The IBIS-PH View System Information section provides general information
about this application and is intended for project managers, system administrators,
content managers, and application developers. The goal of this section is
to provide a high level view of the application. This includes the system
architecture, system requirements, and basic design, and a history on what
decisions went into the system.
The View System provides three basic types of pages:
Static content type web pages. These type of pages include introduction
pages, pages which give information about the site, the health department,
and any other web page content that is not the result of a dynamic, data
driven web page.
Indicator Profile reports. Dynamically generated health indicator
report pages are based on data stored in a database and maintained
by various health agency offices via the Data Admin system.
Custom dataset queries. This include dataset selection pages, query
builder pages, and query result pages. The selection and builder
pages are defined and controlled by a special corresponding module
XML file. These pages are all dynamically generated with the result
content being generated from the IBIS-Q system.
View System's High Level Features:
Allows the public the ability to access rolled up, pre aggregated
health indicator profile reports
Allows real time query access to the public deidentified health datasets
HTML content pages which are focused solely on the main page content
(page content is free of header, footer, navigation, and other common
page content)
Developed on open standards and a pluggable framework
Able to run on all modern hardware and operating systems
Designed and built to be 508 compliant
Produces high quality, interactive SVG based charts and maps
Produces JPEG charts and maps for those users who do not want to
use the SVG browser plugin
All pages can be formatted in a printer friendly manner
User preferences - ability to specify the graphic type and how to
control the query builder interface.
Able to provide online reports like the Utah Public Health Outcome
Measures Report (PHOM).
Basic Overview of How the System Works
The IBIS-PH View application consists of XML data being transformed into an
HTML page via an XSLT (XML Stylesheet). Java code is used to control which
XML data file(s) and which XSLT transformation stylesheet(s) are to be used when
creating the HTML page. The Java code is built upon the Spring MVC Framework
and utilizes open source XML parsers and the SAXON XSLT 2.0 transformation engine.
System Information Documentation Section Overview
The View System's Information documentation section includes the following pages:
View System Architecture - High level architecture showing the main parts of the IBIS-PH View System
View System Requirements - Recommended hardware, operating systems, server software, and software & hardware dependencies
Naming Conventions - Naming conventions
for Java, CSS, HTML Elements, XML Elements, Javascript, cookies, and filenames.
Application's Directories and Files - Table of
all directories with a description of that directories contents are and
when applicable, a description of specific files (like control files etc.).
This also points out which directories are static and which ones can
be changed and where those changes need to be reflected in which
configuration file.
