CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System: Issueshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2023-09-27T16:05:59ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System
Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #18919 (Resolved): Settings and Inbox Mobile Testinghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/189192023-09-27T16:05:59ZColin McDonald
<p>As per the call yesterday, I'm setting up this ticket specifically for mobile testing feedback and tweaks on the Settings and Inbox tabs for the upcoming intermediate release. I have this as a subtask of the joint CV / Settings ticket <a class="issue tracker-15 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed parent" title="Design/UX: Profile CV & Account Settings (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17385">#17385</a> which maybe isn't the cleanest but seemed close enough.</p>
<p>We talked briefly about looking at how the Settings and Inbox tabs and subtasks stack in a mobile view and if we can adjust the spacing, improve the use of screen real estate, etc.</p>
<p>Sara and Ray, I'll leave this to your updates for now, and perhaps we can circle back on this with the other testers later this week.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #17416 (New): Sunsetting Digital Research Tools featurehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/174162022-12-20T17:21:03ZColin McDonald
<p>We decided during last week's dev call to sunset the Digital Research Tools (I believe referred to in the past here as the DiRT Integration category I just selected, but correct me if I'm wrong). The public URL for this directory is:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/tool/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/tool/</a></p>
<p>It seems there may be a bug here, as clicking "Show all users" for any tool doesn't ever seem to show more than one user, which is unlikely. Rather than fixing that though, we looked at Google Analytics for that URL (see attached) that suggests along with anecdotal evidence that this feature is rarely used.</p>
<p>Especially as Sara looks to simplify the profile layout in <a class="issue tracker-15 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed parent" title="Design/UX: Profile CV & Account Settings (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17385">#17385</a>, this is a good candidate to remove. You can currently access "My Tools" from this link via your profile sidebar (also see screenshot):</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/colinmcd/tools/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/colinmcd/tools/</a></p>
<p>During the dev call, Matt said that we should document this feature with some screenshots and perhaps a little bit about its original goals -- building community around users of a certain DiRT, introducing users to new tools, etc. -- and how the feature worked before we remove it entirely. It will be good to have as a reference, and who knows, maybe we revisit someday. Scott, I'm adding you as a watcher, if you don't mind taking this on.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #17102 (New): Universal footer revisions for ToS / CChttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/171022022-10-25T16:06:51ZColin McDonald
<p>As part of our Creative Commons licensing and display overhaul, we want to edit the universal footer that appears across all Commons pages (see attached for its current state).</p>
<p>The main issue is the four links that appear under the nav items: Help, Privacy, Terms of Service, Creative Commons (CC) license unless otherwise noted.</p>
<p>(Incidentally, we have another project we should resolve here to update the text at some of these links: <a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cac-community-team-project-planning/forum/topic/summer-project-review-of-commons-tos-privacy-policy-and-mission-statement-2/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cac-community-team-project-planning/forum/topic/summer-project-review-of-commons-tos-privacy-policy-and-mission-statement-2/</a>)</p>
<p>I'm proposing we change the fourth link to say Creative Commons License Info, and then instead of linking to this general CC license page that we do now:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/</a></p>
<p>Instead we link to a new page of documentation that explains a few of the CC points we've made in recent meetings:</p>
<p>- CC-licensed content on the Commons is also subject to our ToS, which allows us to truncate, show excerpts, repurpose, etc as per the needs of our design and the Commons overall<br />- The overall Commons content philosophy and distinction: You own your content on the Commons, different than on almost any other platform or social network. Explain what this means, how you can protect/export/etc.<br />- You can change the CC license of your Commons content at any time, on a space-by-space level.<br />- You can also choose no CC license at all, later or during space setup, and retain all rights with the exception of the ToS allowances mentioned above.<br />- A section on CC licensing and OER, which would be related to <a class="issue tracker-2 status-1 priority-4 priority-default child" title="Feature: OER tag and CC licensing notification system (New)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17101">#17101</a></p>
<p>This version of the universal footer would only show up on our "core" Commons pages, like the homepage and directories -- we will need to spell out what this core contains.</p>
<p>A separate version would appear for this footer on individual Commons site and group pages, which will have their own licensing decisions and display. This version could just omit the fourth link to CC information, to reduce possible confusion there.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #16549 (Resolved): Strange updates with file attachmentshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/165492022-08-01T02:21:10ZColin McDonald
<p>Maybe this is nothing, but better safe than sorry - did anyone else (maybe if you're subscribed to all Redmine updates like me) see a bunch of strange old ticket updates from Matt come through on Saturday afternoon? At a glance it seems to be something about old tickets with attachments, I think?</p>
<p>Related to <a class="issue tracker-5 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Documentation: GC Linux Service (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/16352">#16352</a> maybe? It looks like the updates to <a class="issue tracker-1 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: Help Pages (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/101">#101</a> <a class="issue tracker-1 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: Install Akismet Sitewide (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/26">#26</a> <a class="issue tracker-1 status-5 priority-5 priority-high4 closed" title="Bug: Group forum subscription (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/114">#114</a> <a class="issue tracker-1 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: User listed twice in group (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/41">#41</a> <a class="issue tracker-1 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: File Size Error on Upload (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/162">#162</a> <a class="issue tracker-1 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: SPS Profile Field Description (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/128">#128</a> are still there, but updates to #52 (a bunch) are not, and weirdly I can't find that ticket at all now. Then there was activity on new tickets #16458 #16546 #16547 but all those seem to have disappeared now too.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #16499 (Resolved): Registration page 403 errorhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/164992022-07-21T14:02:01ZColin McDonald
<p>A professor's reported hitting somewhat regular 403 errors on the /register page, and her students have as well. See attached. Any idea what could be causing this?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Documentation #15112 (Resolved): Screenshots of current/old Commons pageshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/151122021-12-20T20:25:10ZColin McDonald
<p>Matt was wondering if there's a relatively easy way to grab screenshots for posterity of the Commons pages that will be changing when we launch the redesign. I thought Boone/Ray/Sara might know of a tool of some sort for doing this automatically. Otherwise, perhaps one of us could just manually grab shots of the homepage (public and non) and primary nav pages before we go live and store them as attachments in this ticket or some other safe place.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #14884 (Resolved): Pronoun visibilityhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/148842021-10-19T18:50:24ZColin McDonald
<p>During the team meeting on Friday, we discussed whether the pronouns we added to profiles in <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Feature: Add Preferred Gender Pronouns to CAC Profile (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/13347">#13347</a> should be publicly displayed by default, and whether we should (and can technically) add a toggle to change this.</p>
<p>I've added everyone from that prior ticket as a watcher here, and I'm assigning this to Boone for now, as knowing what's possible from a tech standpoint might help guide our conversation/decisions here. In <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Feature: Add Preferred Gender Pronouns to CAC Profile (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/13347">#13347</a> we tied a lot of the display to one Wordpress display filter -- is it as easy as a toggle that targets that filter, at least for public display? Do we need to better catalog where the pronouns are appearing, on both the redesigned homepage and other public internal pages, as well as private/profile pages?</p>
<p>On the question of what to make the default behavior, we could consider making this clear during registration, noting under the pronoun field whether these are going to appear next to your name publicly or not, and that this can be changed in profile settings later.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #14731 (Resolved): Whitelist .ics files for forum/library?https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/147312021-08-27T16:02:46ZColin McDonald
<p>I just tried to include some .ics file attachments to a forum post to distribute meeting calendar items to the Commons team, and after I pressed submit I was told that they were disallowed for security reasons. I then tried to post them to the Library instead but it wouldn't allow me to select that type of file on my computer.</p>
<p>Is there a specific security risk for uploaded .ics files? If so I'm happy to work around this, but I wasn't sure if they were just part of a blanket blocking and we'd never examined them specifically.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #14001 (Resolved): Visual design for homepagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/140012021-02-16T23:45:26ZColin McDonald
<p>This milestone will include the visual design of the homepage guided by the visual direction we've established in <a class="issue tracker-15 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed child" title="Design/UX: Visual direction for redesign (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/14000">#14000</a> and the UX and wireframes in <a class="issue tracker-15 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed child" title="Design/UX: UX for homepage redesign (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/13999">#13999</a>. Once Sonja delivers full mockups for desktop and mobile and they're approved, we'll hand them over to the dev team for coding and integration with the style guide in <a class="issue tracker-15 status-1 priority-4 priority-default" title="Design/UX: Create Style Guide for Commons (New)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10439">#10439</a>.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #14000 (Resolved): Visual direction for redesignhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/140002021-02-16T23:41:22ZColin McDonald
<p>This milestone will include an exploration of the overall look and feel of the new Commons, starting with a mood board presentation Sonja will make to the team during our meeting this Friday. We'll collect feedback and follow-up here. This exercise will be the foundation of the full redesign and guide the visual design of the homepage and later sections of the CUNY Commons as the redesign is being rolled out.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #13999 (Resolved): UX for homepage redesignhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/139992021-02-16T23:33:37ZColin McDonald
<p>Here we'll define initial requirements for the new homepage structure and functions, based on our survey and team feedback. This will include explorations of what logged in and logged out users will see.</p>
<p>Sonja plans to submit initial wireframes here shortly for some initial review before our Friday meeting. I'm summarizing some conversation we've already had with Boone below so we can pick things up from there and have this all to reference.</p>
<p>Sonja was wondering how we tell which campus a user belongs to and whether we can pull that into the homepage, as well as courses for a student or teacher. Similar with academic interests.</p>
<p>Boone explained that it's possible for campus and course -- we ask for campus during signup, and courses are tied to users see <a class="issue tracker-2 status-1 priority-4 priority-default" title="Feature: Add "My Courses" to drop down list (New)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10226">#10226</a>. Later, you're not able to edit campus, but you can add (and remove) "Positions", which include Campus data. Elsewhere on the Commons, when I've needed to get campus-specific info, I end up pulling together both pieces of data.</p>
<p>But academic interests is populated with less structure and wouldn't be usable in this way in this round of development. I'm wondering though whether there is anything user-initiated that can happen on interests, like if we can set up alerts or feeds based on key phrases if people set that up.</p>
<p>We also talked about the My Commons tab back with <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed parent" title="Feature: My Commons (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/2945">#2945</a> and how it was argued that 'My Commons' should simply be the home page of the site for logged in users, but this idea was shot down. As a result, few people use it.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #13983 (Resolved): Site admin invites coming in as authorhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/139832021-02-11T19:49:51ZColin McDonald
<p>Another little bug, the invite users popup (the green modal) may be registering invites for an admin role as author instead. I noticed this on one site and thought I messed it up, then it happened again on another site where I was very careful.</p>
<p>Both of these happened when choosing the "invite others" button to pop up the modal at the end of a new site creation. I'm not sure if it's happening across the board with the modal or perhaps just when it's called up that way in the creation flow.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #13371 (Resolved): Show item folders in Library listhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/133712020-09-24T04:24:34ZColin McDonald
<p>Breaking this off of <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Feature: Folder management tool for group library (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/12821">#12821</a> and our Sept group meeting discussion of the importance of being able to see item folders in the main/list Library view. Professors want students to be able to see at the top level how items are organized, and the folders that are active. Potentially one could click on the folder name to go into that folder's contents as well. Could this be a separate column in the list view, or something else? Sonja is a watcher here and said she had ideas about this.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #12134 (Resolved): Site cloninghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/121342019-11-22T18:32:45ZColin McDonald
<p>Hello, starting a fresh ticket here to consolidate our discussions on this feature for the spring 2020 release. In the group meeting last Friday we narrowed down our plan for this.</p>
<p>We want to focus on sites for now as groups have many more content types. And our main use case will be professors looking to clone their own sites, i.e. for a new semester's class. There may be a side use case where a professor clones their site for someone else (like someone teaching another section), but the main idea is that we're not doing shared cloning where someone can clone any site they'd like. There are a lot of technical and permissions issues there. The cloning will be initiated by a current admin of the site, and they'll be the admin of the clone (which they could then invite a new admin to).</p>
<p>We need to talk about what will and won't be carried over when cloning. We don't want people to have to go back and delete a bunch of things on the clone to get it ready, or of course for student content to be carried over (for privacy reasons, but also to have a clean slate for new students).</p>
<p>Other questions are whether cloned pages should be in draft form first or live, and whether plugins are carried over as well. Boone, do you have any opinions about those, or about how we might set cloning up as sort of a branch of the Wordpress Import/Export feature where you choose different types of content to be carried over?</p>
<p>Once we hash out a few more technical questions here, and anything else I'm forgetting, Sonja perhaps we could talk about how this might be best designed for people to make use of it.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #12065 (Resolved): Tinyletter in sidebar widgethttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/120652019-11-13T16:34:32ZColin McDonald
<p>As a final step in the newsletter plugin transition covered more in #11878 and <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: Tribulant Newsletters update (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11647">#11647</a>, I'm working with the CPCP (<a class="external" href="https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a>) to put a signup box in the sidebar of their homepage linked to their new Tinyletter account. The code provided by Tinyletter is below. When I try to add it as a Custom HTML widget in Wordpress, I'm told that the <form> and <input> tags aren't allowed. Perhaps we can do a workaround or simple custom widget on this? I believe there's already some code out there from others, like here: <a class="external" href="https://github.com/frebro/wp-tinyletter-widget">https://github.com/frebro/wp-tinyletter-widget</a></p>
<pre><code>&lt;form style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;" action="https://tinyletter.com/cpcp" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('https://tinyletter.com/cpcp', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=800,height=600');return true"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;label for="tlemail"&gt;Enter your email address&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;input type="text" style="width:140px" name="email" id="tlemail" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;input type="hidden" value="1" name="embed"/&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Subscribe" /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://tinyletter.com" target="_blank"&gt;powered by TinyLetter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/form&gt;</code></pre>