[SPTUsers] User feedback

[Arbit 1202]

Ok, good to know your roadmap. Will see if we can
cobble together some of the other stuff and keep you
posted.

Regarding speed, yes, I am running on Windows. Since
your speed is OK, I will probably need to do some
mysql finetuning.

PC
--- Edward Almasy <ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu> wrote:
> 
>    Thanks for the extensive feedback -- it is
> appreciated.  I'll address
>    some of the items below.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 07, at 11:26:40PM, Arbit 1202 wrote:
> > 2. After "Update", may as well submit directly -
> > anyway can see the changes in the modification
> screen.
> > Else, can have separate buttons for "Preview" and
> > "Submit".
> 
>    Adding Preview support is something we've talked
> about and may implement,
>    but it does come after a number of other things
> on the list.  The "OK for
>    Viewing" flag can be used to delay updated
> records from becoming public
>    until they've been vetted.
> 
> 
> > Home Page
> > ---------
> > 1. Can we optionally remove announcements?
> 
>    When you go in to edit an announcement, there's a
> "Delete" button that
>    allows it to be removed.
> 
> 
> > 2. Regarding "new resources". How is "new"
> defined? If
> > added in say last x days, then how do we see the
> next
> > bunch? As of now, can see only the 5 (or whatever
> is
> > set by admin) latest resources. Would like a
> > "next"/previous link.
> 
>    Paging through the recent resources list (i.e.
> Next/Previous) is something
>    we will definitely be adding.
> 
> 
> > 1. Search in forums?
> 
>    This may come as a by-product of some other
> proposed development, but I
>    can't give you a likelihood on it at this time.
> 
> 
> > 2. Ability to search by rating?
> 
>    This is something we will definitely be adding.
> 
> 
> > 5. Printer friendly version of full resource page
> 
>    This is something we will probably add.
> 
> 
> > Adding resources
> > ----------------
> > 1. Mostly as given in my earlier mail in March.
> > Overall, would be nice to be able to enter
> resources
> > (particularly multiple creator names), with fewer
> clicks.
> 
>    Reducing the effort needed to add and edit
> resources will be one of our
>    primary goals for SPT-related work over this next
> year.
> 
> 
> > 1. Home page takes 3.5-4 seconds to generate,
> while
> > search takes less (2sec odd). Is this happening to
> > anyone else also or should I delve into my
> database
> > setup?
> 
>    This seems quite slow to me, unless you've
> entered an *extraordinary*
>    number of resources and/or are using very old
> hardware.  Are you running
>    on a Windows-based platform?  We are only running
> SPT on Linux and OS X
>    here at Scout, so I don't have any info on
> Windows performance.
> 
>    For reference, I just did some quick tests, and
> on a Red Hat 7.3 box
>    that's a couple of years old (866 MHz Pentium
> III, 512 MB of RAM) and
>    with 15,000 resources loaded, front page
> generation takes about 0.6
>    seconds and keyword search times are around 0.015
> seconds.  (I should
>    add that this box also has a number of other
> things running on it, and
>    had a process load of around 1.7 when I generated
> the above figures.)
>    Page generation time with a full list of search
> results hovered around
>    1.1 seconds.
> 
> 
> > 1. Can we see full tree at one time, instead of
> having
> > to click on each category to see sub categories
> > eg, the browse resources page would look something
> like
> > Architecture -- History -- Canada
> > Architecture -- Technical
> > and clicking on any node would open the relevant
> page.
> 
>    We don't have any plan to implement this type of
> interface, mostly
>    because it's not practical beyond a (relatively)
> small taxonomy, but if
>    you have someone who can do a bit of PHP
> programming it would be easy
>    to do by reworking the browse page HTML.
> 
>    Ed
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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