Todo List 14-19 Jan 2013

Last week I've made some good progress on the NAS applet. I actually also realised a need for each applet window to have the following functionality where possible.

Toolbar

• Action area:
  • Refresh
  • Create
  • Delete
  • Update
• Document area
  • Notes management
  • CVS export
• Area specific to applet. This is where the buttons specific to the applet will reside.

Ability to handle large data sets

Although not all the data sets will ever become large; it will be best practice to keep a standard way to interact between the EXT Js grid and the back-end
This will include the following:

• Remote sorting.
• Remote filtering
• Buffered paging

Having this functionality as a standard on each grid will give us cleaner, more predictable code and also makes it very easy to export the data to CSV from the back-end.

This will make everything more predictable to the user and also encourage other developers to enter into a standardised environment

So this week I'll be redoing all the applets created up to now to include this functionality and also continue on the NAS applet.

Report Friday 18/1/2013

• This week I've modified the following applets to adhere to the proposed standard:
  • NAS Tags
  • NAS Devices
  • Realms
  • Access Providers
• All of them now include the following features:
  • Remote sorting.
  • Buffered loading (for large data sets).
  • Remote filtering.
  • Notes for each entry.
  • CSV export based on the active filter and chosen columns.

There remains still some serious coding and scrutinizing to be done on each of these applets during the next week.

Hopefully by the end of next week we'll have them completed, and so have a solid foundation on which to continue with further development.

[Dirk van der Walt]

Included is a screenshot of the current state of the NAS applet implementing the standard.