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.

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.

Own Server At Last

Two things to report:

1. Propmansheet has now moved off my machine on to its own server in the BRCS data room.
2. I have started work on the security module - should be finished end of next week

The BRCS server is on the intranet but is sealed off from the general internet.

New Server: Moving Propmansheet Off my PC

Due to get a new server today. Since this project started I've been hosting Ruby on Rails and the database on my personal work PC. This has meant that I have to leave it on so that others can access the data.

Hopefully, from today everything moves to a sever in our data room next to the Propman server.

The Propmansheet application is not RAM or CPU greedy. It can easily run on your pc while you do other work.

However, it is more convenient for it to run on a dedicated server.

Simple Tool for Updating Propman Analysis and Keynotes

I have decided to email a few Grosvenor Propman users to tell them about Propmansheet as others could find it useful.

http://code.google.com/p/propmansheet/
http://groups.google.com/group/propmansheet

Hi would you pass this on to your Property Department,

I have written a simple tool that makes it easy, using a web browser, to update Propman keynotes and analysis.

I would like to share it with Grosvenor Propman users.

The tool is free.

You can use or adapt it.

You or your IT department could find it useful.

If you have any thoughts or queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Ez

A Propman User

New Propmansheet Download

I have just uploaded a new Propmansheet download zip.

The main change is that it now translates spreadsheet entries into analysis codes.

So You can use more readable spreadsheet entries and then use a simple lookup table to change them into analysis codes.

see Zip of beta 0.2 of BRCS Top Twenty Report using Propmansheet requires ROR and... in root

Propmansheet Works

After initially setting up propmansheet using an excel spreadsheet. I corrected it on the web then produced a upload file for propman.

I worked well.

Now I have a spreadsheet that the building professionals can use and a tool for EASILY updating propman.