OFIS Notes from 23 Sep, 2010

Today

• Daniel: no show-stopper bugs with CS stuff. Just a pile of small bugs to figure out.
  • one request to have a staff-member enter his info. Still figuring out logistics for this. (common with Eng).
  • many instances of faculty making edits and not hitting "PUBLISH"
  • Contributions: we're relying on publication-date, which requires all three entries, so I need to temporarily show all three as mandatory. [done]
    • check submission date too; use that if it exists?
  • Employment History: display of "Period" shouldn't show 'through 0000-00-00' if no end-date.
    • Vu will do.
  • UTF8 problem (on my end, and reports): g-hat character
    • try html_entity_decode() (Vu says he sent an email about this.)
  • Academic Background: what's the definition of "Field"? - "name of discipline" error didn't make it clearer to him. Told him "Department granting the Degree"- correct? Yes. We might change the field description on the page to "Name of Discipline".
  • (on my end) instructions on contrib page says " or # of pages": he'd like to print that.
• Marlon in talks with Office of Research, progress on course critiques.
• Vu doing report upgrades.
• Beth giving presentation in a few weeks, with more sharepoint content...
• Marlon: can we get HR-ish data from IAP? (Institutional Analysis and Planning; they generate reports on campus-wide data) - not much additional that we need.
  • IAP gives marlon lots of good data already. including faculty service appointments at least down to dean's committees level.
• Beth away next week; we'll meet without her.

Future Tasks

• Daniel: research book stuff, ct'd.; test Vu's contributions import system

-- DanielAllen - 23 Sep 2010