CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System: Issueshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2020-01-27T16:23:58ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System
Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Support #12328 (New): Sign up Code for Non-CUNY Facultyhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/123282020-01-27T16:23:58ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I am in touch with two faculty teaching a data viz course this spring. They would like to join the commons to set up their course but do not have cuny email addresses. Can I provide them with a sign up code to allow them to join? If so, how does the code get created?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Laurie</p> AD/O365 Transition from NonMatric to Matriculated Students - Feature #12062 (In Progress): creat...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/120622019-11-12T20:50:21ZEmilio RodriguezCUNY Academic Commons - Support #12004 (Reporter Feedback): Notifications for spam blog commentshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/120042019-10-22T18:30:17ZGina Cherry
<p>You recently added functionality to the Commons so that the site administrator receives an email notification when a comment goes to spam. This worked for awhile, but today I noticed two comments in spam for which I was not notified.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #11879 (New): Hypothesis comments appearing on multiple, different pd...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/118792019-09-19T16:36:30ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>A professor has reported a very weird hypothesis issue. I am not sure if this is a Commons bug or hypothesis bug.</p>
<p>This professor uploaded a PDF (book chapters 5-7) for a course in 2017 link here: <a class="external" href="https://via.hypothes.is/https://spa114fall171.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/3395/files/2017/09/La-Frontera-5-6-7.pdf">https://via.hypothes.is/https://spa114fall171.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/3395/files/2017/09/La-Frontera-5-6-7.pdf</a></p>
<p>This semester, the professor will be using the same reading (only chapter 5) so she uploaded a shortened version to the media library for her new course: <a class="external" href="https://via.hypothes.is/https://span2204.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/8302/files/2019/09/Chapter-5.pdf">https://via.hypothes.is/https://span2204.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/8302/files/2019/09/Chapter-5.pdf</a></p>
<p>*to view the readings page on the Span2204 site the pw is Fall2019</p>
<p>The problem: the new chapter 5 pdf pulls in the old comments from the original chapters 5-7 pdf. The pdfs are on different commons sites in different media libraries. It appears that both pdfs are stored in WP-content blogs directory but seem to have different file numbers and names.</p>
<p>I dont think this is a plugin issue since she was using the via hypothesis link, not the plugin to add the annotation layer on these pdfs. Moreover, when I installed the plugin on the Span2204 site, the pdfs cannot be read because the via hypothesis link is added to the pdf url twice.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #11517 (Assigned): wp-accessibility plugin should not strip 'targ...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/115172019-06-04T15:08:25ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>The default setting of wp-accessibility is to strip 'target="_blank"' from links. See <a class="issue tracker-1 status-8 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: Links not opening in new tab (Duplicate)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11512">#11512</a>, <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: open link in a new tab not working (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11002">#11002</a>.</p>
<p>In <a class="issue tracker-1 status-8 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: Links not opening in new tab (Duplicate)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11512">#11512</a>, Gina suggests that this should not be the default behavior:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Since the plugin appears to insert such a warning in the HTML, would it be possible to configure it so that it does not default to removing the target attribute from links? Removing the target attribute is likely to be confusing for other users of the Teaching template.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I personally am not a fan of target="_blank". See <a class="external" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10712#note-2">https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10712#note-2</a> and follow-up conversation. Moreover, I'm not a huge fan of messing with the default settings of third-party plugins, because it complicates updates and puts us out of step with their documentation, etc. But if others feel strongly that the current behavior is potentially confusing, it's probably possible to change the default behavior, either globally or in the case of the Teaching Template only.</p>
<p>I'm assigning this to Laurie as she's been the point person for building these templates, but general feedback is welcome.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #11149 (Reporter Feedback): comments getting blockedhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/111492019-02-25T15:15:05ZMarilyn WeberMweber@gc.cuny.edu
<p>User Ralitsa Todorova writes:<br />"I am using the commons for the courses I am teaching and have a discussion board component where students needs to submit posts. Each week now, there are a handful of students whose responses get flagged as spam, even though they’ve created accounts (and I’ve made the page visible only to those with accounts) and have had posts approved that have gone through before. Is there any way to fix this so that it stops spamming their messages? I get flooded with panicked emails each weekend and it would really help if the site would stop blocking their posts."</p>
<p>I suspect you'll have follow-up questions. LMK what to ask.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #11131 (Reporter Feedback): Image Annotation Pluginshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/111312019-02-20T17:23:54ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Recently, a faculty member asked about installing the PRO version the plugin 'Draw Attention' (<a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/draw-attention/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/draw-attention/</a>) for image annotation for her art history class. The free version currently on the Commons only allows annotation on one image per site and she was hoping to use it for student assignments (30-60 images per site). The plugin does not have front-end annotation but rather requires the user to create the annotations through the dashboard area of the plugin. In the dashboard, users select the clickable areas for front-end users to explore. From what I can tell in the free version, like a post, a user chooses an image, adds content (annotations) and posts the image. Tested here: <a class="external" href="https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?da_image=123">https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?da_image=123</a></p>
<p>The plugin is fairly easy to use through the dashboard interface but its unclear whether users can annotate images posted by others (but probably not, like posts)so its possible that this plugin does not allow for shared/collaborative annotation on a image.</p>
<p>Just FYI, the PRO version costs $74/year for one site and $124/year for unlimited sites, but I know the Commons tends to steer away from paid plugins. Moreover, dashboard editing and non-collaborative annotation may not be not ideal for a class setup. I think front-end annotation might work better since having users access the image through the back-end and set up annotations might be confusing for students and require admin user status as opposed to author status.</p>
<p>I'm not sure of other tools that do collaborative image annotation (other than VOCAT). One possibility is Demon Image Annotation but this plugin might work the same way as Draw Attention</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/demon-image-annotation/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/demon-image-annotation/</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #10678 (Reporter Feedback): Newsletter Plugin Not Sending Out Newslet...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/106782018-11-08T02:56:19ZMark Webb
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>The Newletter plugin for the CPCP website (<a class="external" href="https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu">https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu</a>) is again having issues. Newsletters are not sending out. You then have to go in and manually run the queue but this takes forever and stops on its own unless you go back and run again. Any idea what is happening? Is it related to the WP Cron? How can we fix it? Thanks,</p>
<p>Mark</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #10368 (Assigned): Use ORCID data to populate academic profile pagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/103682018-09-21T20:22:55ZStephen Francoeurstephen.francoeur@baruch.cuny.edu
<p>As discussed at today's CUNY CAT meeting, it would be great if the new profile page template that is in the works could pull your publication data from ORCID.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #10262 (Reporter Feedback): Newsletter Plugin: Broken Image at Bottom...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/102622018-08-29T21:53:46ZMark Webb
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am writing on behalf of the Center for Place Culture and Politics. We are having an issue with the Newsletter plugin. Every time we send out a newsletter using this plugin there is a broken image with the letters Hr at the bottom. I do not see anything in the html code of the newsletters to indicate why this appears. I have attached what it looks like here. Any ideas what is going on? Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #9908 (New): Is it possible to send email updates to users (or an...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/99082018-06-08T22:16:26ZMichael Shields
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>Here's the issue that we've been discussing internally:</p>
<p>We need to find a way to announce and keep a record of data quality issues. We're currently using the IR Director Listserv for this but a few days after a data alert has been sent out, people forget about it. What we would love to do is to have some sort of prompt to send out an alert email when an update has been made to only a single page (in this case, <a class="external" href="https://oirap.commons.gc.cuny.edu/alerts-data-quality-issues/">https://oirap.commons.gc.cuny.edu/alerts-data-quality-issues/</a>). The reason why I say a prompt is because we frequently make updates to pages before sharing them.</p>
<p>Thanks very much!!</p>
<p>-Michael</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #7828 (Assigned): Theme Assessment 2017https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/78282017-03-24T14:03:37ZMargaret Galvan
<p>I am performing an assessment of the network enabled themes on the Commons, building off previous work by Laura Kane--who started a spreadsheet on this topic in 2014--and Kelly Josephs--who made edits/additions to this spreadsheet last year, which resulted in this thread and the acquisition of some new themes: <a class="external" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/5838">https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/5838</a></p>
<p>In looking at the themes on the Commons, I am comparing them against network enabled theme lists for OpenLab, Blogs@Baruch, Macaulay ePortfolio, OpenCUNY, and NYU WP (<a class="external" href="https://wp.nyu.edu/">https://wp.nyu.edu/</a>). I asked for and received a list of themes active on OpenLab and Blogs@Baruch in late January, and I gathered the remaining information for the other three installations myself since I am an active participant on these systems. Later in the process, I'll be looking to the themes lists from these platforms for suggestions for new themes, but here's a quick bit of information right now. Macaulay ePortfolio has 211 network enabled themes (includes some child themes), Blogs@Baruch has 99, the Commons has 85, OpenCUNY has 59, NYU WP has 47, and OpenLab has 14.</p>
<p>In assessing our themes, I'm going to be paying close attention to when the themes were last updated on WP.org because out-of-date themes can stop working well and won't be taking into account recent trends in theme development towards responsiveness, multiple platforms, and accessibility. As I do this, I'll also be paying attention to accessibility and making sure we have or consider acquiring a healthy set of accessible themes. I will be digging into information and contacts that Luke provided when I near this step. At the end, I'm hoping to produce a white paper with suggestions that will be useful to the Commons, but which I hope to share with the other platforms as a way of saying thanks for sharing their information.</p>
<p>I will also be making documentation on the Help site for new users about how to choose a theme, likely once the theme assessment is farther along. I am considering drafting from this post that I wrote for OpenCUNY: <a class="external" href="http://opencuny.info/2015/08/27/how-to-choose-a-theme-5-tips/">http://opencuny.info/2015/08/27/how-to-choose-a-theme-5-tips/</a> I welcome comments and suggestions about how to adapt this information for the Commons, in addition to changing the names of the theme suggestions once the assessment nears completion.</p>
<p>At this stage, I am performing a sweep through our theme list. 60 of the 85 are not actively searchable through the WordPress.org theme interface <a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/themes/">https://wordpress.org/themes/</a>. That means that either they were acquired outside of this repository or that they haven't been updated in 2 years and have been removed from being searchable. I'm working right now on determining what the situation is for each of these unsearchable themes, working in part from the spreadsheet mentioned at the beginning of this post alongside resources like this list of themes retired on WordPress.com (note sometimes these themes continue to be developed on WordPress.org, but often not): <a class="external" href="https://theme.wordpress.com/all-retired/">https://theme.wordpress.com/all-retired/</a></p>
<p>Some questions at this juncture:<br />1. What is the process for updating themes acquired outside of the WordPress.org framework? I'm thinking here of themes from places like Elegant Themes and Woo Themes.<br />2. Would there be a way to get dates for when these themes were last updated on our system? To my knowledge, this information doesn't exist within the WordPress interface--even at the network admin level--but it would be easy to acquire by, for example, looking at the dates that the folders of the theme files were last updated through an FTP interface.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #6644 (Reporter Feedback): White Screen at Login Pgehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/66442016-11-08T17:07:40ZLuke Waltzerlwaltzer@gc.cuny.edu
<p>Getting a white screen at <a class="external" href="https://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php">https://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php</a> (all browsers). Once logged into Commons in the browser, I can navigate to the Dashboard by manually navigating to <a class="external" href="https://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/">https://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/</a>, but the <a class="external" href="http://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php">http://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php</a> stays white.</p>
<p>This issue was first reported by Amanda Licastro.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Publicity #5298 (New): Survey Pop-Up Texthttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/52982016-03-08T17:05:23ZSamantha Raddatz
<p>I think the pop-up asking people to take the survey should be short and sweet. How about this?</p>
<a name="Help-us-improve-the-CUNY-Academic-Commons"></a>
<h2 >Help us improve the CUNY Academic Commons...<a href="#Help-us-improve-the-CUNY-Academic-Commons" class="wiki-anchor">¶</a></h2>
<a name="Please-take-this-5-minute-survey-about-your-use-of-the-Commons-and-be-entered-to-win-a-brand-new-iPad"></a>
<h3 >Please take <a href="https://cunyacademiccommons.typeform.com/to/o3IPTa" class="external">this 5 minute survey</a> about your use of the Commons and be entered to win a <strong>brand new iPad</strong>!<a href="#Please-take-this-5-minute-survey-about-your-use-of-the-Commons-and-be-entered-to-win-a-brand-new-iPad" class="wiki-anchor">¶</a></h3>
<p>(Screenshot of the pop-up styling attached for reference)</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #4235 (Assigned): Explore user experience around comments on fo...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/42352015-06-26T20:51:10ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Per Marilyn's comments here, Sam - <a class="external" href="http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cac-community-team-project-planning/docs/2015-budget-request-report/#comment-1837">http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cac-community-team-project-planning/docs/2015-budget-request-report/#comment-1837</a> - can you please explore this issue in a future round of user testing? Thank you</p>