- Author: Dave Krause
As many of you already know, the ANR FileVault is a great way to send and receive large documents. Some of you may not know that the sender does not need to be in ANR to send you files. Anyone can go to http://ucanr.org/filevault and send a document to any ANR employee.
There are a couple of tricks you can use to make it even easier for non-ANR folks to send you files. Note: these tricks ONLY work for non-ANR users of the File Vault. If you are logged into the ANR Portal, the FileVault link will redirect you into your internal FileVault space.
Pro-tip number one: add a "sendto" email address
Merely append your email address in the URL you send out, and your name will automagically be selected from the drop down list.
If you add your email using ?sendto=youremail@ucdavis.edu, as long as this is the email used for you in the ANR directory, the FileVault will pre-populate the form with your name, as seen below.
Pro-tip number two: add a "name" for your document
As with the email address, you can also append a default document name to the URL.
The form will then use this name as a default.
Putting it all together
You can take advantage of both of these tips in one glorious URL by combining the two things with an ampersand "&" in the URL.
It doesn't matter which is first, as long as both items follow the question mark and are joined by the ampersand. Using this example, our form will look like this:
If you'd like to test this stuff out, be sure to log out or use a browser you are not logged into, otherwise, you will be redirected to your internal FileVault page.
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
For those of you who post a lot on the ANR Blogs you may have noticed a change on the Blog interface. The ability to add multiple Authors has been added to the Blogs. Each Author can be listed under any name the poster would like, even "King of the Universe" (should one feel the need to be listed as that).
When there are many authors sorting has been made easy with drag and dropping the author to the proper location. of course the arrows are always available if needed.
Here you can see an Author being edited. Everything can be edited to suit the need.
Posters may add as many people as they need, there is no limit.
We hope this feature is useful to people!
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
I know many have been wanting this ability. So I hope that you find this helpful!
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
If you've stopped to take a look at the ANR Blog stats lately you may have noticed quite a few changes over the past few weeks. The first change is the graph. We are now using Google's Charting tool to draw charts that are much better to look at than the previous charts.
Another part of the recent changes include the addition of date fields. This allows the entry of start and end date so that the stats between those dates can be retrieved easily.
One of the more difficult updates was to have an "All Blogs" stats view. This shows a summary of all the stats for each Blog. One may drill down into each Blog and view each Blogs stats if they like. The major goal of this is the ability to have a general overview of all the traffic to the Blog system as a whole.
To view stats for all the ANR Blogs click on the new button "All Blogs".
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
When choosing a category from the list the mouse or the keyboard may be used to select a category. When using the keyboard; up / down arrow keys highlight the selected category and the "Tab" or "Enter" key adds the category to the list. When using a mouse simply click on the category to add it.
This is a small addition but one we hope helps people write their Blogs! Keep an eye out as you may see this used in other places as well.
