dbconnect suggestions
A space for feedback, offering suggestions, and reporting bugs.
Dbconnect
April and early May 2007 feedback
- Cindy's problem: If doing an employee report for the 2006 year, I have X publications. If I expand the time horizon, I have 0 publications.
- fixed - reports using projects verified if the time period was covered within the project; this was too strict and simply removed
- Someone's suggestion: The user should be notified if the publication forms are incomplete.
- Robert's suggestion: Have an option where we can view all of our own publications so that we can easily identify missing and misclassified publications.
- The reports work better now, but there's always been a search function:
- Go to the modify publication page
- Click the 'Search for a publication' link
- Change the publication date range if necessary
- Select yourself from the Department Authors select box
- Jonathan's problem: If I do an employee report (by project) for the 2006 year I have 1 publication. If I do an employee report (by department), I have 3. I guess I would suggest that if no project is listed, dbconnect should default to "other." Regardless, these totals should equal one another.
- fixed - finally added ability to display publications with incomplete information, such as when no project is selected
- Robert's other suggestion: Definitions key for the publication classifications, e.g. what do we mean by "Basic Science", "Bioinformatics", etc.?
Outstanding requests
- modify book request page
- remind users about dept library (donations reduce cost by 50%)
- provide info about which project is benefited by purchase
- publications report for articles from elect journals
- need to refine list of elect journals
- published and peer reviewed
- list articles by citation
- provide time frame
- link coeus to dbc
- need to search certain fields (other than name/number/center)