Life Cycle
September 1999 Initial Design of Web Publishing Module - "News" News later called Articles/Publishing/Pages Web Publishing of Timed Static Pages Parsing on Server before storing? Minimum HTML for Text only, cr > our own PRE? use PRE? Images support in Images folder Cache copies against missing URL? Templates - SSI?, database HTML?, CSS Derek's TimeTraveller working (9/3/99, designed 6/28/99) Version .70 9/8/99 (first draft complete 9/18/99) New Architecture - Derek's One level of Frames only New Frames > CalendarDataCode, TOCDataCode, MenuDataCode, ControlsDataCode, TimeLinesDataCode At same level are CalendarFrame, TOCFrame, ControlsFrame, MenuFrame So all calls are parent. Almost the whole interface is built in JavaScript. Globals whichPlaceGroup > whichPlaceGroupID (complete? 9/17/99) TimeLines Window now handles both Events and Resources. (soon Custom Combinations) New EditColors has Web-Safe Pallette and Named Colors 9/13/99 Added Select boxes to Resources, Events TimeLines Events files fixed, reuse as News files 9/15/99 New order - Report, Edit, Admin - many functions moved. TimeLines window focus() control (in MenuDataCode) Make Reservation from empty TimeLines cells (emptyCellAction). Menu offers Accounts, Shop, Calendars, Tasks, TimeLines, About... Version .71 9/22/99 NewsWindow loads NewsFrames.asp> NewsDataCodeFrame, NewsBannerFrame, NewsTOCFrame, and NewsFrame. (One great week of Derek work) NewsBanner.asp includes TimeTraveller and Select for Publications NewsDataCodeFrame has buildNewsTOC, buildNews. These are called from special Blank pages as onLoad scripts to avoid unspecified (timing) errors on first load. 10/4 Autogenerate should make articles contiguous 10/6 Monthly, Weekly, Daily autogeneration of starter pages. (Ready for content) 10/6 Add URL option to Article Enter Dialog. add scopeID 10/11 Edit an Article's Text and rewrite on Server 10/14 10/11 Close NewsWindow (any Menu click) 10/14 10/13 Member of the Day page Version .72 10/14/99 Added ScopeID to all Groups, Items, Calendars, etc. Added Divisions, Departments, Division_Department, Member_Division, Member_Department tables Add NewsHeaderFrame (Dateline), later NewsFooterFrame ArticleAddEdit replaces ArticleAdd, ArticleEdit > offers URL, File, Text sources Added TimeTraveller Readout, CaptionStrings > 13 Dateline generated by JS, later world formats 10/15 buildNews called twice? 10/20 Pull (JavaScript) Dynamism 10/20 Timed Page Content = separately updatable elements (SMIL?) NLE of News ad banners, breaking news, hourly versions, etc. 10/30 Unix style ftp directory for authors /~username (HTTP PUT?) Version .73 11/3/99 11/3 ArticleAdd needs to reset ArticleID (if you come from ArticleEdit) 11/3 11/3 Classified Ads 11/8 Add JS readout to TimeTraveller 12/1? 11/8 Update static pages (Derek's Version Stack with Index page) 11/8 Derek's version STACK of Persistent pages (with Index/History page) Version .75 12/7/99 12/10 New Pages architecure - articles in folders/directories that reflect Publications/Sections to arbitrary depths All articles are .html, but processed through ASP. Dynamic Redirect if current time is not this page's scheduled time. Index/Site Navigation pages are all dynamic - built to order (no CRON needed) Pages are VISIBLE only when database times allow. Navigation templates (auto-generated) are user-customizable. Version .76 12/12/99 New DirectoryReport.asp based on AccountReport.asp, removed GetGroupContained (unused). PublishingFrames.asp frameset (for Admin - Directories and Files panes). PublishingTOCFrame with directory tree, EditFrame laods with AdminEditSortDirectory. PublishingTOCBlank, PublishingBlank DirectoryReport 12/23, AdminEditSortDirectory 12/27, FileReport, PageEdit 12/27 "File Manager" web-based interface complete except for "moving" a directory - implement via a pseudo-clipboard? "Move To" button, then left window says "Move to where?" Select the destination directory. 12/27 Need "check-out" flags set in the database so multiple users don't collide. 2000/01/02 Links to Associated everything Append Comments button (by email to Admin if moderated) 2000/01/06 Edit (skyWrite) Page 2000/01/07 Edit Comments Version 0.80 2000/01/17 Version .81 2000/02/08 2000/01/10 Allow Pages to start at (or be in) domain root? (but hide TimeLines folder.) 2000/01/11 Add Description, Members Associated, Attributes to Page Series 2000/01/11 Reconfigure Pages to run from any directory. 2000/01/26 Remove references to Publication and Section Persistent Archive YYYYMMDDHHMMSS stamps should be in GMT, likewise dates in footer. 2000/02/01 Support wwwroot as a Publishing site? If there are parc pages there, they are our Pages. (Careful: If org starts writing own parc pages, we would need to rebuild their html page.) 2000/02/11 Upload Images into Images folder Mouse type size for all directories. Help pages for Welcome, Events, Resources, Members, Pages "News" > "Pages" in Strings, redeploy to above sites. Version .82 2000/02/14 (A really great week of work for Derek, Pages implementation) Major - Removed all Articles, Sections, Publications asp pages (~30) Remove 6 db tables - Articles, ArticleSeries, Publications, Publication_Section, Sections, Member_ArticleSeries Changes in Strings(Dudley Fax), Help, Globals, Members, TOCStrings, TOCStrings2, Modules, Strings3, MemoStrings Remove Publication, Section, Articles from all code. News > Pages in all code, filenames DataCode > Builder in all code, filenames Controls > Contents in all code, filenames typeWriter() function - Loading, please wait! - in Directory 2000/02/18 Pages now display in timeLines! , but they do not update when rescheduled in Edit the Page Details Window. New PageDetails.asp, PageDetailsFrames.asp 2000/03/02 Eliminate some code that does not Port easily? varType, Removed DateSerial, Replace with DateAdd (EventAddSubs + 5 places) New policy, OpenTextFile for Writing, OpenAsTextStream for Reading ----------------------------------- Version .83 2000/03/01 Great new interface design - Pull-down menus for Modules, Contexts(Functions) FramesBuilder - frame-based allows collapse/expand Calendar New Publish Pages/Images interface Two drop-down menus - with fast directory loading. New Features in Welcome TOC (PIM within Org) Preferences (Info, Interests, Initial Settings) To Do (Tasks) 2000/03/08 Appointments (Calendars) Contacts (People) Memos (Pages) Links (Bookmarks) workPage email (web-based) needs New TOCStrings2 Fixes to Pages Publish Images - a new TOC entry, later part of Publish Pages Major interface redesign - don't release .83, go to .84? Eliminate Menus (Text Strings), SubMenus, TOC! Replace with Module and Function/Context Drop Down Boxes (Two levels only) Maximize work space buttons [<] and [>] Back up partial .83 for the record? PublishPages (Publish Window) complete redesign, with 50/50 and all HTML [v], all Preview [^] buttons Added TIME to ScheduleString, (blows away timeLines quantization?) Menus contain >Welcome pseudo-options to allow return 2000/04/06 Help 0.83 now a separate directory Added editYear() to CalendarBuilder. 2000/04/07 Added 12 months selectable to CalendarBuilder 2000/04/11 Much work on Edit a Page, Upload an Image. 2000/04/15 Copied Help folder to skyBuilders, replaced /Schedule > /skyBuilders (2002 times) But this requires the Pages data in Schedule - which conflicts with skyBuilders - careful 2000/04/20 Lots of bug fixes, IE5, Publish Pages, TOCBuilder timing error on load (which was difficult, went to TOCFrameFlag solution) New Bugs Email Excerpts Another skyRocket, for Schedule. Refresh timeLines? use the miniTimeTravel Added VerticaltimeLinesSwitch to Globals 2000/04/27 (Derek is away) Changed Back link in PageComment.asp to javascript:history.back(), this was the reason we were invading MediaOne - link was //News// no http:// Derek fixed path. Make a Blank.83.mdb - some easy way? Definitions only save? 2000/05/05 Derek redesigned DTMenus to separate lines of Start End select boxes (great) 2000/05/08 Derek implements skyRockets. Lots of timing issues. skyRocket needs to be at end of buildFoundation(). So does setCalendar() from CalendarBuilder (line 247 unspecified error). *** New debugWindow, write JSTimeWhere there. (causes line 77 error on close) Module and Context as the names of the two drop-down menus. (Context-sensitive skyRocket) 2000/05/10 New DTMenus throughout, TO DO and Tasks still incomplete (Delete 7 old DTMenus.inc files) ---------------------------------------- Version .84 2000/05/12 = accumulated .83 changes Major Feature List items? skyRockets Calendar with months and editable year. Publish now has tri-panel window, skyView, Master Archive miniTimeTravel icon to refresh timeLines window 2000/05/15 New DTMenus New JSTLCodeLoc (version of framesref), provides context of where caller is 2000/05/18 Derek adds TimeZone handling (especially for Calendars module) DateAdd, DateEdit New userZone and userZoneOffset (join browserZone and serverZone). 2000/05/26 Big Continuous Contextual Help design. (Wonderful hard Derek work) 2000/06/09 Moved all BobIBM sites to hosts.skybuilders.com (remove all 24.147.17.251 links) 2000/06/13 skyRocket/skyLink with ScheduleString 2000/06/21 Added Refresh timeLines (Javascript in CalendarBuilder, TimeLinesBuilder) Always resets to Refresh = none on open. on module change? Drop reQuote for Memo fields (aimed at TEXTAREAs) 2000/06/26 Can skyWrite a non-scheduled (plain HTML) page. Strings3 table New Fields UploadLabel, DownloadLabel, RestoreLabel TOCStrings2 table New Fields PublishServerPagesTOC, AdminDataModelTOC, SiteMonitorTOC New Table serverPageLog - Fields PageName, DTStamp, ModificationCommentary 2000/06/30 Cloned 0.84 Help as 0.85 Help folder ---------------------------------------- Version .85 2000/06/30
