Tuesday, August 21, 2007

User Accounts Added and Columns Formatted


Added user accounts and passwords to Top20 report.

Turned out to be quite straight forward.

Added a user database and some methods to check password.

Made numbers more readable by using a helper to format with commas.

See SVN, updated today.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

User Accounts for Propmansheet


OK, I have given myself one day to implement user accounts on Propman sheet.

The issue is that it is working better than I could have dreamed of.

The Surveyors are using it, after receiving very little training and they are finding it easy and useful.

If only everything in life was this simple.

However, the new challenge is to make it secure.

It runs on the BRCS intranet so non-BRCS people cannot access it.

It just needs to be able to restricted, to those in the BRCS who need to know.

This is to ensure that the surveyors can make comments and decisions privately.

Adding user accounts seems simple but I don't really understand it.

I'm going to have to just implement it the best I can on a test system and then fire-fight it to get it working.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Starting New Propmansheet Project

Using Propmansheet to build a stand-alone application that will allow are solicitors to read, interpret and summarise property leases and then input that information into a spreadsheet that automatically formats as a Propman keynotes import file.

They could then periodically email those files to BRCS so that Propman could can be updated with summarised interpreted lease data.