- Log into Flickr
- Click on the upload icon at the top right corner of the page
- Drag and drop photos into the page
- On the left bar, replace titles and descriptions
- Scroll down and click on Add to albums. A small window will pop-up. Click on Create a new album. Give the new album a name
- Make sure the new album is selected then hit Done
- Back to the left bar, scroll down to Owner setting. Choose Only you for private photos or Everyone for public
- Go over to the top-right corner, click on the Upload Photos button
- Once the photos are uploaded, the album will show up on the album landing page
- Hover the album, the icons will slide up. Click on the arrow icon and copy the URL to share the album
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How to Create a PDF for the Student Profiles
Profiles for Incoming 1Ls needed to be created around August 19. Here are the instructions:
- Pull student submissions from the online form. Limit the export to the current year only. The only data needed are: First Name, Last Name, Undergraduate Institution, Undergraduate Major, and Photo.
- Open CSV file in Excel, move Last Name to Column A (first column), then sort all columns and rows in alphabetical order according to last names.
- Open up an Excel template that has HTML included, then paste in the columns accordingly.
- Copy all the rows and columns from the Excel file then paste into an HTML file template.
- Open the HTML file in Chrome browser and check to see if the photos cropped properly. If a person’s head got cropped out, add a CSS class (
class=crop-center
) in the person’simg
element:<img class=crop-center src=lastname-firstname.jpg>
- Once everything looks good, print from Chrome browser (Save as PDF).
- With the HTML file still open, drag photos into a folder and rename the files to match the student’s last name.
- Put everything on the ShareDrive.
How to Post Around the Law School Photos
We recently added a new section on the homepage call Around the Law School to showcase photos from our Flickr account. Here’s the instructions for updating the photos:
- Choose the best photo from the Flickr album we want to showcase. Create a photo with the dimensions of 600px by 400px.
- Log into MODX then navigate to the Around the Law School (ID#13628) directory
- Pick an existing resource and duplicate it. Paste in the text that corresponds to the banner (this text will also be use for the
alt
tag). Check the Mark All Unpublished radio button, then hit Save - Go to the new duplicated resource, make sure the Title and Long Title are the same
- Go to the Template Variable tab, upload the photo to Homepage Feature Image field (see screenshot)
- Scroll down to URL for In the News and enter a URL for the Flickr Album.
- Go back to the Document tab, activate the Published radio button and then hit Save. To remove the banner from the line up, deactivate the Published and then hit Save or delete the resource.
Duplicating Title in The Events Calendar Plugin
After upgrading The Events Calendar plugin to 6.0.3.1 and migrating to the new event data storage system, the admin in The Events Calendar displays duplicating titles.
Add Slide to Display Monitors
Create Course Schedule HTML Table Using R
Referenced in steps below: Course Schedule Instructions.
- Save a copy of the original Excel file to come back to later for the Notes sections.
- Open up the original Excel file, merge multiple faculty into one row, then delete all the empty rows.
- Make sure columns are identical to the column names in script (do not include Room Number or First Name of Instructor). Delete hidden columns (Room Number, First Name of Instructor, etc.). Make sure column names match these: CRN#, CRS#, SEC, Course Title, Instructor, Cr Hr, Days, Time, Room, Exam Date, Exam Time
- Make sure footnotes are standardized, e.g., (E) and not (E ) with a space (Update: script has been updated to account for this)
- Remove all rows that are not the table header (first row) or the courses.
- Save DAY and EVE sheets each as two new csvs by highlighting all cells with data and copying/pasting them into a new file/save as csv (to avoid extra blank columns that may be present by saving entire sheet). Do not open them (especially in Excel) once they are saved, because this may change how the Section numbers are interpreted and may cause 001 to be 1, and so forth.
- The R code below covers Steps 2 – 6 in Course Schedule Instructions to create the HTML table.
- In R code, update the “dayNotes” variable to match the number of Day Notes. Update the file paths/names for input files and output file.
- Paste output into an HTML editor. Copy and paste notes from the copy of the original Excel file to the bottom of the HTML page.
- Once everything looks good, paste into MODX.