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Spring 2015 – Cycle 9

Cycle 9: 05/11/2015 — 05/22/2015

Work Planned

This cycle we are beginning work on the long planned rebuild of the applicant review system. This project paves the way for a long set of important features including integration with student views, historical data, and undergraduate applications. Work on this project will continue into the summer.

  • Applicant Review
  • Business Operations
  • Budgets
  • Courses
  • Grants
  • Help Desk Tickets
  • Person
  • Infrastructure

Work Complete

Business Operations

  • Worked on “Ticket First” strategy for business operations database. System will expose a core request handling system similar to Help Desk ticket system. Tickets provide the structure: ticket number, requester, staff assigned, status, collection of messages. Forms will be specific structured data attached to tickets.

Budget

  • Budget status on list view
  • Budget status as search term
  • Download budget lists
  • Display assigned fiscal manager in grants system
  • Search last 4 digits of budget number

Courses

  • List offerings with no instructor

Person

  • Fix person update and schedule nightly updates

Help Desk

  • Email ingestion, emails are received by system and added as messages to tickets
  • Added primary email field to ticket system for non UW users

Applicant Review

  • Work started on move to local application data, information gathering and planning.
  • Requirements gathering meetings with OSS, AST, TEP
  • Responsive menu changes from top of page menu to left hand sidebar based on screen size, makes applications more mobile friendly
  • Reviewed database options, decided on shared database to simplify data reuse and reporting
  • Built migration from existing applicant database to shared database
  • New development environment authorized for web service with Grad School
  • Select platform for revised applicant review, will share platform with People/Budget system, and started project

Infrastructure

  • Rename Pubcookie application contexts to avoid cookie too large error
  • Upgrade techwiki and coewiki software
  • Add info system context menu to all systems, provide link to various tools such as applicants, students, grants, etc.