I am trying out Workflow Foundation 4. Is it possible to show the workflow while it is running, with some sort of indicator of state (e.g. green box around activity = running)? The workflow would have to be read-only. However, I would also like to right click an activity and bring up info like how long the activity took to run, current logging state, etc.
Edit: I found the following links, but they are not for Workflow Foundation 4. Does anyone know what it has been replaced with?
WorkflowView: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms617016.aspx
Workflow Monitor Sample: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741706.aspx
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Sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm still a somewhat novice dev.
I'm interested in creating a holistic view that shows the current status of every airflow job my team maintains. The point would be to simplify the view rather than having the user go into the Airflow UI to check the status. I would be interested in something along the lines of a front-end webpage that has a list of each of the DAGs and kind of a progress bar whose length depends on the number of tasks for each DAG. If a task is currently running, it would be light-green, solid green for success and red for failures. Similar to the Airflow UI but a lot simpler. I would also want the home view to show the current day with a left and right arrow to go through each day if the user is interested. Essentially it would be a airflow monitoring system for less technical users.
What would be a good way to go about this?
I'm also open to any other solutions anyone may have come up that could help with simplify monitoring a large amount of airflow jobs.
Kind of looking for some folks to help me brainstorm. Not sure if Stack is the right place for it. :)
I'll be the developer of this app so no need to pull punches as far as the technical end goes.
Currently, I'm thinking of using a standard web app where the screen will be populated by a log that I'll keep in a backend database that gets populated by a function that gets called whenever a task concludes within a DAG. The view will always show current day and whichever DAGs are scheduled to run during that day with whatever their progress is.
Airflow allows creating plugins to expose web views with FlaskAppBuilder, so you can create a view and add whatever you want in it, then add it to the Airflow UI.
Let's say you have a small project. The team has estimated all the tasks as 300 days of effort.
I have 5 developers in the team, and I want MS Project to tell me when the project will complete considering vacations and working schedule of my team member.
In order to do that:
I'm creating a Task "Development" with fixed work "300d", and task type "Fixed Work".
Then I create 5 resources, and specify a 2 week vacation for one of the developers somewhere in the middle of the schedule.
Then I assign my 5 development resources to this task.
The problem is, the 300d distributed evenly to all 5 development resources. And If one of them have a two weeks vacation in between, due to that particular resource the work will be finished 2 weeks later, where other 4 resources are sitting and doing nothing for 2 weeks. Total duration is 70 days.
what I get
What I want to get is: work is distributed accordingly through all 5 resources unevenly in a way that the whole task finishes as earlier as possible taking most of the usable time from all developers.
That's how I would expect it to work. In that particular case I was distributing hours manually.
what i would expect
Is there a possibility in MS Project to do something like this? Or am I doing something wrong?
There are a couple issues with how you are approaching the problem.
1. Rather than just planning out the manpower hours estimated to be needed for the entire project on a single line item, You should plan out the tasks that will need to be done to accomplish "Small Project"
If you discretely plan out the tasks that need to be accomplished to satisfy the scope of "Small project", you can establish dependency (predecessor/successor) relationships between your tasks and figure out what tasks need to be done before you can move on to others. When you do this it will give you a good idea of how long the total duration of the project will take and likely be more accurate than just relying on an estimate based on the manpower hours estimate your developers give you. Find out what tasks they actually need to do, not just how many hours they think the whole project will take them. This will also allow you to plan out the utilization of your resources better because you'll be able to assign specific resources to specific tasks, and not all of your resources need to be on every task.
2. In general I would avoid using the Task Usage form.
I noticed you are altering resources in the task usage form, but unless you are really experienced with Microsoft Project I would avoid ever touching that, as it's really easy to set the period of performance of resources assigned to a task to be different than the actual period of performance of the task itself. This will cause MS Project to behave unusually, and it can be hard for an unexperienced user to understand why. This usually leads to pain and frustration. This leads me to my next bit of advice:
3. If you really want to specify a resource's vacation time, it's better to adjust the calendar associated the resource to exclude those dates as working dates.
In your situation with only 5 resources on your project, this can be fairly easy to do. You can accomplish this 2 different ways (I'll start with the easiest option):
1. You can add resource specific exclusion dates to the default calendar in your project
You can accomplish this by opening the Resource Sheet table and then clicking the Project tab then Change Working Times. If you have the Resource Sheet open instead of the Gantt chart, you can specify the resource that is going to be effected by the exceptions:
In this example you can see that I would be excluding (removing) 8/23/21 thru 9/3/21 as working days for the SW Engineer resource, without needing to change the calendar used by the resource completely.
2. You can completely change the calendar used by particular resources to be different than the default calendar set for the project.
You can accomplish this by going into the Resource Sheet and opening the Base Calendar column:
From here you can assign any calendar that exists in the project to the resource. Of course this means you would need to create the calendars and assign exclusion dates to them.
To create a calendar, click the Project tab then click Change Working Times. Click Create New Calendar on the form that opens up and give it a name:
From there you can add exclusion dates and all that.
Note: In a larger project with many resources, I would recommend not messing with the calendar for the resources at all. It just gets hard to deal with when there are a lot of resources.
I make a Xamarin.forms app and try to make a reminder. I follow this documentation.
I've created everything and tested and work perfectly fine. Now my scenario is every user can add one or more reminders. Reminder can be called from every hour to every day depending on how the user configure the reminder.
How to organize this? My main question is how to save that list of reminders in the device and depending on time the OS should call it?
I am using classic asp for a web application. I am running the web application on internet explorer.
I had developed few reports related to sales data. All the sales report are linked to Sales Dashboard. Every report has some selection criteria like customer selection date period selection product group selection and other few.
Now the problem which I am facing.
I open a total sales report for the entire year which takes almost 15 minutes to load on screen. while the report is executing if I try to open any other from the sales dashboard the page with selection criteria will appear after the first report is completely executed. If I copy the link location for the second report and open it in new window of internet explorer it will open normally.
I am not able to trace the problem did anyone had face the same problem.
First, I agree with this comment posted under the question:
IIS/ASP only allows one concurrent request per session. This is why the second request does not happen until after the first one completes. If you open a new browser instance or a different browser then this is treated as a different session.
Second, if all that is being asked here is whether other people have similar issues or not, then the answer is yes, due to what johna said in the comment.
If you're looking for a way to get around that for yourself, the way described in the comment (open a new browser instance or a different browser) will work.
However, if you're after a way to bypass the 15 minute wait time entirely, give some though to preparing the data before the report is called. What I mean by that is either schedule the report to run after close of business each day and store the relevant HTML or data separately, and/or provide a button to prepare the report based on current data which can be run whenever the user wants.
I need to create a oozie workflow on hue oozie dashboard to be shared across multiple users. However, I donot see the 'is shared' checkbox while creating a workflow in hue CDH 5.2.0 and the workflow gets created as 'personal' thus visible to the owner only. Has the way of creating a shared workflow changed in hue? If so, how do we accomplish that?
Any tips are appreciate.
Thanks
In Hue 3 / C5, this happens on the /home page. You can click on the top left Home icon and then select the workflow in its 'Sharing' column to share it with other users.
This will be simplified in Hue 4!