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Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #19904 (New): New member welcome screenhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/199042024-03-05T22:04:29ZColin McDonald
<p>How can we go about editing the screen to which new members are redirected after registering? I think it looks something like the attached but haven't been able to get there myself recently. I wanted to explore making some changes to align with some of our work updating the invite modal in <a class="issue tracker-15 status-1 priority-4 priority-default" title="Design/UX: Invite Modal (New)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/19733">#19733</a>. Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #19070 (Resolved): Handling notifications backloghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/190702023-10-20T20:17:08ZColin McDonald
<p>We talked on the community call today (this came up on the dev call Tuesday as well) about the large number of "new" notifications users are seeing after the release this week. Power users are particularly affected, and might have a string going back years.</p>
<p>The issue is how to allow easier clearing of these items. We might consider some threshold (a year or two?) after which notifications are marked "old" by default, as well as ways to make it easier to change the status in bulk. Could there be a select all option, rather than just selecting page by page? Should we have separate tabs for Read and Unread items or ways to filter to one or the other?</p>
<p>I'm including Luke here, who had thoughts on this in particular, and Sara and Ray, it would be good to hear what you think could be helpful from your respective vantage points on this.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #18846 (Resolved): Events page filterhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/188462023-09-15T16:37:23ZColin McDonald
<p>I'm having trouble getting the campus filter here to do anything:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/</a></p>
<p>The results don't seem to change no matter what box(es) are selected, and the total number of events at the bottom don't either. Or is this because these events aren't associated with a campus at all?</p>
<p>It's good to see 125 events popping up here, at least when I'm logged in -- there are only 4 when I use an incognito window -- though a lot of the 125 events are tied to individual classes and don't have a very broad appeal.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #18841 (New): Downtime planninghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/188412023-09-14T23:27:45ZColin McDonald
<p>In light of recent issues with our server, we'd like to have a more concrete plan in place should the Commons experience significant downtime. Let's gather ideas, next steps, and preparatory materials here.</p>
<p>As a starting point, during the last few meetings we discussed establishing a Commons archive or backup. We need to hash out what that would mean:</p>
<p>- What content would we save and what wouldn't we?<br />- Would we save full site/group configurations (members, preferences, etc) prioritize Library and Media uploads, etc?<br />- Where would this archive live, and how would it be updated/tested/maintained?<br />- What would be the plan for using this in the event of an outage?<br />- Could we maintain an external list of site/group admin emails for emergency outreach?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #18150 (Resolved): Inbox tabhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/181502023-05-02T16:20:06ZColin McDonald
<p>Setting up another subtask of <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> to talk more about the Inbox tab, since Ray has moved the Settings tab along so much in <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed child" title="Feature: Account Settings Tab (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17769">#17769</a> and we have some time to look at Sara's unfinished-but-substantial work on the Inbox tab here still before she returns. Sara left this mockup:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.figma.com/proto/0Ke5bCwheE5SXXkT6wDd2l/CUNY-Design---Spring-2023?page-id=2900%3A84364&node-id=2903-93408&viewport=4098%2C6553%2C0.13&scaling=min-zoom">https://www.figma.com/proto/0Ke5bCwheE5SXXkT6wDd2l/CUNY-Design---Spring-2023?page-id=2900%3A84364&node-id=2903-93408&viewport=4098%2C6553%2C0.13&scaling=min-zoom</a></p>
<p>Ray had this point a while back in the Settings ticket:</p>
<p>- I remember Sara showing a mockup of a Commons Profile with three navigation rows. Right now, some of the Commons Profile and Inbox pages would benefit from having three rows such as "Commons Profile > Events" and "Commons Profile > Friends" and all the "Inbox" pages. I guess the subnav items for Events such as "Events > Manage" and "Events > Create" can be moved up to the Events Directory level, although "Events > Manage" has some items that are more specific to the current user such as the private iCalendar URL. The "Commons Profile > Friends > Requests" will probably be replaced with the new "Inbox" page, however we could probably move "Commons Profile > Friends > Requests" to "Inbox > Friend Requests" for now?</p>
<p>Boone helped get this planning started in <a class="issue tracker-15 status-1 priority-4 priority-default" title="Design/UX: Cataloguing notification types (New)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/17677">#17677</a> when he broke out current notification types and cut a few out. Sara's page 3 mockup lists all of those out. I think we still need to decide on how to distribute those across the three proposed Inbox tabs of Messages, Notifications, and Invitations.</p>
<p>Boone also made the point that notifications can be divided up into those that require followup (like someone requesting group membership, and you're the admin) and those that are just informational (like someone accepting your friendship request).</p>
<p>I'm now wondering, looking back at all of this, if Messages, Notifications, and Invitations is the proper logic/language for the Inbox sub tabs. It seems like a lot of items would end up under Notifications, like this breakdown, and it may be difficult for users to differentiate between them at a glance:</p>
<p>Messages:<br />11. new_message - Created by BP for user A when A receives a private message</p>
<p>Notifications:<br />1. bbp_new_reply - Created by bbPress for user A when user B posts a reply to a forum topic or reply written by A.<br />2. friendship_accepted - Created by BP for user A when user B accepts a friendship request that A sent to B.<br />3. friendship_request - Created by BP for user A when user B sends a friendship request to A.<br />5. membership_request_accepted - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin approves the request<br />6. membership_request_rejected - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin rejects the request<br />7. member_promoted_to_admin - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'admin'<br />8. member_promoted_to_mod - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'mod'<br />9. new_at_mention - Created by BP for user A when A is at-mentioned anywhere tracked by BuddyPress. Notably for our purpose, this includes blog posts, blog comments, forum posts.<br />10. new_membership_request - Created by BP for user A when A is the admin of a private group, and user B requests membership in that group<br />12. pending_booking - Created by the events-manager plugin for user A when user A has created an event with booking, and user B books for that event. events-manager is not a plugin that we run on the main site, so this must be something that happens on secondary sites</p>
<p>Invitations:<br />4. group_invite - Created by BP for user A when user B invites A to join a group.<br />***Should/can private site invites be shown here?</p>
<p>Is another possible breakdown something like this, with more specific tab titles?</p>
<p>Messages<br />1. bbp_new_reply - Created by bbPress for user A when user B posts a reply to a forum topic or reply written by A.<br />9. new_at_mention - Created by BP for user A when A is at-mentioned anywhere tracked by BuddyPress. Notably for our purpose, this includes blog posts, blog comments, forum posts.<br />11. new_message - Created by BP for user A when A receives a private message</p>
<p>Friends<br />2. friendship_accepted - Created by BP for user A when user B accepts a friendship request that A sent to B.<br />3. friendship_request - Created by BP for user A when user B sends a friendship request to A.</p>
<p>Groups & Sites<br />4. group_invite - Created by BP for user A when user B invites A to join a group.<br />5. membership_request_accepted - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin approves the request<br />6. membership_request_rejected - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin rejects the request<br />7. member_promoted_to_admin - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'admin'<br />8. member_promoted_to_mod - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'mod'<br />10. new_membership_request - Created by BP for user A when A is the admin of a private group, and user B requests membership in that group</p>
<p>Not sure:<br />12. pending_booking - Created by the events-manager plugin for user A when user A has created an event with booking, and user B books for that event. events-manager is not a plugin that we run on the main site, so this must be something that happens on secondary sites</p>
<p>And could we also just have an All tab where you see everything?</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 - Feature #17101 (New): OER tag and CC licensing notification systemhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/171012022-10-25T16:04:02ZColin McDonald
<p>We discussed in our last monthly meeting an idea to better link the OER tag during course site creation (or later editing such a site) with our Creative Commons licensing options.</p>
<p>It was proposed that if a user selects the OER tag, there would be an inline message if they have no CC license selected (either during the creation flow or on the site in Settings if the tag is being added later).</p>
<p>The message would say something like:</p>
<p>"We noticed that you have tagged your site as an OER but no CC license is present. Please CC license the open content, or the whole site in Settings>Writing. To learn more about open licensing visit our documentation [link TBD]."</p>
<p>Let's talk more about the mechanics of this, but I wanted to get the general idea down here.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #17090 (Resolved): Copy review for Create pagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/170902022-10-24T11:11:36ZColin McDonald
<p>I've put the copy of the Create page: <a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/sites/create/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/sites/create/</a></p>
<p>Into this Google Doc so we can review and potentially simplify it as per recent discussions:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_J77zctHkGwQ_eBKBKo2JUG3LwoHlKm0vUHSCXPfuQM/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_J77zctHkGwQ_eBKBKo2JUG3LwoHlKm0vUHSCXPfuQM/edit?usp=sharing</a></p>
<p>I've run through it myself already with some suggested edits (probably best to use suggest mode for any of your edits also). Among other cuts, I'm wondering if we can do away with the Key Benefits bullet points, as they're a bit redundant with the intro sentence for each section.</p>
<p>We've discussed whether to mention privacy options here, but I left that in for now. I think it helps differentiate between the three options, doesn't take up much space, and is something users seem to be interested in regularly.</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 - Bug #15153 (Resolved): Main nav Courses link brokenhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/151532022-01-05T22:02:42ZColin McDonald
<p>Clicking the Courses top nav item on public or logged-in, it goes to a redirect and broken page:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/courses/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/courses/</a></p>
<p>Starting a new ticket for this one since it's so prominent, though I know we've had other nav item issues.</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 - Bug #13149 (Resolved): Library search widget broken by new services platformhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/131492020-08-04T19:15:41ZColin McDonald
<p>Yesterday CUNY libraries a new "services platform," and the central change to me seems to be a new catalog setup that requires searches for library items to go through OneSearch:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/newLSP">https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/newLSP</a></p>
<p>An unfortunate upshot is that this breaks the library search that we offer for the sidebar and other widget areas on sites like these:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://anth1105santos.commons.gc.cuny.edu">https://anth1105santos.commons.gc.cuny.edu</a><br /><a class="external" href="https://socy3304.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://socy3304.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>And a good many more sites. Is there anything to do to fix this, or is it perhaps too big a task and we disable? Not sure too if this affects other integrations with the Library, as it seems all links to the old catalog are broken now.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #13027 (Resolved): Extraneous add doc button on profile pagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/130272020-07-08T14:38:29ZColin McDonald
<p>Hello, Scott discovered a Add A Doc button (see attached) in the Commons profile when you go to the page showing docs that you either started or edited. We're thinking we can probably just remove that.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #12143 (Resolved): Order drop-down not changinghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/121432019-11-25T17:08:10ZColin McDonald
<p>Moving this from the Commons team forum testing thread, I'm having trouble using the ordering drop-down in the new Courses tab. I'm on a Mac, and while it worked fine in Firefox, in Chrome (77.0.3865.120) and Safari (Version 13.0.3) I'm having trouble getting a new selection in the drop-down to register and load. The URLs for a new selections don't seem to load. See the screen recordings attached.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #11986 (Resolved): Permitted file types for group vs. site uploadhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/119862019-10-16T21:09:06ZColin McDonald
<p>Hello, I was looking at a separate project for Brooklyn College and noticed that in the Files area of a Group, media file types like .mp4 and .mp3 cannot be uploaded, while they go through just fine when uploading to the Media Library of a Site (provided it's under the 40MB threshold for each individual file). Is that by design? If so, I'm curious about the reasoning.</p>
<p>If it helps, the project I'm working on involves students uploading audio and video recordings from field work, and there was interest in a private area where the class could collect such files. I know that something like Dropbox or Google Drive would be a possible solution, but the Commons offers the ability to link directly to uploaded files in an external service like a podcast feed, which is also of interest.</p>