7:30 – 3:30

• Another meeting with John, Anne, Brian, and Mike this time
• Based on getting new data (roster2) John is much happier with the tool. Mind you, there have been no changes to the tool.
• Working on getting an “insert column” capability, *then* we might get to multiple selects – done

7:30 – 4:00

• Long and painful meeting with John and Anne. My notes follow:
  • Data names are not clear from source
  • Should be able to check a box and get a list of names
  • Eliminate redundant columns
  • Fix column names
  • Either the basic tree or the question tree needs to have some checkboxes that represent “where clauses” that would be OR-ed together
  • Collapse redundant entries in columns on Flex side – i.e. how many unique names there are. This may be a new chart view
• Working on Question interface – first pass is done. Rolling up to bring in.
• Tomorrow, work on AdvancedQueryWidget.onCreateChartClicked() so that multiple bars can be selected.

7:30 – 5:00

• Ingested data at the fort. Talked to John, who tried to find info with Pat yesterday. I said that the display is only as good as the data, but I don’t think it stuck.
• Working on “Questions” interface
  • Modify – done
  • Add – done
  • Add as Child – done
  • Delete – done – turned out to be tricky. You have to use the delete operator.
  • Have “Set Query Builder” populate the _questionQuery.text field
  • Add a setTableQuestions(String questions,  String tableName) method in DbRemoteObject that a) Creates a table_questions table if there is none, and b) loads the xml as a blob in the table row (note: only one set of questions per table) See the dashboard entry for how to handle xml – done
  • Add a getTableQuestions(String tableName) method in DbRemoteObject that a) Creates a table_questions table if there is none, and b) either returns the xml if it exists or returns and empty <questions/> xml string. – done

7:30 – 3:30

• Deployed the new version with Mike’s fixes. Everything seems to be working fine
• Talked to Anne about building special-purpose tables from the master table to make it easier to explore the data
• Floated the question idea
• Realized that we could also have all the available strings in a column listed in the (a?) hierachy view, so some level of drilldown could be available…
• Changed all query double quotes to single quotes
• Phone call from Anne – Meeting with here and John on Thursday. Might have a version by then.
• Started on the question tab, mostly because it’s an easier problem to solve that might give us what we want. Go the part where you can click on a tree component “question” that runs a query.
  • Need to be able to interactively build the xml
  • Need to save the xml in a table-specific entry (only one entry per table holding the xml)

7:30 – 4:00

• Hey! It’s Fall! No wonder it’s dark when I get up these days
• So I come in this morning and find that Mike has fixed half the issues that Anne and John listed. It’s like having pixies do the dishes at night!
• VIS2 Meeting at 10:30
• Writing up support for S2Dash
• Need to make the system more Pat-freindly. Not sure what that means, but I’m leaning towards “Questions” that point to queries

7:30 – 5:30

• Deployed the latest attempt at the fort and it seems to be working well. Uploaded new data
• Trained up Anne and John on the new features. Based on their suggestions, here’s what needs to be added
  • Allow users to delete their dashboards
  • Start up in ‘Builder’ layout
  • Update tips
  • Add tips to the IngestManager
  • If nothing is selected, have a popup that says “No items selected for query”
  • Provide direct transition from minimize and maximize
  • Don’t allow components (particularly minimized windows) to go behind the top “VISIBILITY2” UIComponent
  • Resize events on the builder window should re-trigger the layout
  • Automatically scroll to the selected item in a search on a datagrid
  • Add a “Suggestion Box” under Utils that’s like the old bug reporter on TUMMS
• Architecture (get aquainted session?) in Fairfax. Ran a little long. Note. If you leave VA at 3:15 on a Friday, it can take ’till 5:00 to get back to Laurel.

7:30 – 5:00

• Uploaded data
• Tried another version of VIS2 – this time it got confused with lines that have the same words in them – i.e. “Position_Person” vs “Person_Position
• Fixed the ordering problem and discovered a case where I got runaway recursion.
• Fixed that, but then had a problem where one of the leaf nodes of a branch had the same name as the branch. Fixed that, too.
• Added timers for how long pull and collapse hapens on the server
• Removed redundant data from QueryInfoObject
• Removed some logging from the XML ingestor
• Added tooltips to titlebar and query entry field. Tried to get datatips on the widget finder to work, but no luck
• Ftp’d new version home so I can burn a disk
• John Williams is having trouble with the system running in IE. Related to the debugger version?

7:30 – 4:30

• Uploaded data
• Tried deploying a new VIS2, but the hierachical display didn’t work on some of the tables. Rewrote so that the system uses recursion
• Meetings
• I had more to add, but my computer sized up yesterday and rebooted on me.

7:30 -4:00

• Ingested data
• Yesterday I got most of the hierarchical decomposition of column headers into a tree view. Need to make that work with BaseQueryWidget. Done.
• Integrating with Dong’s code – done

7:30 – 3:30

• Ingested data
• Sent out the new URL to the S2F folks
• Had a chat with John about bringing him up to speed on the VIS2 system. Wednesday or Thursday AM
• Working on getting a tree view of column headers where prefixes match – Mostly working in sandbox