lang02 account
Posted by clifton on 09 Jul 2007 in Tasks
I arrived in Victoria this morning and I came to the HCMC to continue working on the Agenda project and the French Department Website. I started the afternoon by updating my workstation's OS, commandeering a new mouse pad with wrist support and asking Greg to look into an ergonomic keyboard for the Mac for the remainder of my contract.
I took time reviewing the French files that Stewart sent me earlier in the week as well as some of the example web pages provided. The file permissions for the development copy of the French website located on the lang02 account were changed so that I could access the web pages.
I next moved onto the Agenda project and I was reviewing the time table issue regarding 'zz' courses. It was noted, by Liz from the philosophy department, that courses that started after the official start time of the block were still placed at the top of that time block and were not aligned correctly. So that any course starting at 10:30, for example, would be placed at the top of the 10-11 time block, creating the illusion that it started at 10.
While this is not a bug but a feature, inherited from the previous system I noticed, while reviewing Stewart's idea for creating a 30 minute interval time sheet option to combat this issue, that within the Agenda system that there are certain times that gives the illusion that the course takes place the previous block (a more serious problem).
For example, The Philosophy Department created a 'zz' course that starts before and ends after the 10:30 - 11:30 time block (PHIL260 J01 Brown, K ELL 160 (10:20 - 12:30)) and because this course does not start at 10:30 it is placed at the top of the 9:30 - 10:30am time block which is 50 minutes before the course is scheduled to begin.
I think it would be a good idea to redesign the timetable view so that it still shows the block design but the courses were properly aligned (within 30 minute intervals). So that instead of seeing the above course starting, seemingly, at 9:30am it would be placed lower between 10 and 10:30am. I believe that this also would resolve the other issue reported by Liz, of a course starting 30 minutes late, as well.
The only issue I see with this is if there are many courses (say 3 or 4) that start at the same exact time (say 10:30am) it may stretch the time table and it may no longer fit correctly on legal size paper.
I tried to log into the the lang02 development account for the Agenda project to do some testing and I noticed that the problem that was affecting the lang account is now affecting it. So while I can log into the one located on hrd I can no longer log into the lang02 account because of the PHP session issue.
I am going to have to talk to Stewart or Martin to see if I can find the new php.ini file to add it to the lang02 account so I can continue with the new changes and testing the stretchability of the time table.
I took time reviewing the French files that Stewart sent me earlier in the week as well as some of the example web pages provided. The file permissions for the development copy of the French website located on the lang02 account were changed so that I could access the web pages.
I next moved onto the Agenda project and I was reviewing the time table issue regarding 'zz' courses. It was noted, by Liz from the philosophy department, that courses that started after the official start time of the block were still placed at the top of that time block and were not aligned correctly. So that any course starting at 10:30, for example, would be placed at the top of the 10-11 time block, creating the illusion that it started at 10.
While this is not a bug but a feature, inherited from the previous system I noticed, while reviewing Stewart's idea for creating a 30 minute interval time sheet option to combat this issue, that within the Agenda system that there are certain times that gives the illusion that the course takes place the previous block (a more serious problem).
For example, The Philosophy Department created a 'zz' course that starts before and ends after the 10:30 - 11:30 time block (PHIL260 J01 Brown, K ELL 160 (10:20 - 12:30)) and because this course does not start at 10:30 it is placed at the top of the 9:30 - 10:30am time block which is 50 minutes before the course is scheduled to begin.
I think it would be a good idea to redesign the timetable view so that it still shows the block design but the courses were properly aligned (within 30 minute intervals). So that instead of seeing the above course starting, seemingly, at 9:30am it would be placed lower between 10 and 10:30am. I believe that this also would resolve the other issue reported by Liz, of a course starting 30 minutes late, as well.
The only issue I see with this is if there are many courses (say 3 or 4) that start at the same exact time (say 10:30am) it may stretch the time table and it may no longer fit correctly on legal size paper.
I tried to log into the the lang02 development account for the Agenda project to do some testing and I noticed that the problem that was affecting the lang account is now affecting it. So while I can log into the one located on hrd I can no longer log into the lang02 account because of the PHP session issue.
I am going to have to talk to Stewart or Martin to see if I can find the new php.ini file to add it to the lang02 account so I can continue with the new changes and testing the stretchability of the time table.
