Theme Upgrade/Spring 2024 Release Notes

eTRACS Theme

• New theme for eTRACS: default setting is Vertical Layout, Light Color

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• New eTRACS logo on the top left

• Global Search Bar beside the logo

• Open sidebar on the left

• Able to close sidebar on click

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• New UI upgrades like button colors, font sizes, font colors, and padding

eTRACS Settings

• 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 Colors for the main menu

• Able to apply a background image to the main menu

• Able to view in fullscreen mode by clicking the frame icon

Course Planner

• 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

Additional Updates & Fixes

• 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.