Web Systems Release Notes: 2017.48

The YM preview site appeared without any style or formatting for a couple hours during Thursday morning (11/30).

This updates the title displayed on video profiles to use the title entered in the YM publishing tool. See https://www.yalemedicine.org/
doctors/david_mulligan/

Moved the YM "Dek" text higher on the page and closer to the Story title.

Show all parent Organizations in the "Related Organizations" box that appears in the side column of YM Department pages.

For organizations with dual parents, show both parent organizations in the "Related Organizations" sidebar box on department pages.

This feed enhancement describes more accurately Organizations with multiple parent Organizations.

This makes it possible to view Concepts associated with a given Organization's Specialties on the Manage Concepts page (http://prod.admin.profile.yale.edu/
YaleMedicine/Concepts/Index)

This refactoring brings YM code into better agreement with the way Stories are represented in the YMS database.

Rename 'Story Category' to 'Story Type' in the codebase of YMS including changes in the database, web services, business layer.

The two URLs https://yalemedicine.org/index.html and https://yalemedicine.org/ point to the same page but when using web analytic software they can appear as different pages. This task eliminates "/index.html" from appearing.

Google Analytics reports showed incorrect links to content without a file extension, such as Yale Medicine stories and condition articles. Updated GA settings to correct.

The "monthly digest" email for YM members will now include images cropped to efficient sizes. Please note that this email is not yet being sent.

Navigation dropdown menus sometimes appeared and disappeared rapidly in certain cases when it should be displaying normally.

Images were not appearing properly in YSM website development environment.

Added "- Present" for still active Professional Services in T3 doctor profiles.

The T3 websites creates XML files to accommodate access restrictions. This task was to implement software that would remove files that have expired.

Adding "featured events" to the Weekly Digest failed with some older, imported events.

Updated the data feeds to keep "all day events" displaying in event listings after they have begun.

For accessibility, our Search Results pages now have better headings.

Based on previous research, setup a production worthy search index in Northern Europe and begin to build out the global redundancy solution.

Setup for Template 3 search to use new navigation service for breadcrumbs.

This is an effort to create more ge-redundancy with our SQL databases so that we can easily failover to a different part of the world if the location where our primary SQL database are located has a disaster (natural like hurricanes or other).

The development environment uses three disks. This task is to combine the three into a smaller, more cost effective disk.

Multiple month project to acquire original media files from Technolutions, load content from Technolutions to Vimeo, update/republish SDL components and pages, make changes to source code to play new Vimeo files and produce progress reports for auditing at numerous milestones within the project.

Request and apply SSL certificates for the Profile System to fix the outage experienced on Nov 30.

The development team in Minsk performs deployments early morning our time and sometimes requires restarting SDL services. Prior to having this login, they had to wait several hours for us to get into the office to assist, this will allow them to perform the task without hindering the deployment.

Shrunk the size of three virtual servers which were scaled larger than necessary.

This is a feature used for SDL Administrators that stopped working after our 8.5 upgrade. It works again.

The main SQL databases for SDL were moved to make resource allocation on the server more efficient and cost effective.

The SQL backups were moved to use less expensive storage. This task deleted the disk from the server.

SQL Backup files are about 200GB in size and are created multiple times a day, this task created an application that now deletes the files that are older than 100 hours.

This replaced the Technolutions unique identifier stored in SDL to the Vimeo playback URL so that the videos will come from Vimeo instead of Technolutions.

Produced a report of all the Technolutions audio/video content that was moved to Vimeo and updated in SDL to identify potential problems.

There are many tests in place to ensure rules are valid before entering the system, since a single poorly written rule can cause all our websites to stop working. This bug is to allow a special rule type to enter the system even though it appears to fail normal validation.

Users can now be managed in a SQL database instead of editing a configuration file that would require deploying the application each time user permissions must change.

Updated the scripts used for our daily data sync with Workday.

Updated YM deployment process in order to deploy to newly created app services.

Added a new dropdown when the user selects "Committe" from dropdown Honor&Services→Professional Services→ Add Service→ Category which captures the commitee type

As the team begins to rebuild the Flyerboard application, this task was to investigate the current Flyerboard project architecture, the infrastructure currently used, and create a basic project plan for the rebuild. We antitipcate this project completing in March 2018.

This task is about the creation of appropriate records in a database when media was uploaded and adding updates after it was encoded.