YACS | Update

Cameron Root, James Grippo, Ryan Stillings, Ayushi Mishra, Mark Robinson, Richie Young

Spring 2017!

Updated for Spring 2017
Still needed manual intervention
Hope to have better data source by next semester

New Features

Routing
- Yay! You can click back!
- Linking to courses!
- Linking to schedules (almost)

New Features

Sharing
- ICS downloads
  - Import to your calendar!
- Image downloads coming soon

New Features

Improved Search
- Previously used PostgreSQL full-text search
- Switched over to Apache Solr for greater control + functionality
  - partial text matching
  - weighting (phrases, prioritizing fields, etc..)
  - Ease of use
    - minimal code to search
    - clearly defined indexing
    - integrates easily into ruby/rails (sunspot)

New Features

CONFLICTS!
- Most requested feature
- On the backend...
  - Conflicts are precomputed
  - Data stored in Redis sets
- On the frontend...

New Features

Conflicts - Frontend
- Demo

Updating the Catalog interface

Problems with the old catalog
- Specific to RPI
- Not extensible
Goals for new catalog
- Create a generalized client that doesn't need to be reimplemented for each distribution of YACS
- Create an abstract interface specific to each distribution of YACS

New Design

Android

Android

Thank You!

Dr. Krishnamoorthy
Dr. Turner
Dr. Goldschmidt
Red Hat
IACS
Steven Lindsey
RPI CS Department
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