Animal Control Maintenance

The Dog Licenses app is a tool for applying for, renewing and looking up a dog license in the City of Boston. The app is owned by Animal Care/Control.

Overview

App is currently located here: https://www.cityofboston.gov/animals/licenseapp/

See the project page at Animal Control

Codebase

The asp.net (C#) codebase is found on ZPCOBWEB01 (IIS server) in the folder /wwwcob/animals/licenseapp.

Databases

• Connects to the AnimalControl database on vsql01.web.cob to cache in-process license applications.

• Connects to the Animal database on vsql71.cityhall.boston.cob to search for licenses and to update the Chameleon database used by Animal Control Dept.

Usernames and passwords contained in web.config in /animals/licenseapp

Payments

There is payments processing: the app passes off to InvoiceCloud portal (https://www.invoicecloud.com/portal/cloudpayment.aspx) when the application form (form.aspx) is submitted (viaProcessPay.aspx).

Payment results are handled by a callback/webhook page Final.aspx.

Annual Maintenance

January Maintenance

The year dropdown on the search form needs to be updated with the last calendar year (20YY) so that people can search a previous license number for that year.

• Add the Current year (20YY) to the dropdown on the search page around line 86 in /wwwcob/animals/licenseapp/default.aspx. Save the file and commit the change to git with its Jira ticket number as a reference.

March Maintenance

31 March is when the current licenses expire.

From 01 April license tag numbers will be prefixed with AYY- where YY is the year for the March when they expire.

There is typically nothing to be done by digital, because the tag sequential number is reset by Animal Control staff in Chameleon.