Forum OpenACS Q&A: Project Manager 1.0 Version Released

Upgrades will be supported from this point on. I'm using it in production here at work.

I'm not sure how long it will take before it will be downloadable from the package repository. I committed the code to HEAD, and tagged it with openacs-5-0-compat  Hopefully, that should do be all that it takes to get it working. You can definitely get it from CVS, however.

I strongly recommend installing it within a subsite on your site. That way, you can easily add and remove people from the subsite, and they will be ''removed'' from project-manager.

There are definitely bugs in this product, so I'd welcome bug reports, patches, and collaboration. Please file bug reports in the Bug-tracker.

Thank you to everyone who helped me out with all my questions! I'm really happy to be able to share this with the community, and I look forward to seeing it improved and expanded upon. I have a long to-do list that I'm working on as we speak!

This is really cool.  I've just fetched it and installed it -- really, really good.  Will try to give it a bit of a run -- and will then share a more detailed experience.

I'm seeing several different errors (one shown below) and want to be certain that I have the right version. I pulled mine from HEAD and just updated an hour ago. project-manager.info says version is 1.01.

/R

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Aolserver 4.0r2

oacs HEAD (updated yesterday)

PG 7.3.4

RH 9

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Creating a project, fill in the blanks and submit:

ERROR:  Function pm_project__new_project_item("unknown", "unknown", "unknown", "unknown", "unknown", "unknown", timestamptz, timestamptz, "unknown", "unknown", "unknown", "unknown", "unknown", "unknown", timestamptz, "unknown", "unknown", "unknown") does not exist
	Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument types
	You may need to add explicit typecasts

SQL: 
        select pm_project__new_project_item (
                'a',
                'a',
                NULL,
                'a',
                'a',
                'text/plain',
                to_timestamp('2004 04 30 00 00 00','YYYY MM DD HH24 MI SS'),
                to_timestamp('2004 04 30 00 00 00','YYYY MM DD HH24 MI SS'),
                null,
                null,
                '974',
                'f',
                '1',
                NULL,
                current_timestamp,
                '831',
                '192.168.1.133',
                '908'
        );

This is the logger problem I have encountered:

Invalid switch: "-party_id"
    while executing
"logger::entry::new__arg_parser"
    (procedure "logger::entry::new" line 1)
    invoked from within
"logger::entry::new -entry_id $entry_id  -project_id $logger_project_id  -variable_id $variable_id  -value $value  -time_stamp $timestamp_ansi  -descri..."
    (procedure "pm::project::log_hours" line 18)
    invoked from within
"pm::project::log_hours  -entry_id $entry_id  -logger_project_id $project_id  -variable_id $variable_id  -value $value  -timestamp_ansi $time_stamp_ans..."
    invoked from within
"if { [string match [db_string check_if_exists "
        select 1
        from logger_entries
        where entry_id = :entry_id
    " -default "0"] "0"]} {

        pm::pr..."
    ("uplevel" body line 7)
......

Looks like 5.1 logger (or rather 1.0b3) has no -party_id switch for logger::entry::new proc. Naturally, removing the offending bit from pm::project::log_hours resolves the issue.

This is not a PG problem, but an incompat. with HEAD. Works fine under my CVS oacs-5-1 development instance.

/R

Even a preview is not enough sometimes :)

This:

There is nothing wrong with mounting it on the main site, it just makes permission management a little bit simpler and more automatic.

There is nothing wrong with mounting it on the main site, but mounting it on a subsite makes permission management a little bit simpler and more automatic.

my system doesn't seem to think an update is available. (OpenACS 5.1.0)

Project manager now allows you to edit the project for a task. Lots of
other minor bug-fixes and UI improvements. No major datamodel changes, but there is an upgrade script run to allow you to change projects for a task.

Enjoy, and please submit bug reports (and fixes if possible).

I did tag project-manager with openacs-5-1-compat.

I do need to branch and tag the stable releases.

So far, there has been only one datamodel change between 1.0 and 1.03. Of course, there was an upgrade script. There will be future data model changes, but I don't anticipate any major changes in the short term.

I'm very interested in improving the QA of the project-manager releases, so please let me know if you have any other suggestions, or want to help out. I'm glad to hear that so many people are using it!

One thing that I think would help would be some automated test cases for project-manager. I haven't had the time to write them yet, but that would really help improve things, I think.