Post on 03-Jan-2016
Overview• History and background of CTRL• OpenACS @ UCLA
– Faculty Database• Problem, requirements, design
– Weekly Message Digest• Problem, requirements, design
– Calendar of Events• Problem, requirements, design
– Room Reservation• Problem, requirements, design
• Issues – Performance under load– Permissions & request processor– Single sign on– Customizations
Background
• Since 1995, NaviServer 1.0.
• Illustra, Solid, Sybase, now Oracle.
• Research data collection, management, and reporting applications.
• Infrastructure applications at School of Medicine: Shared Resources, school and department web sites, etc.
Faculty Database
• Too many places where information needed to be updated.• Need for single point of management.• Flexible heterogeneous presentations (for each departments,
divisions, center, institute, etc.)• Support distributed administration (departments can manage
their faculty, etc).• Marketing tool.
FDB Design• Uses OpenACS
– objects & permissions– Users, persons, parties and groups
• Research data include:– Publications– Lay and Technical Research Interest statements– Title, degrees, awards, affiliations– Contact data
• Other features:– Data source for NIH & NSF Bio-sketch builder
Example Query select personnel_id,
first_names,
last_name
from inst_personnel psnl,
persons p
where p.person_id = psnl.personnel_id
and (psnl.status_id is null
or psnl.status_id in
(category.lookup('//Personnel Status//Active'),
category.lookup('//Personnel Status//Accepting Patients')))
and (psnl.start_date is null or psnl.start_date < sysdate)
and (psnl.end_date is null or psnl.end_date > sysdate)
and exists (select 1 from vw_group_member_map elms where exists (select 1 from acs_rels rels where rels.rel_type = 'subsite_for_party_rel' and rels.object_id_one = :subsite_id and rels.object_id_two = elms.ancestor_id) and elms.child_id = p.person_id )
order by last_name_initial, last_name, first_names
Implementation Strategy• Weekly email digests to drive
traffic to other services.
• Single sign-on to several applications:– FDB
– Room Reservations
– Calendars of Events
– NIH Bio sketch builder
– more…
Calendars of Events• Central clearinghouse of
DGSOM events.• Accept DGSOM
community postings.• Support import into desktop
calendars (Outlook & iCal).• Provide notification options
(email).• Provide “pull” options
(RSS).
Room Reservations Online
• Common solution to room reservation.
• Supports local control and autonomy.
• Provide new capabilities.
Room Reservations Online
• Browse rooms by characteristics.
• Search by specific requirements.
• Submit room reservation request.
• Administration of rooms.
• Support for “skins”