8:00 – 5:30

• Showed John W how to use the ‘like’ SQL command
• Found out some about LDAT. It does look like something useable
• Took 90 min off to deal with kitchen construction issues
• Starting on the TextPanel – Got it so that I can save and load a panel, but if I try to save a panel that has been reloaded, the <span> information does not change…

8:00 – 4:00

• Gave a link to the edgeDemo account to Jeff
• Got VAccordion working
• S14 meeting at 1:15
• Need to do a text box that ties into visibility desktops.
• Got VAccordion working. Had a bit of a problem with the left-right alignment, but got that dealt with by setting textAlign in the VBoxes
• Used mvnAssist to deploy flexlib 2.4 to our repo

8:00 – 5:00

• Added ‘validation’ XML to the emplyees_standard details tab
• Trying to find out what FACTS is
  • AOC Solutions (http://www.aocsolutions.com/) appears to have done some work integrating with FACTS:
  • In 2008, following DIA’s migration to its new core accounting system (FACTS), AOC upgraded these interfaces with a new, centralized, web-based translator that today provides DIA with an automated interface from each feeder system into FACTS. A web-based interface also was developed by AOC to integrate source accounting data from the Department of State into FACTS for the Defense Attaché.
  • More links
    • http://www.dfas.mil/more/dfasfreedomofinformationactprivacyact/dfaspia/PIAODS.pdf
    • http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=koo&q=%22Financial+Accounting+and+Corporate+Tracking+System%22&aq=f&aql=&aqi=&oq=
• More playing with Mike’s changes to VISIBILITY. Mike called and we worked through the issues. He’s going to work on things, and I’m going to get VAccordion working using TextFlow, which has to be good for something….
• Found a bug in MvnAssist and fixed it. All repositories are now declared in the settings.xml file
• Worked for an hour or so finding a good input device we can repurpose for the kinetic interface that we can adapt. Found some good stuff.

7:30 – 5:00

• Tried to replicate John’s problem with no luck. For me at least, everything is working fine.
• Installing Mike’s changes.
• Now that I know that TextFlow can’t, well, actually *flow* text, I’m trying to figure out what might be a reasonable solution. Maybe a text widget for annotating items in VISIBILITY.
• Numerous meetings
  • Theresa Young
    • FACTS is the Financial Accounting and Corporate Tracking System. It’s part of FMS – Financial Management Solutions. Need to find out what platform it’s based on. It’s a way of tracking money as it moves from target through obligated to outlay
    • All interaction is through a web interface. No one seems to know about a machine-machine interface.
    • If we can get a ‘BF-5’ person, they can explain more info as it pertains to S14
    • BF-5 is the ‘general ledger’. There are some good people that we can talk to
    • Janet Davis -chief
    • Arlin White Sr. Exec
    • Alex Smith – Sr. Exec to Comptroler
  • Impromptu demo of VISIBILITY to Jeff Cooper and his boss(?). They want to use VISIBILITY to do something with their dataset. Could be as high as 100,000 rows

7:30 – 8:30, 11:30 – 3:30

• Had to go choose floor tile this morning.
• Working on text flow. There is definitively *not* the capability to flow around a graphic or other component (http://blogs.adobe.com/tlf/2008/11/welcome-to-the-text-layout-fra.html). WTF!? Grr. Need to work on an alternative.
• Exchanged email with Yoland about Visibility capabilities, particularly WRT GIS and connected graphs.
• There seems to be some problem with IE downloading excel spreadsheets under certain conditions. Will check out tomorrow.
• Fixed a problem with the querybuilder where strings were not being converted into xml correctly

8:00 – 4:00

• Spent some time with Dong walking through using Interfaces for what he’s trying to do. Not sure if it worked because-
• Meeting with Anne and Yonald Chery of SID, 10:30 – 1:00. Which I had totally forgotten about. Had to scramble a bit to get Appboard running on my box and get it over to the site.
• Anne called. The demo went well. Apparently there are some next steps.
• More work with Dong, chasing down the reason why wrapped display objects had no parent.