System Notices
These notices and announcements apply to web-related issues and mailing list-related issues within the past ninety days. There may occasionally be network-related issues if I hear about them and they affect the web servers or list server, but you can’t count on it.
There are a couple of ways that you can keep abreast of these notices:
- Bookmark this page.
- Subscribe to the RSS feed in your browser or RSS reader.
- Subscribe to the mailing list ITS-Faculty-Log for critical notices.
Many notices will also appear on the web page that discusses that category. For example, notices related to class schedules will show up on the class search page, your schedule page, and your roster page.
Adjusted structure.css for publications template (Law): Monday, 2:56 pm, June 29th, 2009
Made the following CSS generic, rather than only for the centers template:
/* The following is used in the Centers and Publication templates */
img#law_logo{
border: none;
}
css changes (Business): Friday, 1:04 pm, June 26th, 2009
CSS clean up in preparation of redesign.
unusued.css deleted (was not in use)
home.css
-Removed intro text at top to reduce file size.
Follow CSS files were created since they have very specific, limited usage and do not need to add to the filesize of existing structure.css. Styles are not user editable content (content.css) nor are they part of the page structure (structure.css).
news_events.css created
-Purpose is similar to /css/sql.css. Primarily for pages whose entire content is centered around MyPostings data (whether a news listing or a focus detail page).
search.css created
-Purpose is similar to /css/google.css
directory.css created
-Used to style HTML generated from directory database.
content.css change (Business): Wednesday, 11:33 am, June 17th, 2009
/* @group Quotation Tables -sonhoang 06-17-09 */
table.quote {
background-image: url(/business/images/template/open-quote.gif);
background-position: top left;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
table.quote td {
background-image: url(/business/images/template/close-quote.gif);
background-position: bottom right;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
/* @endgroup */
calendars.phpi changed to use newslist class (Websupport): Monday, 2:53 pm, June 15th, 2009
The calendar class is now a subclass of the newslist class.
display.phpi changed to use classes (Websupport): Monday, 2:20 pm, June 15th, 2009
I've changed display.phpi to use a class to make the news list. This will help us add functionality in the future.
News Releases CSS change (Law): Friday, 9:08 am, June 12th, 2009
/* 06/12/09 Morgan Andersen added this for the News Releases display */
div.news_releases td.weekday, div.news_releases td.date{
width: 5%;
}
Affects http://www.sandiego.edu/law/news/news_releases/
Hacked post order for news (Websupport): Friday, 8:47 am, June 12th, 2009
Because the Users/insites/web/calendars.phpi calendar class expects things to display in natural order, but most other news listings expect the most recent one first but nothing after today I've set the order to be ascending instead of descending if a date range is provided. As far as I know the only function providing a date range is in Users/insites/web/calendars.phpi but theoretically anything providing a date range is expecting ascending order. Events are already in ascending order so this doesn't affect them.
ie7-home, ie6-home and home .css change (Business): Thursday, 2:18 pm, June 11th, 2009
home-ie7
Background image references were removed to make it in line with main home.css styles.
home.css, home-ie6.css
Commented out background images for areas li+li to test for usability without divers.
home.css change (Business): Thursday, 1:30 pm, June 11th, 2009
form#search input {
/* too wide -sonhoang 6/11/09 */
width: 13em;
}
head.html change (Business): Tuesday, 3:11 pm, June 9th, 2009
Removed all JS related to lightwindow effect (used on so few pages, did not make sense to include it on every page). Shift towards embedded or offsite video.
Added ref to panels.js.
home.css and home-ie7.css changes (Business): Thursday, 3:48 pm, June 4th, 2009
Changed HTML structure for search box on home page to match impending redesign (no longer has unecessary wrapping DIV, drop down search box removed, defaults to Business only, other stylistic changes).
Styles added for home.css and home-ie7.css. Removed all CSS for old search box.
Consolidating and Optimizing JavaScript Usage (Peacestudies): Thursday, 2:52 pm, June 4th, 2009
Done to speed up page loading by making sure only pages that use the features.JS functions were the only ones referencing them.
1. References to /scripts/peace/scripts.js removed from head.html, references to /scripts/peace/temp.js (panel switching code when panel number is > 2) removed.
2. Reference to /scripts/tools/panels.js was added to head.html
3. Reference to /scripts/tools/features.js was added to KSPS, IPJ and TBI homepages.
4. Styles related to new multi-panel switching JS code now in home.css
date ranges changed for news postings (Websupport): Wednesday, 10:51 am, June 3rd, 2009
I've just changed display.phpi so that when there's a date range given, if the category is "news" the date range applies to the post_start_date instead of the event_start_date.
navigation listings now mark open items (Websupport): Tuesday, 2:38 pm, June 2nd, 2009
The current LI item is marked with the class "open"; previously, only ULs were marked with that class. This will affect all navigation menus on the new sites.
As long as you were specifically only applying styles to ul.open, nothing should change.
Home pages not found (Home): Tuesday, 8:13 am, June 2nd, 2009
There's a problem in our identity system that's telling home.sandiego.edu an incorrect location for your home pages. I've reported the problem, and it is being worked on right now.
CSS Changes (Peacestudies): Friday, 4:25 pm, May 29th, 2009
print.css
div.content_body {
/* default size is 100% for content area but too small when actually printed -sonhoang 5/29/09 */
font-size: 150%;
}
home.css
body#content.ksps_home div.information p.more {
/* no content yet, possibly will lead to page populated by RSS listing of external source -sonhoang 5/29/09 */
display: none;
}
messages sending again (Massmail): Friday, 9:11 am, May 22nd, 2009
The problem with sending mass mails has been fixed. Queued mass mails will now be sent as normal.
Student problem fixed; sending problem in progress (Massmail): Friday, 8:19 am, May 22nd, 2009
Schools are available again in the student section of the mass mail entry page, so you can queue mass mails based on school again. I hope to have the new mass mail sending script installed by the end of the day.
Massmail not sending and no students (Massmail): Thursday, 3:09 pm, May 21st, 2009
We have had two problems hit the mass mail system simultaneously. First, our student data no longer includes the school for each student. This means you cannot send mass mails by school. This should be fixed by tomorrow.
Second, the script that sends massmails needs to be updated to work with a change made on the web server. Until that happens, mass mails can be queued, but they cannot be sent.
special character set workaround (Massmail): Tuesday, 11:45 am, May 12th, 2009
Addresses uploaded in UTF-16 or other special character sets might contain odd characters; character 0 and characters illegal for utf-8 are now removed from the address list; a warning is provided when this happens.
page.phpi getNews and display.phpi makeNewsList recovery (Websupport): Tuesday, 10:30 am, May 12th, 2009
I've modified display.phpi's makeNewsList to explicitly return false instead of nothing when there's an error connecting to the MySQL server.
I've also modified the central page.phpi's getNews to return false if makeNewsList returns false.
The various functions that call getNews should already be checking for false before caching, and if getNews returns false, caching is deferred.
Long headlines now break evenly (Massmail): Wednesday, 2:22 pm, May 6th, 2009
Headlines longer than 46 characters will wrap in HTML mass mails because of the width alloted to the "page". The system will now try to pre-wrap long headlines more evenly.
SQL plug-in leaves HTML fields alone (Coding): Thursday, 3:10 pm, April 30th, 2009
The Easy SQL plug-in will no longer add line breaks between lines in a field before displaying it, if you have set the field type to be html.
Department names corrected (Massmail): Thursday, 3:04 pm, April 30th, 2009
Department names with commas in them were appearing incorrectly. I've just fixed this so that the internal delimiter is a vertical bar, which should never appear in a department name. If your department was showing incorrectly on the bottom of the page, it should now be showing correctly.
PHP accelerator updated (Coding): Thursday, 8:26 am, April 30th, 2009
I've just updated the PHP accelerator to the latest revision; if you notice any issues, let me know.
mailman upgrade completed (Mailman): Wednesday, 12:58 pm, April 29th, 2009
The mailman upgrade is now complete. Any mail sent during the upgrade should now be delivered.
lists.sandiego.edu mailman upgrade in progress (Mailman): Wednesday, 11:58 am, April 29th, 2009
We're in the process of upgrading mailman to the latest version. During the upgrade process, mail will be queued and the web interface is unavailable. It should be back by 1 PM.
home.css, home-ie6.css, home-ie7.css (Business): Thursday, 3:15 pm, April 23rd, 2009
home.css
Remove height: auto; from img.logobar, inserted em value instead due to resize issues.
home-ie6.css
Home page no longer references ie7.js file to force compliancy (due to inconsistent script execution/loading time). IE6 hover menus no longer work, so all hover menu styles were removed.
img.logobar now uses pixel size due to inconsistent resizing.
Added body#home prefix to all styles in preparation of combining home-ie6.css and ie6.css once redesign is done.
home-ie7.css
Added body#home prefix to all styles in preparation of combining home-ie7.css and ie7.css once redesign is done.
catching index.php in site.list files (Web): Thursday, 2:20 pm, April 23rd, 2009
Some index.php links were not being caught in site.list files. This has been fixed; they'll now display an "illegal URL" warning.
content.css changes (Business): Thursday, 4:30 pm, April 9th, 2009
div.maincontent p img changed to:
div.maincontent img {
max-width: 100%;
}
