Sheets

Sheets has been updated to use .NET Framework 2.0 and to reflect this it has now had it's version number changed to start at 2.0, it contains very few changes from 1.7.5 which used .NET Framework 1.1 except that it can take advantage of the new publish feature of .NET 2 and so the end user will automatically receive notifications for new versions.

Other changes made:

• First run database server is now set to 'eisdata' instead of 'database1'.
• Error message box changed to point here.

This blog will now be used as the official support pages for Sheets.

Errors:

• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/ST1
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB1
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB2
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB3
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB4
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB5
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB6
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/FL1
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/PR1
• Unhandled Exception

Fixes:

• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/ST1
  Please select a semester or term. You have forgotten to tick one of the boxes in either the semester group or term group. See the picture below.
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB1
  Database Server value is incorrect. You need to replace what is there with the current value which is eisdata. Just click in the box and type the value in as can be seen below.
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB2
  Module Code value is incorrect.
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB3
  That Year has returned no data.
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB4
  That Semester or Term has returned no data.
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB5
  That Occurence has returned no data.
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/DB6
  That Route has returned no data.
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/FL1
  Output File value is incorrect.
• EIS/SHEETS/xxx/PR1
  Printer not installed.
• Unhandled Exception
  Unhandled Exception.
  

Student Records on new servers

SITs Vision should now be residing on entirely new servers. This is sort of exciting for us (yeah - we are that sad and geek) for several reasons:

• We can retire some of the older, not-so-good servers and get them to stop generating heat and noise. This means the server room is a more pleasant place to be.
• The new servers are a lot faster/more powerful so things should run faster.
• The new servers have been put together from scratch for quite tightly targetted purposes so should be less work to maintain.

On the flip side there's still more work to do. EVision has yet to be moved to its new home and there will be a degree of mop-up work to do to get the smaller applications out there to point at the new servers. As you can see in the last post we're onto that one and each of us has been doing work recently to make the transferral as smooth as possible. Hopefully it won't cause anyone too much aggravation :)

Welcome

Welcome to the new EIS blog. The plan, so far, is to keep this page up-to-date with things that we're working on and little bits and bobs that might be handy either as stand-alone gizmos or as springboards for your imagination regarding what EIS might be able to help you realise.

So - for a quick one-two of little snippets that we're working on at the moment:

• GoogleMaps API: Gareth has been investigating this and has put together a small example of what it could be used for. A fairly simple map with a few location markers: http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/gmaps/simple.html
• Online Tutorial Booker: A web-based application where tutors can advertise the availability of tutorials and students can sign up for them. It's under development at the moment and we're working closely with Nikki Swift from Linguistics to get a full release out for testing: http://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/TutorialBooker/
• Online Event Booking: A web-based application where customers can sign up for places on events you may be running.
• Second Life: You may have read articles online or on one of the other York St John techie blogs. I have been investigating and exploring SL for a while now. If you're interested in a bit of a tour then let me know :)

There's lots of other things we're working on but these three allow you to take a bit of a sneak-peek at things you may see in production soon.