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I fixed a few bugs in the viewer search results processing. Also added buttons for "first match"/"last match".

In the administration program, I modified the markup file loader so that it can keep the user informed about progress. Previously, it sent the complete list of selected files to the server, where they were all processed and the results returned in a batch. Now the client side creates a list of the selected files, then sends them one at a time to the server. While the process is going on, a modal dialog box appears (so the user can't mess with things), with a progress bar that marches across as the files are completed. The status for each file is also displayed as they complete. There will also be a Cancel button on the dialog, which will cause the process to halt after the current file is complete.

The viewer program is now about 80% complete. The administration program is not so far along, at about 50% complete.

Backed up about half a dozen sql db's residing on csmgenr and csmgenr2. Both .sql and csv files for each. Backups in the SQL_backups folder on my mac.

While I was at it, updated my notes on the process in backupSQLdb.txt on my mac. I need to get some details from Clifton on the Agenda db.

Took off an hour early. The G&T is still creeping up, though...

Needs to be 20 minutes, including demos of ACH Abstracts and ScanCan.

Met to discuss Synergies, teiJournal and other related project, and to plan a trip to Vancouver next Friday for a meeting.

Finally got the thumbnails working: had to use negative margins on the enclosing div, rather than on the image itself. Tweaked the code a little more to get rid of duplicate returns, and then added functionality so that when you click on a hit which is inside an annotation area, you go directly to the image, with that annotation popping up for you.

Then I worked on getting the category selection list going. It was a bit complicated because the distinct-values we want to test on are attribute values, but the rendered option text we need for the drop-down is the content of a child element. In the end I got it working, so the select element is there on the search page, but at the moment it does nothing. It needs to be hooked up to a block of code which will restrict the text search based on the category, or, if there's no search text, will restrict the document list to those which have annotations in that category.

Wrote the xsl to distinguish two types of ref tags in francotoile data (one for links and another for popup notes). Testing took longer than I thought because the data had an illegal character in it. Sorted that out and then tests worked.

Then went through data files and modified those refs which were actually links to urls. Posted revised data files to server and to development computer and informed Catherine and Marie-Claude.

Made fixes on Dr. Bowman's instructions. I also noticed that some navbar code was not included in the individual Masher files for most of the units (the code that inserts the section heading graphic), so I added that to all of those files. This will most likely be missing from JMS files in other sections too, so watch out for this when making fixes elsewhere. It means that if you use the Masher to build a single file (or a unit), the exercises end up with one navbar graphic missing.