Category Archives: VISIBILITY

Phil 10.26.2010

8:00 – 5:00VISIBILITY

  • Well, the server is mostly back up
    • Wrote up a description of what happened for Laurie
  • Got additional req’s from Christina for PPM. Went over them with Dong.
    • Open multiple projects for editing or modifying
    • A “back” button that re-launches the previous panel. The best way to do this may be to extend the LayoutManager to store the panel with an associated data object? Unsure about this
    • All personnel fields should be able to handle multiple entries. I’m thinking that a variant on the “Add New” combobox might work here.
    • The Portfolio Manager in a funding request also needs to handle multiple entries
    • Look for duplicate projects. The thought is that if the budget values and the service match, then an alert could be shown that warns of the potential match
  • Flex in a week
    • Day 5, Episode 2
    • Day 5, Episode 3
    • Day 5, Episode 4
  • Anne had some problems with a query not showing up in the data visualizer. Will try and see what’s up tomorrow.

Phil 10.25.2010

7:30 – VISIBILITY

  • PPM is getting used. Talked to Christie Richard, who is entering most of the data. She has a list of suggestions
    • She needs to be sysadm to view projects she creates. We need to make it so that if you create a project, you should still be able to see it.
    • We need to make it so that projects can be created piecemeal. The minimum amount of information should be the project name and ID, but after that, the user should be able to enter data in any order or amount.
      • An incomplete project is one that does not have all the fields plus (sufficient? e.g. something other than all zeros) financial data entered.
      • There should be an INCOMPLETE warning in the title bar if a project is not sufficiently entered. Maybe we can flag that in the project list by highlighting the row, or being able to filter on incomplete projects.
      • It might be worth having an alert come up that indicates what still needs to be done on an incomplete project.
    • She’d like the ability to enter more than one POC for a project. Need to find out just what fields those are. Is this just on project creation or also other forms, such as creating funding requests
    • Add a per-project comment log. It should be visible on the project page and the enter financial data forms (Maybe funding request as well?). There should be an entry field that is editable, and then a text area (searchable?) that shown entries with timestamps and user id.
  • Worked on the MavenAssist site with Dong. The updater site is up, as is a download site. The home page is prettier (it’s a copy of our own web page on MavenAssist)

Mike 7.30.2010

  • Still working on autocomplete text area
  • Have a popup list with options popping up correctly when I press ctrl+space, may add smarter logic for this later but this seems fine for now
  • Popup currently always appears in the top right corner of the text area.  Finding the x-y position based on the caret index in the text field may prove complicated so I’m saving it for once the proof of concept is working

Mike 7.19.2010

  • “Blank” rows no longer show up in the flex widgets.  A row must contain at least one entry that is not an empty string or a single space character ignoring the “uid” and “timestamp” fields.  Side note: somehow some completely empty excel cells are being converted to a single space character on ingest
  • Installed Flex 4 and got distracted by that for awhile…
  • Added a settable actionMax variable to the network widget.  The movement threshold slider in the settings now has two variables which can be set: one which sets the minimum movement required to animate and one that defines the farthest a smartshape can move in a single frame.  No more crazy dancing smartshapes.

Mike 6.30.2010

  • Fixed a bug with multiple selection and the map widget
  • Any selections made in the map widget are now reflected in the data tab of the AdvancedQueryWidget
  • Tried to help Phil with some build problems but of course when you expect something to fail it works just fine…
  • Added a “New Widget’ button to the network widget.  Clicking it while in either the map mode or the connection list will spawn a new AQW with both the selected nodes and any connections that refer to them.

Mike 6.28.2010

  • Added labels to the StatusList item renderers on AdvancedQueryWidgets
  • Added the ability to change what field the labels were pulled from at run-time (not easy)
  • Added multiple selection to the StatusList
  • Selection changes made in the status list are now reflected in the data tab of AdvancedQueryWidgets
  • Added selection and multiple selection to the map component

Possible Bug and Interface Improvements

When making a tutorial to show the user how to group related questions when they save them I ran into a possible bug.  The problem is when I select the create charts after selecting the main category for all of the questions, the select * appears with all the others.  It only seems to happen when I select a main category that has an empty subcategory.  The following are the steps I took:

How To Group Multiple Questions into a drop down
This sections will explain how to group your saved queries so that you can differentiate yours from others and group up questions that have commonality with each other. This section will ask you to do things that were covered in previous sections. Although the steps for these techniques will not be explictly laid out, links to relevant sections will be provided in case you need a refresher on how to do something.
1. In the questions tab reveal the question editor, by clicking and dragging on the the three lines below create chart up.
2. Select example_cars from the list of tables.
3. In the Question Name field type in your user name.
4. Click add with the query field empty
5. Click on the new question that you just created
6. In the Question Name field type in Chevys
7. Click add child.
8. In the questions area note that the question with you username now has an arrow next it. Clicking on the arrow with expand it revealing the Chevys questions group. This process can be repeated over and over to make subgroups as needed.
9. Use the basic query builder to Create a chart with all cars
10. In the Query Panel select the make column using the Column Selector
11. Click on the Chevy bar on the chart and click the New Widget button.
12. Change the name of this new panel to All Chevys
13. Click on the Questions Tab select the example_cars chart and select the subcatergory you made for Cheveys
14. Type All Chevys in the Questions Name.
15. In the, All Chevys Query Panel, select Set Query Builder from the drop down in the lower right and click Go.
17. Click Add Child
18. Now select the Color Column from the All Chevys panel. Click the bar for Red on the chart and click New Widget
19. Change the name of the new Panel to Red Chevys
20. Make sure you still have example_cars and you user name->Chevys question group selected.
21. Type Red Chevys in the question editors name field and use the set Query builder button.
22. Click add child in the Question Editor
23. Close all the query panels that are open so that only the query builder is open
24. With the example_cars table selected, select your user name from the questions list by checking the check box
25.Click Create Charts

Instead of creating two charts it creates three, one being the select * which does not appear in any of the saved questions.  Some other improvements to simplify things for the users would be if when you click set query builder it automatically makes the name whatever the title of the Panel is.  Also when you create a panel the question name should appear as the panel name.  Currently there is a lot of bouncing back and forth between the panel and the query builder.

Mike 1.17.10

  • Back from a long vacation, it’s amazing how screwed up workspaces can get when you don’t touch them, fixed several build issues which turns out to be a waste of time 3 bullets down
  • Fixed several issues with the TrendWidget PieChart and BarChart
  • Added a more descriptive title instead of ‘Trend Widget’
  • Realized I was working on the wrong workspace and checking in to the wrong place, changed workspaces and found nothing working, deleted the workspace and redownloaded, copied my changes over and checked them in in the correct place

Phil 1.8.2010

8:00 – 4:00

  • Discovered that PRIVATE is not restricting pulls. Fixing that first. No, it’s working correctly, it’s just that admin and superuser can see everything.
  • Good progress on ObjectWrapper. It can apply properties and run functions with arguments.

Mike 11.08.09

  • Was very confused about an error I kept getting when trying to build a basic chart, turns out “Details” is now the default selected tab in the query builder  instead of “Basic”
  • Modified TrendWidgets to run their own queries instead of directly taking data from QueryWidgets
  • Enabled saving / loading of TrendWidgets with all the standard features:
    • Query and trended rows saved
    • Column order and size saved
    • Selected column (for pie chart) saved
    • Current chart / table being view saved

Phil 9.28.2009

7:30 – 3:30

  • Gotta install sp2…. Well that was 20 minutes well spent! Wheee.
  • Working on multiple select = done. Leaving the single select code in place for a while out of, well, superstition and fear, actually.
  • I’m thinking about adding another chart that has the unique counts for each column – that way it would be possible to easily find out how many people we in a query, even if they had multiple skills. – done

Mike 9/15/09

  • Have the map nicely formatted in a XML / SVG format.  Canada for example is described by a group of vector shapes: the mainland + lots of islands.  The hierarchy can later be expanded to break it down by province or smaller if we choose.
  • Working on having Degrafa read in the xml at run-time and create an interactive map instead of hard-coding some 180 countries as components.
  • After several hours of digging through source code, I did what forum after forum of Degrafa users couldn’t: add Degrafa objects at run-time!  Now I can build my map…

loading data to Visibility server

  • Ingest personnel records:

http://localhost:8080/visibility/Server?action=ingestData&adminPassword=admin&fileName=personnel.xml

  • Delete all personnel records:

http://localhost:8080/visibility/Server?action=deleteRecords&adminPassword=admin&recordType=personnel

  • Query the SOLR personnel table

http://localhost:8080/visibility/Server?action=query&acm=&q=record_type:personnel

  • Ingest personnel records from roster.xml

http://localhost:8080/visibility/Server?action=ingestData&adminPassword=admin&fileName=roster.xml