Zack-201208

Daily Entries

BEGIN PARSING ENTRIES - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE

Week of 2012-08-04 to 2012-08-10

2012-08-07 Tue -- 0 hrs

• eri:1.5h:exported content from news on old ERI site; figured out structure of export XML, and which field each field will be migrated into; started editing template to remove unnecessary header link below header (header image goes below content)
  • Matched new fields with old fields
  • Created URL field for Events on WWW-Dev
  • Edited Events view to make Title link to URL field value
    • Since we don't have URL values for all items, this gets messy. If we want to add URL in list, we should give it its own field

2012-08-06 Mon -- 4.5 hrs

• eri:1.5h:changed people-research page to people only page, and began building research page; modified and styled templates for display of header info on Lesson Plans
• eri:3h:Worked on migrating more content from old eri site

1. Looked into exporting and importing feeds
2. Created content type for events
3. Imported Seminars from old site
4. Added taxonomy for Events
   1. Event
   2. Seminar

2012-08-05 Sun -- 0 hrs

2012-08-04 Sat -- 0 hrs

Week of 2012-08-01 to 2012-08-03

2012-08-03 Fri -- 5 hrs

• eri:5h:www-eri

1. Built Outreach page, blocks for outreach and education
2. Built Lesson Plans page view that displays table list of all lesson plans with dynamic links that link to subpage of page/[nid]
3. Built Page view that displays lesson plan with NID equal to URL argument
4. Researched module that hides unnecessary info (eg. taxonomy on node pages)
5. Migrated content from the above views from the old eri site
6. Migrated all pages and content from old site
7. Met with Aaron to discuss progress on site
8. Reindexed search
   1. Ran Cron to complete indexing

2012-08-01 Wed -- 5 hrs

• eri:5h:www-dev.eri

1. Set up people module with arguments filter
2. Modified styling of text on pages
3. Set up multiple Forms views with content types and taxonomy
4. Added links to sidebar
5. Added and formatted Administrative page
6. Added "Outreach" taxonomy, content type and page with menu link for later use in view

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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