Replace Delivered Report Links Technical Specification

Jira Tasks

• KITT-513@Jira
• See subversion comments in KFSI-703@Jira by Leo Przybylski

Revision History

Version	Date	User	Description
1.0	09/16/2009	Heather Lo	Initial Spec
1.1	09/21/2009	Heather Lo	Spec That Reflects Development Steps
1.2	09/29/2009	Heather Lo	Modified After Leo Przybylski Made Changes

Technical Description

Replace IU report links with links to GL Scrubber/Poster Reports and UAccess Analytics.

Details

• Database Requirements
  1. System parameter BI_REPORT_URL.
• UI Design
  1. Modify "Main Menu" tab.
• Development Checklist
  1. Create new system parameter.
     • Write SQL statement to create the system parameters with specified value and add to work/db/scripts/arizona/data.sql.
     • Add constant for parameter to edu/arizona/kfs/sys/AZKFSConstants.java.
  2. Create web-root/WEB-INF/tlds/kfsfunc.tld
     • Define a function that will retrieve a parameter value.
  3. Modify reports.tag.
     • Add link to GL Poster/Scrubber reports, relative to the application environment.
       • Use "htdocs.reports.url" property from configuration.properties.
     • Add link to UAccess Analytics, relative to the application environment.
       • Call on function to get the BI_REPORT_URL parameter.
       • Use "environment" property from configuration.properties.
  4. Modify arizona-build.properties.
     • Define "htdocs.reports.url" property.
       excerpt from arizona-build.properties

       htdocs.url=${appserver.url}/kfs/${build.environment}
       htdocs.reports.url=${htdocs.url}/reports

Local Development Modification

• In order to use the "appserver.url" property in my local KFS instance, I had to define it in my kfs-build.properties as follows:

  appserver.url=http://localhost:8080