Zack-201207

Daily Entries

BEGIN PARSING ENTRIES - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE

Week of 2012-07-21 to 2012-07-27

2012-07-26 Thu -- 5 hrs

• eri:1.5h:finished up building IT ERI Wiki structure and added some content from stadm (unformatted)
• eri:1h:wrote wiki guide for Drupal Wiki located Here
• eri:0.5h:wrote wiki guide for Announcements located Here
• eri:1.5h:tested Webform -- will not work for outages; researched php way of doing it; built php script to insert formatted outage data into DB; Built form located here to send data to php script
• eri:0.5h:weekly meeting with Aaron

2012-07-25 Wed -- 5 hrs

• eri:0.5h:met with Aaron about IT site announcements block
• eri:2.5h:tested two methods of table filtering for announcements and outages (taxonomy, two content types); created php script to format text; built form to edit content of announcement format outage announcemnt
• eri:2h:researched and built wiki structure in wiki/ subdirectory of IT ERI site; Aaron installed Four modules: MediaWiki API, freelinker, and Wikitools -- MediaWiki API doesn't seem useful.

2012-07-24 Tue -- 5 hrs

• eri:1h:reviewed unix commands;tested responsive grid settings and stylesheet loading defaults
• eri:2h:setup ssh fileviewer in JEdit;explored d7k filesystem;reviewed tpl.php files and css files within mix_and_match theme folder of eri7-dev;couldn't save change because files read only
• eri:0.5h:documented use of header and logo in stylesheets and template file from eri7-dev
• eri:1.5h:Researched mediawiki module for drupal (combine MediaWiki API Module with Wikitools module); Began adding views, content and blocks to IT ERI drupal (created dynamic announcements table)

2012-07-23 Mon -- 5 hrs

• eri:2h:Researched Omega theme; Tested layout options and regions;
• eri:1h:matched menu styles from CCBER to ERI; tried changing block regions on both to better understand header usage and advantages of putting header in "branding" region.
• eri:2h:followed grid documentation guide for Omega; learned structure of sub theme css stylesheets/Omega's way of loading mobile, desktop and wide screen versions of the theme.

2012-07-22 Sun -- 0 hrs

2012-07-21 Sat -- 0 hrs

Week of 2012-07-14 to 2012-07-20

2012-07-20 Fri -- 6 hrs

• eri:2h:rebuilt calendar, content types, and taxonomy
• eri:1h:repaired resources table and added month selector to filter resources by date
• eri:2h:created wiki guide for calendar located here
• eri:1h:researched issue with having People and Research quick tabs in the same view; began building module using hook_form_alter and taxonomy_node_get_terms to accomplish this.

2012-07-18 Wed -- 6 hrs

• eri:2hr:researched contextual filters; vertical alignment of blocks on front eri7a page;
• eri:1hr:researched calendar sorting by taxonomy, enabling color coding;
• eri:3hr:video tutorials on module development; drush tutorial;

2012-07-17 Tue -- 4 hrs

• eri:1.5hr:viewed online tutorials on hook_form_alter as well as calendar/date and Features modules
• eri:2.5hr:created calendar view and resource view; inputted content from main eri site; built taxonomy term hierarchy to filter resources from events that are displayed in the calendar GUI

2012-07-16 Mon -- 4 hrs

• eri:1hr: compiled questions and met with Aaron about drupal
• eri:1.5hr:researched calenda and bibliography modules and tested pannel settings
• eri:1.5hr:created test pages, views and blocks for various attachment types; adjusted attachment settings; followed Chris's guide to using arguments to filter content into table view; tested tokens

2012-07-15 Sun -- 0 hrs

2012-07-14 Sat -- 0 hrs

Week of 2012-07-07 to 2012-07-13

2012-07-13 Fri -- 4.5 hrs

• eri:0.5:reviewed CEIN modules and theme options

• eri:2.5h:built quicktabs table and bio type on eri7a-dev -- couldn't filter content by taxonomy term

• eri:1.5:figured out work around for filtering quicktabs content -- still doesn't match structure of CEIN quicktabs; added test menu from biogeog to eri7-dev; tested forum module

2012-07-12 Thu -- 5.5 hrs

• eri:3h:read drupal module development guide and git use, theme development
• eri:2h:reviewed structure of quicktab module and people tab guide, functionality of CKEditor
• eri:0.5h:met with Darla about Wordpress uses and theming/layout

2012-07-11 Wed -- 4.5 hrs

• eri:1.5h:started reading drupal documentation guide
• eri:3h:worked with eri7-dev drupal settings

2012-07-10 Tue -- 2 hrs

• eri:1h:training/intro

2012-07-09 Mon -- 0 hrs

2012-07-08 Sun -- 0 hrs

2012-07-07 Sat -- 0 hrs

Week of 2012-07-01 to 2012-07-06

2012-07-05 Thu -- 0 hrs

2012-07-04 Wed -- 0 hrs -- Independence Day

2012-07-02 Mon -- 0 hrs

2012-07-01 Sun -- 0 hrs

FINISH PARSING ENTRIES - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE

Recharge Examples/Entry Instructions

Recharge Entries fall into 3 broad categories:  
  Direct charges - charges to a PI, Category, Account fund - Done monthly
  Deferred charges - charges that are accumulated for Services (Disk Storage, Backups, Websites, etc) paid quarterly
  Departmental charges - entries that are made to track time taken for various services that are provided by the department.  Possibly used by IT staff to make decisions

Recharge Entry Examples (each entry is expected to follow a list tag entry in the final html (ie: an asterisk in the wiki editor)):
 *NEES:20 min:Backups                         -- basic entry, NEES charged 20 minutes for backups
 *Frew:20:Backups                             -- implied units -- units default to minutes
 *Dozier:1.5h:Backups                         -- units flexible - space between amt and units optional, h is shorthand for hours, m shorthand for minutes
 *Davey/Frew/Dozier:20 min each:Backups       -- create recharge entries for this amt of time for each of the categories
 *Davey/Frew/Dozier:2 hours split:Backups     -- split time equally between each of the categories
 *eri.web:20m:Work on research website

Project examples: - ie: NEES, Snow, Oceancolor, Dragon, CCBER
Account entries can be subcategorized by creating a hierarchy using "."'s to separate fields (ie: eri.space.girvetz)

More detailed Syntax Breakdown (in pseudo BNF) :
 ENTRY = *ACCTSPEC:TIMESPEC:DESCRIPTION                         -- one entry per line
 ACCTSPEC = ACCT[[/ACCT]...]                                    -- the Account/Category/Project/CostCenter to be recharged
 TIMESPEC = AMT [UNIT [LOOP-OP]]                                -- amount of time spent - default is minutes
 ACCT = PI | Project | Account | Category [.SubCategory[...]]   -- PI/Project/Acct/Category: ie: Frew, NEES, Dragon, Infra, conf,...
 AMT = float | integer                                          -- Amount of time spent -- float or int
 UNIT = [hour|hr|h|minute|min|m]                                -- units of time to apply to amount - default is minute -- spaces optional between amt and units
 LOOP-OP = [each|split]                                         -- specialized operators - CATEGORY list is split on "/"s and an entry created for each one when processed.

Non-direct Recharge Categories (and associated SubCategories):
 *admin - efforts for administrative staff

 *lic.[itt, matlab, math, arcgis] --licensing stuff.
 *web.[drupal,wiki,cms,ftp]       -- not sure this will be a top level charge

 *stor.[disk,bk,tape]
 *stor.bk                         -- efforts relating to backups
 *stor.disk                       -- disk server related time
 *stor.tape                       -- tape backups
 
 *it.[net,dev,team,ucsb,stadm,dsr,nsmgmt]
 *it                             -- alone infers ERI business (infra/sysadm/blahblahblah).
 *it.net                         -- efforts relating to departmental networking (cabling)
 *it.dev                         -- software development, scripting, new services...
 *it.team                        -- efforts relating to IT team meetings/discussions... how about powow?
 *it.ucsb                        -- UCSB training/meetings/discussions/committees or campus greater good.
 *it.stadm                       -- efforts relating to any IT student assistants
 *it.dsr                         -- efforts relating to departmental safety representative work

Other Stuff

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