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Adilas.biz Developer's Notebook Report - 6/1/2014 to 6/30/2014 - (31)
Photos	Time Id	Color	Title/Caption	Start Date	Notes
	AU 2780		June 2014 Monthly Recap	6/1/2014	We have had multiple developers and interns working on projects this month and some exciting new pieces were added to adilas. A new split cart feature was created and launched this month, which allows users to view and build their shopping cart while having access to their my cart favorite buttons all in the same screen view. A bulk statement creation project was completed this month, allowing users to create statements in bulk plus a variety of other statement features. Another project carried out by an intern developer is the ability to now edit shopping cart line items in bulk and the ability to auto-fill RFID tags for shopping cart line items. Customer log notes and follow-ups can now show up on every calendar view as well as on the web (eCommerce side). The Full Circle Interactive Media API, which has been a project in progress for some time, is ready for clients to start using as a 3rd party solution. This company helps with text marketing, emailing services, and so on. More Merchant processing options continue to become available as the adilas list was updated to now include PayPal, FirstData and Mile High Merchant Group. Another developer created a Shopper App and a new homepage for a trucking company which holds custom settings per user. These projects contribute to exciting future development as adilas will be building more and more features allowing adilas users to personalize their adilas account. Many of the projects cited here were custom projects for adilas users. Custom projects are ongoing, if you have a need contact adilas! Adilas developers are working with clients to make their business functionality dreams become a reality with their adilas. *We hope you are enjoying the adilas developer's notebook! Please utilize and explore the vast search capabilities of adilas to find more information throughout the developer's notebook. For further questions, or help, please feel free to contact us at: support@adilas.biz.

	AU 2346		Daily Tasks	6/2/2014	• Working on showing customer log notes on the elements of time homepage. • Emails and tech support. • On the phone with Steve. We went over our current to do list. We decided to get the content server up and online even if it is not fully wired up. We want people to use it as is. We will circle around to the other pieces as we can. We also talked tons about funding and direction. Our current plan is to shrink and play small for a couple of months. We need to shut down un-needed pieces to help conserve funds. This means outside contract labors, trainers, interns, etc. This isn’t permanent but it is a blow to our current direction and momentum. It kind of hurts the pride a little bit. We are going to try to refocus and bounce and flex as needed. • Setup a new corporation for a client. Called and emailed them to let them know the login details. • My sister called and I chatted with her for an hour about direction and where things are headed. We are going to have to cut her hours as well. That really hurts. She did a great job listening and gave me some great advice. She recommended that I spent some time in prayer and go to the temple. I’m going to take her up on that advice. I’ll go tomorrow morning. That’s a great place to pray and meditate. Another thing that she said was, God has helped you out every other time, He will help you out again. I needed that. • Phone calls and emails. Setup a new email account for my sister. We are going to see if we can’t get her some training and consulting work. • The new intern came over and we worked on some ColdFusion training. We did some review on lists, arrays, and structures. We also lightly touched on conditional logic and loops. He is picking things up. • On the phone helping a client with a label printing issue. I couldn’t get my system to reproduce the same error that she was having. I wasn’t sure what to tell her. • Recording notes. Today was a tough day for me. • Posting new Q&A sessions online for the June training event.

	AU 2347		Daily Tasks	6/3/2014	• Working on adding customer logs to the grouped time results on the elements of time homepage. • On the phone with Steve. We were talking about code for the adilas world project (adilas professionals). Talked about the flex grid and also sub inventory and cost controls. Pieces are making more and more sense. • Paying bills and recording expenses. • Emails and spring cleaning. • The new intern came over. We added customer logs to the calendar and time slot reports for elements of time. At this point, customer log notes and customer follow-ups can be displayed on all four report views of elements of time. After that, we jumped into a small lesson on queries and databases. Good session.

	AU 2350		Daily Ideas	6/3/2014	-My wife is a blessing from the Lord! I’m so thankful for all that she does and continues to do! What a blessing! She has been there through thick and thin, good, bad, ugly, you name it. I couldn’t tell you how many times she has helped me out. A thought, a word, an ear, a hug, a date… all needed and much appreciated. She is an answer to my prayers. I went to the temple seeking an answer. My wife is the answer! -I’ve been thinking more and more about the concept of being wrapped in time. Instead of being a base level principle that things get built on, time may work better as a wrapper. (Sketches – Time as a wrapper – pretend that time is paper or tinfoil – wrap the whole project. Please see scan in photo gallery.) -You are not alone! There are tons of people who can and do help you!

	AU 2348		Daily Tasks	6/4/2014	• Working on the opt in/out settings for marketing and direct customer contact methods. Light clean-up on the customer log notes being shown on the main element of time homepage. Added the option to view log notes and follow-up notes form the backend eCommerce logins. • Helped a developer out with his create bulk statements project. He is getting close to having it done and it just needs a little bit more loving. • Went in to Logan to meet with a guy and have a small interview. He is good at sales, training, and tech stuff (hardware and software). We had a great interview. He is also interested in entrepreneurial stuff. That makes it fun. He is a great guy and I’ve already done some other things with him on a personal level (hiking, climbing, and mountain biking). His dad is a local surgeon in town. 30 miles. • Ran some database updates and posted about 20 new files online. All of the new files were dealing with new customer fields, new log fields, show/hide on the calendar and on the web settings. We also added code to finish up the Full Circle API socket stuff. That is exciting! Posted all new files online.

	AU 2351		Daily Ideas	6/4/2014	-Add save as PDF links to the PO Homepage, Invoice Homepage and the Quote Homepage. Currently, all of these values are only on the printable pages for individual PO’s, invoices, and quotes. Put the new links on the homepages where we could get at that quicker and in bulk.

	AU 2349		Daily Tasks	6/5/2014	• Emailing the guys at Full Circle to let them know about the changes and new code that we added for them. • New graphic logo for a client. • Emails, phone calls, and light tech support. • Fixing a local printer problem and trying to print out checks for interns. The ink cartridge was clogged. • Updating help files for new customer fields and pages. • More work on help files. • On the phone with Steve. I gave him a small update on new code and new pieces that were posted online. We went over some code for the adilas world project. He is making good progress there. We then went off into new and upcoming projects. We talked about the split cart, storing user timeout values, using swipers (badge readers) to help with logins, media/content tie-ins, and some creative just in time funding options. If a new client wants something custom, either bid it out or get them started and then feed that money (monthly fees) directly to the developer until the projects is paid for. • Emails and tech support. • On the phone with a contact talking sales and marketing plan stuff. I mentioned to him about the other guy I met with earlier. We talked about some options there. • Recording notes, phone calls, and talking on the phone with the guy I met with earlier in the week. He called me so I gave him the number for the other contact who is helping with marketing ideas. Pretty crazy. • Updating help files. • Working on new buttons for my cart favorites and being able to do split screen stuff.

	AU 2716		Daily Tasks	6/6/2014	• On the phone with a developer going over his shopper app. • Going through the pages for the shopper app. Reading the code and making a couple of comments. • Working with another developer on his bulk statement creation pages. Adding validation and going over page flow. • Emails. • Playing with Java Script functions for selecting all values. • Working on saving customer page settings for the Shopper App that a developer made. Trying to help make his project more dynamic and reusable. • An intern came over to work on some code. We worked together to help save the custom page settings for the Shopper App. • Working on the code to help store custom page settings per corporation and per user/employee. Light clean-up on the trucker homepage (first page with custom settings).

	AU 3693		Tech - Shopper Questions	6/6/2014	Shopper Questions: - Logo – session, logo, file - Corp key id - Part id for the barcode - How to make it dynamic and setup initial session values - Page title name - Create the shopper setup cfm file & shopper setup action cfm file - Added a link at the end to circle back around - To set things up (each day), to the shopper scan cfm and pass in the setup id # (or corp key id). That will look-up the values stored in the web page settings table. - Check for session logo file & session corp key id & euf

	AU 2717		Daily Tasks	6/7/2014	• Worked on a new logo for a client. Posted the file online. • Working on saving custom page settings. Trying to standardize the process and flow. This functionality is fairly new to us. Working on the trucker homepage and the new Shopper App. Both by our developer out of Salida, CO. Good stuff. • Emails and tech support. • Finishing up the dynamics for the Shopper App. Posted files on all servers and did some testing. • Emails to the developer and Steve about the Shopper app and what changes have been made. • Working on my cart favorite buttons in Flash. Watching videos about Action Script 3.0.

	AU 3694		Tech - Flash & Action Script	6/7/2014	Flash & Action Script: - Public var some name: costing = value; - Public function – function name

	AU 2718		Daily Tasks	6/9/2014	• Working on new my cart favorite buttons to help with a split screen interface. The new buttons need to be able to change target or frames (different windows) vs. the normal page by page flow. Got the new buttons done and posted a number of new pages online. The split screen or split cart is pretty cool and helps make the shopping cart look and feel more like a traditional touch screen POS (Point of Sale) system. Had to add a number of new links and targets to be able to jump in and out of the split screen interface. Added a new section to the news and updates page for the split cart functionality. It feels good to get that piece done.

	AU 3695		Tech - Split Cart	6/9/2014	Split Cart Planning File Names: - Flex target cart favorite button - Flex target group favorite button - Flex target photo cart favorite button - Group type = o 1 = buttons o 2 = grid o 3 = smart groups - Variables to pass in o Use target = “self” - Name or target = list favorites o File by default = POS my cart favorites - Name or target = shopping cart o File by default = view cart - Custom / POS frames cart favorites Post-it Note: Split Cart - Reset page, bail out of split cart, split cart - Button groups – stay on this site, hold a session var to know what to show all others on other side

	AU 2719		Daily Tasks	6/12/2014	• Up at Scout Camp for the week. Reviewing notes and notebooks.

	AU 2720		Daily Tasks	6/16/2014	• On the phone with the developer from Salida. We were talking about RFID tags, his Shopper app, and the first stock number field for stock/units. We also talked about FTP info for sending GPS tracking files for the trucker site. • A developer came over and we talked about his current API socket project for a client. • Emails and tech support. • New logos for clients. • Reviewing code done by a developer for the bulk statement creation process. • Working with an intern on a new page to handle bulk edits of shopping cart line items. The goal here is to work with RFID tag and populate as many things as possible. The other goal is to open up bulk edit options to help speed up the cart. This could be for quantities, prices, descriptions, RFID tags, show/hide options, and tax categories.

	AU 2732		Daily Ideas	6/16/2014	-Currently RFID tags are not stored with quotes. However, we may want a function to go and look-up the RFID tag values after a quote is restored to cart. As an additional option, it may be cool to open up all RFID tag fields to allow items to be scanned and filled in bulk. -We need to circle around and open up the code to allow the first stock field to have and hold up to 15 characters. -Add save as PDF links for PO’s, invoices, and quotes from the sub homepages. -Hold and store a setting for kicking a person out of the shopping cart or retail POS (Point of Sale) system. Maybe store the timeout per user. -We had a request to be able to hide invoice payments on existing invoices. Apparently, they had a situation where a vendor was paying part of the cost and the customer was supposed to pay the remainder. The person wanted to hide the vendor portion and just show the total. The only way I could see to do that was by putting the whole thing on account, printing it out or saving it as a PDF and then applying the vendor portion. The other way of doing it, to keep the accounting right, would be to claim the other revenue from the vendor on a deposit and then let the customer pay the entire ticket. Either way, you would need to do something about the additional money and/or revenue. I guess you could also show all of the items at full price and then show the vendor payment and have the customer pay the remainder. Either way, you are playing games.

	AU 2721		Daily Tasks	6/17/2014	• Working with a developer on his API socket connections. We updated files and ran into some problems switching between test and live servers. We finally figured things out and got his code going in a good direction. • Emails and tech support calls. Updated the merchant processing flyer to include PayPal, FirstData, and Mile High Merchant Group. Posted files online. • Going over code on the create bulk statements page. Helping a developer with his API code. • An intern came over and we worked on his bulk edit cart line items page. We spent most of the day working on validation and logic on the action page. • Reviewing and signing off on code for a developers bulk statement creation page. Tech support with a consultant on tax calculations and possible math error on the "with tax included" piece. • Research on a possible tax calculation error with items that used the tax category of “with tax included”. Found the problem and posted new code online. Sent an update email to the consultant. She is the one that notified me of the calculation error. Posted new files online.

	AU 2733		Daily Ideas	6/17/2014	-Update the merchant processing flyer with new gateways.

	AU 3696		Tech - Split Cart & Icon Menus	6/17/2014	Bulk edit cart cfm Line # - Quantity, Price, Item, UofM, Description, Line (show/hide), Tax Category Mini Thumbnail Images: (gif) - Sm clear cart - Sm my cart favorites - Sm add item to cart - Sm POS frames cart favorites - Sm printable cart - Sm printable quote - Sm parts home - Sm my quotes - Sm cart profit per line - Sm profit calculator - Sm bulk edit cart Merchant Gateways: - PayPal - First Data - Mile High Merchants Jump in/out of split cart: More options buttons: - Clear cart - Printable cart - View cart profile per line - Profit & discount calculator – cart as a whole - Printable cart - Bulk edit line items - My cart favorites - Add item - Split cart - Choose customer - Change customer - Show/hide - Items homepage - My quotes - Quote homepage - Invoice homepage - Help

	AU 2722		Daily Tasks	6/18/2014	• Reviewing notes and helping a developer with his API socket settings for a client. He is getting really close. Sent a couple of sample files over to a contact to give him a flavor of what we do. Trying to help him get involved. • Reviewing notes and light tech support stuff. • Emails. • An intern came over and we worked on the logic for the bulk edit cart line items page. We got the page working. Lots of testing and debugging. We also added a double submit feature to help with RFID tag numbers and using a barcode scanner. • Looking into buttons and graphical menu items for the view cart page. Doing some planning. • Converting screen shots into icons for the view cart page navigation menu.

	AU 2723		Daily Tasks	6/19/2014	• On the phone with Steve going over a custom report for the GPS trucking sites and commissions to some of the adilas consultants. We did a full page write up over a GoToMeeting session. The custom page was loops of loops and queries of queries. Good stuff. • Working on the action page for submitting bulk statements for processing. Running into problems and timeout issues. • On the phone with a client out of Dallas. They had some tech support questions about elements of time, action status values, and merchant processing with First Data Gateway. • An intern came over to work on ColdFusion code. We built an update page to help with a new time action status value. That set us up for a discussion about databases and database logic. We ended up over at the table planning out and talking about relational database models. Lots of playing on paper with tables, columns, rows, scenarios, and underlying concepts. The goal was to show how databases work and how we plan and set things up in a dynamic, relational model. Good stuff! • Adding validation and flow to the bulk statement creation pages. Small code tweaks.

	AU 2724		Daily Tasks	6/20/2014	• Emails and tech support. • On the phone with our developer in Salida. We went over our plan for the trucking GPS data uploads and GPS data dissemination. • Setting up a new FTP server and FTP account for GPS data transfers. • Emails and tech support. • Reading over a developer’s API socket documentation for a client’s API. Made a few changes and sent the new file over to a developer for review. He is doing a great job and has been our most steady intern/developer. I’m excited to see where he ends up. Good stuff!

	AU 2734		Daily Ideas	6/20/2014	-We had a request from one of our power users in Denver to add an automated Bank transfer function. This would do both the deposit and the expense to record both sides of the transfer from one page. This would really help for those that need to flip flop monies around between banks.

	AU 2725		Daily Tasks	6/21/2014	• Paying bills and recording expenses in the system. Also read over some API documentation that was done by a developer. • Rewriting the help file for test API page. Added some of the documentation that the developer wrote up. • Finished up the API help file. Emails back to a client. • Added a special promotion code link to the Full Circle listing on the 3rd party solutions page. • Adding pagination and validation logic and stats to the create bulk statements page. Trying to get things ready to post files online.

	AU 2726		Daily Tasks	6/23/2014	• Working on logic and validation for the bulk statement creation process. Added some new session values to help remember dates, notes, and due dates. Lots of testing on the bulk action page. Other small changes to individual statement creation pages. Tying to speed up the processes. • Final sign-off on the bulk statement pages. Posted files online. Updated help files. Small calls to chat with different people (on the to-do list). • Working on the bulk edit cart page. Added a new look-up feature that looks-up every line item in a shopping cart and tries to match it up with any known RFID tag values that are stored in the system. Added links to the view cart page. Uploaded new files to the servers.

	AU 2727		Daily Tasks	6/25/2014	• Emails and tech support stuff. • Watched a one hour presentation on data story telling from Adobe. Took a few notes on what they were saying (see below). • On the phone with 2 other developers. Trying to figure out where things are at with the interns. • Research on the First Data Global Gateway. On the phone with tech support and going over documentation. • An intern came over to work on code. We reviewed some code and then worked on different loop types. Lots of practice and trying to show how loops are used in real life. • Changed out the news and updates page. Added info on Full Circle Interactive Media and how we can play with them now. Added info about new bulk edit cart line items, auto fill RFID tag numbers, bulk statement creations, the Shopper app, and other updates. Posted files online.

	AU 2735		Daily Ideas	6/25/2014	-Data Storytelling – Adobe Webinar – we hear statistics, but we feel stories. We are wired for stories – Intellectual guard goes down – Get the right data, what is the story or narrative, what are the visuals that go along with that – Talk the language of our audience – Putting the story in context is very important. – Allow discussion time – Begin with the end in mind – Help our users get the same conclusion as we got (it adds value) – Analogies and Metaphors – Make it personal – characters, trouble or problems, walk through the journey with visuals – visuals help with comparisons. – Going in and finding a golden nugget by themselves. Tell about history and heritage – It helps show direction or illustrate the story – Less process and more results – Data Journalism – Tell the Story! I love it!

	AU 2728		Daily Tasks	6/26/2014	• Emails and tech support stuff. • Prep for an Adobe Acrobat II class in Brigham City with a client. • Went to Brigham City to work with a client on Adobe PDF’s and Adobe Acrobat. There were two ladies that had questions and we (a developer and I) did a virtual training session of sorts. The developer went with me to pick up on some tips and tricks. This was a Bridgerland sponsored training trip. 60 miles. • An intern came over to work on code stuff. He was working on loops while I was doing emails and making small changes to the my cart favorites section. We had a client ask for the part or item quantity to be added to a page that showed rules and assignments. Posted new files online.

	AU 2729		Daily Tasks	6/27/2014	• Emails and light clean-up. Five new logos for different companies. Posted all of the new graphics up and online. • Quoting some custom invoice pieces for an online jewelry and hand bag business. Also talked on the phone with an API client that wants a developer to do some work on an ordering process. Helped out a developer with his quote. Sent my quote off to the adilas rep assigned to the jewelry store client. • Tracking down a reported bug with elements of time and action status logs. The bug ended up being on the working with time page. It was allowing access to the action logs even though that setting wasn’t turned on in the master time template. Anyway, found the problem and fixed it. • Emails. • An intern came over and worked on code stuff. Steve called and we had a good conversation. We talked code, API’s, projects, 3rd party vendors, internal features that we could charge for, etc. Good phone call. At the end, I helped Steve with a couple of code questions. • Wrapping up with the intern and answering some of his questions. Printed out his first check for the bulk edit cart lines project. Sent him home with some reference books to look at.

	AU 2730		Daily Tasks	6/28/2014	• Emails and writing instructions to a client on how to fix an issue they were having. • Working on a small play page to interface with the Cash 4 Ever Gateway. This is an ATM – type cash machine or Kiosk. Made the page, tested, and sent an email report to Steve. • Checking for new files online. Moving things around via FTP. Working on spreading around links to the media/content homepage. • Opened up the photo/scan report to allow users to view more freely. The old way required a look-up from the history homepage. The new way is far more open. Started going through each main application homepage and adding links to photo/scans and media/content searches. Added or changed links from homepages to allow easier navigation to the photo/scans homepage and the media/content homepage.

	AU 2731		Daily Tasks	6/30/2014	• Making the media/content permission go live. They have been up and somewhat hidden for a couple of months. Making them available and we’ll go from there. Activated media/content permissions and added a number of new help files. Helped the media/content pieces go live. Posted a small update online.

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