Poster Session Management & Usage of the Poster Police App

Contact: Stefano Deiuri (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

The PosterPoliceApp is a web app developed for tablet which simplifies the work of the Posters Manager in verifying posters presented during the different sessions. At the end of the session with a click, the collected data is sent to the SPMS.

How the Poster Police is handled without the app?

1. the poster manager collect the information of the posters on the sheets
2. then at the computer, copy these information into the SPMS, using a long form

SPMS screenshot of PosterPolice page

How the Poster Police is handled with the app?

1. the poster manager collect the information of the posters on a tablet
2. with a click these information are sent to the SPMS

Why a webapp?

Fno softwareor different reasons:

1. no need to install any software on the tablet
2. the app runs on any OS (Adroid, Windows, iOS)
3. the collected data are stored on a server so more than one tablets can be used at the same time (usefull for parallel sessions)
4. is easy to update

The interface

The interface is organized on four levels, these are indicated on the upper part of the interface.

Level 1 - days

Level 2 - sessis of the day

Level 3 - posters of the session

Level 4 - the single poster

in this view are available the buttons to set the status of the poster and a comment, clicking on these more than a time is possible to switch from OK (blue) to NOT OK (red strikethrough)

• Manned
• Posted
• Satisfactory
• Picture
• Comments

on the bottom of the interface are available the buttons to do different tasks

• Close: go back to the list of posters without saving the data
• Save: save the data and go back to the list of posters
• Save & Next: save the data and go to the next poster
• Skip: go to the next poster without saving the data

Synchronization with the SPMS

When all the data of a session are collected a Sync button appears on the sessions list, clicking on this the synchronization starts.

A popup shows the progress of this procedure.

At the end, under the Sync button, date and time of last synchronization are shown.

If necessary, it can be repeated several times.

Data flow

Installation and configuration

1. Download the package CWS from the page Tools/Scripts.
2. Unzip it inside the path of web server (ex. /var/www/html/cws_ipac_xyz)
3. Configure the global settings as shown in this page.
4. Configure the app specific settings as shown below
5. Execute the script spms_importer/make.php (mannualy or with the cron) for import the data from the SPMS
6. Start the app in the browser (ex. http://yourwebserver/cws_ipac_xyz/app_poster_police)

The specific settings required for this app are the following:

• pp_manager: id of the Poster Manager (available in the SPMS)
• password: the password that protect the app (not yet implemented)

other specific settings must be updated only in special cases.

References

• Poster Session Guidelines
• Poster Police