CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System: Issueshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2023-12-18T17:14:51ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System
Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #19431 (New): cc'd people don't show up on Help tickets! https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/194312023-12-18T17:14:51ZMarilyn WeberMweber@gc.cuny.eduCUNY Academic Commons - Feature #11789 (New): Ability to remove item from Courses listhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/117892019-08-26T13:56:01ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I made a test course with the teaching template a few weeks ago called 'author name test". It was added to the courses list and I think it should be removed but I do not know how to remove it. I tried changing the "purpose" of the site but it remains in the courses tab list.</p>
<p>Should we have a way to remove courses from this list in case someone uses the teaching template but is not actually using the site for a course? Or should sites be removed from this list if the purpose is changed?</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> NYCDH Community Site - Feature #10626 (Assigned): Cognitive Neuroscience - Flyer and Cardshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/106262018-10-29T17:52:37ZAlex IrklievskiAIrklievski@gc.cuny.eduCUNY Academic Commons - Feature #9643 (New): Create a page on the Commons for logos etc.https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/96432018-04-20T17:56:42ZStephen Realsbrnlb@gmail.comCUNY Academic Commons - Bug #8440 (New): Create Test Email Accounts for Onboarding Projecthttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/84402017-07-26T11:05:46ZStephen Realsbrnlb@gmail.com
<p>This issue is intended to ensure that we don't forget to create a bunch (not sure how big a bunch is) of test email accounts that we can "invite" to join the commons when testing the upcoming revised Onboarding process.</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 - Feature #6426 (Assigned): Force captcha on all comments?https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/64262016-10-24T17:33:53ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Given IT's notice of spam on a Commons site, should we consider forcing captcha on all Commons blog comment forms?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #5691 (Assigned): Differing numbers on Sites displayhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/56912016-06-13T17:12:55ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Boone,</p>
<p>I'm trying to produce a grant report and get a sense of some CAC numbers. When I click on "Sites" in the nav bar, I see two different numbers 1575 in the "All Sites" tab and 2263 in the Viewing x of x info line.</p>
<p>Which is correct, and is this evidence of a bug of some kind? Or does it just reflect something like private/hidden sites that I can see as a super-admin?</p>
<p>Marking this as high priority only because I'm trying to get the report in and would appreciate a quick answer if at all possible.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #5581 (Assigned): Explore alternatives to Google Analyticshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/55812016-05-22T01:07:32ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Per our discussion at the May 20 subcommittee meeting, please explore alternatives to Google Analytics. Thank you!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #5316 (Assigned): Prompt user email address updateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/53162016-03-10T20:08:16ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>I think it can be hard for people to figure out how to change the email address they have associated with the Commons -- sometimes because of confusion between the display email in the profile and the one associated with their account, sometimes due to trouble figuring out where to go to change the email address.</p>
<p>In a separate ticket (<a class="external" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/3657">https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/3657</a>), Boone wrote:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>How's this for a plan: For all gc.cuny.edu users, show a prompt on next visit that says something like "The Graduate Center has recently migrated student accounts from the gc.cuny.edu domain to gradcenter.cuny.edu. If your email has changed, we can change your Commons profile for you. [No, keep <a class="email" href="mailto:mgold@gc.cuny.edu">mgold@gc.cuny.edu</a>] [Yes, change to <a class="email" href="mailto:mgold@gradcenter.cuny.edu">mgold@gradcenter.cuny.edu</a>]"</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I routinely run into such alerts on social media services, and I think running a one-time alert for Commons users that appears after log-in would be really useful in that it could enable people to either confirm their email addresses or quickly take them to a space where they can change their address. I think that most people are under the misapprehension that they need to use CUNY addresses for the site, even though we just require that at sign up.</p>
<p>Luke, Chris, Sam, Boone -- what do you think?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4635 (New): Allow non-WP authenticationhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/46352015-09-19T01:16:57ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>The Commons was built independent of CUNY's central IT. We found it easier to use WordPress's native authentication rather than jump through the hurdles necessary to integrate with the CUNY Portal or other SSO services offered by CUNY. The Commons is in a different place today, and the technologies used for authentication by CUNY - as well as the technologies generally used for centralized authentication - are different from those in 2009 and 2010. It used to be a useful hurdle, and indeed a point of pride, that the Commons's separate registration was an obstacle for widespread use of the site. This is no longer true.</p>
<p>Let's use this ticket for some general discussion about improving login workflows. As we start to make decisions about priorities, etc, we can create separate tickets for specific tasks.</p>
<p>I think we should pursue two different strategies in parallel:<br />1. Allow authentication against CUNY identity systems. I guess this would mean the Portal, which I assume is powered by LDAP. But it could potentially mean integration with authentication systems on individual campuses, if we were insane enough to go that route.<br />2. Allow authentication with external OAuth providers. Off the top of my head, the obvious candidates are Google/GMail, Facebook, and Twitter.</p>
<p>Option 2 is nice because it'll cover a huge percentage of our user base, and it doesn't require permission from CUNY. However, we'll probably still need to check against a CUNY email account to verify that the user is a CUNY person. Option 1 is nice because, in theory, everyone should have an account; but it's also confusing because CUNY has so many logins, and I have no idea who we'll have to talk to to be whitelisted for their API. Going with option 1 first also means that we won't have to redesign the registration flow - we can do the normal send-an- activation email step, or even skip it, while in the case of Facebook etc we'll need to have an alternative flow for verifying CUNYhood.</p>
<p>In either case, we can probably use the authentication API to pull more than just authentication data - stuff like email addresses, first/last names, contacts, etc would be possible down the road.</p>
<p>We'd need workflows that account not only for new members, but also for existing members who want to log in using another auth system - a "claim your account" system, maybe. And we'll probably need to redesign/customize the login flow to account for the multiple login possibilities.</p>
<p>What do people think? Where should we focus our energies first?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #3230 (Assigned): Scripts for quicker provisioning/updating of de...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/32302014-05-28T13:42:42ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>As the Commons team grows, more people are faced with the task of creating a local enviroment that mirrors the Commons for their development work. This is currently not an easy task. At a high level, you have to:</p>
<p>- make sure that a *AMP environment is running on your computer, and is roughly compatible with the server software running on the Commons production server<br />- clone the Commons repo<br />- download and import some version of the Commons database into your own local database<br />- do a bunch of wizardry to ensure that either you can switch your local environment to self-identify as 'commons.gc.cuny.edu', or to swap out with a local dev URL like 'commons.local.dev' or 'local.cicdev.com'<br />- maybe get some representative piece of the data at wp-content/blogs.dir/</p>
<p>Each of these steps is fraught with issues about data integrity, implementation details, and various, unpleasant gotchas.</p>
<p>Let's start to work toward something a bit more organized. I'm going to suggest the following as a starting point:</p>
<p>- Let's use Vagrant for VM management, since it's pretty widely used in the WP community<br />- Pick a provisioning tool - bash, Puppet, Salt, Chef, etc - for doing environment provisioning. I don't have a ton of experience here, so if anyone has thoughts, please jump in<br />- Write the necessary provisioning scripts to mirror the Commons fairly well (keeping in mind that we don't control the Commons environment directly, and that the Commons runs RHEL, which means we'll need to use a pretty-close free alternative OS)<br />- Write some scripts to handle fetching recent versions of Commons data, including a "cleaned-up" version of production data (I'll open a separate ticket for this)</p>
<p>I think this would be a cool summer project. Dom, I'm going to assign to you for the moment, as it seems up your alley, and ask you to give your initial thoughts.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #3090 (Assigned): Prevent Retweets from showing up on Commons twi...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/30902014-03-03T01:23:46ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Dom,</p>
<p>I looked at the twitter page (<a class="external" href="http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/twitter/">http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/twitter/</a>), where the default setting is to show tweets from members of the CUNY Academic Commons. But because it shows retweets, the most noticeable thing to me at first look were tweets from people not associated with CUNY.</p>
<p>Is there any way to prevent retweets from showing up, so that all we see are tweets directly from our members?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #370 (Assigned): Guest Accountshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/3702010-10-08T15:15:19ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>We have just had an inquiry about bringing 15-20 non CUNY people on to the site for a conference. These kinds of decisions would be much easier to make if we had some sort of guest accounts, perhaps with limited permissions (the ability to participate in a specific blog, for instance, but not to create a new one or to edit wiki pages.)</p>
<p>What do you think? Helpful? Unnecessary? Let me know</p>