[495] in Project_DB
Re: Notes on Project DB talk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Janet Littell)
Thu Jun 24 14:29:09 1999
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:32:19 -0400
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From: Janet Littell <jlittell@MIT.EDU>
Cc: knyzio@MIT.EDU
The IS Projects web page, http://web.mit.edu/is/projects/index.html,
contains at least 15 links for Project Database queries. If any of these
URLs will change, Kris Nyzio or I can update the links as soon as you give
the new ones to us.
Let us know if anything else on the IS Projects page needs updating.
Janet
At 10:23 AM 6/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi...
>
>I talked briefly about the new project notebook templates last week. Allow
>me to provide more information on how project leaders would use them:
>
>1. From Athena.
>
>Request a locker by writing email to afsreq explaining the desired name,
>usage, and rough size estimates.
>
>cd yourlocker
>attach pm
>cp /mit/pm/notebook/* .
>
>edit the templates using your preferred html editor (amaya is being suggested).
>
>2. From a pc or mac
>
>Request a locker by writing email to afsreq explaining the desired name,
>usage, and rough size estimates.
>
>use your web browser to access http://web.mit.edu/pm/notebook/projpage.html
>save this page and the others under it (save as under the file menu, I think)
>use your preferred html editor to tailor the pages to your requirements
>
>transfer the saved pages to afs (see http://web.mit.edu/cwis/secure-xfer/ )
>
>3. In either case, provide the URL to the director so that they can update
>the project database to point to your project notebook.
>
>You need to think about when in your project you will be updating the
>project notebook pages (perhaps at significant points in the schedule, or on
>a regular basis).
>
>Mike
>
>P.S. Just to confirm where we are in the process of changing to a new,
>improved project database.
>
>1. To preview the new database, please go to
>http://gypsy.mit.edu/fcgi-bin/brlfcgi/brlpdb/index.html
> New/Changed Features include:
> - the database has gone on a diet. Many fields were removed.
> - the top summary page has been re-organized to include the project
>notebook, contact, and target date.
> - search pages (such as the Project by Process pages) have an Add button
>to allow addition of projects.
> - the Project Information Page should display all the project information.
> - several pages now have a Help button, which is currently linked to
>http://web.mit.edu/pm/helppdb/ -- a placeholder for documentation to come.
>
>If you have comments or suggestions, please send them to project-db@mit.edu
>
>2. The Project-db will be shut down next Thursday (July 1). While Miki
>expects to have the changes in place and running sometime July 2, we have
>allowed ourselves the "fallback" time of the long weekend in case of
>problems. By July 6, we expect the operational project database to be up
>and running again.
>
>3. At that time, I recommend that people review the information. While we
>are expecting to transfer the contents of the current database to the new
>one, there may be areas where the information is lacking or incorrect.
>
>4. Still to come:
> - the Help pages
> - Training and documentation
> - corrections to the web pages that access the current database.
> - simplification of the status values
>
>The main change is that the ITLT is taking responsibility for adding and
>modifying the project information in the project database. Project leaders
>will have the responsibility for maintaining project notebooks, kept
>in AFS lockers.
>
>Thanks
>mike
>
>
>
>
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