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iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - January 31, 2025

Posted by Michael McKelvey on January 31, 2025

Agenda

  • Michael's updates
    • Featured Projects:
      • Stopped wrapping text below image
      • Stripped formatting from text (links, bold, & italics still permitted)
    • Updated "Add Project Update" links on Project Header Layout projects to auto-fill current project
    • Project Updates listings: descriptions expand/collapse at 500 characters
    • Recommendation pages:
      • Show most recent status prominently
      • Description field: "Original Recommendation" heading
      • Move Supplanted By box up to second position, right after iCAP Team
    • Places: most duplicates merged; a few questions arose (see attached file):
      • Architectural annex
      • Fire Institute
      • Vet Med Building
    • Recommendation Updates:
      • Default to sorting by Recommendation Title
      • Also added Update Title and Update Date as sort options
      • Added Update Date column
    • Updated SSC link on iCAP Portal homepage to go to SSC Projects page
  • [DEFER TO NEXT TIME] Google Analytics numbers drop
    • Steeper than others have experienced
    • Probably some combination of less traffic and old analytics possibly not excluding bots/crawlers as effectively
  • [DEFER TO NEXT TIME] Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics (see notes from Sarthak & Michael's discussion)

Discussion

  • Helen: is the new SSC Projects structure available to the public yet?
    • Michael: yes, homepage now links to new SSC Projects
    • TODO: have a discussion with SSC folks (Sheri, Helen, others?) about SSC / iCAP Portal connections (Morgan will reach out to Sheri)
  • [DEFER TO NEXT TIME] Google Analytics numbers drop
  • [DEFER TO NEXT TIME] Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics

TODOs

  • Project Updates listings:
    • Can we have an "expand all" link at the top?
    • ✅ Change cutoff to 750 characters
    • ✅ Project Updates for individual projects: use expand/collapse
  • ✅ Recommendations:
    • ✅ Change "Status" to "Current Status"
  • Places:
    • FSI:
      • Associate Lighting Retrofit #5 w/IFSI location
      • Remove FSI individual buildings
    • Architecture Annex:
    • Vet Med:
      • Have an F&S student review the various Vet Med related buildings to determine which should be kept and where the markers should be (see this search of Places for 'vet')
    • Morgan: should we use ArcGIS instead of Google Maps on our site?