View source for Web Schedule Listings

A cgi program called CourseList.exe allows the display of a course list and block schedule for a given year and term.

=Normal Usage=
The url without any parameters will display the current year and term with a drop down list of publicly released schedules. Three RELFILE.DBF entries support this display.

CrsLstYr.rel - is a tilde delimited list of year/term strings of released schedules. E.g. 2006/071~2006/073~

CrsLstGT.rel - is a tilde delimited list of grade types that are included. Several phantom grade types are available in CrossRoad; this allows the selection of only certain courses for display.

CrsLstDs.rel - is a complex list that translates the discipline codes (the first four characters of the course code) into English. These are used to build a navigation table and headings for each group. The list format is tilde delimited pairs of code and translation. E.g.

ARTH|Art History~
ARTS|Studio Art~
ASTR|Astronomy~

Note that seminars and labs are not listed on the first page of this site. However, they are displayed in the block schedule.

When a course is selected, its information is displayed, along with the detail on seminars/labs and a block schedule for that course. If final exam schedules have been released for the particular year and term (using the FINAL.REL entry in RELFILE).

=Usage with URL specified parameters=

It is also possible to specify parameters directly on the URL for this program. The four possible parameters are:

YEARTERM - a year/term string specifying the schedule to be viewed. Note that this overrides the released schedules, so it is possible to review schedules still in development.

CRSCODE - if specified, this will list the detail for this course. If omitted, the course list is displayed.

DISCLIST - if specified, this will limit the course list to the list. It is tilde delimited, and uses x as a single character wildcard and * as  a multicharacter wildcard.

DISCTITLE - Inserts a descriptive title on the display. This is used in conjunction with DISCLIST.

This is intended to allow access to schedules prior to being released to the public. So, for example, the English department could review proposed schedules by using the URL

http://your.server.com/cgi-bin/CourseList.exe?YEARTERM=2008/091?DISCLIST=ENGL*~?DISCTITLE=English

or the VP Academic could review all junior level courses (assuming they start with the digit 2) with

http://your.server.com/cgi-bin/CourseList.exe?YEARTERM=2008/091?DISCLIST=xxxx2*~?DISCTITLE=Junior