User:Bill Flanagan/Notebook/GoogleDocs/2009/12/01

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Daily Goals (8:50)
TBD

Daily Goals Update(12:30)

 * Dentist visit this morning.
 * Grr.
 * Fix templates to include the proper header information
 * Add Search by date to calendar
 * Replace current status filestore (current and history file) with calendar
 * Will make this portable
 * Get Google spreadsheet and word files working
 * The spreadsheet API is overkill
 * Use the common Word/Excel/PDF interface
 * Look at how we can connect to Orkut
 * Open Auth/OpenID give us most of what we need
 * Need a waw to connect OWW username and google id
 * Option: use openwetware.org google hosted docs domain
 * Separate account
 * Optional: use existing gmail account

Comments (8:50)
TBD

Next Steps (8:50)

 * Fix the templates to include these labels

Comments (2:25)

 * The templates need work but they are populating the fields as needed.
 * Another step (not now): Use the extension that allows a new section to be programmatically adsded.
 * Format of the code can be controlled better by removing the opportunity to make mistakes (typos)
 * Meta: Think about include the following per-section as the title
 * Time
 * Comment
 * Label
 * Location
 * Q: Does Excel in Gdocs [ermit comparison between revisions?

Next Steps (2:25)

 * Demo excel upload, search, list, and view
 * Use the non-spreadsheet API
 * Save the time/date in calendar as a log
 * This is to re-establish the existing model
 * Once it works, then break it into parts and deploy as separate extensions
 * Search
 * File Upload
 * View document
 * List documents

End of Day Summary

 * Still working on connecting the Excel, Word extension.
 * Tried to make a jump from working on calendar to the doc api
 * Need to change approach.
 * Build on what's working.
 * Evolve the current set of classes to include Excel and Word
 * Move the record of the current task to the calendar
 * Add the URL and image support
 * Rewrite the document and send it to Drew


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