Transition Technology: Ticket Query

#514: Spam issues - users not being able to comment

ed — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:25:29 GMT

Ed is receiving a selection of users not being allowed to post since the spam changes. We are seeing a pattern now. Setting this ticket up - will add user details tomorrow.

#461: Spam account war

ed — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:19:10 GMT

Aim:

tell drupal (and server level stuff?) to sniff out and destroy spam accounts without them knowing we did it, and ban them from doing it again

Wiki page:

https://wiki.transitionnetwork.org/Spam_accounts

#100: Show users' profiles on their personal profile page

ed — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:36:55 GMT

show a list of the projects and intiatives that users are involved with on their personal profile page

#516: Search: not showing events or initiatives

ed — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:16:41 GMT

Search for Woking from homepage. I know that there are two events and two initaitives with Woking in them. Neither are shown: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/search/node/woking

Advanced search does not bring them up either (ticking the initiatives box).

If I am in the initiatives section it returns the TIs though.

General search used to show TIs and events. Now it's only showing results of word searches.

General search needs to show TIs and events, and other nodes.

Please look into this.

#457: Projects form - Enhance form entry

laura — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:15:44 GMT

1 - Entry Form:

Set up new fields and permissions and groupings
Enhance ‘helper’ texts and any links to other parts of TN listed on form to enhance usability and context.
CSS and potential of custom templating/panels if needed for style and layouts

#257: Path aliases not being created for non-English nodes - i18n issues

ed — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:24:21 GMT

WAS: "one resource not rendering URL"

can't make this puppy render a human URL: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/node/17135

#517: News widgets not working

ed — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:39:57 GMT

News widgets not working - noticed here: http://transitionfinsburypark.org.uk/

and here: http://wwww.edmitchell.co.uk

Checked by putting code from http://www.transitionnetwork.org/syndication-and-social-media into new widget - showing a blank.

News feed working here: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/news/feed

So must be widget code.

Adding to Jim, but is it Laura?

#127: Link checker module

ed — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:12:15 GMT

It would be very very handy to have a link checker of some form to check for internal and external links. Site editors are adding pages, navigation is changing etc. If possible, the link module would update links as they move internally, but that's a nice to have. Please install one and Ed can manage it.

Putting to critical to get it on, shouldn't take long...

#61: Directory search by postcode

ed — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:11:30 GMT

Searching initiatives and people and projects: Add postcode search function to filter (adam herriott)

(Ed hears that the .paf is now freely available from OS/Royal Mail (?)

#123: City name in personal profiles

ed — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:38:47 GMT

Please either:

add city name into the personal profiles as it is in initiative profiles

OR:

if it's a straightforward replicate from the initiative profile, tell ed this and he will do it

#320: Add sitemap for site

ed — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:26:57 GMT

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#678: transitionnetwork.org unavailable

sam — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:41:21 GMT

The website is currently unavailable

Not responding to a ping either. sam@n220:~$ ping transitionnetwork.org PING transitionnetwork.org (81.95.52.103) 56(84) bytes of data.

Could you take a look Chris?

Thanks

Sam

#258: Write and publish a cookies statement

ed — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:35:38 GMT

write some explano-text about our cookies and add to http://www.transitionnetwork.org/site-help

here good example: http://recalledproducts.org/cookies

#524: Videos added via the video link don't work

ed — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:02:45 GMT

Videos added to posts using the video link and title fields are not working. Screengrab attached.

It submits OK, then shows up OK, but when you click on it, you see a miniature version of the TN website.

Some complaints come through since move.

Trialled on this post: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ed-mitchell/2013-03/video-link-test

#498: Usernames not showing up as links, and some links not showing on TI profiles

ed — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 08:57:22 GMT

See this when logged in and not logged in:

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/honiton http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/honiton

username *links* only appear if you are logged in (as admin, social reporter, group admin (test user2, test user1)). Ie the username links don't appear if you are not logged in.

Other web identifies don't show up unless you are logged in

#491: User being unsubscribed

ed — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:38:36 GMT

Transition Rye has been unsubscribed from their newsletter twice in the last few days. The first time, they re-subbed, and were unsubbed again yesterday. No other reporst of this *yet*. Could this be somethign to do with the move?

Here's their forwarded email:

From: Transition Network <newsletter@…> Date: 14 February 2013 20:26 Subject: Transition Network: You are now unsubscribed To: transitionrye@…

Transition Network You have been unsubscribed from our list. We're sorry to see you go.

Did someone unsubscribe you by mistake? If you forwarded our email to a friend, and that friend unsubscribed you by mistake, here's how you can re-subscribe: If this was a mistake, you can re-subscribe at: http://transitionnetwork.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=766036b57dc1247e2964584bd&id=33e8648c8d

For questions or comments, please contact us at: newsletter@…

#450: Update Transition 2 movie site

ed — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:05:40 GMT

#465: Transferring a domain to Transition Network

ed — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:34:27 GMT

we need to provide information to someone who is transferring the domain reconomy.org to us

#486: Social reporters cannot set featured story

ed — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:42:17 GMT

The social reporters cannot set the featured story for their homepage (as at point 14 on this guide: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ed-mitchell/2012-11/editing-social-reporting-homepage).

it works fine for admin, and they need to do this themselves, so we need to fix it. Setting? Permissions?

#527: Reports changes to Initiatives Detail report

ed — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:36:29 GMT

Primary contacts report is repeating the TI 4 times: Please make it show the TI only once:

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/reports/initiatives/primary-contacts https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/build/views/edit/initiative_contacts

TIs detail report needs to include Primary Point of Contact email address

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/build/views/edit/initiative_contacts#views-tab-feed_4

#473: Replace region option in location: from auto-complete to drop down

ed — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:51:09 GMT

Users have problems with the auto-complete; not being psychic, they don't know the range of regions on offer, so they struggle with adding regions.

Can we swap the auto-complete for a drop down of the regions they can chose? Can Ed do this?

This is small but would be much smoother.

#464: Remove 'diversity' option from newsletter subscription

ed — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:44:22 GMT

Users are still subscribed to, and offered the option to subscribe to, a Diversity newsletter. We don't do that anymore, so please remove this option. https://www.transitionnetwork.org/mailchimp

#489: Problems with SSL?

ed — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:32:35 GMT

User having problems with tn.org login: "I enter my username and password, get a message: The identity of this website has not been verified, server's certificate has expired"

do we need to attend to the SSL certificate in anyway?

#561: Move Transition Research patterns Wagn website onto Penguin

ed — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:08:03 GMT

The Transition Research group currently host their pattern language in the cloud here: http://patterns.transitionresearchnetwork.org/

(Chris has done a re-direct for this already)

They are keen to move the whole site and WAGN system onto TN servers.

Please investigate and let me know what it will take to sort hosting this out.

#468: Load problems on kiwi and quince

chris — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:40:53 GMT

The load on the live server today was such that it ended up in off-line mode.

It's now right down again, after these things were done:

Munin has been stopped on kiwi, there are alternative stats here:
- https://ecodissident.net/munin/webarch.net/kiwi.webarch.net/
- https://ecodissident.net/munin/webarch.net/quince.webarch.net/
"DTS Agent" (which appears to be a spam bot) was requesting a huge number of pages so it's been blocked at a varnish level following the suggestion here http://omninoggin.com/web-development/block-unwanted-spam-bots-using-varnish-vcl/
We have increased the amount of CPU slices quince get's to address the steal issue show here https://ecodissident.net/munin/webarch.net/quince.webarch.net/cpu.html

#467: Documentation

ed — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:32:45 GMT

We need the following outcomes from the work:

For new technologists to be able to quickly learn:

-- the maintenance and development process, -- setting up test environments for development work, -- protocols for contributing to the wiki and the issue tracker, -- any other key skills and processes related to maintenance and development work.

Primarily target: Drupal webmasters learning the maintenance/development process, and learning to carry out production tasks (views, panels, etc).
Provide a specification/description of the site to allow advanced developers a rapid way in to working with it.
Consider Wordpress users too - with a view to Rob Hopkins moving from Wordpress into Drupal

Carrying out this work should help Mark to learn the ropes so he can continue to contribute as a technologist.
Mark will have a a sift through the TRAC tickets - may be able help especially with spam management.
There is a strict end of January deadline.

#453: Delete workspaces

ed — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:26:56 GMT

They're not as good as basecamp, we tried them two years ago and they weren't popular; we very nearly ended up forcing more users into them just now.

DELETE the workspaces before we try to use them again.

Are there any implications we need to observe?

#451: Create and install REconomy widget on TN.org

ed — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:06:57 GMT

#485: transitionnetwork.org is tablet/phone/touch unfriendly

mark — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:24:15 GMT

Don't know how much of a priority this is, but transitionnetwork.org seems tablet/phone/touch unfriendly - and I'm just raising this ticket to capture this thought.

Core issue is the drop-down menus that are only accessible if you can "hover" over them with a mouse pointer - and of course no such thing exists on a touch-screen phone or tablet.

An easy workaround would be sub-menus or section menus in the sidebar, though I guess that would need some thought so as not to over-clutter the user interface. I often use the menu_block module to make "section" menus easy.

Anyway - thought captured - back to Real Work now :)

#458: Projects form - Project profile page display

laura — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:17:09 GMT

2 – Project Profile individual page display

Panels to re-arrange layout.
Summary on left upper brick, findability on right upper brick with map under (will be a case of working on mockups via LW’s virtual machine, map may need to go further down, but a listing of town, country still to appear in top part). Description to become an expanding box and other data underneath - full width.
Tidy up image display to be more attractive for users. Enable ‘contact’ button for project contact to be more visible.
Panels, views, and CSS theming for frontend enhanced display.

#459: Projects form - Project Directory display

laura — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:19:53 GMT

3 - Projects Directory (frontend of website) Create new tabbed views for a variety of outputs. New views result listings to be mainly in display format of:

Title (heading)
City/Country? (bold, slightly larger and possible on right)
New summary field and ‘read more about this project’ link

Similar to the ‘full’ PSE widget output list (except not showing distance but town or city and Country)

Tabs: Tab One (default) Projects Home – Introduction short paragraph text and link to adding projects. Lists featured projects Pagination

Tab Two Find by theme – Introduction brief sentence. Search functionality (exposed view filter) for selection of projects by theme. Default view: random pagination

Tab Three Find by location - Introduction brief sentence. Search functionality (exposed view filter) for selection of projects by location to use Names rather than miles. Default view: random or London? (note: LW will test ideas on this) pagination

Tab Four Find by benefits – note this may need to be set up ready but hidden initially until a substantial number of projects have updated their profiles with inclusion of the benefits/outcomes field Introduction brief sentence. Search functionality (exposed view filter) for selection of projects by outcome/benefits Default view: all by date added. pagination

Tab five [Similar to existing projects home page] Find by title with exposed search as is present. and tabular layout with a-z Custom CSS may be needed

Longer term: (possible January?) Enhance projects map page to show attached view of latest projects with relational popups on hover for easy browsing, and / or map filters by theme or benefit to enable a more usable feature of the map ability.

#304: Make the five star ratings filter-able in the resources directory view

ed — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:55:00 GMT

#533: Five star ratings: remove from resources CT

ed — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:56:34 GMT

We aren't using the fivestar ratings from the resources CT. There were some problems with it ages ago. Remove them from the resources CT and interface (public and edit)

#384: Enhance Project Profile Content Type and directory

ed — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:25:32 GMT

Laura to re-design IA and interface for admin and public profiles for project profile CT and directory.

Considered as part of PSE Project, hence design in Jan, build in Feb 2012

#523: Database intergrity

ed — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:33:38 GMT

Following on from comment 4 of ticket 516 (https://tech.transitionnetwork.org/trac/ticket/516#comment:4) , I wanted to check the integrity of the field tables, so I crafted and ran this query:

SELECT count(cck.nid) FROM content_field_region cck LEFT JOIN node node on cck.nid = node.nid WHERE node.nid IS NULL

Which returned 1,173 rows. I then replaced the 'content_field_region' with other fields found on the user profile nodes (which have their own database table) so the full breakdown is:

content_field_region = 1173 content_field_initiative = 1165 content_field_themes = 6256 content_field_training_attended = 1165 content_field_roles_offered = 1285 content_field_other_websites = 1181 content_field_user_types = 1165

So what this means is there are around 1200 entries in field database storage for the above tables that do not have an associated node. This means the data is not properly referentially integral, and ideally these should be cleaned up one day.

The risk is low but it's worth doing a the rest of the audit (with the other fields that have tables of their own) and then cleaning these up at some point. These will have been caused by manual deletes and imports over the years. Drupal would normally keep these sorted but we've had to bypass Drupal a few times.

Or we can leave it as is and let the migration to Drupal 8 resolve this. The cost is a bit more database space and a slightly slower site... Though this *may* cause a bug or two.