8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Backups of PPM and scripting databases. Should probably start Vis2 as well, as questions, desktops and slide shows start getting stored.
• So I brought in my test programs today, and they all worked. Yay! This also led to the main bug that was causing the whole problem. The test programs allow the endpoint to be entered from the app. When I was writing the code, I had the default string set to ‘amfsecure’, which is how I had changed all the endpoints after having problems with Visibility Scripting. When I went back to the SettingsXML file, I discovered that the endpoints had gone back to amf, rather than amfsecure. Odd. Maybe from part of a restore that I didn’t know about? Anyway, I tried vis2ff, and that worked, so the version I’m currently building (3.6 and linked projects) should hopefully work now.
• Adding names to the tooltips for the value charting accordion, and matching the formatting.
• Chased down some poor settings.xml loading tied to IE (again!)

8:00 – ESSO

• Backups and check in with Jessica
• The version of Vis2 from yesterday would not run – same problems.
• Going to try to make a new project(s) that run various tests. If they work, then I’ll add more and more of vis2 until either everything is working or we find the culprit.
• This is version 1.
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• V2 will have local and remote logging. Done.
• V3 will access the SetupXML. Done
• V4 will use the login functions.
• If all those work, I’ll build a new AccountManager project file and copy over the code. If that runs then doing the same for Vis2 should work.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Weekly status
• Trying out new versions of vis2
• Thursday 10:30 meeting. It looks like we’ll create a new, clean DB and keep the old one with a PPM version pointing at it. New version keeps all the meta information about contracts, people and such.
• Build yet another version of Mike’s code. This time I included as much of the original settings as I could. He appeared to have the vis2 project point at the other projects rather than the SWCs in the repo, so I’m trying that.
• Tried the Fiddler web dibugger and discovered that the message to the remote object didn’t appear to be going out. Going to try the Charles Debugger and see if there is any difference. Nope. Fiddler appears to be a bit better. Not as good as the Flashbuilder debugger though.
• Just checked and there is a getVersion() method in DbRemoteObject. If the current (re)build of Mike’s workspace fails, I’m going to try a minimum flex app that opens the remote object and calls that method. The code should be grabable from VisibilityScripting

8:00 – 2:30 ESSO

• Backups on site
• Tried the Flex 3.5B version of the code. Neither vis2 or AccountManagers worked. I find that particulalry vexing since AM was compiled entirely with 3.5B.
• Dong got XP up and running with the proper versions of IE7 and Flash player. Of course, the code works just fine. Sigh
• Trying Mike’s workspace. Was able to compile, though maven errors will have to be dealt with in the future if this works
• Added the datavisualization swc to the 3.5B version of vis2 build path. THis was probably the reason that the version yesterday would crash here. Dong has built a 3.5B and 3.6 version of AccountManagers to try as well.

2:30 – 6:00 FP

• PAD Meeting
• Wired up new mouse, and found a laser USB mouse that can be sacrificed

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Ran Dong’s test SWFs, and the culprit appears to be the settings.
• Deployed the new PPM and PA
• Working on adding in the Label Field for numeric plots. Done
• Adding _labelFieldColumnName to xml save and restore. Done
• Added a tool tip to the combobox, which is not coming up. Odd. Checked in anyway. Something for Monday.
• Looks like the compiler is the culprit. Downloaded Flex 3.5 and added it to my SDK list, but didn’t install it while I was working on the labeling.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Bringing in many combinations of vis2. Let’s see if any fix the IE7  problem!
• Well, my build didn’t work, so that means that it’s probably not Maven. Dong’s going to make copy the workspace on Mike’s machine and try the following:
  • Workspace 1: Change the project settings only.
  • Workspace 2: Update the code, but not the project settings
  • Workspace 3: Update everything
  • I may also try building in his workspace to see if my version will run.
• Then I’ll try running those on the test server and see if there is any pattern.
• Looking at a way to label the _plotAccordian charts using text from another column. pieLabelFunction2 in WidgetBase should be able to look at a given column. The name of that column will have to be stored out in the xml as well.
  • looks like I can use the nameField attribute (as shown here).
• Burned a new disk of Dong’s updates for tomorrow.

8:00 – 5:00 ESSO

• Spent all day on site
• Dong’s
• Did a presentation of the Project Assistant and PPM to the project PMs
• Spent the rest of the day working on ingesting Cognos data and processing it into Flexichart-able tables
  •  Need to make the layout_xml blob larger
  • Need to fix the ‘manual’ desktop xml loading (from pasting) so that it can save
  • IE version of code still hanging on remote object access, even for Dong’s code. Ingest Manager works though, which points to a possible library issue.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Got all the scripts up and running on the production server
• Added a backup batch file for VSS. Unable to copy files in the batch file, which is odd. The network was slow today, so that could have something to do with it. Since it’s exactly the same code (that looks at its own name for behavior), what works for move should work for copy.
• Talked to JR about reports. In addition to what we have now, she’s like to be able to show the zero, non-zero, and null values on a chart. Dong’s going to look into making that query.
• Still unable to get IE to open Data Navigator. I think I might have found the answer in LoginScreen. Mike had changed the call to usersAndRoles.getUserInfo(userName.text) so that there was a boolean that said to use the DN lookup. Set that to false. This makes sense, but now I’m confused why FF logged in. Burning a disk to bring in tomorrow. Will also add Dong’s scripts

8:00 – 3:30 ESSO

• Meeting w/ col Dukes is now the 19th?
• Made some scripts for Jessica which look cool, but vis2 is not logging in with ie
• Snapshot and excel dump are pointing to [object, object]
• Disabled the autologin and reactivated the alert that shows the endpoint if there is a connection fault.
• Added in a local log for vis2 that’s enabled by a <vis:localLog> tag in the SetupXML.xml file. Took a while thrashing with why it wasn’t working until we figured out that it was IE hanging on tenaciously to some cache.
• Burned new vis2 to disk

7:30 – 3:30 ESSO

• Getting up-to-date versions of VISIBILITY suite on disk
• Installed and updated test and production server. Interesting note, the ‘all databases’ argument to mySqldump was saving off an old(?) version of project_portfolio. Changing it so that the db was explicitly named fixed that.
• The new version of PPM went over very well.
• Regular Thursday meeting. Some rumor about the IG wanting to look at VISIBILITY?
• Upped the size of the mySql max_allowed_packet to 100M so that scripts could get published to the DB
• Upped the production server Xmx to 1024M and Xms to 512. Still getting out of memory errors on big pulls
• Set up a query that shows the amount of 2011 data still unset. Need to make the following changes:
  • Month numbers should become month names
  • Budget Center id needs to be BC name.
  • There should only be 3 results by month (NULL or ‘Nothing Entered’), 0.0, or ‘non-zero’
• Managed to kill WordPress for a minute by hitting the ‘back’ button, which inadvertently restarted a plugin update. This page fixed it nicely
• Started back on FlexiCharts

8:00 – 5:00  ESSO

• Backups
• Walked through the duplicating funding request bug with Jessica until it made sense
• Working on finishing the spreadsheet generator – done.
• Starting on Flexichart refinement again
• Deploy new stuff tomorrow while waiting for meeting.

8:00 – 4:00 ESSO

• Meeting with Jessica and Dong
• Desired tables for Data Navigator:
  • Status
    • Project Name
    • Portfolio Manager
    • Service
    • Current (i.e. FY12) budget
    • Percent under (10%, 20%, etc)
    • Weeks late since last report
    • Number of late reports
    • Appropriation
    • Budget Center
  • Financial Mitigation Plans
    • Project Name
    • Capability
    • Mitigation Plan(s)
    • Outlay Rate (current year)
    • Outlay Goal (current year)
    • Obligation Rate (current year)
    • Obligation Goal (current year)
    • Outlay Rate (previous year)
    • Outlay Goal (previous year)
    • Obligation Rate (previous year)
    • Obligation Goal (previous year)
    • Current outlay (goal – rate)
    • Current obligation (goal – rate)
    • Appropriation
    • Budget Center
    • Current year budget
    • Previous year budget
  • Tool Usage
    • User
    • Time using tool by week
    • Role
  • Appropriation Charts by Project
    • Goals are plotted for the entire appropriation schedule (i.e. Procurement = 3 yrs, RDTE = 2yrs, etc)
    • Obligations, outlays, committed, and PM Actuals are plotted to the current date
  • Summed Appropriations over time
    • Current Year
    • Previous Year
    • All projects in a particular appropriation are summed
    • All goals are summed, etc.
• Printed out Mike’s Giant Query for Dong to take a look at
• Making a version of Jessica’s cognos(?)  spreadsheet. About halfway through.