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Build-tracker 4/29/21

Build-tracker will be undergoing maintenance 4/29 at 7:15pm. This should take 5-10 minutes.

Go to Checkoff button

There is a new addition to Build-tracker within the build interface.

The “GO TO CHECKOFF” button, in the bottom right, takes the user to the checkoff section of build. This is only available after expanding the “Accounts” subsection.

Reftool 2/23/21

Reftool is scheduled to be updated at 7:30pm on Wednesday February 23, 2021. While this happens the service will be unavailable for about 15 minutes.

Service Offering Access

A new block has been added when viewing a user’s page. It is located below “Contact Info”. The purpose of this block is to display the access and licenses users have to different service offerings, based on their groups.

Filtering

Clicking on “Service Offering” toggles the filtering method: ascending, descending, or none for the column based on alphabetical order.

Clicking on “Access” toggles the filtering of the service offering access based on the status.

It is possible to filter “Access” and “Service Offering” simultaneously.

The following are examples of what the block looks like for different accounts

ONID Account

Non ONID Account

Disabled

Removed

Reftool 12/30/20

View More Account Details

Reftool’s “View LDAP Entry” button has been renamed to “View More Account Details“. This is a more accurate description of the data shown in the JSON section.

CJIS Flag

Users part of the OSU Police Department will now be flagged with a yellow CJIS tag. This signifies that CJIS training is needed to remote into a computer or provide on-site assistance to the Police Department.

Reftool 9/17/20

Reftool will be unavailable at 5:15pm until 5:30pm to receive updates.

Primary and Current Affiliations

A user’s primary affiliation used to appear as bold:

Now primary affiliations is an individual field:

A KB article about Affiliation is also linked from RefTool by clicking on any of the affiliations.

Azure Active Directory Sync

Reftool now displays how long ago on premises Active Directory was synced with Azure Cloud Services:

This information can be refreshed every 2 minutes, requiring Reftool user’s to refresh the page in order to update the counter.

Reftool 8/27/20

This Reftool update brings multiple quality of life changes.

Application routing for search was simplified.

Upon pressing the “Search” button for a query: “query”, results will be displayed under the following URL.

The original routing: domain.oregonstate.edu/reftool2/search/query;searchType=type;filterType=filter;searchAliases=bool

The new search route: domain.oregonstate.edu/reftool2/search/type/query

A “Share” button has been added to the right of the results panel, it allows users to share search results.

Note: this will only display if results are returned.

Clicking the share button will copy a shareable Reftool query to the clipboard.

It will take the previous form in order to export parameters: domain.oregonstate.edu/reftool2/search/query;searchType=type;filterType=filter;searchAliases=bool

Chronological History

History will now display newest queries first. This will not affect previously saved cookies, only new queries. It might be preferable to clear history to remove cookies in the old order.

Smooth Scrolling

Upon pressing the “LDAP Entry” button, a smooth scrolling animations will play. The button will smooth scroll to either the LDAP entry or the previously pressed button.

Note: this animation was not compatible with the Chrome browser in testing.