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iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - July 3, 2024

Posted by Michael McKelvey on June 11, 2024

Agenda

  • Apologies for slowness on the iCAP Portal recently - it's fixed now!
  • SSC Projects
    • Discussions since our last meeting: Discussion about SSC projects in iCAP Portal - June 11, 2024 (Codie, Michael)
    • Codie built out the initial set of SSC Projects for Spring 2023
    • SSC Project embedding for the live site will be ready for testing soon - still ironing out a few things before it's ready for production
    • Question about avoiding document plagiarism: do we have concerns about providing documents that people can download, edit, and try to pass off as legitimate?
  • Places:
    • Fixed a couple Places stuck on Null Island
    • Improved All Places listing and added All Places (Map)
    • Fixed an issue that caused geocoding not to work
      • New Places: enter an address and save - it will automatically get geocoded.
      • Existing Places: select the "Re geocode" checkbox and save to force geo-coding
  • Bike Fee Funding
    • Discussion since our last meeting: Discussion about reporting Bike Fee funding - June 12, 2024 (Sarthak, Michael)
    • Decided not to try to add Bike Fee funding to iCAP Portal at this time - instead, upload an Excel file with the data. That will likely give users a more useful way to view the funding data.
  • Archiving projects:
    • What happens to Project Updates associated with an archived project? What should happen?
      • If one or more active projects are still associated with a Project Update, the Project Update should be visible
      • If no active projects (either 0 projects or only archived projects) are associated with a Project Update, should the Project Update be visible? It's much easier not to hide Project Updates in this situation, so hopefully the answer is 'yes' :-)

Discussion/Decisions

  • Document plagiarism:
    • The group agreed that if we're going to share documents, there's not much we can do to prevent plagiarism.
    • Only people with certain iCAP Portal permissions can change the official documents on the website, so we're not worried about the official public record - all a malicious user can do is edit a file on their own computer and try to pass it off as legitimate.
    • Sharing documents as images would have accessibility concerns
    • Trying to share documents as view-only would provide minimal protection; it would only require slightly more manual labor to recreate a letterhead than to download and edit an existing document
  • Archiving projects:
    • Using the Published checkbox is probably not the right solution, since we want to allow Archived projects to be publicly visible, just not by default in certain listings
    • Investigate another approach, possibly more like the Public/Private option already in use
  • Bike Fee:
    • Morgan advocates for sharing the Bike Fee info directly on the iCAP Portal rather than a simple Excel file
    • We can probably share Bike Fee info at a much broader level than we were thinking, so it's not too onerous to enter

TODOs

  • SSC Projects:
    • Finish SSC Project embed
    • Allow more than 3 photos to be seen - e.g. link to separate image gallery page like iCAP Portal Projects?