Too much to do, not enough time to do it...
PAB wants to combine the simple search (which is actually very complicated behind the scenes, since it does keyword lookups and combines them with supplementary text-searching) with the advanced search filters. This is proving virtually impossible, partly because it's just too messy -- you'd need to retrieve a document set from the keyword search in a separate step, and then filter it -- and partly because I just don't have time to implement it properly before the launch. I'll have a couple more shots at it, but things aren't looking good so far.
Made a few other changes and fixes requested with PAB, and hid the text search box, since it's doing what it says on the box (a text search), and not what PAB wants (a complicated keyword search).
Following a meeting at which we discussed strategy, and decided to focus for now on the Mayoral Pageants, worked with KMF on a range of minor display and rendering issues for primary source documents, including bylines, marginal labels, and text indents.
...on instructions from JS-R.
As planned last week.
Meeting to review the presentation -- my task now is to collapse six slides which begin with the picture of the filecard box into a single stepped diagram illustrating the old encoding process and the horrible binary result.
Started a tutorial based on SNOW1 (for the moment), and in the process of writing the first bit of it, came up against many annoyances in the rendering of egXML blocks; fixed those rendering issues (in three places, site, redesign, and codesharing. Grrr).