CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System: Issueshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2023-09-05T17:39:09ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System
Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #18739 (New): PDF Embedder Premiumhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/187392023-09-05T17:39:09ZSyelle Graves
<p>We have a quick question about the PDF embedder: Has the Commons team ever considered the paid version? We ask because we have a newsletter with hyperlinks that we can't embed. and it would be great to have that functionality, which I believe the paid plugin has.</p>
<p>The only alternative I know of is to use an embedded Google doc, but we don't do that because we would have to reformat all of our existing PDFs, which we’ve tried and found not worth it (tables and images take forever to convert from Word to gdocs). Anyway, we're just curious in general if the Commons has considered or would consider it, if it's not too expensive!</p>
<p>Hope it's okay to ask. Thank you!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #18561 (New): Bravada https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/185612023-08-07T21:50:26ZMarilyn WeberMweber@gc.cuny.edu
<p>Juwon Jun asks:</p>
<p>I am in the process of building a new site and wanted to ask for your advice on choosing a theme. Our team was interested in this particular website (<a class="external" href="https://hindi.la.utexas.edu">https://hindi.la.utexas.edu</a>) and want to emulate the look of it. The closest theme I could find was Bravada, but once you navigate to a sample page, the content appears at the bottom of the header. However, the Hindi at UT Austin website appears to have the content appear at the top, replacing the header video and landing page text. Is this possible to code in Bravada, or another theme?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #18213 (New): Google Analytics 4 migration documentation for usershttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/182132023-05-12T15:40:30ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>Individual sites on the Commons can have their own Google Analytics tracking. See <a class="issue tracker-1 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: StatPress performance & migrate to per-site Google Analytics (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10722">#10722</a>. Since <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: Google Analytics 4 tagging (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/13511">#13511</a>, we have supported Google Analytics 4 in addition to the legacy Universal Analytics. In Summer 2023, Google will be phasing out UA, so we should make some changes on the Commons:</p>
<p>1. Amend our help documentation to indicate that GA4 is the proper system to use, and to guide people on how to migrate their legacy UA accounts to GA4. Those users will then need to be directed on how to enter their new GA4 identifier in place of the old UA- identifier on their Commons sites.<br />2. We should change the language on the Commons dashboard panel so that it no longer indicates that both UA and GA4 are supported.<br />3. Scott, if you think it makes sense, we could build a system to build a list of sites using the old UA IDs. We can then either (a) email them, or (b) have something in the Commons (like an admin notice?) telling them to make the necessary changes, or (c) something else or some combination of these.</p>
<p>Scott, what do you think?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #18134 (New): Help site redesignhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/181342023-04-28T15:48:14Zscott vothscott.voth@verizon.net
<p>Here is a link to the redesigned Help page that I am working on, using the Twenty-twenty two theme. Any feedback would be helpful. Thanks. <a class="external" href="https://helpredesign.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://helpredesign.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #14787 (New): Creating a "Design" plugin packagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/147872021-09-17T17:20:02ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>On the community call today Anthony shared an idea that was suggested by a commons user about creating a set of plugins specifically related to site design. This could possibly be created by setting up a new "Design" plugin package.</p>
<p>The package might include: <br />A font plugin<br />A commonly used/easy-to-use slider plugin<br />Atomic blocks<br />What else?</p>
<p>Just throwing out some ideas above. Suggestions welcome, and I can do some research on plugins to include if we want to move forward.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #11834 (New): Improved tools for managing group file foldershttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/118342019-09-06T19:55:09ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>Branching off of <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Feature: Add ability to delete group file folder (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11755">#11755</a>:</p>
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<p>I’d also suggest adding the functionality of being able to change file and folder names in the Files section, mostly for the same reasons as wanting to be able to edit something once you’ve committed to it.<br />And also:<br />"One more thought: there doesn’t seem to be a way to create a folder structure for materials AFTER you’ve downloaded materials to the Files section. Can that functionality be added too?"</p>
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<p>The ability to edit folder names feels like the primary request here. "Create a folder structure after..." feels like it's asking for a way to manage folder structure (creating, deleting, renaming, re-nesting) without editing a specific File. The latter will require a much more radical rewrite of the system than the former, so maybe this is something we can do in stages. Alternatively, if we're looking toward a more unified "library" system, we might decide that this is too much of a lift for Files alone.</p>
<p>Sonja, assigning this to you, to think about when you have some free bandwidth. For background, the "folders" feature for Files is a hack: they're actually <strong>categories</strong>, but they're represented with the folder icon to more closely resemble a file-organization system on the desktop. See <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Feature: Add folder hierarchies to Group Documents plugin (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/325">#325</a>.</p> CUNY 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 - 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 - 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 - 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>
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<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>
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<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 #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 #1423 (Assigned): Show an avatar for pingback comment activity itemshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/14232011-12-09T13:45:42ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>Activity items corresponding to blog pingbacks do not currently have avatars. When it's an internal ping (from the CAC network) we could at least attempt to get the canonical blog or user avatar. And when it's not, we could try doing a Gravatar lookup based on URL or email address.</p>