Onyx (code)

Wiki page for comments regarding the code for OBiBa Onyx.

It seems to me (JeffLusted) that there are a bunch of associated issues arising with developing and maintaining the Onyx questionnaire. I would think overall we need to mould one sensible solution which encompasses these. There are some surprising complexities here. We probably need to try and evolve a solution which covers live/test, developing one or more questionnaires (even the basics of a build are tedious), and the ability to version the BRICCS questionnaires separately from the Obiba onyx code base.

Distinguishing Between a Live and a Test system at the User Interface Level

Addition - 9 December 2010: We realised today that we wanted to clearly differentiate between the live and test systems. The easiest way seems to be to use a different logo. I have uploaded new logos on the test system - and also on the live system because it was using the old 'NIHR' logo, not the new approved logo.

In /usr/local/briccs-webapps/briccs-onyx-1.9.2/images/logo there are two files:

nick@uhlbriccsdev:/usr/local/briccs-webapps/briccs-onyx-1.9.2/images/logo$ ls -al total 64 drwxrwxr-x 2 tomcat6 tomcat6 4096 2010-12-09 15:27 . drwxrwxr-x 6 tomcat6 tomcat6 4096 2010-11-11 13:09 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7609 2010-12-09 15:24 logo_on_dark.png -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14624 2010-12-09 15:24 logo_on_light.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat6 tomcat6 10255 2010-11-11 13:05 old_logo_on_dark.png -rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat6 tomcat6 19115 2010-11-11 13:05 old_logo_on_light.png

I've saved the old logos as shown, so now there are four files (see attachments at bottom of page)

Note that these changes affect the current version of briccs-onyx, and would need to be replicated after each upgrade. At the time of writing I cannot find the mechanism for giving the onyx package an image file to build the logo_on_dark.png and logo_on_light.png automatically. THIS NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED BEFORE THE NEXT UPGRADE.

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Comments

Looks to me as if this could be addressed in one of two ways:

• By having two maven profiles, one for production and one for test.
• By having two deployment options in a deployment script.

It maybe the best approach is to have both! That is, we build two artifacts each with their respective logos, and decide at system deployment whether the system requires the production artifact or the test artifact.

-- JeffLusted

Naming and Versioning Onyx Questionnaires

(details still to be added)

The Process of Developing (and Maintaining) a Questionnaire

(details still to be added)