Sprints 57 & 58 – August 2014

After completing Avalon’s upgrades to Hydra 7.1 and the latest versions of Blacklight, Ruby on Rails, and Bootstrap, the developers have dedicated this month to functionality and styling. As a part of this work, over 2,000 lines of code were changed to make Avalon more robust for future Blacklight upgrades. Some of the new perks include better responsive design performance and the ability to delete facet selections directly from the facet menu.

We’ve also laid the groundwork for performing bulk actions on media items. Now that we’ve designed the interface and interaction of bulk actions, we are working on bulk selection functionality using Blacklight. The next step will be adding the ability to perform actions. These will include publish, un-publish, delete, and change collection. Management actions will require authentication, though we are considering actions for public users, such as e-mailing links to selected media items.

We’ve planned new descriptive metadata fields, including physical description, a catalog record link, and a related item link. Lastly, the team saw the first mock-up of Indiana University’s production version of Avalon with Indiana University branding bars and colors.

Learn the details of each story and view our Sprint Demonstration recordings below:

Sprint 57 – August 8, 2014 Demo Recording

• VOV-2912 – I want Avalon to work with Hydra 7

• VOV-2913 – I want Avalon to look good with Hydra 7

• VOV-2909 (Completed) – I want to have a robust design for bulk selection and actions to implement

• VOV-2796 (Completed) – I want the Avalon dropbox to allow navigation to sub-directories to look for media files

• VOV-2818 – I want a way to bulk select a number of Avalon items for some later action

• VOV-2917 (Completed) –  I want a validated design for new descriptive metadata

• VOV-2906  [NU Prod] I want to know why clicking on Manage Content Tab takes so long.

Sprint 58 – August 22, 2014 Demo Recording

• VOV-2912– (Completed) I want Avalon to work with Hydra 7

• VOV-2913– (Completed) I want Avalon to look good with Hydra 7

• VOV-2956– I want to be confident that Avalon works as expected after the hydra 7 upgrade

• VOV-2818– I want a way to bulk select a number of Avalon items for some later action

• VOV-2951– [IU prod] I want to be confident that I am using a production-quality system

• VOV-2906– (Completed) [NU Prod] I want to know why clicking on Manage Content Tab takes so long