A semi-big update today. Lighthouse Pro now has the follow enhancements/updates:
- You can now attach multiple attachments to an issue.
- You can now delete attachments. (Duh, why didn't I have this before?)
- I now store and display the original file name of the attachment. So if you upload foo.txt and ColdFusion has to rename it to vivapinataisweird.goober, then you will see foo.txt displayed on the front end.
- Email support has been updated to allow for attachments. So now your users can email you a bug report and include a screen shot for example.
- The XML used in the AJAX has been slimmed down quite a bit. I'll switch to JSON once Spry 1.5 is released, but for now it should make the application run a bit faster. A project with 300 issues was clocking in at 400K or so. Thats insane. It now comes in at 120K or so, which is still big, but less than half of what it was before.
- Plus a few other small fixes here and there.
Thanks to Scott Pinkston for doing the MS Access update. I just discovered today that I no longer have a copy of MS Office installed. I'll have to add that to my Parallels install. (Unless anyone knows of a decent OSX Access editor.)
As always - the application is free and your support is welcome.
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thanks for all of the great projects!
I just wanted to comment that viva pinata IS weird, one of my favorite shows with my daughter though. the reference gave me good chuckle! for anyone who hasn't seen it, get up early on saturday and stick around for some ninja turtles.
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It's the only one I know of that has drivers to allow you to access Access databases (pun not intended).
you have probably answered this a thousand times, but what is the best way to migrate all my old data (from version 2.06) to the new version? I am using a microsoft SQL database.
The readme.txt file is your friend. :)
by the way, I currently have NO tables that start with "lh_"
Rename them to have lh_ in front. This was done to help LHP not conflict with other systems. My other apps use a dynamic prefix. I may add that to LHP later on.
Thanks Ray, that will teach me for skipping versions...
Ray,
First, thanks for all your future forward work, it helps keep my ColdFusion code forever moving.
Next, I have searched to see if you have posted this anywhere but have you been able to get around to updating LightHouse JSON with Spry 1.5?
Thanks,
Colter
No, but it will be in the next update.
Hi Ray,
Your install instructions were great by the way. I am having a slight problem running the application however.
The mail server I have set in CF Admin validates fine but when I try to run Lighthouse Pro Element (my first attempt at running it) I receive the following error:
MAILSERVER is undefined in APPLICATION.
The error occurred in D:\Content\WWWRoot\lighthousepro\Application.cfc: line 273
It does not seem to matter if I leave the mail server related fields blank or filled in the defaults.cfm file
Please let me know your thoughts ... even if it means telling me I've done something stupidly wrong :-p
PS.
Sorry for any confusion ... I have no idea where the word "Element" came from in my above post! ("Lighthouse Pro Element")... I just meant Lighthouse Pro 2.4 :-)
Please update to the latest version. An update was released around noon on July 1, 2007.
Hey Ray,
Thanks for updating! I was wondering if you could help me with this error i'm getting:
Caught exception in JSONDataSet.loadDataIntoDataSet: SyntaxError: missing ] after element list
I'm only getting it with one Project, so I assume it's an unescaped ']' or something.
The error occurs at /project_view.cfm
Use Firebug and show me how the data was returned please.
Hey Ray - Thanks for putting this out there as open source -
I'm planning on adding an 'Excel Document' Upload/import of Issues into the Project for the Lighthouse application. So you can upload an excel document with 'Issues' in it that will prepopulate the Project. We need this as with a part of our company that have a checklist of 40 items that they do each time with each new client - and want to use this to track them. Just thought I'd let you know - once its complete I can give you the source code for it - in case you want to built it into your release (origionally might be strictly sql server compat, but I can dumb it down once I get into it likely)
Sure Kevin, send it on over.
I sent over the update lighthousepro with he excel import ability - hope you got it ok and find it to your liking.
Ray,
Do you happen to know if anyone has installed LightHouse on BlueDragon?
No. I do intend to support BD - I just don't always have the time to test. :(
Was Comment 13 by Mingo Hagen every addressed? I have the same problem with LH v2.4.7. We're trying to upgrade to the latest now to see if it gets fixed. It happens in both IE 7 and FF3.5. I have a latop and desktop, only happens on the desktop for the same LH account. Even though my project has 2 issues, they don't show up at the project level (same .cfm as mentioned above) and ALL the debug info is dumped in the response including my LH ID and PW. The issues are in the DB. I even get emailed about them, but they will never display and I get the Caught exception in JSONDataSet.loadDataIntoDataSet it what looks like a debugging window.
I don't remember if he followed up with me post-comment. If you get it after updating, please email me directly so we can work it out.
Hi there
Have been trying to get Lighhouse pro working but to no avail.
I followed all the steps but still no success.
Wondering if someone might be able to have a quick look and advise what I have missed so that I can get the application running.
I keep on getting an error Could not find the included template /ModelGlue/gesture/ModelGlue.cfm
I would really like to get this application working properly so any assistance that can be given would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Do you have a CF mapping for ModelGlue?