Application Development

The Datatel User Interface (UI) 2.2 has some bugs that cause various parts of the User Interface to disappear.

For workarounds and prevention, see this Help Desk wiki.

https://helpdesk.luther.edu/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Datatel_UI22_bugs

The Datatel system will not be available from midnight until 8 a.m. on Wednesday, September 17th. After the nightly backup, Financial Services will be running the year-end processes that require a quiet system. My.luther, Safari, Colleague, and Benefactor will not be available during this time.

A message will be sent to the Datatel User listserv when the financial work is completed.

We have just added a new web screen to the my.luther.edu web site. This screen will allow students to view information about the next semester’s registration before registration begins. The web screen will show any restrictions on the student’s record that will prevent him/her from registering for classes for the next semester. It is up to the student to clear up these restrictions before they will be allowed to register. The web screen will also show the student the date and time when they can register for classes, as well as their current advisor and major.

Online registration for Campus Visit Events has gone live. I will be working with the Admissions Office to bring online registration for individual visits live soon.

http://www.luther.edu/admissions/visit

Comments welcome.

In May, we added a new function to the my.luther.edu web site that allows students to view their financial aid award letter for the current academic year. Students had previously obtained this information from the Iowa Student Loan web site, but ISLLC discontinued this service this year.

We are just completing additional testing that will allow students to view financial aid award letters for prior years, as well as displaying any financial aid that may have been awarded to students for J-Term and summer sessions.

LIS is now accepting applications for the position of Programmer Analyst on our Application Development team. A position description and recruiting ad are available online at http://lis.luther.edu/recruiting/programmeranalyst2008.

I installed a software update for the Google Search Appliance (find.luther.edu). We are now running version 5.0.4.G.16.

Today the Alumni office is sending the following message to Alumni in Decorah that use Luther email forwarding. Next week the Alumni office will send it to all Alumni that currently use Luther email forwarding.

Greetings from Luther College!

Luther College has partnered with Google to create a new suite of services called Norse Apps. In addition to e-mail service, Norse Apps includes Norse Docs, Norse Chat, Norse Calendar, Norse Sites, and the Norse Start Page. The New Norse Mail service is based on Google’s Gmail service and is available to all alumni.

Working with a software vendor this week I used a site called YouSendIt.com to transfer a large file. The site provides a free service to temporarily transfer files securely and additional services for a fee.

* Send and Receive Files up to 2 GB Each On-Demand
* File Delivery Tracking and Secure Delivery
* Send Multiple Files at Once

Datatel is providing ActiveCampus integration consultants to come to Luther on July 7th and 8th to work with the application development team to resolve ActiveCampus to Colleague integration issues. These two consultants have been working remotely from each other and LIS for over a year to provide the programming needed to make information collected from web site visitor personalization and the online application translate and update in the student records in the Colleague system.