Category Archives: Wes

Big Blue Buttton front end completely overhauled, needs testing

Completely rebuilt from ground up. no longer Drupal dependent. Record meeting feature finally available. https://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/bbb

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TEO self assessment form

On Apr 2, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Henrietta Marcella Paz-Amor wrote: Changes to TEO pre-meeting form: Form changes – add first last name field At submit message change to:  “Based on your score you have been signed up for the … Continue reading

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MediaManager bug fix leads to enhancements

The application at https://www.uvm.edu/htpasswd/podcast_manager was exhibiting strange behavior. Guy from COM had 607 Mb file, wouldn’t upload. Fixed and improved, can now upload up to 10Gb files (when used with a ‘modern’ browser). Some background … It’s just a glorified … Continue reading

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Events Calendar Performance

Many complaints about sluggish events calendar performance. After considerable analysis, the bottleneck was www.uvm.edu . Talks with SAA suggested Network File System (NFS) performance as culprit, as was how the CodeIgnitor MVC (model-view-controller) framework used the file system.   Case … Continue reading

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MediaManager updates

Sarah Green reported MediaManager troubles. When clicking on media files to make them play, message “could not load media” would appear. Both in her Media Manager windows and with files embedded in blackboard. Root cause was password protection. She had … Continue reading

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Admissions flat panel

On Jan 16, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Russ McDonald wrote: Hi Wes, I’ve been trying to figure out what broke with our LCD screen with PHP 5.3.27. The problem is with the footer.php code. Everything seems to work fine for … Continue reading

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Drupal for Sociology

Backported Sociology’s Drupal LDAP module from 7.x-2.xbeta8 to 7.x-1.xbeta12, which was not as easy as it sounds. But there you are.

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Drupal for sociology

This isn’t confined to sociology’s use, thinking in broader terms of what serves as a minimal UVM application base. Specifically, Single Sign On (SSO) LDAP attributes to Drupal Roles mapping SSO covered in previous posts. Now we tackle LDAP. Goal … Continue reading

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CTL Events login updated in development branch, please test

On Jan 27, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Wesley Alan Wright wrote: https://www.uvm.edu/ctl/development/ctlcal/ What’s new? Authentication. User names and passwords requested as per ETS ‘standard’ WebAuth system. If no one has issues  by next Tuesday it’s going live

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CTL Calendar Admin/Reports

On Jan 24, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Nina Wu wrote: Under “People” Can the two or more filters work at the same time? e.g. filter by affiliation and attended date. Done! On Jan 24, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Nina Wu wrote: … Continue reading

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