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Adilas.biz Developer's Notebook Report - 6/1/2010 to 6/30/2010 - (26)
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AU 146 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/1/2010 |
• Finished up the reverse tax calcs and posted files online. • On the phone with Steve and an associate going over things. • Went into a business and helped with training. 10 miles. • Showed an associate new features. • Worked on and launched the apply discount form and button from the profit and discount calculator. • New point of sale corp-wide settings. |
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AU 147 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/2/2010 |
• Went in to a business and spent a lot of time going over PO’s and ordering parts. Spent time training and going over flow and inventory management. 10 miles. • Working on new corp-wide settings for point of sale, barcodes and customer web options. • Posted a new FLV movie online for a company’s site. |
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AU 148 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/3/2010 |
• Went to BV to work with an associate on the balance sheet and financial flow calculator. 50 miles. • Went in to a business, worked on receiving an order and doing PO’s and parts inside of adilas. 10 miles. • Light training for some associates on recipes/builds. • Worked on new corp-wide settings. |
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AU 149 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/4/2010 |
• Went in to a business and worked with clients. Took a look at the store and did a rough vendor to item count. We still need almost 3,000 items to be up and running. We already have close to 2,500 items in the application. Worked on corp-wide settings. 10 miles. • New logos for a company. Posted files online. • Worked on corp-wide settings. • Worked on the default printable invoice and default barcode size settings. Added a new hide/show (printer friendly) link to the printable PO page. |
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AU 168 |
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Daily Ideas | 6/4/2010 | -Transitional payment showing up as part of the balance sheet. | |
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AU 150 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/5/2010 |
• More corp-wide setting work. • Worked on the customer web settings, show/hide prices, show/hide extra contact info and the return address link. • Worked on the barcode quick cart setting for active shopping carts. |
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AU 151 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/7/2010 |
• Went in to a company and helped do data entry for parts. 10 miles. • Worked on corp-wide settings for the number of payment options and quick cash sale on cart checkouts. |
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AU 152 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/8/2010 | • Went in to a company. Worked on data entry and orders that had arrived. Learned quite a bit about the seasonal nature of retail industry. Took some good notes. 10 miles. | |
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AU 169 |
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Daily Ideas | 6/8/2010 | -Ideas for recording change due: Need amount given, invoice amount, change due. | |
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AU 153 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/9/2010 | • Went in to a company. Entered incoming items and migrated 3,000+ items for one of their big vendors. 10 miles. | |
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AU 154 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/10/2010 | • Worked on corp-wide settings and changing color for the disabled fields from white and grey to light blue and black. | |
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AU 155 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/11/2010 |
• On the phone with a customer going over writing a check and expense/receipts. • Went in to a company, worked with some associates on data entry stuff. 10 miles. |
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AU 156 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/12/2010 |
• Small tweak for a company website. Took off the American Express logo for the shopping cart. • Working on corp-wide settings. Changed the customer log field size from 255 characters to 65,000 characters. • Worked on the quick cash checkout process. • Uploading and testing files. |
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AU 157 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/14/2010 |
• Went in to a company, showed some of our new features. Did some catalog data entry. 10 miles. • Went back in to this company, more data entry and uploaded items. Helped with incoming orders and prep work. 10 miles. • On the phone with Steve going over new corp-wide settings and getting caught up on direction and options. |
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AU 158 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/15/2010 |
• On the phone with a customer. Going over questions and future potential. • Called a customer about save as PDF option. • Went in to a company, worked with entering orders and data entry. 10 miles. |
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AU 159 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/16/2010 |
• Went in to a company. Helped get some associates working on receiving live orders. • Worked on code for adding the PO quantity to the add/edit parts page. • Also increased the display size of the barcode generator. 10 miles. • An associate came over and we did some brainstorming on adilas tutorials and how to widen the bottle neck and create a small patch using video tutorials. • Worked on some adilas help files. |
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AU 192 |
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Daily Ideas | 6/16/2010 |
IDEAS FOR SCHOOL - Dynamic – multi people contribute – approval process – standard upload checklists. - Tied together – Help files/related videos - Short – 30 seconds ideal, 2 min max - 30 seconds length on …. Topic - Wrapper and watermark - Em-bed code? - Train the trainers? - Text script for search engines - Ratings/levels – permissions colors - Comments – monitored - # views? - Searchable/categorized – i.e. invoices/PO’s/ER’s/etc. - Topic - category - sub category - details - Keep is simple stupid! - Standardized beginning (ending?) - Training notes - Video/screen capture/audio/animations - Theory – sign on , clock in/out – time, carts, parts - Application – PO’s, invoices, barcodes, inventory - Manage - Incorporate - Layout navigation/orientation – introduction to topics - Widen the bottle neck! - Crunching video on fly? - Software – wink, snag-it, video editing, DimDim - Compression - Bottlenecks – where are they and how to open it? - Audience: Business owner, employees, accountants. Managers, casual browser, shopper, consultants, attorneys, reps - Competition: investors, “I.T.” people – web service, education system – teachers, students (business/accounting classes) - Advertising: target markets – smaller businesses - Fear – Brandon “isn’t ready” for mass market - Short term goals: page for training videos, always looking for ways to widen bottleneck(s) Ability to Morph - Web basics - Log in/out - Password and profile - Clock in/out – view hours - Quick Search - Basic navigation within adilas - Main homepage – sub homepage – task or reports - Keyboard short cuts - Inventory coming in: stock/units, parts and general items, customer parts or services - Location and tax settings - Corp-wide settings - Users and permissions - Banks and check write settings - Vendors - Customers - Payroll - PO’s – all different types – naming? - Invoices – all different types - Quotes - Expense/Receipts - Deposits - Barcodes and barcode scanners - Calculators: finance, profit and discount, financial flow - Accounts Receivable - Accounts Payable - P & L - Balance sheet - Photo and document management - Customer log - Histories - Search inventory: stock/units, parts - Advanced search techniques - Using multiple windows - Using dual screens - Merchant processing - Pre-built customer web pages - Flex grid - Reoccurring billing - Admin time clock - Global mark-up tools - Point of sale - Sales taxes - Customizing interface – naming, colors, logo, etc. Concise – Video help files - 1 – opening browser window - 1 – back and forward - 2 – Ctrl + F – find, edit/find - 1 – links, drop down menus - 1 – address bar - 1 – status bar - 1 – favorites - 1 – super back button - 1 – F11 – full screen - 1 – tabs – windows – alt + tab - 2 – buttons - 1 – min, max, restore - 2 – cut, copy, paste - 2 – print - 2 – Print Screen/Screen capture - Group all keyboard - 2 – title bar - 2 – tab and shift tab – form nav. – toggle |
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AU 160 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/17/2010 |
• An associate came over and we chatted about video tutorials and game plan. • Went into a company to work with some associates. I worked on a digital file, other associates helped out with odd jobs and entering data. 10 miles. • On the phone with Steve talking about YouTube videos and putting up adilas stuff. • Fully adilas backup of all files and databases. Burned a full copy for Steve. |
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AU 161 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/21/2010 |
• On the phone with Steve going over items and progress for the weekend. • Went in to a company twice. Finished up the digital file and migrated items. Started barcoding any items that didn’t have barcodes on them. 20 miles. |
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AU 162 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/22/2010 | • Went in to town with an associate to work at a company in town. I setup the new computer in the front and they printed barcodes on the floor all day. We took the cash register down and they ran on adilas all day selling stuff. Good call on one of them to pull the plug. I also did an hour with their accounting person, we had limited time but it went over well. 10 miles. | |
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AU 170 |
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Daily Ideas | 6/22/2010 |
-Need a new corp-wide setting to help control location specific inventory or no, general inventory pool tracking. From post-it notes: - Darker links on mini - Auto change due calc corp-wide settings for checkout payment options, money types - Gift certificate as a special line item. This could be automated clear to the balance sheet. Use gift certificate as both a special line item and payment rm. Monitor in and out values. - Add some special code to help with “Gift Certificate” as a special line item and Gift Certificate as a money type. - Add state tax withholdings for all 50 states. |
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AU 163 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/23/2010 |
• Migrated 800+ customers and contacts for a customer list. Added a log to the system. • Went in to a company, helped to some training, also worked on some tasks. Started to work on the digital price list. 10 miles. |
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AU 164 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/24/2010 |
• Went in to a company, helped with getting daily numbers. Migrated the electric products, worked on the apply quick discount functionality on the edit cart line item page. 10 miles. • Went back to the company. Launched the apply quick discount pages and helped with new training. Had a special staff meeting after hours to help go over things, good meeting. 10 miles. |
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AU 165 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/25/2010 |
• On the phone with Steve going over things. Talked about progress on the company we’ve been helping and new changes still coming. • Worked on small tweaks and changes. • Went it to a company, worked on the auto calculate change due settings for the shopping cart. 10 miles. |
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AU 166 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/26/2010 | • Posted the auto calculate change due for shopping carts. | |
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AU 167 |
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Daily Tasks | 6/28/2010 |
• Working on the auto calc change due. • Updated all old existing invoices with cash over payments. • Did some prep work on the extended daily/weekly sales report. |
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