Academic Career Pathways Grade 12 (ACP-12) Submission Portal¶
Note
Previously this application was refereed to as the Professorial Pay Review (PPR) submission portal. The name of this application changed in 2024 to match the new name of the reward scheme which it caters for.
This page gives an overview of the ACP-12 Submission Portal, describing its current status, where and how it is developed and deployed, and who is responsible for maintaining it.
Danger
The ACP-12 Submission Portal uses technology, coding standards, and deployment methodologies which are not endorsed by the TDA and not standard practice for the DevOps Division.
Service Description¶
The Academic Career Pathways Grade 12 (ACP-12) reward scheme is a biannual process to allow University professors to apply for a pay review. The submission portal allows a professor to submit their initial application, with the application details being held within the Orchestra component of IRS and references collected and reviewed within the Referee component of IRS.
Service Status¶
The ACP-12 Submission Portal is currently live, although is planned to be re-implemented prior to its re-use within the next iteration of the ACP-12 scheme, in 2026.
Contact¶
Issues discovered in the service or new feature requests should be opened as GitLab issues in the application repository.
Environments¶
The PPR service is currently deployed to the following environments:
| Name | URL | Supporting VMs |
|---|---|---|
| Production | ||
| Web Server | spt-live-web1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
| Application Server | spt-live-app1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
| Database | spt-live-db1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
| Staging | ||
| Web Server | spt-test-web1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
| Application Server | spt-test-app1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
| Database | spt-test-db1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk |
Source code¶
Source code for both the Application Submission and SAP Submission applications can be found in GitLab PPR 2022.
Technologies used¶
The following gives an overview of the technologies which PPR is built on.
| Category | Language | Framework(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Application Submission | C# 6 | ASP.NET 4 |
| SAP Submission | C# 6 | SharePoint Server-side Object Model |
Operational documentation¶
Documentation for development and deployment is available at within the ACP12 2024 GitLab repository
Service Management and tech lead¶
The Service Owner for ACP-12 is Daniel Bond.
The Service Manager for ACP-12 is vacant.
The Tech Lead for ACP-12 is vacant until the portal can be re-developed.
The following engineer has operational experience with PPR and is able to respond to support requests or incidents: