Huge administration panel update!

Added

Administration panel

• Support for Filament
• Ported all the resources to filament, with their corresponding buttons and shortcuts
  • User
  • Coach
  • Equipment
  • Space
  • Project
  • Training
  • Training slot
  • Sub project
  • Questionnaire
  • Key locker keys
  • Key locker events
  • Changelog items
  • FAQ articles
  • Buildings
  • Email templates
  • Transversal tags
  • and more…

Emails

• Email to previous borrower and managers when someone reports equipment as lost or broken

Fixed

• Events page error 500 when there are no events

Added

For Users

• Redirect to intended page after login
• Users are reminded by email to return keys to the secure key locker
• Mention of the changelog in the community page
• Map of all buildings in the resources page

For Coaches

• Hide chosen people from project member lists
• Copy the group's email in project member lists, instead of the list of member emails.

For Administrators

• Log events coming from the secure key locker. All borrow and return events are logged.
• Log all emails sent by the system
• Added a sorting key to transversal tags
• Added external trainings, with no registration slots and a link to an external page
• Added videos and image carousels for spaces and equipment
• Added memes page

Changed

For Users

• Improved UI, mobile UI and usability of spaces, equipment, coaches, trainings and projects index pages
• Improved UI, mobile UI and usability of spaces, equipment, coaches, trainings and projects detail pages
• Improved user dropdown for logged in users on big screens
• Improved user dropdown for logged in users on mobile
• Improved UI and mobile UI of titles
• Improved UI and functionality of breadcrumbs
• Improved UI of badges in cards

For Administrators

• Marked image mandatory in equipment manager

For Developpers

• Improved the automated testing workflow (CI)

Removed

• Outdated content on space index

Security

• Fix the admin group name

• ⚠️ Breaking change: equipment can now be associated with only one space in the administration panel. Equipment that was associated with more spaces only remained associated with the first of those.

• ✅ Updated to Laravel 11.x

• ⚠️ Every change to the database is now logged. That log is only accessible to full administrators through the administration panel.

• ✅ Minor fixes to the administration panel

• ✅ A little empty grey square used to appear in the main search results when an equipment had no associated space or room.

• ✅ Added the possibility to show the industrial partners and EPFL partners for projects

• ✅ Projects can now add sub-projects. That way students have a better idea of what to expect, and projects have an easier time finding students for those sub-projects.

• ✅ For a faster experience, youtube-lite is now used for displaying youtube videos

• ✅ Recaptcha protection was removed from pages where it was not necessary

• ✅ Minor changes to wording on the project pages

• ✅ Minor changes to the ui on the whole site

• ✅ Missing shortcut to coaches index was added to the administration panel

• ✅ Administrators have an easier time managing project videos with automatic embed link generation

• ✅ Soft-delete functionality: administrators cannot delete records permanently anymore. They can only archive them

• ✅ Project managers can now add sections in which the project is recruiting. That information does not appear on the user frontend yet

• ✅ The administration panel for projects has been refactor and is now easier to navigate

• ✅ Repaired project page carousels that did not display properly
• ✅ LDAP data was incorrectly imported for user names
• ✅ Fixed a bug where bulk changes to the resources in the administration did not reflect on the search functionality
• ✅ Handle the case where the EPFL Actu is not reachable on the home page
• ✅ Sort equipment properly on space pages

• 🔎 6 Tags are now shown when tags are collapsed in resource indexes
• 🔮 If you are a member, coach, manager or administrator, you can now see the members of a project.

• 🔎 Tags that are not associated with any category do not appear anymore on resource indexes
• ✅ Administrators can now assign categories to projects directly on Nova (this data was previously pulled from an API)

The tag bar could not be expanded on the coaches directory page. All tags are now selectable.

Past and cancelled training slots are now hidden by default on Nova.

You can still see them by clicking the little funnel icon on the top right of the list.

The platform went public !

This month featured featured some improvements to the public UI:

• 📱 The main page and training directory were adapted for mobile devices.
• 🎓 The training slot details page disappeared, and the training details page now shows more slots, with an improved layout.
• 🔎 The search functionnality has been improved for mobile devices.

Some technical improvements were made:

• 🛣️ URLs follow a cleaner pattern and are much more resilient.

There were also a few changes for administrators:

• ✅ Ability to nest links in card descriptions. For exemple, you can add a link in the card for a training.
• ✅ Ability to filter training sessions ; past and cancelled sessions are now hidden.
• ✅ Ability to use markdown for more fields in the administration panel.
• ✅ Ability to set a custom URL for a given project.
• ✅ Ability to sort resources manually in the different directories.

Some technical improv changes were also made to our system:

• ✅ Improved deployment system (CI/CD)

The website also needed some attention for the following issues:

• The tag bar could not be expanded on the coaches directory page. All tags are now selectable.
• If a student failed to go to a training session, they were unable to register to another session.
• Students could register to cancelled training slots.