05 Mar 08 More on Collage-a-Rama
On Monday, March 10th, we will begin “Collage-a-Rama,” a two-week intensive push to get all remaining Active Matter content into Collage. Starting Monday, content on Active Matter will be frozen so that we can do a final import and deploy in Collage. We will do two “freezes,” one on Monday the 10th and one on Friday the14th (please see the calendar I sent out last week).
Content that will be frozen in Active Matter on Monday the 10th
– Advocacy Bucket
– Awards & Scholarships
– Awards Bucket
– Contacts & Questions
– Continuing Education
– ERT, IFRT, NMRT, SORT
– Events & Conferences
– Issues & Advocacy
– OIF
– OLOS
– Our Association
– Products & Publications
o Book Links
o Book Lists
o Editions
– Professional Tools
– Site Map A-Z
– SupportALA/Development Office
– Website Advisory Committee
This means that no one will be allowed to edit content in Active Matter in these sections starting Monday the 10th. If you have any urgent updates that reside in any of these areas, have them in place before 8:30 a.m. Monday the 10th. Any changes you make to content in Active Matter will be pulled into Collage during the final import and deploy. If you delete content in Active Matter, it will still appear in Collage, as the import can only pull in new and changed content. Put another way, it can’t pull in content that isn’t there. The original Collage import was done many months ago, so it’s very likely we pulled over things you have since deleted
Once the freeze has begun, we will do final imports and deploys on the sections above as we are able. You will have 24 hours to review your content in Collage and get us a list of major problems (see below). After we have fixed any major problems, we will will add a rule to the content services switch that will point all incoming traffic for your content to the Collage web servers, and your content will be live in Collage.
“Major Problems”
ITTS and Duo will fix problems with navigation and display. Individual units will be responsible for fixing broken links (most of which are broken in Active Matter, some of which will break in the conversion because they were “hard coded” in Active Matter), resolving shadow assets, and uploading missing pieces of content. If entire directories of content are missing, or all files of a certain type (say PDFs) are missing, ITTS and Duo will work together to get the missing content moved into Collage.
Please remember that a generous slate of training and support has been scheduled for Collage-a-Rama. See the “Training” tab in the KMS for specifics.
Second Freeze
The second freeze of Active Matter content will take place on Friday, March 14. Content in this freeze includes login pages and the home page. And after PIO has entered their weekly batch of press releases on March 18th, we will convert all press releases and other PIO content. This is necessary because so many other units point to or feed content in the press releases. It all needs to move over at once, then we can find links or feeds that are no longer functioning and fix them.
Then, on Wednesday, March 19th, we will “reverse the flow” on the content services switch, so that all incoming requests (with some exceptions) will flow to the Collage web servers instead of the Active Matter web server. Be aware that some things *will* remain on the Active Matter server, such as the Event Manager, Online Membership Application, and numerous databases and forms created originally on the AM server. We will migrate these applications as time and resources permit.
