The Tech Team released version 2017.49 this morning. Below is a summary of the tasks completed this past week:
Yale Medicine Website and Editing
Below is a list of updates that were made to YaleMedicine.org, along with the YM Publishing Tool used to edit condition articles, feature stories, and doctor bios:
| Type | Title | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSS and JS problems on dev preview and acceptance preview sites | Development environment preview YM site appeared with no style or formatting. | YM Website | |
| Some images are not displaying on the preview YM website | Some images were not appearing on the YM preview site. | YM Website | |
| Takeaway content pushes Slideshow down, but doesn't push its arrows down | Fixed the issue when the Takeaway was above the slideshow and pushed it down as expected but didn't push the slideshow arrows down. | YM Website | |
| Accordion floats alongside an inline image; should be below it | Accordion section floated alongside an inline image in stories and concept articles instead of pushing below the image. | YM Website | |
| When floating alongside an inline image, ordered lists overlap the image | Ordered lists overlapped an inline image when floating alongside the image. | YM Website | |
| Add "- Present" for date range of professional service if there is no end date | Added "- Present" for still active Professional Services in YM doctor profiles. | YM Website | |
| Update the data feeds to display all parent orgs for organizations with dual parents in department "Related Organizations" box | For organizations with dual parents, show both parent organizations in the "Related Organizations" sidebar box on department pages. | YM Website | |
| Article Disappeared from Publish Admin tool | Two condition articles were inadvertently deleted, they have been restored in the system. It was not a bug. | YM Publishing Tool (YMS) | |
| Add "Download Results to Excel" capability to Concepts Management screen | Added a "Download to Excel" option for Concepts Management at http://prod.admin.profile.yale.edu/ YaleMedicine/Concepts/Index. | YM Publishing Tool (YMS) | |
| Implement database changes to store history for YM slugs in YMS | Added additional tables in a database to store previously used page names for articles, departments and users. | YM Publishing Tool (YMS) |
School of Medicine Websites
Below is a list of updates made to the T3 YSM websites:
| Type | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Prepare publish profiles for T3 | Prepared publish profiles for T3 Continuous Integration. This enables develpment work to be seen more quickly on our dev website. | |
| Move T3 indexes into the Azure Search services used by YMS and YM | Development and Acceptance T3 search indexes were moved into the search account which is used by other Development and Acceptance applications. |
News and People Profile System
Below is a list of updates made to the system used to edit profiles for people and organizations, along with news, events, and clinical trials:
| Type | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| NetIDs of newly entered users in OnCore are not syncing in YMS | New users entered in OnCore were not syncing into profile system, so they did not appear in trials. | |
| Google Search leads to Dev site | Added robots.txt for all environments in Web Services. | |
| Post message if person is logged out of Profile System and prompt to save | Improves the user experience when login sessions to the Profile System expire due to inactivity. | |
| Create a new YMS Admin maintenance page that is part of the YMS solution | This will enable us to better manage and improve the maintenance page we display when the Profile System is down for maintenance. | |
| Display a custom error message after automatic logout from YMS | Inform the user when an automatic logout from the Profile System has occurred. | |
| Post a message about "log out" due to inactivity | Profile System users will now be warned when their session is about to expire due to inactivity, and given a chance to renew it. |
Event Calendar
| Type | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar Date Selector in Safari | Calendar date picker popup appeared larger than normal and empty. | |
| move calendars from one to org to another | Added interface to move calendars from one organization to another. |
Accessibility
Below is a list of updates made to websites and systems to meet WCAG A and AA accessibility standards:
| Type | Title | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eliminate usage of "<i>" tag for icons | Eliminate using of <i> tag for icons | YM Website |
Infrastructure and Backend Systems
Much of the team's work is never seen, but important projects are ongoing to make sure our systems and websites are stable, highly available, and cost effective. We continue making major improvements to our infrastructure and work in this area will be ongoing into 2018.
| Type | Title | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup new USA Search Index (second) | This task setup a second USA location based search index to improve application availability and stability. Additional steps are necessary but the search indexes are foundational. | Azure Search Index | |
| Setup new USA Search index | Replaced an existing search index with a new one using the new naming convention. This is also a step in making our search indexes globally redundant. | Azure Search Index | |
| Deploy new search index code into production | This work completes the globalization for the search indexes. | Azure Search Index | |
| Implement system to replicate indexed data to globally distributed indexes | This task takes the code developed for a concept and makes it ready for production release. | Azure Search Index | |
| Update YM configuration system to support different search services | Updated YM configuration system for globalizing search indexes. | Infrastructure, YM Website | |
| Migrate T3 dev/acceptance deployment to newly created app services | T3 dev/acceptance app services were moved to newly created app services. | Infrastructure, T3 YSM Websites | |
| Setup Dev/Acceptance server schedule | Some servers are not required to run 24/7, this task setup applications to automatically start and stop servers based on a schedule. Since we only pay for servers that are running, this will help reduce our costs to run servers that are only used during development hours. | Profile.Yale.Edu (YMS Admin), SDL Content Delivery, SDL Content Manager | |
| Azure App Service Plan Consolidation -production apps | Reconfigured Azure Application Service Plans to make their use more efficient and cost effective. This is part one of this change, a separate ticket will be submitted for part two work to be completed within the next two months. | Profile.Yale.Edu (YMS Admin), T3 YSM Websites, YM Website | |
| Move temp SDL storage account from sandbox to production | A temporary storage container was created in our development region that has become an integral part of our production SDL servers. This task moved it into the correct location in Azure so it is treated as a production entity. | SDL Content Delivery, SDL Content Manager | |
| Alchemy broken in acceptance admin | Alchemy is a framework that allows us to easily add plugins to SDL. A configuration change caused the plugin to stop working which was fixed by uninstalling Alchemy and then re-installing it. | SDL Content Manager | |
| Application to automatically restart SDL Services after servers restart | When a server is restarted, the SDL services that run workflow and publishing may not start in the correct order causing them to appear as if they are running but they are not available. This task created an application that will correct this automatically when a server is restarted. | SDL Content Manager, YM Publishing Tool (YMS) | |
| VUM Custom Outbound Rule for Expert Rule Creation - new option needed | This task made it possible to create even more complex rules. | VUM | |
| Move VUM database | This task moved a database into a shared resource group to help consolidate production databases for cost savings measures. | VUM |
New Projects
The team has begun work on three new projects: Media Library (this will introduce streaming video and audio storage to the Profile System for people, organizations, news and events), CV Builder (to generate faculty CVs from the profile system), and a rebuild of the Flyerboard, the school's digital signage system. While these projects will not launch until 2018, below is a list of tasks the team completed this week:
| Type | Title | Description | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add CosmosDB integration | Integrate Azure CosmosDB as data storage in Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| CosmosDB investigations | Investigate Azure CosmosDB, determine benefits and drawbacks of using it in Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| Develop DB structure for Flyerboard Configs | Develop object models for storing config data in Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| Configure ESLint | Configure tool for checking code's formatting errors for the Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| Configure Webpack for the Flyerboard front-end | Configure tool for generating client-side result bundles in the Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| Create basic React/Redux project structure | Create basic structure of the client-side for the Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| Add controller for passing index.html to the client-side | Pass the main index.html file to the client-side for the Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| Add logic for passing screen's XML config to the client-side | Pass screen's configs to the client-side in the Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| Add logic for dynamically getting screen's XML config | Add logic for getting screen's XML config in the Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| Configure AutoMapper for Flyerboard back-end | Configure library for mapping objects in the Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| Configure Dependency injection for Flyerboard back-end | Configure library for dependency injection in the Signage project | Flyerboard | |
| Create initial project structure for Flyerboard back-end | Create basic structure of the server-side for the Signage project | Flyerboard |