My Account
Home Products Support Company Contact Buy

Creating a Project Management and Tracking Application

"Manage your business with an Iron Speed Designer generated application."
- Staffan Wiljergårdh, Project Manager for Office System I Falköping AB

May 18, 2009
Iron Speed Designer V6.X

Creating a Project Management and Tracking Application

In the example below, I used Iron Speed Designer to create a project management and tracking application. The generated application allows customers to monitor progress and provide feedback in the form of feature requests and bug reports.

I applied a simple code customization to the workflow table to display pending tasks in red. When a task is complete, the font displays in black and its status is set to 'Ready=Yes'.

When a new project begins every customer receives an email with a link to the application, giving them access to the project. They can watch the project evolve in real-time and provide feedback as necessary.

Customers submit feedback through the application using the rich text editor tool. This control has advanced text formatting capabilities, including fonts, font color, bullets and more. The application user can also highlight important issues or upload images to provide additional information.

Each customer receives an email alert when a project is complete.

Create a Send Email function

Iron Speed Designer generates a Send Email feature out-of-the-box, so no additional hand-coding is required to incorporate this functionality. Simply follow these easy steps for binding.

The Button Action Wizard is easy to work with and walks you through a series of simple steps, including how to bind the From Email address to the ResponsibleEmail field in the ToDoRecordControl control.

First, open the Button Action Wizard and mark the text 'Send' to edit the button. Then, choose 'Send email'.

Select the email addresses from the database, or designate a staticor constant email address.

I simply repeat all steps above to set-up the 'EmailTo' function.

Simply repeat all steps above to set-up the 'Email To' function.

Finally, designate what you will send. You can choose a variety of text, ranging from statics to "insert variables from field". The wizard helps you identify a Subject and the Body Content. There are several ways to fill the Body Content with useful information, including text or URLs and values from fields.

Iron Speed Designer generates all of the code for me. I can even add a string in the web.config file to connect with the SMTP-server.

To do this, click on the Tools menu and configure your email server.

Conclusion

Using Iron Speed Designer, I created an application that helps me manage my business more effectively. Now my clients can monitor progress and provide feedback on a project in realtime. I have more time to customize every project and don't have to think about generated the base application. Iron Speed Designer does everything for me!

About the Author

Staffan Wiljergårdh has a degree Pedagocis and English from a University in Sweden. He has been working with Microsoft Access "since the Stone Age" and has trained both young and older people in that application.


  Privacy Statement