iCAP Portal Admin Meeting - December 15, 2023
Associated Project(s):
Done:
- Codie and Michael met last week to discuss SSC projects in the iCAP Portal.
Discussion:
- Discuss Christina's iCAP Portal Header Page Layout designs
- 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? Or an image gallery?
- Should we link to "Take Action" project from homepage?
- Replace map link in Highlights?
- Need to finish Take Action page content
- Continue discussion of Fancy Page Layout (see the 4 mockups in the October 21, 2022 meeting notes)
- Continue discussion of improving site's aesthetics
- 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)
- Remove from nested listings, still publicly available?
TODO:
- Main map:
- See CSU's campus map (Sustainability section) for inspiration
- Campus boundary, like ArcGIS Bicycle Map
- Improve mobile filter?
- Use heatmap when zoomed out, switch to markers when zoomed in?
- (long term goal) look into importing information from another source, e.g. SSC students without iCAP Portal access can put together info in a structured format for automatic import into iCAP Portal
- Look into Collection embedding again, à la Drawdown Solutions Library Sammy had found ("Filter by sector or area of action" section)
- SSC project embedding: add category filtering options
- Metric search/display:
- Theme (via connected Project, i.e. Theme -> Project -> Metric)
- Most recent updates as of: (list of years) -> can we query Tracking data?
- (Internal only) Last updated before (list of years) -> can we query Tracking data?
- (Low Priority) Make column headers click-sortable on Projects by Project Status page
- 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
Ideations:
- Map brainstorming:
- What if we had a separate Campus Sustainability Tour expandable section, alongside Collections and Themes? Perhaps with a specific order to the locations and information about each location in the infowindow popup? We might have to hand-craft it rather than using Collections, but it might be worth it if we want an interface more like the CSU sustainability map. This could also work for any other bespoke sections we might want to include in the future.
- Are there other things we'd like to highlight on the map beyond Themes and Collections? If we can think of them, Michael can try to figure out how to make it happen.
- Michael is working on trying to make the map queries work asynchronously so each filter doesn't require a new pageload. This would make interactions with the map much snappier.
- Would we like to provide the ability to view individual projects for each section in the sidebar, à la CSU's map?
- Are there other categories we would like to include, either in addition to or instead of Collections and Themes? Is that information already in the iCAP Portal? If so, perhaps there's a way we can use it... If not, perhaps a new tagging system specifically for the map might help us achieve it?
- Sarthak: would like to create a Biking Tour
- Reed: highlight things students can see/experience
- SSC projects
- May want to use this Archive of Funded Projects on old SSC site (2019) as a reference for showing SSC project info
- Discussed using iCAP Portal projects for SSC projects page vs. maintaining own project pages directly on SSC website.
- One possible challenge - SSC sometimes funds part of a project or provides funding for a period of time (e.g. 1 year) for a longer-term project, so only the project updates for that period of time are relevant, not all updates in perpetuity. How do we handle that?
- Decided to start with map embed from Student Sustainability Committee Funded Projects collection, then look at adding card-based project embed as well.
- SSC project integration discussion on 11/30/2023:
- New projects need to be approved and located appropriately in portal hierarchy
- Codie considers an SSC project worth adding once it has a CFOAP
- Projects can be updated w/SSC info by SSC students/employees once they exist in portal
- How to show projects with multiple funding allocations over time? (e.g. $100K in spring 2020, $100K in fall 2020)
- Is it the same project over time? Sometimes it is, but sometimes the leaders change and the direction changes significantly
- Discussed dusting off the Project Funding feature we'd deprecated several years ago. It looks promising for showing SSC's funding of projects!
- Michael and Codie will meet next week to discuss specifics about what SSC needs the iCAP Portal to be able to do in order to use the iCAP Portal for the SSC website's project listing.
