CD-Media Progress

[Brandon Martus]

Can you guys go to the White Papers upload page (on CD-Media) and test out adding/removing attachments. I want to make sure the DOM code I used works for a majority of you. It may have issues in earlier IE and Mozillas, but if you're relatively up to date there shouldn't be problems.

The upload functionality doesn't work, but that won't be hard to add in.

If you do test it out, can you post what Browser (and version, and on what OS) you used, and affirm that it did or didn't work. Don't duplicate if your browser/version/os combo has been spoken for.

IE6 - Windows XP : works
Mozilla 1.5 - Windows XP : works


CD-Media -- it's getting closer.

[Beth Sweet]

Brandon,

Is there going to be a button next to calendar or something that says CDMedia???

[Billfred]

Looks good on Safari 2.0.2 on OS X 10.4.3.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Beth Sweet

Brandon,

Is there going to be a button next to calendar or something that says CDMedia???

Yeah, once everything is moved over, a 'CD-Media' link will replace 'white papers' and 'picture galleries' up top.

[Stu Bloom]

IE6 - Win2k works

And here's the link to CD Media for reference.

[Brandon Martus]

CD-Media now accepts file uploads. If you wouldn't mind, can some of you try to create a white paper with some attached files? Reply if you have any problems or suggestions, etc.

The papers will be auto-approved, for now. I'm not sure which way that will end up being in the final system (auto-approval, or approval by mods).

Next up:

• Attach more files, post-creation.
• Edit paper & photo information. (hooray for Ajax)

[Billfred]

Out of curiosity, is there a page for untagged photos in the works? (Some of us could use a hobby for when robotics is snowed out/iced out/scattered/smothered/covered. )

[Brandon Martus]

Not yet, but there will be pages like:

• Media needing tags
• Tags needing votes
• My Media needing votes
• My Media needing tags

But those aren't going to come until the thing is up & running ..

[Kyle Love]

Brandon, your amazing! CD media will rock my socks off more then DS&K! Ok, maybe I won't go that far.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

When can you use it? I'm aiming for the end of July, but probably more realistically in August.

Well, I never said what year!

CD-Media may go live next week, and completely replace the existing picture gallery and white papers system. The last thing I have to get in there is a Who-Am-I manager. The uploading/editing/tagging of photos and papers all works -- I think.

How do you edit the title, description, excerpt? If you uploaded the photo or paper, just click on what you want to edit! Easy, eh?

So, this is where you come in.

Here is what I need -- please, please, please! Upload photos and white papers, tag them, vote on tags, edit the info, delete them, make them favorites, search for them, use and abuse the system. I don't care if the white paper you upload is a word document with "hi, im testing" in it (just keep it clean, and within the rules). The image can be you on your family vacation -- just test the system. All approvals are turned off, so your stuff should show up instantly.

Send me a PM with any issues, suggestions, questions, comments you may have. This will help emmensely .. I wrote the system, so chances are if there any bugs in there I have missed, I probably won't see them easily; fresh eyes will.

Once CD-Media is done, I've got another really cool project to work on (and hopefully it will be done faster than CD-Media).

Thanks!

[Brandon Martus]

I wanted to thank everybody, especially Greg Ross, for sending in a bunch of bug reports -- you've found some weird bugs and offered up some great suggestions.

I've finished the Who Am I thing .. it's pretty simple to do...
1) upload the picture to CD-Media
2) tag it with 'Who Am I' .. a little 'My Name Is' nametag () shows up by the 'favorite' and other icons.
3) Click that icon .. and ta-da, that image is your Who Am I.

So now you can change it at any time! Want to go back to an old one? No problem!

So .. I guess now I just have to write up some more FAQ items, fix the portal listings of pictures and papers, and then it may be ready to go live next week (yeah, I said that last week -- but I mean it for real, now.)

I will still gladly take bug reports .. please please please test!

[Brandon Martus]

I might make CD-Media live in 2-3 hours. Please, if you have 5 minutes, go test out some of the functionality and send me a PM if you find something broken.

New discussion threads is turned off -- old ones can be replied to.

The complete Who-Am-I () system is turned off, till CD-Media goes live.

Tagging works -- go tag () some files. Vote () for some tags. Vote against some tags.

Uploading works -- upload an image. Make a white paper.

Editing works -- find one of your old images/papers .. click on the description, title, or excerpt .. edit it .. save it .. cancel 1/2 way thru .. use vBCode .. use HTML .. etc., etc.

Favorites ()works -- make some pictures your favorites. Take them off your favorites list.

Searching works .. give it a go.

I will turn off the old galleries/papers, clear CD-Media, and then re-import.

I hope to do this later this evening. Finally.

[Greg Ross]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Editing works -- find one of your old images/papers .. click on the description, title, or excerpt .. edit it .. save it .. cancel 1/2 way thru .. use vBCode .. use HTML .. etc., etc.

Didn't work for me. Do changes have to be approved? I tried changing the title of "Beach 'Bot view 1" a couple of times, but it remained unchanged.

I also tried changing "BASIC Stamp Preprocessor v2.13" (to add a line to the beginning of the description.) When I clicked "Save", the description was replaced with a "refreshing " message. (It never did refresh.) I clicked on the title, and then the "Cancel" button, and the title was changed to the text of the description!

I tried changing the description again, and this time the text was changed to
"refreshing "! (See screen shot below.)

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Tagging works -- go tag () some files. Vote () for some tags. Vote against some tags.

• [A nit: ] After clicking on "for", "against" or "abstain", if I tab to the comment field, the field is cleared (of the "comments, especially when against" message), and it receives focus (i.e. you can type in it), but the caret doesn't show up until you start typing.
• I voted against a tag which (from the way you described to me how tag voting works) apparently had been hanging around for over two weeks, and had had no votes cast either for or against it, because it immediately disappeared. In my opinion, the fact that there were no votes against it for two weeks should at least count as one vote FOR the tag. Maybe a vote should require a quorum before a tag could be considered voted down.

[Greg Ross]

I just voted in favor of two tags (Brazil and Meeting) on photo "BrAzIl at work!(+-)" and those tags disappeared!

[edit]Never mind. I don't know what I was looking at. They're there now/again. [/edit]

[Brandon Martus]

The editing problems should be fixed now. I was an admin, and that part worked .. I forgot to remove my admin flag and try to edit .. all is well now.

The problems where the 'refreshing' is stuck -- see if that happens again. If so, let me know on what photo/paper and with what browser you're using. I guess before testing, clear your cache (or at least SHIFT+REFRESH a CD-Media page).

The tag issues are probably things we'll have to work out as the system is used. I'll be making pages to see what items need voting, etc., so people with lots of free time will be able to take care of a lot of the voting and hopefully knock down the queue faster than the 2-week limitation (which we can always extend as far as we need).

The next (and final) import will auto-tag items based on the folder they were in (ie: any in the VCU regional folders will get 'NASA/VCU Regional' and 'NASA/VCU Regional 2006' and 2006 and regional automatically. All auto-tagged items can be edited, if one doesn't fit for some reason. That tag cloud on the tags page is going to look interesting with 10,000 images auto-tagged during import.