Author Archives: pgfeldman

Dong Shin 09.22.2010

  • added aboutFlexApp package to EdgeUtils
    • bug in CompilationDate.as downloaded fromhttp://www.judahfrangipane.com/blog/?p=252
      • (compilationDate.hours<11) line 146, changed < to <=
    • example
      • <aboutFlexApp1:CompilationDate id=”createdDate1″/>
      • var aboutWindow:AboutInfoWindow = AboutInfoWindow (PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, AboutInfoWindow, true));
        aboutWindow.createdDate1 = createdDate1;
        aboutWindow.logo = _appLogo; // embedded image class
        aboutWindow.appName = “Project Portfolio Manager”;
        aboutWindow.version = _version; // String
  • using aboutFlexApp in PPM, deployed
  • added progress.swf for Busy Cursor

Phil 9.22.2010

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Mary M had uploaded and attempted to ingest a big spreadsheet. It still had some formatting and didn’t work. I removed the formatting and re-ingested. She’ll be out until the 25th, so we’ll have to wait to see how that worked out
  • Installed the new SWF from Dong. All appears to be working and it looks like all the users have been added.
  • Asked Dong to put together an “about” panel that has the compiled date in it. That turned out great. I’m going to add that to the other pieces of VISIBILITY
  • Working on self-assessment – waiting for some definitions
  • Back to Flex in a week
    • Day 1 Episode 8
    • Day 1 Episode 9
    • Day1 Episode 10

KF

  • Wired up the 32′ USB extension cable, which appears to work fine. Need to re-tune the SG amps
  • Going to start cutting some metal for the hand plate tonight

FGM

  • Team Lunch

Phil 9.21.2010

7:30 – 11:30 VISIBILITY

  • Exchanged email with Mary M who’s with SLA, I think. She’s attempting to upload items and wants to use the Ingest Manager
  • Everything else is working fine. Some use by Anne G and Mary Mof the demo databases
  • Burning new PPM swf to disk

11:30 – 3:30 FP

  • Finished paper
  • Formatting paper for SIGCHI Archival format – done and submitted!

Dong Shin 09.21.2010

  • adding more tooltips
    • Funding Request
  • fgmdev.com mounted as /Volumes/FGMDEV-SSH, /uploads mounted as /Volumes/FGMDEVuploads using Macfusion. Now I can copy the files
  • downloaded and installed AMFPHP 2.0, looks more portable
  • deployed the latest PPM to fgmdev.com

Dong Shin 09.20.2010

  • fixed a bug not showing contracts on projects with multiple fundings
  • added tooltips to buttons on Create Project Panel
  • moved Financial Data Edit progress bar to title bar
  • added global amount_labelFunc to format amounts data accesible at Application.application level
    • Budget Centers in Create Project
    • Budget Centers in Funding Request
    • Project Financial Info in Financial Data Editor

Dong Shin 09.17.2010

  • trying to map sftp://fgmdev.com to local drive
  • found some useful utils
  • more feedbacks from customer
  • added Activity Amount to each Financial Data (by FY)
    • really careful adding components because of the ordered data retrieval
  • removed Total Budget validator – not needed because it’s calculated and not editable
  • Mailing Address POC and Mailing Address are blanks on Create Funding Request
  • corrected NSA Portfolio Mgr on Funding Request
  • added ToolTips for Reported Outlay $: and PM Actuals Outlay $:
    • used ItemRollOver and ItemRollOut instead of DataTips function
    • Amounts entered must be cumulative

Phil 9.17.2010

8:00 – 12:00 VISIBILITY

  • Data Visualizer running smoothly on site, but also very little use in the middle of the month
  • Rolled out the new BETA swf of PPM for Trish and Chris.
    • Contract info is not showing up in financial entry
    • Financial request POC should be blank
    • NSA Project Manager fields are pulling NSA Financial Manager data
    • Need to add a line for budget totals above financial grids
    • Need to add tooltips to “type” colum entries in financial entries

FP 12:00 – 4:00

  • Working on SigCHI paper.

Dong Shin 09.16.2010

  • changed all ProjPortolioMgr static references to Application.application
  • Added FY Totals Grid to Create/Modify Project Panel
  • Financial Data with total of 0 removed from the View
  • Individual Data with funding of 0 removed from the View
  • disable Create User on non-admin

Mike 9.16.2010

  • Added special cases to the python autocomplete so it includes the methods listed in the drop-down
    • declaring any variable as “mySF = ScriptFascades()” will successfully bring up auto complete options for mySF later in the script
    • same deal for “myTable = mySF.dbQuery(…”, myTable will be recognized as a dbTable object
  • Left the dropDown in the GUI because there’s a few options I can’t reproduce like identifying an alertInfoObject and constructors

Phil 9.16.2010

7:30 – 12:30 VISIBILITY

  • Things are running smoothly on site
  • Nobody is poking around in the Data Navigator right now, which makes me worried about the level of seriousness by the SLA folks
  • Trish and Chris didn’t enter any new user data
  • Talked to dong about the state of the current PPM system, and showed him a few screenshots from onsite.

12:30- 3:30 FP

  • Working on SigChi Paper. Need to finish the description and discussion sections.

Dong Shin 09.15.2010

  • looking into creating branches for the release
  • found that I had been using svn://viz-n.com, ughh! tried svn copy and svn switch, but doesn’t seem work.
  • assisted Phil enter new Appropriations
  • got the latest feedbacks from customer
    • removed user description
    • login id built from the first name and last name
    • made Save User button bigger
    • change TRP Member label to NSA PM Name and show Portfolio Mgr
    • added FT Name and FT Number to Financial Data tab labels
    • made Budget Centers on Create/Modify Project Panel sortable
    • Non-admin users can only edit own information

Phil 9.15.2010

7:30 – 2:00 VISIBILITY

  • Meeting with Trish and Chris. Rolled out the “release version. This led to several changes being requested. Dong is working on rolling in changes so I can deploy Friday am.
    • Remove description from user registration
    • login should be firstname.lastname. Add a tooltip
    • Users should be able to edit their own user data
    • Make “Save User” button bigger. Says Save Us…
    • If the budget for a year is zero, don’t show or calculate panels
    • TRP Member in financial Data should read “NSA PM Name” and show NSA portfolio Manager
    • Total budget needs to be total budget by year (use a grid rather than a single field)
    • Financial tabs need FT Name and FT Number added to “Year XX” label
    • Make project rows sortable

2:00 – 3:30 FP

Dong Shin 09.14.2010

  • working at home
  • created beta.png to use for the background of ProjPortfolioMgrBeta.swc
  • packaged ProjPortfolioMgr.war
    • fresh database with minimal set of data – project_portfolio_complete.sql
    • only user pgfeldman as Admin
    • ProjPortfolioMgr.swc for users and ProjPortfolioMgrBeta for testing and debugging
  • packaged ProjPortfolioMgrAlpha.war
    • use project_portfolio_dev database
    • load testing data – project_portfolio_complete_test_data.sql
    • changed the configuration to use new database
  • Uploaded files to viz-n.com