unl/gourl

A URL shortener and QR code generator; branding via Digital Campus Framework

gourl's Issues

Add admin interface for admins editing URLs and looking up a persons urls

We get questions all the time about someone leaving and a URL needs to be edited. It would be nice to have an admin interface where you can edit an individual url or look up a person's or group's URL

Add some kind of API for url lookup

create some kind of json formatted version of the URL lookup where you input a query and get back data about the url

Add a button on the lookup page for QR codes

Someone was wanting a QR code for a go url they did not create. If we added a button for the QR Code modal then they would be able to get the QR code

White on white!, confirmation box input text is unreadable

The confirmation screen displays the goURL within an input, but the text is unreadable.

Management Interface Issues

via @snrwebmaster

There are a number of issues I love to see fixed, modified or changed on the go.un.edu application.

Your URLS
The design of the results are not easily scanable. You need to review each band. The old table design where information is in columns is much more usable.

The order of them is not helpful. Alphabetical is my preference or at least the most first. Right now I have been told that it is by date submitted but it does not seem to be working that way.

If your go to Your URLS do anything such as delete or want to add new one you have to use the browser back button. There are no breadcrumbs to help with navigation

Log In
When you log in The log in area does not acknowledge that you have logged in

QR Code track

Track regular url use vs QR Code use separate.

URLs improperly validated for unl.edu domain

The following URL can be shortened without authentication:
http://cashmere.unl.edu.unl.es/hacker/phishing/login.php

Bad HTML on mange page

HTML is invalid on the manager page, looks like I broke the validation when I moved the qrcode modal to its own template

Fix Long URLs on "Your URLs" page

On the Your URLs page, hyperlinks in the Long URL column are broken—looks like hrefs have HTML Entities spelled out.

Ex from my list:

• Short URL is go.unl.edu/ANDRtech
• Long URL is https://www.unl.edu/english/troubleshooting-classroom-tech.
• Long URL link in table points to https://go.unl.edu/a/https://www.unl.edu/english/troubleshooting-classroom-tech. Here's the HTML for those cells:

<td data-header="Short URL">
    <a href="/andrtech" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> andrtech </a>
</td>
<td data-header="Long URL">
    <a href="https&amp;colon;&amp;sol;&amp;sol;www&amp;period;unl&amp;period;edu&amp;sol;english&amp;sol;troubleshooting-classroom-tech" title="Full URL: https://www.unl.edu/english/troubleshooting-classroom-tech"> https://www.unl.edu/english/tr... </a>
</td>

Bulk actions on your URLs page

Have a bulk action option for adding to groups or resetting redirects or any other bulk-able action

Illustrator issues

Adobe illustrator does not like the base64 encoded icon so instead we would need to generate the SVG qrcode then modify the resulting SVG file to add the svg icon's contents. This would create an SVG file with no image tag which would work better for illustrator

Feature request: Departmental ownership of URLs

From a user:

I'm setting up some Go.UNL URLs that will point to the new Event Management System (EMS) web room calendars. The calendars for specific rooms are extremely long code strings, so a Go.URL makes them manageable, and easy to change in multiple locations at once.

To manage Go.URLs, we log in to the UNL website at go.unl.edu. So that means I'm creating these departmental Go.UNL URLs within my individual account.

I would prefer to manage them through some sort of departmental login. Is that possible?

Feature Request: Allow in-place editing of your own URLs without deleting and re-creating

It would be neat to allow for the editing of your own URLs. You can do this anyway by deleting and re-creating the Go URL, but that isn't apparent on the website. At least, it isn't apparent you can get the same Go URL back after deleting one. Adding documentation/instruction for that workaround might work too.

Change QR Code Encoding

QR Codes are using UTF-8 encoding when they could be set to ISO-8859-1 which would increase readability of the QR Codes

getRandomID is slow

When the system approaches the limit of aliases permitted by the configured alias length, finding a random id takes longer and longer. This can cause timeout issues, and there is no notification when the system is out of IDs.

getRandomID() should be improved to return a random ID faster, and notify the end-user or admins that the available character space has been used up.

Dont load every QR Code image file on page load

With data tables the "Your URLs" page loads every one of your links, and the QR codes are loaded for every link. Thus you can have hundreds of images load and slows the page down.

Either:

• easy: change the QR codes from visibly shown to just links to the image file
• harder: make the content of the QR code modal load via ajax

Make Google Analytics Campaign Tagging fields conditionally required

If a user enters a Campaign Name, the Medium and Source fields should be required.

Add filters for sorting to the "Your URLs" page

Is there any way to put a filter on the "Your URLs" in go.unl.edu so I can see my most recent URLs from the top and not have to scroll down? I would like to be able to filter by date made or maybe even by alpha. A possibility?

-- From Shari in housing