Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Tuesday
Today, attended group meeting with the Director.
Several emails regarding getting calendars for the directory - and changes to the listing of board members. Would be good to empower people to make their updates themselves - perhaps when a change is made a note could appear at the bottom of the list to let people know something was changed.
I can see that HTHB went ahead and made a calendar using the time consuming method I did - it'll work - just so much time.
Several emails regarding getting calendars for the directory - and changes to the listing of board members. Would be good to empower people to make their updates themselves - perhaps when a change is made a note could appear at the bottom of the list to let people know something was changed.
I can see that HTHB went ahead and made a calendar using the time consuming method I did - it'll work - just so much time.
Sunday, October 09, 2005
NEW USE for this Blog
Now I am going to try to blog when I do tasks for HTH-PA.
Today - had meeting with programmer for the System. There was a lot of time spent discussing terms. Categories vs Folders vs Displays.
In the end, he is working on three major upgrades:
1. Enable editors to copy existing entries so they appear in a different location. There is already a way to remove an entries from a particular display. If something is displayed in 5 places, then a change only needs to be made in one place for it to affect the other places.
2. There will be a fourth way to define a page order - we haven't decided what it will be called. Other, Custom, Arbetary. (the existing sorts are: showing most recently edited on top, alphabetical and calendar)
An editor will be able to click on a category/display/folder and see all entries. then the editor will be able to click to determine the placement on the page. We are thinking five levels of placement will be possible (but if requested it could be more precise). There was also discussion on having a sort of split page too so a few items could be coded as being top level- then a horizontal rule would appear and then the rest of the entries would show in one of the sorting types defined above. Then a graphic of a calendar could appear at the top and the rest of the dated entries could be listed below that. He did not want to make it so there could be clumped listings throughout the page with rules or headers to divide things.
3. (I think) making it so events could easily be displayed so only one particular month will show. I did this for the first school manually and it took up a lot of time.
He also made it so the day of the week is displayed while in calendar mode.
He pointed me to place so I can display both the initial date of a posting and the date lasted edited. Currently the system does not store information on WHO made the last edit, just that it was changed.
I need to make it easy for people to upload images and docs - he said there were free places where that could be done - need to get that from him.
I also sent emails to all executive assistants asking for latest calendar for their school - and I have been working on the HTH PA listing for the directory.
Today - had meeting with programmer for the System. There was a lot of time spent discussing terms. Categories vs Folders vs Displays.
In the end, he is working on three major upgrades:
1. Enable editors to copy existing entries so they appear in a different location. There is already a way to remove an entries from a particular display. If something is displayed in 5 places, then a change only needs to be made in one place for it to affect the other places.
2. There will be a fourth way to define a page order - we haven't decided what it will be called. Other, Custom, Arbetary. (the existing sorts are: showing most recently edited on top, alphabetical and calendar)
An editor will be able to click on a category/display/folder and see all entries. then the editor will be able to click to determine the placement on the page. We are thinking five levels of placement will be possible (but if requested it could be more precise). There was also discussion on having a sort of split page too so a few items could be coded as being top level- then a horizontal rule would appear and then the rest of the entries would show in one of the sorting types defined above. Then a graphic of a calendar could appear at the top and the rest of the dated entries could be listed below that. He did not want to make it so there could be clumped listings throughout the page with rules or headers to divide things.
3. (I think) making it so events could easily be displayed so only one particular month will show. I did this for the first school manually and it took up a lot of time.
He also made it so the day of the week is displayed while in calendar mode.
He pointed me to place so I can display both the initial date of a posting and the date lasted edited. Currently the system does not store information on WHO made the last edit, just that it was changed.
I need to make it easy for people to upload images and docs - he said there were free places where that could be done - need to get that from him.
I also sent emails to all executive assistants asking for latest calendar for their school - and I have been working on the HTH PA listing for the directory.
