Technical Team – Configuring and Managing UConn Now
Facilities Operations UConn Now
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The dashboard can function independent of the FAMIS portal and behavior is different depending on portal embedding or no portal embedding:
The base URL: https://famis.{environment}.uconn.edu/charts/fac-the-dash.php?
Independent Use of UConn Now:
Xi Portal Embedded UConn Now:
It is especially important to specify “https” if UConn Now is embedded in the FAMIS Portal to avoid mixed content errors
The {environment} choices are: dev, test or prod corresponding to a standard three tiered software development model with a development server for constructing software, a test server for performing user acceptance testing and a production server for actual implementation
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UConn Now Parameters
2.a
VALUE (specify either a crew or a complex in all upper case letters, eg. ELECTRICAL or EAST)
Default: The user’s crew based on the employee record’s crew assignment. If the user has no crew assignment this default’s to 2nd shift
2.b
WEATHER (1=Display Weather)
Default: No weather displayed
2.c
CHOICES (list=Display drop down list to move between crews and complexes)
No drop-down list to view other crew or complex views
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The Notification Banner
The yellow notification banner displays the bulletin notes from the FAMIS_NOTE table in the Shadow database that are not expired. The banner will marque if the series of messages is too long to fully display with the set banner width