Depts

Worked with SA to model the db structure, and then to build the GUI component for the rather large documents table. Added four new one-to-many fields which replace existing plain-text comma-delimited fields. SA will now run some SQL against the db to parse out the data from the old fields, and create links in the relation tables.

Judy and I met with SB of History. She is a member of the Early Modern Research Collective and they want to have a website for their activities.

We discussed the objectives of the site, which would be to show undergraduate and graduate students the range of courses that have an element of interest in them, provide profiles of faculty researching and teaching in relevant areas and to provide notice of upcoming events of potential value to anyone with an interest in this historical period.
They will likely use the UVic templates to minimize the implementation work. She will talk with her colleagues about the degree to which they wish to maintain content themselves and the degree to which they wish us to maintain content under their instructions.
Also talked about managing a collection of images and metadata for those images and commentary/annotations on elements within each image.

...on DR's instructions. One update needs to be done over the weekend.

EW is adding new sessionals and prof-specific course descriptions to the department website. She had little problem creating new course descriptions for existing professors, but of course didn't know all the details for creating a new professor. Had a couple of minor errors introduced in the courses_taught.php update, which had catastrophic results, but were fairly easily fixed.

Here's the full procedure when a new person is added to the department.

in your FTP program (FileZilla), Edit inside the people folder :
- create a folder for the person, using their last name in lower case (e.g. "wick")
- copy (rather than move) the index.php file from people/prof1/ into the people/wick/ folder

in a text editor, Edit the people/wick/index.php file :
- replace one instance of "proflastname" with the professor's last name in lower case
- replace two instances of "profname" with the professor's full name in normal case

in Contribute or a text editor, Edit the file people/wick/index.php :
- edit the content of the page

in a text editor, Edit the file includes/course_listing/courses_taught.php :
- copy the five-line block of code for professor xxxxx
- paste it just after the last name on the list
- replace xxxxx inside the single quotes inside the square brackets on each line with the prof's lastname in lower-case
- replace Xxxxxx, x inside the double-quotes on the first line with the prof's display name

in a text editor, Edit the file includes/secondaryNavbar.php :
- add an entry for the person.

in a text editor, Edit the file people/index.php :
- add an entry for the person

in an FTP program, Edit inside the folder people/wick/ :
- create a folder called "courses"
- create a folder called "cv"

In the folder people/wick/cv/ :
- if you upload a file called cv.pdf, then a link to that file will appear on the person's page

And here's the procedure for each new course:

in an FTP program, Edit inside the folder people/wick/courses/ :
- create a folder for each course that person teaches and name it the number of the course (e.g. "330")

In the folder people/wick/courses/330/ :
- create (or copy) a plain text file called description.inc (that is the text of the professor-specific details of the offering that appears on the courses page and on the professor's page).
- If you upload any other files into the 330 folder, it's name will appear and a link to it will appear at the end of the description.

in a text editor, Edit the file includes/course_listing/courses_taught.php :
- add the course number to the appropriate line in that professor's block (course number goes in quotation marks and is separated from previous course number by a comma - see example in file)

Got request from AY to create a tertiary level of navigation for Major, Honours, Minor and Applied Ethics programs. Took a look it and proposed that each of those would have to go on a separate page to make the navigation consistent with rest of site and workable mechanically. Haven't heard back.

Also discovered that the home page had hardcoded certain blocks of code which all the other pages were obtaining from PHP includes, so modified the home page to use those includes as well.