Web Systems Release Notes: 2017.50

Return 404 instead of 500 error if content is not published in SDL for Concept Article.

To reduce clutter in the side column, limit "Related Doctors" to display up to five (instead of the 10 that currently display) and add a "View More" button to see the complete list.

Updated age group labels on condition articles to a friendlier phrase. In addition, we merged "child" and "adolescent" into "children" and changed "geriatrics" to "older adults". In the next release, we will make this statement lowercase.

If an activity was only one year, we changed the output to display the year only once. For example, "2017" instead of "2017-2017".

Update the YM Website Application so that if a user changes a slug, the website will direct traffic to the old and new URL. We will display the history in TECH-3215 in the next release.

The presence of slideshow content will now force the Type of a Story to be correctly set to Slideshow.

Inactive doctors were occasionally displayed as Related Doctors.

Restored a concept article that was deleted: "Interventional Radiology Treatments for Liver Cancer."

Sync Hero type between SDL and YMS database so that we can add a filter for the Production and Content teams to view reports of content that needs hero images.

Store information about Article Hero type in YMS database.

Add the new managing editor for Yale Medicine to the monthly Kyruus import emails.

Vimeo videos were appearing as a blank space instead of embedding a video player.

External news articles can be added to the Announcements that appear on email newsletters (like Weekly Digest).

Configured Continuous Integration for T3 project. This automates deployments to the development environment, and makes it much easier and faster to deploy updates to production.

Created build definitions and deployments steps in VSTS for each environment.

New DNS entry created with associated VUM rule for http://p2med.yale.edu added.

From the Weekly Digest email, when a link to an event that occurred in the past was clicked, the event details would not display.

Secure the API (data feeds) help pages behind Yale CAS security to prevent unauthorized access.

This task is to secure our data feeds (which were public) so that an API key is needed in order to access.

After introducing API Keys mechanism for YMS Service Feeds we needed to update the generated proxy code to make it easier for Proxy users to use the feeds.

Users did not receive the daily "suggested event" email notification from December 7 - 12. This has been fixed.

Events that were only suggested or even rejected were appearing in iCal feeds for sharing YSM calendars.

It is now possible to add a location outside of the United States to a calendar event.

Added sorting for lists of events that occurred in the past.

Fields for entering a non-Yale location for a calendar event were too restrictive.

Improved the interface for adding RSVP contacts to calendar events.

Create site map for dev.yalemedicine.org to include only targeted pages for Site Improve to crawl for accessibility testing purposes.

We already have the label "About Us" in the main nav, so we can't use that label again in the Organization sub-nav.

Added aria-label to links where linked text was not specific enough for screen readers. This previously wasn't possible as they were stripped out by SDL.

This work completes the globalization for the search indexes.

This task takes the code developed for a concept and makes it ready for production release.

Our search indexes were served from a single location in the USA. This task was to create globally redundant search indexes to improve application reliability.

Functionality of Azure's geo-redundant databases is not clear given the lack of Microsoft documentation, so we performed a series of tests to make decisions on future architecture.

Results: We will stick with the geo-redundant feature but not the automatic failing over. Instead we will design our own failover mechanisms that are aligned with our needs given Microsoft's design does not meet our up-time requirements.

This task reviews the current development environment to consider changes to make it easier to test using tools that are not available in the current development environment.

Result: The development environment has too many dependencies in Azure to move to the development VM. Our best option is to move just the SQL database to the Dev environment for some testing that is tool specific.

Diagrams are the best way to understand the systems architecture. This task updated old diagrams and included new ones as the final step in making significant changes over the past few months.

This is a review and discussion to determine what is complete and what is left to do along with testing strategies.

Results: A new list of tickets has been generated to address finalizing the globalization strategy.

This added a new environment for SDL development that we can use without disrupting the work of the Minsk development team, whose work requires reliable SDL environments. Previously when we had to make changes, apply server patches and test, we had to interrupt their work and in some cases when patches or changes did not work, the disruption to their work could last for several days.

A connection string is a line of code used to create a connection from an application to a SQL database that includes the name of the server where SQL is located. Now that the databases are geo-redundant, we do not want to specify the string to use a server and instead we point it to a virtual group of servers that makeup the globally redundant data structure that is now in place.

Periodically we pull production data for SDL into development environments for testing, which is what this task completed.

On a Rise Player managed touchscreen, touching links that should open a pop-up rarely worked. This is the final updated needed before we can move the Flyerboard to the new Rise Player platform from Industry Weapon. This move will provide a more stable environment for our digital signage.

Configure client-side routing for the Signage project