System Notices
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Updated google.css (Websupport): Wednesday, 4:40 pm, November 4th, 2009
Updated the google.css style sheet:
/* @override https://www.sandiego.edu/css/google.css */
div.gresults {
border-top-width: .2em;
border-top-style: inset;
border-top-color: grey;
}
div.gresults div.resultitem {
padding-bottom: .7em;
padding-top: .7em;
line-height: 1.4em;
}
div.resultitem div.snippet div.info span.res_url {
color: darkgreen;
}
div.gresults div.resulttitle {
font-size: 120%;
font-weight: normal;
}
div.gresults div.subitem {
margin-left: 3em;
}
div.gresults div.info {
font-size: 90%;
}
Updated faculty listing logic (Cas): Tuesday, 11:21 am, November 3rd, 2009
Made the following change to /web/includes/arts/php/biographies.phpi to accomodate a new type in the departments table:
// 11/03/09 mandersen added 'graduate'
public $leaderTypes = array(
'administration'=>'Dean',
'program'=>'Program Director',
'department'=>'Department Chair',
'center'=>'Center Director',
'graduate'=>'Graduate Director',
);
Adjusted CAS primary navigation style (Cas): Friday, 1:53 pm, October 30th, 2009
Reduced the space between items in the primary navigation to accomodate longer titles.
Change in structure.css:
ul#areas > li > a {
border-top: solid transparent .3em;
padding-top: .8em;
/* pixel use due to aligning to background image above */
margin-top: 6px;
margin-left: 2em;
/* 10/30/09 mandersen reduced margin so that we can fit more in the navigation bar margin-right: 2em; */
margin-right: 1.5em;
padding-left: 0;
padding-right: 0;
height: .9em;
}
Change in ie6.css:
/* 10/30/09 mandersen added the following for consistent display */
ul#areas li a{
padding-right: 1.375em;
}
Updated home.phpi to have $choice = 6 (Cas): Thursday, 11:37 am, October 29th, 2009
In coordination with putting the new feature story up on the CAS homepage, I also updated home.phpi so that the default image upon coming to the page is the new feature.
public function feature($folder, $rotationSeconds) {
$choice = 6;
$this->makeFeature($folder, $rotationSeconds, $choice);
}
Added displayTitles() to calendars.phpi (Websupport): Wednesday, 11:10 am, October 28th, 2009
The main calendars.phpi (in the insites account) now has a displayTitles() for displaying a simple list of news items. I've also added a corresponding function to the CAS calendars.phpi.
Apply Now Changes, Includes Changes (Business): Thursday, 3:39 pm, October 22nd, 2009
Change to: /business/includes/templates/apply.html
Has text changed from "Apply Now" to "Click Here to Apply"
Change to: structure.css
p.apply no longer has text-transform style.
Change to: /includes/business/templates/footer.html
MBA link name (Joint Degrees->Dual Degrees) changed, URLs fixed accordiongly
displayNewsList escapes titles (Websupport): Thursday, 12:22 pm, October 22nd, 2009
The displayNewsList function now escapes special characters in titles; for example, ampersands will become &.
Cookies now registered with $_REQUEST (Coding): Wednesday, 11:16 am, October 21st, 2009
Cookies were disabled as part of $_REQUEST by default on the new server; they are now registered with $_REQUEST along with GET and POST information.
mail.phpi and email.php lost mail (Websupport, Coding): Wednesday, 11:11 am, October 14th, 2009
The mail.phpi plugin (and the email.php include) were not working after the upgrade yesterday morning, up to 9:45 AM this morning. No messages were inserted into the database and so no messages were sent out. This should have caused an error to appear on your pages which your visitors could see, so they should know that the mail wasn't sent.
CSS addition for Template B1 news section (Cas): Tuesday, 2:59 pm, October 13th, 2009
Added the following to structure.css to limit the width of the images that are displayed in the news modules for the B1 template:
body.B1 div.news img {
max-width: 11em;
}
Webserver upgraded (Websupport, Coding): Tuesday, 6:49 am, October 13th, 2009
The web server has been upgraded to new hardware and new software this morning from 5:28 to 5:32. It is now running Apache 2.2.11 and PHP 5.3.0.
news display.phpi removes duplicate postings (Websupport): Wednesday, 2:29 pm, October 7th, 2009
display.phpi now groups by ID as well, IF a department-based restriction is requested. Note that only one department ID is thus kept in the record. If this matters, we'll need to GROUP_CONCAT them, and reprogram whatever is using the ID to expect more than one ID.
show.phpi groups to avoid duplicates (Websupport): Tuesday, 3:37 pm, October 6th, 2009
show.phpi uses $news->group('organizations.title') to group by the item ID, thus removing duplicates and displaying all departments in one cell.
Change to displayYear function (Cas): Tuesday, 2:48 pm, October 6th, 2009
Made the following in /cas/web/calendars.phpi so that we will check for the destinationID in displayYear function (to address an issue with the Clubs & Activities modules):
// Removed the following line on 10/06/09 so that we would pay attention to the destinationID (mandersen)
//$destinationID = false; // Anywhere
show.phpi escapes title HTML (Websupport): Monday, 12:18 pm, October 5th, 2009
Because show.phpi uses a callback, it wasn't escaping HTML in titles, including stray ampersands. I've fixed that by adding htemlentities() to the callback.
EasySQL latest more reliable (Coding): Thursday, 10:52 am, October 1st, 2009
I've made the latest() method more reliably access the latest row. It should now work when focussed.
improved news/event separation in css (Cas): Friday, 10:50 am, September 25th, 2009
I added this to the home.css style sheet:
div#newsevents ul {
clear: both;
}
This fixes a problem where in IE7, the list of events doesn't clear the list of featured events. I couldn't see any reason why this shouldn't also affect other browsers, so I added it to the main style sheet.
Dual features on home page (Cas): Thursday, 9:04 am, September 24th, 2009
I've copied the new ->news method into home.phpi; the CAS home page now displays up to two featured items.
home.css and IE7.css changes (Cas): Wednesday, 4:33 pm, September 23rd, 2009
home.css
/* added for multiple features, specifically for #news div -sonhoang 9/23/09 */
div#newsevents #news ul li {
clear: left;
}
ie7.css
/* following fixes for multiple featured items on home page -sonhoang 9/23/09 */
body.home div#content div#newsevents div#news ul.choices li {
padding-top: .6em;
margin-top: 0;
}
body.home div#content div#newsevents div#news ul li {
padding-top: 0;
margin-top: .813em;
}
body.home div#newsevents div#news h3 {
float: left;
}
body.home div#events ul.featured li {
width: 7.5em;
}
home.css and page.phpi changes (Cas): Wednesday, 2:42 pm, September 23rd, 2009
In preparation for multiple features on the CAS home page, I changed home.css so that all list items under div#newsevents clear:both instead of just ul.regular_news; I also added one line to page.phpi's featuredNews method to reset $featureCount to the actual number of found features. "Ask me about pass-by-reference."
Added Honors Program to Quicklinks (Cas): Tuesday, 3:34 pm, September 22nd, 2009
Added Honors Program to the "Programs and Centers" section of the CAS Quicklinks.
<li><a href="/cas/honors/">Honors Program</a></li>
Software Upgrade (Usd-sites): Monday, 1:33 pm, September 21st, 2009
Wordpress MU has been upgraded to 2.8.4.
home.css change (Peacestudies): Thursday, 4:21 pm, September 17th, 2009
/* added 9-17-09, no color was specified before -sonhoang */
div.story p a {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #70752b;
}
div.story p.more a {
text-decoration: none;
}
Contact info includes office location (Cas): Thursday, 10:12 am, September 17th, 2009
The contact info for Arts and Sciences home pages now includes the office location.
show.phpi uses joins and no auto focus (Websupport): Wednesday, 2:41 pm, September 16th, 2009
The show.phpi include file no longer uses foreignKey to display the category name and the department name in lists. It uses a join for category and a longjoin for department. This also means that it uses the new system that allows for multiple departments.
It also sets noAutoFocus so that when a web page only has one valid news or event item, it will not auto focus on that item.
sql.phpi number fields not reformatted after callback (Coding): Wednesday, 2:39 pm, September 16th, 2009
When using callbacks in sql.phpi, if a number field is subject to a callback it will not be reformatted (just as dates and times are not reformatted).
display.phpi uses new system (Websupport): Tuesday, 12:17 pm, September 15th, 2009
Any page relying on display.phpi (including the new calendars.phpi) is now using the new system that allows multiple departments per item.
MySQL plug-in escapes ampersands in forms (Websupport): Monday, 12:43 pm, September 14th, 2009
The MySQL plug-in now correctly escapes ampersands and other HTML in pull-down menus and option values.
It also surrounds the submit button with a paragraph of class "submit", since input buttons cannot be "naked" in a form.
content.css (Business): Thursday, 11:55 am, September 10th, 2009
/* table styles added to help maintainers customize spacing -sonhoang 9/10/09 */
div.main_content table p {
margin: 0;
}
content.css change (Peacestudies): Friday, 9:41 am, September 4th, 2009
/* @group Table Adjustments */
/* added to address spacing issues when using text tags within table cells -sonhoang 9/4/09 */
body.ipj table p {
margin: 0;
}
/* @endgroup */
my.sandiego.edu added to search engine (Websupport): Tuesday, 3:21 pm, September 1st, 2009
The Google Search Appliance should now start crawling my.sandiego.edu/mobile/; that has been added to its starting point, and any URL with the pattern my.sandiego.edu/ is allowed.
Separated feature switch display (Websupport): Monday, 12:29 pm, August 24th, 2009
I've moved the section of makeFeature that displays each other feature number on the bottom to its own method; this is so that it can be overridden by CAS for the CAS home page.
Updated makeTrail in main page.phpi (Websupport): Wednesday, 2:21 pm, August 19th, 2009
I've moved the updated makeTrail from arts/page.phpi to the main page.phpi. It shouldn't affect anything on the other sites, but keep an eye on the trails.
Podcast server upgraded to Django 1.1 (Websupport): Tuesday, 2:56 pm, August 18th, 2009
The podcast server has been upgraded to use Django 1.1; this shouldn't change anything, but if you notice anything different about uploading and managing files, let me know.
import process purged of old data (Websupport): Monday, 2:58 pm, August 17th, 2009
The import process has been purged of old data sources, most of which haven't been updated in two years. This may affect the display of department names, and the conversions between IDs and account names.
Changed the color and font weight of links. (Law): Monday, 10:30 am, August 17th, 2009
Made the following changes to structure.css:
/* 08/17 MAA changed the color of links and made them bold, as per Patrick and Ashley's request. */
div.content a, div.content ul a {
/* color: #002469; */
color: #034e98;
font-weight: bold;
}
/* 08/17 MAA added font-weight: normal; */
table.landing_links a, table.landing_links ul li a {
color: #636363;
font-weight: normal;
}
home page RSS feed URL changed (Peacestudies): Thursday, 9:27 am, August 13th, 2009
/web/etc/feeds/ksps
Previous feed commented out:
#feedURL = "http://newsapi.bbc.co.uk/feeds/search/news+sport/peace%20conflict"
New feed URL is:
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsplayer_world_edition/world/rss.xml
Business Template File Cleanup (Business): Wednesday, 1:15 pm, August 12th, 2009
Deleted
/business/templates/headers/
since /headers/ has been replaced by single header.html file.
IE8 Update (Peacestudies, Business): Wednesday, 1:14 pm, August 12th, 2009
IE8 Related:
-Created IE8.css
-Added CSS link to IE8.css styles to head.html
home page RSS feed URL changed (Peacestudies): Wednesday, 12:28 pm, August 12th, 2009
/web/etc/feeds/ksps
Previous feed commented out:
#feedURL = "http://newsapi.bbc.co.uk/feeds/search/news+sport/peace%20conflict"
New feed URL is:
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main page.phpi updated: getRows and special caches (Websupport): Tuesday, 3:18 pm, August 11th, 2009
1. I've moved programCaches and globalcaches functionality out of the main page.phpi and into soles, since it is the only site using it right now.
2. I've moved the fixed getRows from the cas page.phpi into the main one. This should improve its ability to handle special characters.
guin Django upgraded to 1.1 (Websupport): Monday, 11:37 am, August 10th, 2009
The project management, web development CMS, and iTunes authentication server has been upgraded from Django 1.0 to Django 1.1.
