• Working on the chart stuff from home
• Finished my class structure and all toXml and fromXml methods, here’s an example:

And the XML that defines it:

<flexichart>
<series>
<set seriesType=”ColumnSet” type=”clustered”>
<series>
<series seriesType=”ColumnSeries” yField=”0″ fillColor=”14976769″ fillAlpha=”1″/>
<set seriesType=”ColumnSet” type=”stacked”>
<series>
<series seriesType=”ColumnSeries” yField=”1″ fillColor=”10861646″ fillAlpha=”1″/>
<series seriesType=”ColumnSeries” yField=”2″ fillColor=”1807833″ fillAlpha=”1″/>
</series>
</set>
</series>
</set>
</series>
</flexichart>

Now I need to start working on the configuration screen

Also, here is a useful link for parsing XML using e4x: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/E4X_Tutorial

• Production backups
• Back and forth emails with Jessica R. regarding account troubles, she was trying to log in to the data vis thinking it was project assistant
• sent out the vis tool weekly status email
• After lots of digging I found a connectivity trouble shooting guide designed for the problems we’re having! I found a link to it through someone’s blog.  I plan on using to it write our own troubleshooting guide to send to users.
• I sent a few tests from the troubleshooting guide to a local site admin I’ve been working with.
• Worked with Dong to debug an issue with my auto-login system

• Production backups
• Checked on the ticket status for diagnosing connection problems to specific sites; it is “in the queue.”
• Demo/Tutorial with Jessica R., Lenni M., and Carla H. at my desk.  We went over PA, PPM, and data vis.  I gave them PPM accounts and made them all admins.  They seemed excited about the tool. A few issues arose from the demo:
• in the data vis, periods cannot appear in column headers or you have problems
• Need new columns for reqs:
• Funding Type
• Physical Location
• Organization
• Fix the period issue by having all ingestors replace periods in headers with underscores

• Production backups
• Worked with Dong to try and mesh the COGNOS data and our data, we had a bit of trouble matching things up so we went and spoke with Jessica R..  She seems to have a very good picture of how the budgets are organized and also showed us some reports she’d like to be able to produce.  There are a few fields that need to be added to Reqs to produce them: type, physical location, and Org.
• We also have a meeting/demo set up with her tomorrow morning at my desk.
• Contacted my old badge sponsor to try and transfer my badge
• Charting stuff…

Working on the Config Screen.  Here are my current list of config screens and options:

General

• Legend On/Off
• Legend Position
• Base at Zero = true|false

Series: Each chartable field will have enabled and type selector, changing types will change the options available.  Types:

• AreaSeries – Stackable
• yField
• Fill Color
• Fill Alpha
• Form = segment|curve|horizontal|reverseStep|step|vertical
• strokeEnable = true|false
• Stroke Color
• Stroke Width
• BubbleSeries
• yField
• radiusField
• minRadius=0
• maxRadius=50
• Fill Color
• Fill Alpha
• strokeEnable = true|false
• Stroke Color
• Stroke Width
• CandlestickSeries
• openField
• closeField
• highField
• lowField
• Fill Color
• Fill Alpha
• ColumnSeries – Stackable
• yField
• Fill Color
• Fill Alpha
• HLOCSeries
• openField
• closeField
• highField
• lowField
• Fill Color
• Fill Alpha
• LineSeries
• yField
• Form = “segment|curve|horizontal|reverseStep|step|vertical”
• Stroke Color
• Stroke Width
• PlotSeries
• yField
• Fill Color
• Fill Alpha
• Stroke Color

Sets: AreaSeries and ColumnSeries will both be members of sets with the following options:

• AreaSet
• series = []
• type = “100%|clustered|overlaid|stacked”
• allowNegative= true|false
• ColumnSet
• series = []
• type = “100%|clustered|overlaid|stacked”
• allowNegative= true|false

That’s all the options I can think of for now, always room for more.

• Production backups
• Imported Dong’s script to merge data sources, it ran but returned zero rows so the data must not be matching up well
• My sponsor is letting my badge expire next month so I sent Jim from TASC a note about it
• Working on configurable chart
• Submitted my proof of concept with toXml and fromXml

• Production backups at site
• meeting being set up to discuss moving SSPs?
• Per Jessica R.’s request to show column charts with line trends on them, I’m looking in to making a customizable chart
• Will allows users to change series types
• AreaSeries
• BubbleSeries
• CandlestickSeries
• ColumnSeries
• HLOCSeries
• LineSeries
• PlotSeries
• Will allow users to select series color
• Will save these settings to dashboards / slideshows
• Will have some kind of copy / paste functionality to copy settings between multiple similar charts
• The configuration menu will be accessed through either a button or right-clicking the chart if the button is too obnoxious looking

• Production backups
• Wrote up our weekly status and submitted it to Mike H., Dave W., and Jim from TASC
• No word back yet from the data center about our connectivity problems
• Looking in to some neat javascript only things for simple websites

• Production system backup
• Met with Dong and went over the COGNOS data, we should be able to write a script that will mesh the desired data in to one table in visibility
• Got a response from the other person having connection problems.  They are still having problems and gave me their IP.  I submitted a ticket with the enterprise help desk so hopefully they will have an idea of what is going wrong.
• Finished up my manifest reader library and wrote a short users guide.  Shared in my sandbox svn folder for now.

• Production server backups
• Completed some OCI training for TASC requested by Jim
• The remote site admin got back to me.  He said he can’t reach the production but last month was able to reach the test site.  I asked him to verify he can connect to the test site then I will contact local server admins
• Also sent an email to the other person who was having connection issues.  I haven’t heard from them since their local admin said he could connect just fine.  Hopeful the admin and user resolved everything and just forgot to tell us.
• Started matching up data between PPM and COGNOS, asked Dong to come in tomorrow to help write a query

• Backups on the production server
• Prepared some of the connection test document and troubleshooting, will have more to add to troubleshooting once we resolve something
• Read up on how the network works, proxies, firewalls, pki, etc. to see what may be blocking some users
• Updated my internal FGM resume
• It works! I have a small gwt app that displays exactly when it was built, the svn version number, and who built it.  We can also add other fields as needed.
• Need to turn it in to a library.

• Backed up the production server
• Drafted a new timeline for deploying the VIS Tool with the final date of July 9th for full production (aprox. 2 months of connection testing and early adopters should be sufficient depending on connection issues), sent it to Jim/Tangie
• Sent an email to the admin of the user who is having connection problems, hopefully he can tell me why he can connect and she cannot
• Added classification markings to the vis index sites
• Still playing around with maven and creating a webservice that returns the build date and SVN version number.  I finally have the date and version being placed in the manifest file correctly.