Agenda

• Celebrations
  • Michael's cousin is opening a cat + board game cafe next Wednesday, June 18! (photos on Instagram)
  • Pollinator Week C-U is next week!
• Michael's updates
  • Recommendation pages: changed sort order for Recommendation Updates
    • Old sort order: Applicable Date (descending), Created Date (descending)
    • New sort order:Applicable Date (descending), Status (by its order in the dropdown listing, descending)
  • Project pages: column widths issue
    • When project update contains an element with a fixed width larger than the column, it was causing the left sidebar to expand to fill as much space as possible. Fixed by setting maximum column widths.
    • Follow-up question: should we strip formatting from project update teasers? Since they're often copy-and-pasted from elsewhere, they tend to bring in their own formatting, which can sometimes look strange.
      • Example: University Guiding Principles project update has no content because its 250 characters are eaten up by HTML tags before reaching any actual content
      • Example: President's Strategic Framework has same issue as prior example for first project update, then custom formatting in second example
      • Possible solution: on staging site, I've stripped out most HTML in project update teasers on project pages. It's not perfect, but might be an improvement...
        • University Guiding Principles (Staging)
        • President's Strategic Framework (Staging)
• National Research Programs analytics
  • Over the past year, the National Research Programs project and its 144 descendants have been visited during 2,094 user sessions out of 135,592 total user sessions (approximately 1.5%)
  • Google Analytics exploration: National Research Programs visits past year
• Discussion about Recommendations - May 19, 2025
  • See notes for updates
• Discussion about Metrics - May 19, 2025
  • See notes for updates
  • Discuss metric naming convention

Discussion

• Project Update teasers
  • Let's strip out HTML from project update teasers
  • How does it impact embedding project updates?
    • Won't impact them - their Project Update descriptions are defined separately
• Recommendations on Project pages
  • Decided to make each Recommendation's title a link
  • Decided to remove the table of Recommendation Updates for now
  • Will consider whether to display the Recommendation titles & statuses in a table - current list is clean, but table would be good for quickly identifying the statuses of the various projects
• Discuss metric naming convention [deferred to next meeting]

TODOs

• Strip out HTML from ALL project update teasers
• Add expand/collapse to Recommendations listing on Project pages