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🆕 New theme for eTRACS: default setting is Vertical Layout, Light Color
🆕 New eTRACS logo on the top left
Global Search Bar beside the logo
Open sidebar on the left
Able to close sidebar on click
🆕 New UI upgrades like button colors, font sizes, font colors, and padding
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🆕 Additional settings in the top right corner
Click the gear icon to change the default theme settings
🆕 Able to choose the old Horizontal Layout
🆕 Able to choose the Colors mode if using the Vertical Layoutfor the main menu
🆕 Able to add apply a background image if using the Vertical Layoutto the main menu
🆕 Able to view in fullscreen mode by clicking the frame icon
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🆕 New sliding panel when adding and editing a course offering
Upon clicking the '+' sign to create a new section, the sliding panel will appear with a Z100 section automatically saved
The new sliding panel will autosave course offering data without needing to click a save button
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🆕 Added Faculty Associate/Program Coordinator POI ranks to the Teaching Workload Report
Technical release notes
Theme Upgrade
Replaced previous theme with a modernized off-the-shelf theme.
Heavily customized the theme to maintain familiar appearance with modern features.
Major Library Upgraded to their latest versions
PHP
Laravel
Bootstrap
Ag-grid
MobiScroll
Frontend Code Improvements
Rewrote majority of the frontend code to use custom global components to improve consistency and speeding up future upgrades.
Code clean up - removed redundant codes and modules.
Reorganized internal coding structure for improved scalability and efficiency.
Reorganized core eTRACS custom frontend libraries to facilitate reuse in other AMS applications or external systems.
Implemented ES6 based AirBnB JavaScript coding style for consistency.
Server & DevOps Upgrades
Upgraded Docker containers to use latest Operating System for compatibility and security.
Implemented CI-CD processes to enable automated testing and coding standards enforcement.