Re: Updates to the WebReports site

All,

I'm not sure if everyone has had the time to review all the exciting new 
developments on the web reports site. Jesper has been doing a great job, 
and I think the system is ready to be used in actual activities.

First, the reports section (http://www.weblabs.org.uk/wlplone/Reports) 
is growing rapidly, with contributions from Sweden, Bulgaria and Italy.  
Please have a look, make comments, and also tell Jesper if you have any 
suggestions about how the system works.

Second, the groups section (http://www.weblabs.org.uk/wlplone/Groups) is 
maturing - with topic groups and school groups. If you want any group 
added, please contact Jesper. Please use "My Home" -> "My preferences" 
to set your group membership.

Note that once you join a group you will be notified of any new reports 
in that group.  If you don't want to be notified, there's a "contact 
permission" radio button in your preferences, which you can set to "you 
may not send me emails".

- Yishay

Jesper Holmberg wrote:

>Many of you have tried out our portal during the past two weeks. I have
>received much valuable feedback. Here are a few short news items about
>some changes which have been made to the site since last Monday:
>
>* Researchers can now do two things that kids cannot do on the site: add
>  ToonTalk tools under the Tools tab, and edit the presentations of the
>  different Topic Groups and Schools. I have made the following accounts
>  into researchers:
>
>     Ken,  Minehaha, Raquel, Sofia, alunojf, 
>     augusto, choyles, gordon, iliana,
>     jesperh, jfmatos, luigiSarti, michele, 
>     paulafelix, rnoss, yish, ylva
>
>  If you're not on the list but would like to be, please contact me.
>
>* In the first version which I announced two weeks ago, there was a slot
>  in the left column of the site called "Advanced interface". The advanced
>  interface provides a means to handle the objects which have been added
>  to a directory. This functionality is still present, but it has been
>  moved to the right hand side of the interface. It is expressed as a
>  small folder icon. Clicking this link takes you to the advanced
>  interface. To get back to the regular view, you can click the document
>  icon. Note that these icons are only present if you have the rights to
>  edit the object you're viewing.
>
>* A support for topic groups is now in place. Under "Preferences"
>  (which one finds under "Home), the user can select to which groups she
>  wants to be associated. Likewise, the user can choose to which topic
>  group a certain report should belong. The choice of topic group of a
>  report is limited to the topic groups the user has chosen to be part of.
> 
>  Analogously, a user can choose to be associated with a school. Right now,
>  the only two schools are Eriksbegsskolan in Sweden and The South Camden
>  CLC in England, but please contact me if you would like to add a school.
>
>  Under the Groups tab, you can browse the different groups. As a
>  researcher, you can also change the presentation of each group, as well
>  as the image which represents the group on the Group tab. This
>  presentation can easily be made in any language you choose, as there is
>  support for multiple language versions.
>
>* Email notification of newly published reports is now in place. Whenever
>  a report is published, an email notification about this fact is sent to
>  everyone in the same topic group. Under the Preferences tab, one can
>  turn this feature off if one does not want to receive the emails.
>
>* I have added a message tool to the site. This tool consists of two boxes
>  on the left hand side of the interface. The first box shows other users
>  who are logged in to the site. Clicking on the small envelop icon of
>  a user, one can write a message to him or her. The second box shows
>  received messages.
>
>* Full support for translations of the interface is in place, and it
>  is very easy to translate it. The site is now fully translated into
>  Swedish, and work is being done on the Portuguese and Italian
>  translations. Please contact me if you would like to help translating
>  the interface into your language.
>
>* A few minor details have been added to the interface: a search field, a
>  "email this page to a friend"-button, and a "print this page"-button. A
>  Help tab has also been added, where I intend to keep instructions about
>  how to use the site. Navigation has been improved through links to
>  reports and blab of each user on his or her home page.
>
>* Apart from numerous small improvements and bug fixing, the two major
>  functionalities which remain to be implemented is a better support for
>  detailed report comments, and a support for report templates. I will add
>  these during the next few weeks.
>
>
>As always, I'd be very happy to receive feedback from you on anything from
>improvement suggestions to bug reports or questions about using the site.
>
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Jesper
>
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