We ran into a minor parking permit snafu yesterday that involved online permit purchase for students only. For some reason, the form was submitting to the faculty/staff side, which of course won't work as there are different fields. Since this was later in the afternoon, Soukup and I decided to just change the submit to the student side and enable it for student web. Myron was kind enough to go through and test it for us by purchasing a permit and it appeared to all work. I'm hoping there wasn't a reason that it was pointing to the incorrect procedure, but we'll just have to see today. I'm hoping Brian will be able to tell us if anything is broken.
Of course, the typical service requests. There was one that involved a user that was unable to get through accountlookup. Ended up being the vnumber in LDAP was for another user with the same name. I changed his LDAP entry and it worked. There seemed to be quite a number of issues with accountlookup, and few seem to have obvious problems. I'm just going to have to chock it up to user error for now until I see some way that there really is a problem to fix.
Bill has asked me to include another aspect to account lookup that link to a way for students to only lookup their Vnumber. Apparently there have been quite a few students that use accountlookup for this purpose only, but are having to go through the acceptable use policy every time. To speed up the process, we'll add another link that will facilitate this usage. It's in the queue, but probably won't be done until after my vacation.
As you've probably notice, we started sending out the notice for all users to go through and "sign" the acceptable use policy through http://www.wou.edu/accountlookup. In order to make the almighty auditors happy, it's just something that must be done. We must make sure every user has signed the policy and keep that date for reporting purposes. If you've signed it recently, we apologize for the inconvenience, but it shouldn't take you more than two minutes.
I've written all the code to send out all messages to users that have not signed the policy (according to our records) and to deactivate the accounts of those that do not sign by our cutoff date. Since that falls within my vacation, it will have to be run by Alex. Hopefully it all works.
The policy application for hr to keep track of all users that have read the Consensual Relationships and Discrimination policies and either accept or have questions on these policies. The application will allow hr to answer and post all questions that users on our campus may have about these policies. I'm sure they will eventually wish to add to the policy list, but for now, there are only two. Get to reading them and make sure you understand. For a complete list of all the University's policies, you can go here.
After dealing with the service request system, I've come to realize, I don't appreciate having to log in every time I click on a link in the service request email, even though the cookie is still valid. I therefore asked Ron to change to servicerequest alias to point to the list of requests, rather than the login page. After this took effect, Alex was able to modify the email notifications to include a link directly to the service request, a huge improvement.
Next week will definitely be busy, as I'm sure it will be most everyone on campus. It's also another week closer to my vacation, yeah!
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