ALOSHI (ALICE Offline Shifter Interface) Arsen Hayrapetyan Yerevan Physics Institute ahairape@mail.yerphi.am Arsen.Hayrapetyan@cern.ch
Outline � Accessing ALOSHI � Shifter’s links � Shift reports � composing � locating � editing � deleting � The alice alice-offline offline-shifts shifts e-group and automatic emailing � Sections (Books) � Search: capabilities and limitations � Feedback � ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
Accessing ALOSHI � Located at https://aloshi.cern.ch � Login : NICE login and password required � No special registration procedure � Users get registered with ALOSHI automatically when they access the interface for the first time � Logout : The only correct way of leaving ALOSHI is the Logout link! � It is also suggested to close the browser window once you have finished working with ALOSHI � ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
Home page: Shifter’s links � Front page contains links to resources Offline Shifters use during their shift � Offline Shifter Operations Manual � Dashboard � DAQ Logbook � Offline Shifter Tutorials slides � Shift report composition page � ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
Shift reports � Composing (1) � A shift report can be composed � From the Home page → Shift report composition page link � Shift reports menu in Navigation bar → Compose a shift report link � You can create your shift report, e.g. in the beginning of your shift, save it, and edit it at any time later as necessary � ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
Shift reports � Composing (2) � Shift type must be selected ( night , day , evening ) � Though other parameters can be changed (like the authorship of the shift report or its position in shift reports section), changing them is not recommended (to keep the taxonomy clear) - the defaults should be OK � Content! � ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
Shift reports � Composing (3) � Should you have problems with composition of your report, e.g., browser crashes ( noticed for FF 3.0.12 on SLC5, IE6 on WinXP ) you can try one of the following remedies: � Change the editor (to one with less number of features) � On shift report composition page select Input format → Full HTML with TinyMCE � Change the browser � Switch to plain-text mode (no formatting available) � On shift report composition page click Disable rich text link just below the shift report text area. You can switch back to rich-text mode clicking Enable rich text link (in the same position on the page) � ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
Shift reports � Locating � A shift report can be located � Through Shift reports menu in Navigation bar � Shift reports → Shift reports from the current (previous) period � Through Advanced Search engine (e.g. by author) � Search block → More options → Author [ → more... (to expand the full list of authors)] � Through Sections menu in Navigation bar � Sections → Offline Shifter's Notebook → Shift reports: period � Through Search engine (using keywords) � Enter keywords in Search block � ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
alice-offline-shifts e-group and automatic emailing � alice-offline-shifts e-group will be used for notifications to Offline Shifters � Shifter's e-mail gets automatically added to the e-group once they create their first shift report – no manual action required (but you can add yourself to the group if you wish so) � The e-mails of those who have done Offline shifts by now (current period) are already added to the e-group � Everyone can remove themselves from the e-group (via e- groups web interface: https://e-groups.cern.ch) � Each time a new shift report is created an automatic notification will be sent by ALOSHI (sender: aloshi@cern.ch) � ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
Shift reports � Editing � Any user can edit any shift report � Once the shift report is located click on its title → Edit � After you are done click Save Save button (on the bottom of the page) � Deleting � Any user can delete their own shift report � Once the shift report is located click on its title → Edit � Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Delete Delete button � Confirm the action �� ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
Shift reports, what else? � Three main Sections (available through Sections menu in Navigation bar): � Offline Shifter Operations Manual – primary source of information for Offline Shifter � Description of operations the Offline Shifter should do � Offline experts' contact information � ALOSHI user howto � various topics on the use ALOSHI � Offline Shifter’s Notebook � shift reports organised by shift periods �� ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
Search: capabilities and limitations � Categorised search � by author � by content type � by date � Search by keywords � No substring match :( � alishuttle will not be found in shuttle@pc alishuttle 02 �� ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
Feedback � Your feedback is welcome! � through Feedback menu in the Navigation bar � Failure reports � Comments, suggestions � Feature requests � just add a comment � e-mail to Arsen.Hayrapetyan@cern.ch �� ALICE Offline Shifter Tutorial, 23 Sep 2009
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