
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## Security Review
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### Authentication
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- `src/proxy.ts` protects `/dashboard` and protected API namespaces
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- Route handlers consistently use `requireOrganizationAccess()`, `requireHRD()`, or page guards
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- Auth.js session remains the source of truth
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Assessment: **Pass**
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### Authorization
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- Training records are self-scoped for employee users and organization-scoped for HRD/admin
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- Review actions enforce elevated role checks
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- Announcement visibility is correctly restricted for employee users to active published announcements
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- New protected file download routes now enforce authorization before serving attachments
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Assessment: **Pass after fix**
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### File Upload Security
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- File type and size validation exist for certificates and announcements
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- Storage path traversal protection exists via root-path normalization checks
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- Previous public direct-file exposure risk is now mitigated by protected download endpoints
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Assessment: **Pass after fix**
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## Authorization Review
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Validated behaviors:
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- Employee can only access own training records through server-side filtering
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- HRD/admin can review organization records
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- Employee edit/delete remains limited to pending records
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- Certificate upload/delete remains limited to pending records
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- Employee cannot open HRD-only announcement creation flow
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Assessment: **Good**
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## Validation Review
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- Zod validation is present in training review and announcement mutation flows
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- Training record mutation normalization is in place
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- Notification query validation is present
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- Import flow validates template headers, required columns, duplicate rows, email format, and status values
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Assessment: **Good**
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## Audit And Notification Review
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Audit:
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- Core CRUD and review actions are logged
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- Certificate upload/delete logging was added in this review
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- Notification read / mark-all-read actions are logged
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Notifications:
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- Review approval/rejection notifications exist
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- Announcement publish notifications exist
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- Import completion notifications exist
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Assessment: **Good, with performance follow-up needed in notification retrieval**
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## Dashboard Accuracy Review
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- Employee dashboard calculations use approved records for approved-hour KPIs
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- HRD summary and chart queries scope by organization and optional filters
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- Pending counts are filtered by year and selected scope
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Assessment: **Pass based on current query logic review**
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Residual note:
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- This review was code-based. Final confidence should be reinforced with UAT dataset walkthroughs covering mixed approved/pending/rejected records across multiple departments.
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## Responsive Review
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Based on prior responsive and mobile UX passes plus current spot checks:
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- Dashboard and training-record surfaces have mobile/tablet-aware layout work
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- Tables and action groups use responsive stacking in key modules
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- Certificate management actions are responsive
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Assessment: **Good for UAT**
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Residual note:
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- Announcement pages should receive the same route-level loading/error consistency as other modules
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## Performance Review
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Strengths:
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- Server-side queries are mostly scoped properly
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- Overview data uses bounded yearly aggregations
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- Query prefetch + hydration patterns are used consistently
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Open concerns:
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1. Notification pagination is currently in-memory after loading all rows
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2. Large file downloads are still served from local app storage and app process memory
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Assessment: **Acceptable for UAT, not yet optimized for scale**
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## Browser / Runtime Confidence
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What was verified in this review:
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- TypeScript compile passed: `npx tsc --noEmit`
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- Lint passed with existing non-blocking warnings: `npm run lint`
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Not fully re-verified in this review:
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- Cross-browser manual testing
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- End-to-end download behavior in browser
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- Full mobile interaction regression pass
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Assessment: **Moderate confidence; recommend targeted smoke test before UAT handoff**
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## Code Changes Applied In This Review
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1. Protected announcement attachment access
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- [src/app/api/announcements/[id]/attachment/route.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/api/announcements/[id]/attachment/route.ts)
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- [src/lib/announcement-storage.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/lib/announcement-storage.ts)
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- [src/features/announcements/server/announcement-data.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/features/announcements/server/announcement-data.ts)
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2. Protected certificate download access
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- [src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/[certificateId]/download/route.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/[certificateId]/download/route.ts)
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- [src/lib/certificate-storage.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/lib/certificate-storage.ts)
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- [src/features/training-records/server/training-record-data.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/features/training-records/server/training-record-data.ts)
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- [src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/route.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/route.ts)
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3. Added audit logging for certificate upload/delete
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- [src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/route.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/route.ts)
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- [src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/[certificateId]/route.ts](/d:/WY-2569/HRD/training-system-minimal-refactor/src/app/api/training-records/[id]/certificates/[certificateId]/route.ts)
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## Database Changes
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No database schema changes were required.
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## Recommended Fixes Before Sprint 7
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1. Move notification type filtering and pagination fully into SQL
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2. Update `docs/nav-rbac.md` to reflect Auth.js + current server-side authorization model
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3. Add route-level `loading.tsx` / `error.tsx` consistency for announcements
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4. Run a focused browser smoke test for:
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- employee certificate open/download
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- HRD announcement attachment open/download
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- approval/rejection notifications
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- mixed dashboard KPI scenarios
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## Final Readiness Position
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Recommendation: **Proceed to UAT**
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Conditions:
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- Use the current build with the file-access fix included
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- Complete a short smoke test pass on attachments, notifications, and dashboard totals before handing to business users
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This is a reasonable UAT baseline. It still needs one more hardening pass before production-grade confidence.
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