Plant Operations Web Services
Information:
Status:
We are experimenting with a web log to keep our customer informed. Please check here to see Plant Operations: Web Services: challenges and progress.
Contact:
Services that Plant provides to you:
If you have comments about the content of the site, or services that Plant provides to you, please use our comment form. Please do not use the plantopsweb email address for these comments, the form helps us provide you with better customer service.
Technical problems with this web site:
If your web browser has trouble viewing the site or you have trouble printing a document from our site, please contact your system administrator first. If your system administrator determines that the problem is not with your system but with our site, they can contact us via this form.
About this site:
See our site information page for copyright, trademarks, disclaimer, usage restrictions, tested browsers, and email communications policies.
How Web Services' billing works:
Unlike Network Services' model of billing by machines and applications, Web Services will be billing by time spent. We keep track of our time spent on projects, and at the end of the year we add it up to find each departments percentage. Unbillable time is counted as overhead and divided among departments according to their billable percentage.
Prioritization:
The security and reliability of the system(s) is always our top priority. A patch to secure from a newly discovered exploit takes precedence over any deadline. We will do our best to get deadline items out on time, but we try to work on a first-come first-served basis. Deadline items should be submitted at least a week in advance, two weeks prefereable.
Obtaining Web Services:
New documents or major changes must:
- Have the approval of your unit's supervisor.
- Be submitted to Plant Operations Web (get address) .
- Get final approval by management before final publication.
Minor changes (typos, etc.) need no special approval and may be submitted to Plant Operations Web (get address).
Note: Web Services are only available for the Plant Operations Division of the University of Michigan.
Microsoft Word Document conversion to HTML
- If the document is prepared by a professional desktop publisher with consistent formatting and styles: 4 to 8 minutes/page
- Normally prepared documents: 5-10 minutes/page
So, a normal, simple 50 page document can take anywhere from 1/2 to 1 day to complete. Given our work queues, a job like this is important to get in as soon as possible.
The reason is due to having to completely reformat the document to current web standards. Most (or all) WYSIWIG HTML editors, especially in the hands of untrained persons, do not produce very good HTML from a logical document viewpoint. They may produce valid HTML, but that is different from good document design.
Microsoft Word Document conversion to Adobe Acrobat PDF
Conversion to PDF is usually considerably faster than conversion to HTML. The downside is that PDF is less accessible than HTML. Figure on 1/2 to 2 minutes per page, depending on the amount of links to be created and checked on the page and any graphic conversion issues.
Content modified: April 2008
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