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Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #19990 (Assigned): Issue on About Page when logged in as super adminhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/199902024-03-15T16:21:38ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>I went to update our About page to add Zach to the Commons community team listing and ran into a weird bug, where Laurie's profile photo is shown on a modal overlay. I am experiencing this both on a regular browser window in Chrome and an incognito browser window where I am logged in a super admin. Please see attached screenshot</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #19658 (Assigned): Site Search Not working properlyhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/196582024-02-02T17:14:59ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi all -- I wanted to find a site created last year -- <a class="external" href="https://cunydpi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://cunydpi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>I couldn't remember the URL. I noticed that when I want to Sites and tried to search, neither a search for part of the URL ("cunydpi") nor the site title ("Digital Project Institute") resulted in the site coming up -- instead, no results came up.</p>
<p>It might be worth double-checking other aspects of search (people, groups) to determine whether they are working, as well</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #19550 (Assigned): A few issues/questions around CV editorhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/195502024-01-18T17:19:39ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi All -- I just made some updates to my CV, which worked well! I have some questions, though:</p>
<p>1. I added a cover image and now want to remove it. However, I'm unable to get my cursor focus to be on the modal, so I can't scroll to see the options to remove the cover image. When I scroll, the background of the page moves, but I can't adjust the modal to the point where I can see any options. Screenshot attached and I can create a video if needed</p>
<p>2. after I updated my CV (I had one in the system previously), many content blocks were noted as problematic and I was asked to try to attempt recovery. Is this expected behavior? Screenshot attached.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #19366 (New): Commons help email addresshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/193662023-12-04T15:15:33ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Scott -- thanks so much for all of the work you did to help us transition to a new help system. I know I'm being super picky here, but how big of a deal would it be for us to create a new gmail address that is <a class="email" href="mailto:commonshelp@gmail.com">commonshelp@gmail.com</a> as opposed to <a class="email" href="mailto:commonshelpsite@gmail.com">commonshelpsite@gmail.com</a>?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #19363 (Assigned): Continued HTML weirdness with forum previewhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/193632023-12-04T02:17:25ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Ray --</p>
<p>I was just writing a message to my class using the Visual text composer, and I saw again some strangeness in the rendered HTML in the preview</p>
<p>I had entered a few blank lines using Control-Enter, which produced the <br /> code in the preview</p>
<p>I then went to the text mode and switched back to the visual mode, which added <wbr /> tags to the links in the preview (which also showed up in the notification email)</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #16670 (Assigned): Group cloning message stylinghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/166702022-08-29T03:08:53ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Having just cloned a site + group, I find the visual styling of the completion message a bit confusing:</p>
<p>1. The links to the new site and group appear in a green box, where dark green words appear over a light green background. I wonder whether this meets accessibility contrast guidelines, and I wonder whether we should style it a bit differently to make it clearer that those are the links to the group/site one just created</p>
<p>2. Because of the contrast issues above, the eye is drawn to the "checklist" link. I think it's good to share this link, but I think it's a bit confusing to be taken in to the help section rather than the groups the user just created.</p>
<p>To remedy this, I would suggest restyling so that the emphasis is on the links to the group/site just created, with the link to the help documentation made a bit less prominent.</p>
<p>To mark completion, we may want to reuse the checkmark we show following a successful sent invite to a group. Doing something like that would allow us to put the links to the new group/site against a white background, but I'll leave it to Sara to think about design</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #16307 (New): Add brief messaging to accept/decline group membership ...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/163072022-06-27T22:13:20ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>This is not a huge issue, but when I decline a group membership request, I usually like to write to the person who made the request to tell them why I had to decline. Currently, there is no way to do that other than going to the person's profile and sending a message through it. we might want to add a space for messaging to the decline action, so that people receive the decline notification along with a rationale. But maybe this is too small an edge case to be worth of development -- I'd guess this happens only a few times a year</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #15604 (Assigned): Restructure Commons Group Digest Email Messageshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/156042022-03-11T20:56:34ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>I'd like to suggest that we review and restructure the digest emails. Currently, they include the full-text of the messages, one after the other. I think we should start off the message with a list of subject lines, each of which links to the actual message on the Commons. That will allow people to see, at a glance, the full set of messages they've missed rather than having to comb through a thicket of text to find each new message in a long email.</p>
<p>There may be other things we want to do eventually, like list tags. or, perhaps (and separately) allow people to subscribe only to specific tag-related messages (ie, as a member of a group, only receiving email notifications of a specific tag, like "Jobs"</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #13949 (New): Continued debugging of runaway MySQL connectionshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/139492021-02-07T00:47:10ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Boone,</p>
<p>FYI -- there were MySQL restart alerts at 4:11pm today. I wanted to let you know in case you are better able to track info related to such outages following our recent conversations with Lihua</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #10659 (Assigned): Post to multiple groups via emailhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/106592018-11-04T17:44:54ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Increasingly, I have announcements that I need to post to multiple groups. Though we have an interface that allows us to do it easily via the web, I’d love to be able to send an email to multiple groups via a single email.</p>
<p>I recognize that this brings up all sorts of concerns about spam, but I wonder whether there is a way of restricting this behavior just to trusted users given special permission to post to multiple groups, or some other way of enabling this functionality that wouldn’t open up the Commons to spam</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #9941 (Assigned): Wiki functionalityhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/99412018-06-15T18:08:47ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Luke and I are meeting with someone from Brooklyn College, who brought up a request for wiki or wiki-like functionality on the CAC. This is the third or fourth such request I've heard in the last week. It may very well be motivated by the closing of Wikispaces, which was used often by faculty. (and we know that's what motivated the CUNY Office of Institutional Research to use the Commons).</p>
<p>I am NOT suggesting that we re-start or re-integrate MediaWiki into the CAC. But I am curious what we can tell people who want to use the Commons but are hoping to have wiki-like functionality. Can we use this ticket to explore possible lines of advice? I know that we have one wiki plugin on the CAC, but I think it requires a wiki to be hosted elsewhere and just displays the content on a CAC blog.</p>
<p>I've added a bunch of members of the team to this ticket for comment.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #9028 (Assigned): suggest groups to new members during the regist...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/90282017-12-21T01:57:22ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>We've heard from our user testing that people who join the Commons often don't know where to start when they join or what they <strong>can</strong> do on the Commons. We can all imagine someone who joins the Commons with a specific purpose in mind -- someone who, say, wants to create a website and therefore creates an account for that purpose -- but what about someone who is just looking to join the CAC community? If that person simply creates an account, there will be no interaction with that user and no real community feeling.</p>
<p>I want to suggest that as part of our new onboarding strategy, we <strong>suggest</strong> some groups to users who are interested in specific topics, and provide a menu with checkboxes that allows the user to join those groups while creating an account. Doing that will ensure that the user starts off by joining groups and that the user will receive emails from that group and feel part of a community.</p>
<p>If we had our group tagging all set up, we could move from a user's potential interests to auto-suggestions for groups. Since we don't have that in place, I want to suggest we show the user a list of the following:</p>
<p>-- the five most popular public groups on the Commons<br />-- a list of the five most popular public groups around the subject Technology<br />-- a list of the five most popular public groups around the subject of Libraries and Open Access<br />-- a list of the five most popular public groups around the subject of Teaching<br />-- a list of the five random public groups</p>
<p>In each case, the user would see the group name and a checkbox that would allow the user to join the group.</p>
<p>What do you think?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Outreach #9015 (Assigned): Email group admins the email addresses of thei...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/90152017-12-16T13:07:06ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>At the CAT committee meeting yesterday, we discussed the new customized email addresses for groups. One person spoke up to say that this was exactly the issue that had confounded faculty at her campus, and she suggested we get the word out aggressively about this feature.</p>
<p>Her suggestion, which I like, is that we email all group admins the email addresses for their groups, along with a draft message to post to their groups if they wish.</p>
<p>I'm happy to draft text for such a message, but I wanted to check on the feasibility of this. Could we pull from the database to get:<br />1. group admin names<br />2. group admin emails<br />3. group titles<br />4. email addresses for groups</p>
<p>so that we could send such an email?</p>
<p>We could simply post to the group for group admins, but doing so wouldn't give group admins customized info for the groups they administer</p>
<p>One danger to doing this is that people who admin lots of groups will get lots of emails. We may also hear from people running defunct groups, asking for our help in closing them. but maybe that wouldn't be so bad.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #8976 (Assigned): Package RBE new topics posting?https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/89762017-12-04T17:04:22ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Ray,</p>
<p>During a meeting with the MLA, they mentioned that they were implementing RBE for the Humanities Commons. I mentioned our recent work to make nice email addresses for groups and they were very interested. How hard would it be to package that up for release as a plugin and/or to add it to the RBE plugin?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #364 (New): Bulletin Boardhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/3642010-10-06T03:58:00ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I've had a few people contact me to ask about where they might post announcements. I know we've talked about something like this in the past, but here are a few ideas:</p>
<p>1. A general area where people could post announcements. We could have a checkbox on sign up that asks people whether they want to subscribe by email<br />2. A craigslist type bulletin board -- perhaps done through a group, but is access more through the forum interface than through a group interface<br />3. A general group for announcements.</p>
<p>What do you all think? I think that, generally, it should be an easy to use space that allows opt-in subscriptions.</p>