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iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - February 24, 2023

Posted by Michael McKelvey on February 23, 2023

Done:

  • Moved "Northeast of Nick Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Lab" Place from Null Island to where I think it should be. Could someone confirm it's now in the right spot?
  • Objectives page: fixed some styling issues (buttons above table, margin above in-page links to account for sticky headers)
  • Added LinkedIn & Reddit share buttons on Project Updates (see this Project Update for example)
  • Added social sharing buttons on Projects (see iCAP Portal project for example)
  • Finished testing improved method for setting a Project's location in the menu system (dropdown list was becoming unmanageable). A couple cautionary notes:
    • You can switch from single-item dropdown lists to multi-item lists by dragging the bar below them to expand them. If you drag bar back up to switch back to single-item dropdown lists, future changes to the items still fill them in as multi-item lists. Just drag the bar back down to expand them again.
    • **Do not select self in last dropdown list** - it will appear to work fine for that node, but it actually loses its place in the hierarchy, which can be seen in its children. If you go back in to edit the node, you'll have to find its location again from scratch.

Discussion:

  • Should we show a "last updated" date on the projects?
    • Automatically show last time Project was updated?
    • Add field that is updated intentionally when a project's information has been reviewed & by whom?
    • Add a disclaimer about information being correct at the time it was entered?
  • Some social sharing buttons not showing up in incognito mode? (e.g. Carbon Commitment)
  • Question about a TODO: "Collections page: Add image upload option". At a previous meeting we had this TODO, but what was the context? Was it to have a thumbnail for each Collection? Or a banner image?
  • Should we link to "Take Action" project from homepage?
  • Archiving projects
    • Add "Archived" checkbox?
    • Add "Archived" to Visibility options?
    • Add "Archived" to Project Status options? (probably not - this mixes the status of the project itself with whether we still want it to show up on the site)

TODO:

  • Can we limit access to menu selection for Projects to only certain users - e.g. iCAP Admins?
  • Remove RSS Feeds from listings (e.g. Project Updates for collection: Geothermal Projects)
  • Search: can it be less rigid? e.g. ignore punctuation, understand that "bikes" and "bicycles" are equivalent, etc.
  • Fancy project layout mockups - keep tweaking #3 to improve contrast
  • Discuss metrics
    • Metrics with lots of data
    • Consider how to handle old metrics that no longer track new data. Archive somehow?
    • Fun with math (e.g. combining multiple metrics)
    • Calculated Metrics on Dev site
  • Track down and resolve informational message on full listing page for Project Updates by Key Objective (see, e.g. Projects Updates for key objective: 1.0 iCAP 2020 Illinois Climate Action Plan)