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Phil 9.24.2010

7:30 – 4:30VISIBILITY

  • Deployed new PPM swf. Looks like only a few things left to go
    • Fix the title of the PM Manager
    • Add subtotals and grand totals to Financial Request form. That should fix the addition check bug as well
  • Sat down with Masha M to walk through what she’s trying to do with SLA
    • Ingested a new data table and played around with it.
    • Tried to make a new dashboard with the table she loaded. It saved OK, but wouldn’t load in. Permission problem.
  • Working the autosave problem, but with interruptions. Hmmm. Seems to work here
  • Going to add in Dong’s “about” dialog, but on Monday, now that I’ve got everything checked out and running.
  • Talked to Anne. Meeting on Oct 4th(?) am

FGM

  • Finishing performance Eval. Done.

FP

  • Fixing a few things and resubmitting the paper

Dong Shin 09.24.2010

  • changed color of appName in AboutInfoWindow to grey
  • more changes to PPM
    • removed Title from NSA PM Name field in Project Viewer
    • added Grand Total fro Reimbursable Amount and total of Direct Cites
    • added Direct Cite Total
    • Funding Request compares the grand total with Funding Amount
    • Activity Amount has comma applied
    • Financial Data Type tooltips changed
    • remove FMP (Financial Mitigation Plan) from FACTS type

Dong Shin 09.23.2010

  • new set of bugs/enhancement
    • names should be sorted on last name (Create Project and User Management) – done
    • Budget Center List on Funding Request must be unique – done
    • Use Different Tooltips for different types in Financial Data Entry
      • All – Amount entered must be cumulative
      • Reported Outlay – Amount entered must be cumulative in Service’s Financial System
      • PM Actural Outlay – Amount entered must be cumulative Invoiced Work – anything not reflected in Reported
    • remove FMP (Financial Mitigatino Plan) from PM Actuals Outlay $ – done
    • Funding Total in Funding Request generating incorrect warnings – done
    • Contract Numbers are now CB in Funding Request
    • Financial Data are in Year order, then by appropriation
    • rearranged Contracts grid in Financial Data Editor
    • manually set dataProvider data on itemEditEnd in Budget Center data of Funding Request

Phil 9.23.2010

7:30 – 3:30VISIBILITY

  • Meeting with Trish. I have screenshots of the following
    • Budget Center Management still has duplicate entries
    • Financial panels need to be sorted by date first, in ascending order
    • Incorrect inclusion of title on Financial Panel General data
    • Name lists should be sorted by last name. It looks like they are sorted by first
    • Funding request is throwing an amount mismatch warning incorrectly
    • All entry fields in Financial Entry should have “cumulative” tooltip. In addition, “Reported Outlay $” should have “(In Service’s Financial System)”, and PM Actual Outlay $ should have “(Invoiced Work – anything not reflected in Reported)”
    • There should not be a justification brought up for PM Actuals Outlay
    • A Contract Number dropdown in the “Add Fundings” dialog is desired.
  • Walked through Trish’s issues with Dong
  • Tested Dong’s fixes
  • Burned a disk

FP

  • Tom got the sensors wired up and working
  • Rewrote sections of the paper to incorporate kinesthetic feedback
  • Resubmitted paper

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.