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DELPHI Searches. New organization of web-related material Pietro M. Picca, Pierpaolo Rebecchi. DELPHI Searches New organization of web pages. The project Revised arrangement of DELPHI Searches web pages Easiness of consulting Menu with expandable and collapsible branches
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DELPHI Searches New organization of web-related material Pietro M. Picca, Pierpaolo Rebecchi
DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages The project • Revised arrangement of DELPHI Searches web pages • Easiness of consulting • Menu with expandable and collapsible branches • View of chosen feature always in the same frame • Layout common to all research lines and teams Pietro M. Picca
DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages Main characteristics • Layout common to all pages • Choice of colours, background, dimension and style of the fonts, etc. • Graphical aspect is preliminary: constructive suggestions and opinions are highly welcome • Split of the browser window into frames • Top frame header • Left frame table of contents • Right frame chosen page Pietro M. Picca
DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages Technical features overview • Modular structure • JavaScript additions to enhance HTML code without slowing the system down • Repository of all the material in the same AFS directories tree Pietro M. Picca
DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages Table of Contents algorithm • Page dynamically generated • String containing present situation of open and closed branches • Need for cookies • Easiness of editing the source code Pietro M. Picca
DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages Research lines level • Each research line has its agenda and minutes files in its subdirectory: higgs/ susy/ exotica/ Pietro M. Picca
DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages Teams level • Each team has its own subdirectory: • higgs/hnunu/, higgs/hqq/, higgs/hll/, higgs/invhiggs/, higgs/ha/, higgs/hphm/ • susy/gaugini/, susy/squarks/, susy/sleptons/, susy/gmsb/, susy/gluino/, susy/amsb/, susy/rpv/, susy/gamma/, susy/hsp/ • exotica/fcnc/, exotica/fph/, exotica/technicolor/, exotica/hef/, exotica/leptoquarks/ • Each team directory has two subdirectories: • public/ without a password • private/ with a password Pietro M. Picca
DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages Other features • Pine format for mail distribution lists • About the status of papers: • Team pages will keep the latest results of team drafts, used by the research line convenors to update the big table in the main page • About the status of papers for conferences: • Summary and history are stored in the main page • Information is taken from the teams pages containing only what concerns incoming conference Pietro M. Picca
DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages Known outstanding problems • JavaScript algorithm in the Table of Contents doesn’t seem to work properly when you try to open or to close a branch by clicking on the feature description and not on the arrow • Some big tables, such as the one contained in the Monte Carlo background files, slow dramatically the browser when you try to scroll them, if you are working with an old terminal with a little memory Pietro M. Picca
DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages The future • Make your life easier, by producing some scripts in order to authomatize additions, modifications or deletions of items, without modifying HTML source code • Interactive pages will be developed for this aim Pietro M. Picca