DELPHI Searches

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DELPHI Searches

• New organization of web-related material
• Pietro M. Picca, Pierpaolo Rebecchi

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DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages

• The project
• Revised arrangement of DELPHI Searches web pages
• Easiness of consulting
• Menu with expandable and collapsible branches
• View of chosen feature always in the same frame
• Layout common to all research lines and teams

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DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages

• Main characteristics
• Layout common to all pages
• Choice of colours, background, dimension and
  style of the fonts, etc.
• Graphical aspect is preliminary constructive
  suggestions and opinions are highly welcome
• Split of the browser window into frames
• Top frame ? header
• Left frame ? table of contents
• Right frame ? chosen page

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DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages

• Technical features overview
• Modular structure
• JavaScript additions to enhance HTML code without
  slowing the system down
• Repository of all the material in the same AFS
  directories tree

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DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages

• Table of Contents algorithm
• Page dynamically generated
• String containing present situation of open and
  closed branches
• Need for cookies
• Easiness of editing the source code

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DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages

• Research lines level
• Each research line has its agenda and minutes
  files in its subdirectory
• higgs/
• susy/
• exotica/

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DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages

• Teams level
• Each team has its own subdirectory
• higgs/hnunu/, higgs/hqq/, higgs/hll/,
  higgs/invhiggs/, higgs/ha/, higgs/hphm/
• susy/gaugini/, susy/squarks/, susy/sleptons/,
  susy/gmsb/, susy/gluino/, susy/amsb/, susy/rpv/,
  susy/gamma/, susy/hsp/
• exotica/fcnc/, exotica/fph/, exotica/technicolor/,
  exotica/hef/, exotica/leptoquarks/
• Each team directory has two subdirectories
• public/ ? without a password
• private/ ? with a password

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DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages

• Other features
• Pine format for mail distribution lists
• About the status of papers
• Team pages will keep the latest results of team
  drafts, used by the research line convenors to
  update the big table in the main page
• About the status of papers for conferences
• Summary and history are stored in the main page
• Information is taken from the teams pages
  containing only what concerns incoming conference

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DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages

• Known outstanding problems
• JavaScript algorithm in the Table of Contents
  doesnt seem to work properly when you try to
  open or to close a branch by clicking on the
  feature description and not on the arrow
• Some big tables, such as the one contained in the
  Monte Carlo background files, slow dramatically
  the browser when you try to scroll them, if you
  are working with an old terminal with a little
  memory

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DELPHI SearchesNew organization of web pages

• The future
• Make your life easier, by producing some scripts
  in order to authomatize additions, modifications
  or deletions of items, without modifying HTML
  source code
• Interactive pages will be developed for this aim