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From 09/11/2006 to 10/10/2006

09/15/2006

11:02 AM Bug #2555 (New): Update XSD to allow null dates
Currently the XSD that validates our VegBank XML doens't accept null dates, but sometimes the exporter creates that. ... Michael Lee

09/11/2006

05:06 PM Bug #2545: Triage Bugs and put them into hibernation
bugs are now put into realistic milestones (as realistic as ever!) and all bugs have at least decent description of w... Michael Lee
05:05 PM Bug #1974: Implement VegBank International Party Perspective
The VegBank International Party Perspective is an idea to allow the "current" view of data, which would let users off... Michael Lee
05:03 PM Bug #1958: Replace USDA 2002 with USDA 2000
I'm not sure if we still want to do this. We need new concepts, not old ones. Michael Lee
05:03 PM Bug #1963: Customize name displayed for a plant concept
Ideally, we'd like to store FNA or USDA name for concept somewhere and allow this to be shown in plots views-- less i... Michael Lee
05:00 PM Bug #1964: Business rules for allow plots in: minimums and how to enforce?
Deal with current limited Rectification: what rules must be met to "allow plot" in, and how to alert user, and how to... Michael Lee
04:57 PM Bug #1073: Allow Users to edit Entities that they own
users can edit their own party, currently, but not parties they have added. Nor can they submit revisions or updates... Michael Lee
04:56 PM Bug #720: Party Perspective Managment (plant/comm):General interface to allow
This deals with plantStatus and commStatus records primarily, and the related plantCorrelation, plantUsage, commCorre... Michael Lee
04:54 PM Bug #845: Query manager - list of past queries
The idea here is that queries would be save and the CRITERIA (not the plot list) could be reissued against the databa... Michael Lee
04:52 PM Bug #1972: Keep track of downloads for "my account"
This would track what users have downloaded in the past and allow them to repeat the downloads, if they wanted to. C... Michael Lee
04:51 PM Bug #1968: Allow uploading of binary files to VegBank that "relate" to plots, projects, etc.
This is generalizing the graphic table to let people attach binary files to anything in VegBank. May be useful to at... Michael Lee
04:50 PM Bug #1942: Implement ongoing automatic updates with NatureServe
Currently, NatureServe can produce XML that with a limited amount of human interferance, but it requires a lot of com... Michael Lee
04:48 PM Bug #738: TurboVeg plot import (TV-XML to VB-XML by our stylesheet)
*** Bug 734 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Michael Lee
04:40 PM Bug #738: TurboVeg plot import (TV-XML to VB-XML by our stylesheet)
It may be possible to take TurboVeg XML and style it with XSL to create VegBank conformant XML for loading into our d... Michael Lee
04:48 PM Bug #734: Data loader plugins:TurboVeg plots:Develop VB template for TV
too many bugs for turboveg. Need input and output, that's all, 2 bugs is enough. See bug 738 and bug 874 for those ... Michael Lee
04:47 PM Bug #689: Usability analysis by expert usability person
It would be nice to have someone with some expertise in usability look through our site and suggest improvements for ... Michael Lee
04:45 PM Bug #2075: make datasets have keywords, ala gmail
The idea here is to let users name things in ways that allows them to group and manage datasets, like they do with th... Michael Lee
04:44 PM Bug #2406: Automate homepage map- color by number of plots per state
There's a freely available library which allows you to read and write
PNG files. It can be used in C and other compi...
Michael Lee
04:43 PM Bug #2406: Automate homepage map- color by number of plots per state
I saw that USDA Plants
uses GD (http://www.boutell.com/gd/) in their dynamic maps (e.g.,
http://plants.usda.gov/java/...
Michael Lee
04:41 PM Bug #1967: Fix downloader if takes too long: create file and set to download from private space later
The idea here is that you request a download and come back and get it later. It would be stored in your own download... Michael Lee
01:59 PM Bug #1967: Fix downloader if takes too long: create file and set to download from private space later
but webpage timeouts will still kill our download function. So this may well still be needed. Michael Lee
04:39 PM Bug #693: Major QA and hammering on website
this type of bug is always in the back of our minds and has been completed for this iteration, but should be repeated... Michael Lee
01:52 PM Bug #693: Major QA and hammering on website
would be interesting to know the results of this. With XML download for example, we lose out with more than about 80... Michael Lee
04:35 PM Bug #2487: NPS-PLOTS conversion utility: prefer exact slope/aspect
There is a utility that converts between NPS-PLOTS version 1.1 and 2.0
Currently, when you downgrade from 2.0 to 1.1...
Michael Lee
04:32 PM Bug #1955: view my plots -- deposits, based on ownership + embargo chng
relates to bug 1956 and bug 2457 Michael Lee
04:31 PM Bug #2457: Link to list of certified users, renew embargo screens
Similar to bug 1956 (fuzzing and unfuzzing plots), we have to do the same thing for embargoes, but based on a set of ... Michael Lee
04:30 PM Bug #817: Query for User-defined variables
One aspect of this that would be helpful is creating a list of user defined variables for reuse so that everyone does... Michael Lee
04:29 PM Bug #1975: Iteratively query to narrow or broaden query results
The first step of this is just to allow users to search within a dataset, which could be the datacart to find stuff w... Michael Lee
04:27 PM Bug #2102: IN JULY: Load Real Concepts that have been a major part of this grant
A major part of the second grant was adding "real concepts" that are not just based on a list, but rather the real li... Michael Lee
04:26 PM Bug #890: Load database:Peet _NCVS-4000: add in Fall 2006
Bob Peet has a lot of plots, some of which have been loaded into VegBank, but not in their full richness of data. Ne... Michael Lee
04:24 PM Bug #2402: Strategy to update denormalized data, cache, pages
Currently denormalizations are kicked off only when someone loads data. Any subsequent changes to the database need ... Michael Lee
04:23 PM Bug #2404: Evaluate: Let users define bounding box with Google Maps, then show plots in that area
This now works with both IE and Firefox. Michael Lee
04:20 PM Bug #1956: function to fuzz and unfuzz locations for admin
We currently have no feature that allows a user to affect the embargo status and fuzzing status of plots in a particu... Michael Lee
04:15 PM Bug #878: PCord export
PC Ord is a program often used by ecologists to help analyze lots of plots. There is a special csv-type format that ... Michael Lee
04:14 PM Bug #2541: Rework export to use pages or filesystem to improve performance and remove timeouts
The download form could use <vegbank:get> and <vegbank:pager> to limit entries in the download, but the trick would b... Michael Lee
04:11 PM Bug #2533: temp tables need to be part of denormalization update
these tables are only affected if someone adds new plants/comms, which is somewhat rare. Michael Lee
04:11 PM Bug #2544: remove extra data from VegBank
The extra users were the primary concern here, and they are now gone or downgraded and not admins. Michael Lee
04:06 PM Bug #2544: remove extra data from VegBank
extra admin users removed and/or downgraded in VegBAnk Michael Lee
04:10 PM Bug #2519: Tracking bug for upgrade of vegbank
(In reply to comment #9)
REMAINING TASKS:
> 4) install awstats
> 3) update the "news" section of the home page and ma...
Michael Lee
12:04 PM Bug #2519: Tracking bug for upgrade of vegbank
MLee still needs to make sure everything is working ok, specifically the cron jobs. Michael Lee
03:44 PM Bug #2542: revise XML schema
might be nice to take in some international XML standard like the one TDWG is working on with Susan Wiser. Michael Lee
03:05 PM Bug #2546: Make sure documentation in vegbank/ is correct and well explained
Fixed/removed old stuff from the root directory of the vegbank cvs repo. Tagged CVS. Michael Lee
01:55 PM Bug #2331: ensure NVC.doc standards doc matches what's in VegBank
We could alter the model to deal with these issues if we feel that they deserve dealing with. Michael Lee
01:55 PM Bug #2468: show error estimates of mapped plots
Color estimates along with scale on map is sufficient. Michael Lee
01:49 PM Bug #681: Website cleanup:Spelling and editing checks
I suppose this should be done sooner rather than later. Michael Lee
01:48 PM Bug #676: Check with multiple browsers
This type of ongoing bug is no longer needed. We support latest version of IE and Firefox/Mozilla. Michael Lee
01:47 PM Bug #1374: Get adding plant and adding community forms working with new model
Can add plants and communities via VegBranch. Or however you want to create the XML. We could create a web form tha... Michael Lee
11:29 AM Bug #1610: lift VA Heritage data embargo
Karen and Phil emailed on 9/11/06 to check on the status of these data. Michael Lee
 

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