Benner Bulletins

Benner Bulletins Application

One of our student developers, Tom, completed an application for us this past week. I consider it a personal present! I am so excited about using it. It is called Benner Bulletins and it will save Matt and I sooooo much time!

On the library home page, there is a series of graphics that scroll on the bottom of the screen. We have named these the Benner Bulletins. Every time a Benner Bulletin has to be updated we have an entire workflow we have to go through. We have to open the php file and make the changes to the entry - then we have to go to SourceTree, make notation about the changes and commit the changes - then we have to go to BitBucket and merge our changes - then we have to go back to SourceTree and pull the changes so that they will replace the live files. You can see why this gets frustrating, especially if you have a very minute change.

Tom's program allows us to go to the program and make the changes. These changes go live immediately and we do not have to follow the normal web page workflow. Yeah!!! It's wonderful. As if that wasn't enough! There's even more! It allows us to schedule Benner Bulletins. We can put them in and set the time they appear live on the website and the time they disappear off the website! It's like magic. Now, we don't have to worry about being at work during a certain time because an announcement is time sensitive. We can schedule Benner Bulletins to appear at a future time.

When we went live with the program, Kristen, one of our student graphic artists had an icon all ready for us (graphic above) to use so we dropped it in and so far everything is running smoothly! It seems like such a small thing, but it is huge and will help our office run even more efficiently. Thanks Tom for working so hard!