Once again, I’ve been out of blogging for a while. May as well rename this blog to Hiatus x Hiatus. (Yeah, I know I made that joke last time, too. I like manga. And Hunter x Hunter is a good one.)
It’s been a while. I swear I’ve been busy doing stuff. Most of it has been related to “transition” activities between my old company and my new one. Given the nature of the work, I haven’t felt it was appropriate to share everything. But I’ve been working on one thing related to that effort that bears sharing because it’s darn useful.
“Stumbling” no longer seemed appropriate as a description as to how I’ve been progressing through the Service Portal. So I’m switching it up to “slicing”, since I’m mowing down the requirements as they come in, no matter how unusual they may seem. Today’s agenda is modifying the catalog item form’s presentation.
My journey through the Service Portal continues this week with an unexpected turn – adding video tags to the HTML of knowledge articles. This started from a request from a manager in another group, asking if it was possible. We found a few questions and answers on the community, but no complete answers. Finally, we recently had a breakthrough, and in the spirit of sharing knowledge (pun intended), I thought I’d make it known.
No one today would ever confuse me as a front-end developer or UI designer. Well, maybe a long time ago. I did place well the Business Professionals of America national competition in 2001 for document/page design (7th nationally). So at one point in my life, I had at least a little bit of flair for design. For a current project, the UX is a big deal (in fact, perhaps the biggest deal), so I’ve decided to knock off the rust and cram 16 years of progress in design and usability into the next few months. Hence the name: stumbling through. I don’t imagine this journey is going to be all that smooth.
Two and a half days of labs, classes, vendor events, and demos are in the books. I learned quite a bit over the last few days, so let’s dive into it.
Meaning behind the title: the serialized manga “Hunter x Hunter” goes on hiatus quite frequently, and stays on it for lengthy periods of time. And that’s exactly what I’ve been on – a lengthy hiatus from blogging.
