Depts

BI wanted images of the appropriate flag (British, French, Russian) to appear depending on the language selected.

I added a class attribute

<h3><a title="English" href="?lang=english"><img src="images/en.gif" alt="UK flag icon" class="english" /> English</a></h3>
<h3><a title="Français" href="?lang=french"><img src="images/fr.gif" alt="French flag icon" class="french" /> Français</a></h3>
<h3><a title="Русский" href="?lang=russian"><img src="images/ru.gif" alt="Russian flag icon" class="russian" /> Русский</a></h3>

There's already a javascript method display_language_elements(show_language) invoked on page load which hides and shows elements based on their class attribute. Also had to add a float right css rule to ensure the images appeared on right edge.

JS-R called to say he wanted to order the documents by id, and to show the actual filenames of the pdfs etc. rather than the attachment icon. Made those changes in his codebase.

1) go to http://www.uvic.ca/systems/loginspasswords/secondarynetlinkid/
2) click on Online form, which takes you to https://helpdesk.uvic.ca/tools/index.php?next_page=netlink/secondary.php
3) authenticate
4) fill in form.

Done on MK's instructions.

MJ had omitted October from the list of months used to generate the search interface drop-down. Took me a while to figure it out, but an easy fix. My code needed fixing in my Version 4 folder, as well as in the test version I have in my local Tomcat; then I had to push the change up to the version running on Lettuce's Tomcat, as well as the one on Pear.

Did a small update to the site for JS-R. Also included the update on the beta site.

JS-R came by to discuss his plan for a database project dealing with historical property records. The data is quite baggy and complicated, and is currently outgrowing a spreadsheet he's using. We'll need to do some careful planning before implementing the db, because it's not really clear from looking at the spreadsheet what the core data tables should be; there are lots of one-to-many relationships, and lots of necessary duplication of data (people, even if identical in all respects, cannot be assumed to be "the same", for instance). He's going to write a brief summary of the project and its needs, and I'll add to that a technical description, then Stew can take the project to the committee for approval.

Two more screenshots for JJ.

Added new info for Helgason's recent lectures, updated some MP3s from a previous lecturer, fixed some names which needed to be in conventional rather than Icelandic order, and changed the sorting system so that lecturers sorted by date are shown in descending order (newest first).