Policies: All KARL2

There are some policies that apply to all pages in the various “layouts” of KARL. This document describes each policy, organized by the layout.

All

The following policies apply no matter the layout.

• The KARL logo appears in the top right screen and is clickable, taking you to the Root URL (e.g. https://karl.soros.org/).
• Going to the Root URL redirects you to the correct place, depending on circumstances:
  • If you have not logged in, or your login is invalid, you are redirected to login-edit.
  • If you are logged in, and you are KarlStaff, you are sent to the office-view for your screen as your Home URL
  • If you are logged in, and you are not KarlStaff, you are sent to the /communities page as you Home URL
• Support a print CSS layout as well as a screen layout
• Allow versioning of URLs to static resources, for caching purposes
• Inject Google analytics JS at the end of the </body>
• Inspect karlfunctions.xsl for some mapping of htmltitle per screen

Header

• The “Home” link takes you to your Home URL (see above)
• The “My Profile” link takes you to your profile
• The LiveSearch box is described below
• The searchbox has a GO button that performs a search and shows the results on a new page
• There is a link to “Advanced Search”
• A row of tabs presents 3 global tools
  • If the user is KarlStaff, show a Tags tab which links to tagcloud-view
  • Show a People tab. For KarlStaff, this links to osipeople-view. For KarlAffiliate, this links to allkarl-view.
  • A Communities tab which links to communities-view
• If there is a portal status message, display it in the Status Box.

LiveSearch

• After the third key is pressed, search is triggered
• Queue up keypresses and only search-and-update every 2 sec
• Perform a search and group results by “Kind”
• Show up to 5 results for each Kind
• Display “No Matches” in a Kind group that has no results
• Each result has a link to visit that result
• Each group has a link to do searchresults on just that group
• A “Show All” link goes to searchresults for any group
• Pressing Escape or clicking outside the box makes the results box disappear
• Arrow keys move between results
• Pressing enter is equivalent to clicking on a result
• Pressing backspace generates a new search, caching where possible

Footer

• An image for the Hosting Organization logo
• If you are KarlStaff, a series of links to each office:
  • The links are sorted alphabetically
• Links to Help, Contact, and Legal
• A copyright statement for the Hosting Organization that is running the KARL

Office Layout

• In the footer, bold the the office that the current URL lives under and show its address if it isn’t the National Foundation

Community Layout

• Display the community name, with the privacy badge and a left-floated community search box
• The community search box is NOT livesearchish
• Display a row of tabs for each tool, then float-right links to People and Tags (tag cloud)
• The “current” tab is white, the others grayed out
• The Root Community URL for a community (e.g. /communities/mycommunity) leads to the default tool. If the community has not assigned a “Default Tool”, then this URL shows the Show Community as the default. If a different tool is set as the default, then the user is redirected from the Root Community URL to the tool URL (e.g. mycommunity/blog).
• All community screens have a right column with portlet-like information
• On most screens, this right column is the Community Tags Portlet and the Active People Portlet portlet
• Blog entry view instead shows Community Tags Portlet and Blog Archive Portlet as portlets

Generic KARL Layout

This layout handles screens that aren’t in a community or an office. Examples include: communities-view, people screens, search results, and global tag views.

Anonymous Layout

This layout handles the few screens you can see when you are not yet logged in. E.g. login, logout, acceptinvitation, recover password.

• Don’t inject Google Analytics
• Never show actions box