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Adilas.biz Developer's Notebook Report - 5/1/2019 to 5/31/2019 - (54)
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Shop 4613 Adilas Time 5/1/2019  

Talking with Wayne about triggering specific Lambda functions out in AWS to help with clean-up, logging, image manipulation, and backend processes. We may need to add some code to help keep things in line and fully up to date.

Eric jumped on and we talked about some math on showing discount math for some reports. We want to make the discount section more visible and searchable. We are starting to get more client requests to be able to run certain reports at certain points in time. As a matter of fact, they even want to get down to the hour, minute, etc. for these reports. It reminded me of a 3D calendar type idea. We even went out and looked at some old mock-up images.

Light talks about regex and regular expressions and interpreting those values. That always gets a little bit deep and sometimes funky.

 
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Shop 4630 General 5/1/2019  

Emails, prep, and other stuff.

 
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Shop 4620 Adilas Time 5/2/2019  

Wayne jumped in and gave us a small demo of where he is at with the images. That seems like it has been a little bit crazy, trying to switch things over to AWS. The old way used ColdFusion and physically uploaded an image. Once the image was uploaded, it resized, renamed, and moved the images around where needed. The new process has to take the image, upload it to a single spot, then tweak it and save it out to an S3 bucket that is somewhat floating in the cloud. Not as stable (physical) as the old way, but eventually will be more powerful.

Dustin and I were working on some JQuery stuff for his pages. We ended up going back to a super simple test page type scenario to work on the pieces. It is amazing how if you take a super complicated piece and break it down to bare bones, you can play with it and learn vs getting completely overwhelmed. That is the value of a small test page.

Eric came on to the meeting and wanted to add a small form filter to one of the reports. No big deal, right? Well, he wanted the sales reports to be able to filter by customer type id (this is not a direct table value - we had to join other tables and then run custom filters). We also had to deal with form values, URL values, validation, flip/flopping between page scopes, drill-down links, button code, and other pages and tweaks. He had no clue that it would go that deep. We spent the next 1.5 hours following all of the cause/effect relationships for just adding a single form field.

 
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Shop 4633 two key features that need a bigger presence 5/2/2019  

The part_category_id and the customer_type_id fields need a bigger presence. Both of those fields have proved to be major sections in multiple places. Currently, we only record those fields in certain places (true one-to-many database logic). However, to help with certain reports, it would be so helpful if we were to cascade those values to those sub tables. It would save so many links and table joins. It would also allow for faster grouping based off a single table vs joining multiple tables and then showing the same results (heavier load). Anyways, those two fields have been huge system dividers and things that people want to filter and search by. Interesting.

 
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Shop 4584 Meet with Shannon 5/2/2019  

Recording notes and verbage about different user guide topics. We talked about saved reports, save report favorites, group level settings, page level settings, sub inventory (parent/child inventory), support, users, texts, emails, reminders, and communications.

 
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Shop 4632 Elevele: eCommerce sub inventory 5/2/2019  

Working with Bryan on sub inventory and getting the searches correct. It gets really deep if you search by sub attributes and then try to go back up hill to subs (child inventory) and then up hill further to parent inventory. Pretty deep. Lots of drawing and looking at data structures and database schemas.

 
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Shop 4610 Adilas Time 5/6/2019  

I joined the morning meeting a little bit late today. I had to get my vehicle into the shop. When I got on, there were 5 guys on the call.

Eric had some questions about sub inventory API sockets and 3rd party integrations. We looked into the need for more web/API documentation. After that, Alan reported on his current USAePay stuff. He is working on more automated features, syncing data between adilas and USAePay. We also talked about some chip reading options and where we want to head in that arena. See attached for some of his research.

Wayne joined in and gave us a small update on the image storage process out in the AWS land. He is making more progress and getting things transferred over and fixed.

Josh had some questions about adding in icons and/or color coding for line items that are getting low (re-order help).

Steve and I were talking about our business model and our business plan. We had a great brainstorming meeting a couple of weeks ago and really came up with a good plan that works for us. Good stuff. Here is a link to that brainstorming meeting. https://data0.adilas.biz/top_secret/time_web_gallery.cfm?corp=748&id=4574

One of the things we are doing right now is trying to create loose bonds (like an organism) between different parties that can help and perform certain functions. Certain parties really want us to have a hard/fixed plan and an employee/employer type model. We are trending towards the independent and dependable type model. Much more loose, but it fits our style and objectives. It just takes longer to get where we are headed. Anyways, just some notes and ideas.

I got a call from Eric and we talked about some date specific sub inventory reports and where to find existing reports that are date specific for parent inventory and what we may be able to adapt. It just keeps going.

 
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Shop 4635 Code sign-off 5/6/2019  

Back working on the code sign-off for the sub special account tracking project (customer loyalty points, gift cards, in-store credit, etc.).

Got a call from Bryan and we had to jump onto the SWC dedicated server to check on a database problem. We found a locked table and had to reset the database server.

 
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Shop 4606 Adilas Time 5/7/2019  

Wayne had some questions about some of the photo galleries. Especially on the stock/units and general inventory items (things that you sell either smaller widgets and/or serialized or bigger inventory items). Wayne is going through the code and taking code that is very repetitive and pulling it into custom tags and then doing some mappings to get to those tags. Lots of little tweaks to help speed things up and actually use some of the browser caching as part of the solution vs trying to force an auto refresh every time. Making good progress.

Steve and I had a small meeting about what we wanted to cover with Calvin in an upcoming meeting. As a random side note, we have to monitor time lines, budgets, and bang for our bucks (return on investment - ROI). We also talked a lot about education and how training and education keep playing into the mix. They are some of the easiest pieces to leave out, but they are critical for better turn over and long term usage and retention. Good conversations.

 
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Shop 4634 Meeting with Calvin 5/7/2019  

Questions for Calvin:

- What/when on your time lines and load? Timing and budgets.

- Having a hard time getting them setup (login credentials and who gets to do what)

- Charging for the adilas label builder wizard setup - once they get through... they can go far, it is just hard on the frontend

- How can we get this more inside the system? Maybe move more towards the web and setting things up that way. We need to simplify the frontend. Instead of full API credentials, maybe just check their username and permissions (web-based). Maybe going in doing some research. What is the next level.

- Maybe fill out a form and then send that to Calvin vs just an email

- 3rd party solution stuff - security

- Custom formats - currency, decimals, med date, sm date, long date, time 12, time 24, integer, other

- Being able to nudge selected fields with arrow keys - currently just drag and drop

- We need access to core sub inventory and sub attributes  - this could be a major challenge - super dynamic - on the PO side, invoice side, cart side, and normal part side

- bulk print from the cart (session stuff) - Crazy mixing pot - People are used to printing from here, but maybe we need to make it easier on the finished invoice side. How can we make it easier to get to?

- As some point, we will need flex grid values, vendor info, store/location info (could come later) - maybe even being able to mix some of these things.

- At some point, we may also need access to parent attributes (could come later)

- Audience questions... common user, tech user, designer, programmer - How do we select and train them - Ideally, we would like to have one person per corp that could do labels.

- Defining the database terms and fields

- Videos and other training materials

 
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Shop 4636 Meeting with Mike and team Herbo 5/7/2019  

Meeting with Mike Rountree, Jim Dougal, Tim Lyons, Gannon, Steve Berkenkotter, and Brandon Moore - Team Herbo

- Looking at options to help do a white label and see what market share they could get to and/or grab

- From seed (starting) clear out to general ledger (full backend/frontend accounting and financials)

- Working with Cory as an adilas rep/consultant

- There are three different things that need to be implemented together

- They have clients in the CBD category - raw material providers, internal manufacturing, packing, distributing, retail, lots of supply chain things, marketing and sales

- They have a distribution category

- They have a retail category

- How do we scope a project? You start on paper. You make a plan, you know the tools that exists, you see what matches, what doesn't, where do you start, and what are the priorities? It comes back to a plan. This could be a flow chart, diagrams, whitepapers, other documentation. It really helps if you have someone who knows Adilas and what tools are available and what tools can flex and change by default. That really helps.

- Some of the tools are different corporations (different worlds), multiple locations within your worlds, what key players (12 main players) play into that model, etc. Steve was also talking about parent/child inventory relationships. Lots of mixing and blending between the things.

- Builds, transfers, phases, locations, sub locations, etc.

- White labeling allows for custom pages and custom code - We have white label theme levels (multi or group level) as well as custom black box code (per corporation or per world). We can customize almost anything. This includes show, hide, look and feel, logic, toggle switches, flow process, requirements, validation, reporting, ect. We use the phrase you dream it up, we'll help you wire it up.

- Cory is great consultant that really knows Adilas. At some point, you will need someone on your teams that really plays the other part of the puzzle. You have to know the client and the solution. Then you mix them together to get results.

- Bring up questions... they aren't good or bad, they are just questions. Get them out there and then see what is needed (easy, medium, more complex)

- Herbo will create some diagrams of what they need and how they want things to play (processes) - Here is the world and here is how the players need to interact

- Training and content - Who owns what, who builds what, who does what? Also, what about passing training and content back and forth? Adilas is willing to provide any thing that we have through database exports, Excel, CSV, XML, JSON.

- Tim had some great questions on the backend stack and server climate. We recommended that he get with Wayne Andersen to get all of the details. Tim has a vast knowledge of backend operations and servers.

- Herbo will be working on some flow charts, processes, etc. They will have a virtual meeting of the minds and making any plans that are possible.

- On the Adilas side, Steve will be working with Cory to help with any deeper consulting info. Steve is a master planner and knows the system front to back and what is possible.

 
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Shop 4586 Meet with Shannon 5/7/2019  

Quick meeting with Shannon to touch base and talk about where we are at. She is working on education and training content. Both for the user guide and general research on certain topics.

Paying bills and tightening things up. General to do list stuff.

 
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Shop 4616 Adilas Time 5/13/2019  

I was gone for a couple of days. Most of the morning meeting was doing some catch up and getting back into the groove. We had a number of different developers pop in and give us updates. We had Dustin, Josh, Alan, Wayne, Eric, and Steve each give some reports. We answered some basic questions and then got to work.

Shari O. and Drea were also on the call. They let us know about a tech support issue that needed some loving (small error or bug). I then started to work on that bug. It was dealing with sub inventory attributes and being able to dynamically search by the attributes. The value in question was N11 (meaning the 11th numeric field). The old code had 20 custom text fields, 10 custom date fields, and 10 custom numeric fields. We are expanding it to allow up to 100 custom text fields, 100 custom date fields, and 100 custom numeric fields. That is just a number so that we keep it in check, technically, it could be pushed further, we are just taking smaller steps.

 
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Shop 4640 Code review with Eric 5/13/2019  

Eric and I jumped on a meeting and went over some code that he needed to push up to the master code branch. The new code included some customer type filters for sales reports and some new grouped totals based on discount campaigns and customer types. We pushed up new code to all servers.

 
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Shop 4637 Patriot Care: Sub attributes 5/13/2019  

I met with Bryan and we went over 3 different projects. They were dealing with how to treat the Herbo whitelabel  stuff, options for filtering sub inventory attributes, and Full Circle API socket integration and some strategy on that project.

 
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Shop 4607 Adilas Time 5/14/2019  

On the morning meeting with the guys. Wayne had a small report for us. We need to tweak some of the big settings tables and pare them down a bit. They have a number of big varchar (text) fields and become too big. Eric jumped on and had 4 small merge requests for some of his past code. We made the changes and updated all servers.

Recording notes from yesterday and then back onto some dynamic sub inventory attribute search options. Pushed up new files and light tech support.

 
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Shop 4639 Light database updates 5/14/2019  

Wayne jumped on the morning meeting and we were talking about a few of the bigger database tables. The two big tables are the corporations and the afb settings. Huge amounts of varchar (text) type entries. We need to split those tables and/or reorganize them. Small little maintenance project.

 
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Shop 4642 General 5/14/2019  

Catching up on emails and light tech support. Did some work on a logo for a client.

 
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Shop 4581 Meet with Shannon 5/14/2019  

Shannon and I got on and had some fun talking about life and different adventures. Not a lot of major work but it was really fun. We had a small session and went over our direction on getting new content for the adilas user guide.

After my meeting with Shannon, I finished up some graphics, uploaded them, did a number of emails, and called and chatted with Steve. He is trying to get some data from a dynamic page that the user controls. He is working on some manufacturing stuff with an emphasis on the production side of the manufacturing and factoring quantities backwards into outputs. Fun math stuff.

 
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Shop 4612 Adilas Time 5/15/2019  

Pretty quite meeting this morning. Dustin checked in and then bailed out. Alan jumped on and gave me a small report. We also spent some time looking at the custom tables for holding sub inventory attributes. We talked about some possible rework options and helping that process. We logged into a server and looked around at database activity, column counts, row counts, and basic database stuff.

I got back on the code review and code sign-off for the special account tracking project. This deals with things like customer loyalty points, gift cards, in-store credit, etc.

 
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Shop 4638 Working with Josh 5/15/2019  

Josh and I met up over the GoToMeeting session. He is working on some custom inventory alerts and warnings for reorder quantities and levels. We had to figure out where the existing page settings were coming in and how then to incorporate his new settings. We setup another time for tomorrow.

After that, I went back to working on the code review and sign-off for the special account tracking project.

 
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Shop 4641 White label push 5/15/2019  

Bryan and I pushed and merged in some code for Herbo and Dutchie - 3rd party solutions. We also started looking into a quote line item search. Bryan took an advanced invoice line item method and was trying to adapt it for quote line items. They are very similar, but it has a few other tweaks that make it unique.

 
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Shop 4617 Adilas Time 5/16/2019  

On the morning meeting with Steve, Eric, and Dustin. Steve had a couple of questions about some new logic that he was building. It was dealing with looping over the form scope and getting counts and counters from that process. After that, Eric had a number of questions. We talked about adding in drill-down links to the new sales numbers on the daily/weekly sales summary pages. We then got into some needs on the API socket side of things. We needed to expand one API to include the web long description as well as add some samples and documentation to other API sockets. That whole section still needs a little bit of loving.

Eric and I started actually doing some of the work on the API sockets and pushed up a couple of small changes. Making progress, slowly but surely.

 
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Shop 4643 Meeting with Josh 5/16/2019  

Working with Josh on some inventory controls. He has made a small feature that allows for category level thresholds. The code then checks the shopping cart and shows small warning icons if getting close to the quantity thresholds. We did some code review and pushed some files. We will link it into the main system later on.

 
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Shop 4587 Meet with Shannon 5/16/2019  

Working with Shannon on adilas user guide content. We were adding things for financials and accounting.

 
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Shop 4644 Working with Steve on the balance sheet 5/16/2019  

Steve and I were working on a balance sheet question and scenario. We were trying to document the flow of a transitional invoice like a work in progress (wip), a pre-paid invoice, or a layaway invoice. They all follow similar formats. We have some code that has been added clear back (like 10 years ago) but just checking to make sure all was booked and accounted for correctly. In a way, it was kinda fun to go backwards and take a small trip down memory lane.

 
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Shop 4615 Adilas Time 5/20/2019  

Getting started for a new week. Dustin, Wayne, Alan, Steve and I were on the meeting. We got some quick reports from the guys and then they all jumped off and started working on their own projects. Wayne is working on splitting up the corporations table. It has almost 400 fields or columns. That's a big table with tons of settings. Alan was talking about some of the automation with merchant processing and USAePay. We also talked about maybe holding the corp-wide settings in the session scope and maybe even storing some of the sessions in a JSON type object.

Steve and I had a good conversation about the transition over to AWS and all of the changes that are happening. There are lots of exciting things but there are also some unknowns. We were talking about back-up plans, what would it take it we had to make a turn this way or that way, etc. Lots of what if's and trying to look objectively at what is coming down the pipeline. I did a lot of drawing and tried to explain what changes I know about and how I interpret those changes. I think that helped, but we are still going to contact Wayne and try to get some more information and/or make a good plan.

Eric popped in and we worked on some API socket connections. He has a new project that he is working on that is a 3rd party solution that wants to integrate with adilas and get certain sales data passed back to them, based on who signs up for their services. We did some prep work, found some good examples and handrails (code and logic samples), and started building an outside scratch file to do some testing. In the scratch file, we were only pulling in the minimal requirements and pieces. A great start.

 
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Shop 4648 General 5/20/2019  

Email, paying bills, and writing an email to Wayne about AWS and transition planning between existing servers and new AWS cluster servers.

 
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Shop 4646 Randomized PO numbers cart_3.cfm 5/20/2019  

Working with Bryan on some cross corp queries that check for sales in different systems and crisscross sales numbers to make sure that someone doesn't exceed limits by store hopping. We also looked into some multi click data migration process and what options are available through web or server-side code looping through a queue of sorts.

 
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Shop 4619 Adilas Time 5/21/2019  

Steve and I were on the meeting. Most of the time was spent working on our own projects. I was working on a cart level percentage calculator to help with adding in percentage based fees and other percentage based items.

 
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Shop 4649 Meeting with Wayne 5/21/2019  

Wayne and Eric jumped into the morning meeting. We went over a few things with Wayne and got a better idea of some timelines and what to expect with the transition over to AWS. Still lots of unknowns, but making progress. We also talked about some contingency plans and how fast we could switch gears if needed. See attached for a few new notes (bottom page with a date of 5/21/19).

After Wayne left, Eric had some questions about some of his current projects. Eric is very good at doing custom work and also trying to help circle the wagons and help people get onboard the main platform vs always doing the custom one-off jobs. Good stuff.

Steve and I chatted about using technology to help us promote our products and then also using technology to help promote the services and byproducts that get produced from the main adilas system and/or platform. The byproducts are amazing and we have some folks generating $10,000 to $20,000 a month, by themselves, just off of the byproducts and services. We want to keep pushing things more and more out to the open marketplace. We briefly talked about the adilas marketplace, the adilas café, and adilas world. Lots of options to get those power users more jobs and options to sell their skills and services.

At the end of the meeting, Josh popped in and had some git repository questions. Small session helping him get his stuff in order.

 
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Shop 4645 Working with Josh 5/21/2019  

Got on with Josh and helped him get some of his new inventory level warnings linked in and merged into the master code branch. We pushed up the new code, light testing, and setup some other work sessions. After that, I spent a little bit of time recording notes and doing some clean-up from the morning sessions.

 
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Shop 4582 Meet with Shannon 5/21/2019  

Getting user guide content for balance sheet items and different types of balance sheet items. We also went into some adilas theory on accounting.

 
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Shop 4651 sub inventory report 5/21/2019  

Talking to Bryan about a custom export report for sub inventory. Mostly strategy and concepts.

 
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Shop 4652 General 5/21/2019  

Working on a new percentage calculator for the cart. Lots of JavaScript to help the flow of the data. The new page will be part of the basic add special line item to the cart.

 
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Shop 4609 Adilas Time 5/22/2019  

Just Dustin and I on the morning meeting this morning. We talked about some of our adventures and shared some photos and stories. Fun stuff. After that, we split up and started working on our own projects. I was working on the percentage calculation page and using the new calculations in populating an add item to cart page. Finished up the percentage calculation project and pushed up new files. I also updated help files and cascaded changes to all servers. See the gallery for a couple of screen shots.

 
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Shop 4653 General 5/22/2019  

Helped Bryan with a query question. He had a list of strings (text entries) and needed to filter those values in a database query. I pointed him to a list qualify function and that got him going.

Working on the balance sheet and making sure that the transitional invoices (work in progress or wip invoices) were shown correctly on the balance sheet. As part of this project, I went through almost 2,000 lines of code and wrote out small little notes on what happens during the process. I'm looking for possible disconnects and ways of tweaking things to make sure everything lines up. Pretty deep.

 
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Shop 4614 Adilas Time 5/23/2019  

Interesting turn towards the financial end of things. Steve reported that he had a great meeting yesterday doing some deep financials and balance sheet stuff. He was talking about internal builds, internal payments, flex grid, reflexive side of the flex grid, elements of time, etc. Lots of tools to help thread the story all together and have everything show up and flow through the whole P&L and balance sheet. As a side note, I was in deep yesterday on the backend balance sheet code as well. Kinda fun and interesting.

Steve and Dustin were working on cultivation stuff, while I was burning back-up DVD's. I have to upgrade my laptop and need to have all of my files backed up.

Steve and I were talking about education, training, and options that exist there. Adilas creates so many opportunities and virtual byproducts. At some point, someone will pick up some of these opportunities and virtual byproducts and run with it. Good for them and they will be able to make it. That is awesome.

 
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Shop 4647 Meeting with Tim at herbo 5/23/2019  

Tim Lyons from Herbo was online with Steve and I. His goal in meeting with us to get to a working process. He was talking about sub assemblies (recipe/builds) and then building and mixing a number of those pieces. He would like to add the operational costs as he goes through the process.

Steve was talking about how adilas tracks all of the internal production stuff. He is really working hard on the production stuff. Just like cultivation, he is out pioneering pieces, and then he will turn it over to someone else to really tweak it out. Fun process.

Steve showed a small demo on his existing production home page. He was doing parent/child inventory tracking, extractions, internal build, RFID tags, unique batches, subs, sub attributes, etc. He was talking about elements of time, time based reporting, phases, sub locations, etc. It got into alerts, lots of time based reports, stages, phases, steps, etc. It got into concepts and tools and what is pre-programmed and what could be configured. Steve was talking about transfer invoices, external reference, combining quantities, and all kinds of good stuff. His demo was using his local environment. Lots of talking back and forth. Good conversation.

We were showing 5 decimals of accuracy, distributing cost of goods sold, pulling and pushing quantities, etc. Steve was bouncing between parents, child inventory, elements of time, PO's, category level options, etc. It got into parent attributes, aggregated recipe/builds, processes, SGA costs, distributed accounting, distribution models, trucks, product transfers, chain of custody, detailed tracking, GPS, Google maps, custom stuff, and all kinds of crazy details.

One of the next steps is going to be setting up parent inventory items and then figuring out the flow process.

Towards the end, Steve had to leave. Tim and I jumped into some other corporations and looked around at real data. We looked at corp-specific flow, a corporation with a number of sub locations and sub entities, and some of the automated reporting that is available for both cross-corp or internal reporting. We also looked at usage reports, quick sales reports, switching between different corps, and using the quick search to get around.

 
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Shop 4656 Working with Eric 5/23/2019  

Eric and I got on a GoToMeeting session and went over a number of projects. Some are on track and a couple are somewhere in the middle. As a side note, more and more clients are wanting deeper sub inventory reports, filters, and exports. We are hearing this from multiple sources. The other thing that we are hearing is a demand for adilas to fund and pay for all of the new development and documentation. Some of the demands are ridiculous but none the less, they still exist. Kinda funny in a way. Our plan is to keep going as fast and well as we are able. If someone wants or needs us to go faster or in a different route, we flip it to custom and they need to pay for that development and/or project management. There is only 24 hours in a day and we need to divide and balance resources as needed. That is all we can do.

 
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Shop 4583 Meet with Shannon 5/23/2019  

Adding new user guide content for adilas theory, roll call accounting principles, and other account concepts.

 
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Shop 4655 Full Circle: push code 5/23/2019  

Bryan joined the meeting and we were looking at a mixed filtering by sub attributes for sub inventory. Pretty deep. See attached for some of our brainstorming. In the end, we decided to go a different direction, but this was progress to make some decisions. Good stuff.

 
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Shop 4618 Adilas Time 5/27/2019  

On the morning meeting with Steve. We did some quick catch-up and then onto our different projects. Dustin popped in and out. Wayne had a couple of questions. We need to make the main login more session based, in order for the code to transfer better out to AWS (amazon web services) land. After that, Josh jumped on a had some code repository questions. I then took some time and built in a session corporation key as part of the main login process. I'm hoping that will help out Wayne with his AWS transition stuff. We also set up some additional time for tomorrow.

Basic to do list stuff and emails.

 
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Shop 4605 Adilas Time 5/28/2019  

Doing some database and code backups. Prepping some information for the adilas user guide. Today we are going to be talking about old school accounting vs new school accounting and how adilas plays into that topic.

 
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Shop 4657 Working with Wayne on the database 5/28/2019  

We are seeing a need to add an adilas URL (web address) on a per corp level vs on a per server level. Currently, most of our redirect options are all based on a per server basis. Also, we may need to go back in and change some of the existing links and hardcoded web links.

- We need some options for manual load balancing.

- Wayne was showing us his custom functions and how he is combining code into custom tags.

- We also talked about some of the aliases and how certain field names show up. As a side note, we will have to update our API socket documentation to note some of those changes.

- Wayne has been doing some mappings to certain relative and fully expanded paths.

- Lots of simplifying code and things. There is still tons to do, but we are starting to make progress.

- Having a centralized spot to help Wayne know about errors and/or issues with the transition to AWS.

- We need a community based process that allows us to publish wiki type information, definitions, best practices, etc. We may even want some of this wiki info to be automatically generated. We need to keep things up to date to make it relative and productive. As a side note, Wayne has setup and contributed to wiki type things and has some know how there. He will be a great resource on that stuff.

- Ways of harnessing the skills and knowledge to help others. Letting people be part of a cause and participating to the overall adilas community.

- Steve would really like the adilas users to have options to play, work, participate in the adilas community, learn, train, sales, place for their stuff, participate in the marketplace, sell their skills, contribute, etc. This could be part of the adilas marketplace, adilas world, the adilas café, etc. Lots of options.

- Being able to share our knowledge with others. Helping to speed up the process.

- Steve popped in and was saying that maybe we could use our WordPress and/or our news and updates section. We also have help files, web/API socket documentation, developer's notebook, user guides, elements of time, etc. We have also made and created a number of self contained PDF files with specific topics. We would like to make sections for developers (super techy), users (definitions, help files, tutorials, etc.), reps/consultants, community, and other sub sets.

- Currently, there is a deficit on the training and education side of things. We may end up going in and checking stats on some of the older inactive adilas users and see who did what. We also need to open up the adilas market and adilas café to all of the users who have some great and awesome skills and skill sets. That is a great way to even out our tri-facto model of clients/users, system, and education stuff.

- Steve was seeing and talking about co-founders of adilas. It doesn't come from just one person. It comes from a community effort.

Towards the end of the meeting, Brandon went back to doing some prep work on the adilas user guide. As part of that process, he spent some time reading an old history bio from the adilas team. See attached for a copy of the bio. It has a publish date of 2011. Lots of fun info.

 
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Shop 4660 Backing up files 5/28/2019  

Burning database files and code back-ups. Emails.

 
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Shop 4585 Meet with Shannon 5/28/2019  

Working with Shannon on adilas user guide content. The subject for the day was old school accounting vs new school accounting. We only got some content written on the old school side (classic double-entry accounting). We went over journals, journal entries, ledgers, t-accounts, chart of accounts, batching, posting, and reports such as income statement (P&L - profit and loss), and the balance sheet. Shannon has all of the content. As soon as it is ready, we will post it in an element of time.

I had Wikipedia open and was doing a number of different searches:

Christopher Columbus - sailed the ocean blue in 1492 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

Luca Pacioli - father of accounting - published a math text book with rules for double-entry accounting called "Summa de Arithmetica" in 1494 (2 years after Columbus). - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Pacioli

double-entry accounting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_system

We didn't get to it... but this was an article that we (adilas) wrote back in 2011, it has a number of different key features and shows some of the changes in newer or more modern day accounting (new school accounting). This is a 6-page document that is more in historical story type format, but a fun read. - https://data0.adilas.biz/adilas_history_bio.pdf

 
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Shop 4658 Push code with Dustin 5/28/2019  

Got with Dustin and helped to do some code review and code merging. Got all of the new files (all in the custom folder) merged in and pushed online. He is doing a great job and I really thank him for his efforts. He is super easy to work with. That helps a ton. Good stuff.

 
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Shop 4611 Adilas Time 5/29/2019  

Wayne and Dustin were on this morning. Wayne had some questions about logos, images, and look and feel stuff. We got over to the AWS stuff and did some testing. Only certain users were working on the new stuff. We re-flipped things back to the data 0 box and he will do some more debugging and testing. We lightly postponed our active testing until another day.

 
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Shop 4659 Upgrading my local environment 5/29/2019  

I spent all afternoon upgrading my local environment from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Tons of updates, restarts, reboots, etc. The goal is to get Windows 10, ColdFusion 2018, and MySQL 8 up and running on my local machine. In reality, it took from 11 am to 7 pm, but not all of that time was productive. Install and wait, install and wait, flip some settings, wait, etc.

 
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Shop 4608 Adilas Time 5/30/2019  

Talking with Wayne about setting up and storing logos, alternate logos, watermarks, header logos, footer logos, etc. There are tons of options and some of the code is all over the place. Wayne is worried about the stop and go type mentality that we seem to be following. Sometimes some of the stress is by thinking and requiring certain things (some of which are out of control) of yourself.

Alan, Steve, Wayne, and I were on the morning meeting. Alan was trying to help encourage Wayne and help him keep going. Sometimes it gets really tough in the trenches.

After the meeting. I started to prep some stuff to help Wayne with the images stuff. Alan was in town (normally he lives in Arizona) and came by. We talked for a bit and got caught up. We then had a small session on what is happening and where to focus. Alan is going to be helping with some developer education stuff and also looking into refactoring sub inventory. That is a huge piece of the puzzle. I sent him a couple of files. He will be looking into things and then proposing a plan. We aren't going to just start working on things, we want to get a proposal and plan in place and then go for it. That should be good and will be fun. Much needed.

 
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Shop 4650 Working with Josh 5/30/2019  

Met up with Josh. He had a number of questions and just needed some direction. Some were dealing with his discount engine and resetting form values. Changing from limited text fields to bigger volume text fields (varchars to actual text fields - 255 characters to 65,000 characters of capacity). Some of his include and exclude lists are hitting the 255 character limits.

We also talked about some JavaScript functions to resort output, tables by column heading, and reusing datatables and code snippets. We also talked about ways of storing huge amounts of historical data. This is especially true on his discount engine stuff and what is needed for the audit trail on those pieces. I showed him how we are grabbing all inbound arguments when editing a location with tax settings and how we store those values in a big date stamped JSON object. Last of all, we talked about some other custom reports and how to help those reports show up for specific clients and corporations (different worlds). Great meeting.

Back on stuff for Wayne to help prep some info about corporation logos and watermarks (look and feel stuff).

 
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Shop 4580 Meet with Shannon 5/30/2019  

Brandon & Shannon working on Section 11 - Financials & Accounting on the User Guide. Uploaded document with the content we have created up to today. 

 
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Shop 4661 Sal and Ham code 5/30/2019  

Meeting with Bryan to go over a number of projects. He had me merge in some code for him. He had some questions and wanted to run a few things by me. A lot of his projects are dealing with items and sub inventory out in ecommerce. He is also doing a number of custom search projects that deal with non category specific searches and exports for sub inventory. Our clients keep wanting more and more reports and exports, especially in the sub inventory arena.

At the end of the day, I finished up some logo and watermark info for Wayne. See attached. Nothing major.