Comments on: Employee Directory AIR application on Dev Center

By: Chris B.

Chris B. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:54:42 +0000

I just got into Flex, so as a novice, I would like to know where I can find a details on how to edit this file???

BTW: Amazing App, and Congrats on the job!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:32:37 +0000

I love this app and it’s perfect for the new intranet that I am building. I am just having one issue that I was hoping you could assist me with. I am trying to add “Employee Birthday” to the app. I added a 16th item to the csv file “i.e. April 13th” and then added the following to employee.as:

/** Birthday. **/
public var birthDay : String;

I Then added:
“employee.birthDay = (itemArr[15] != ” ? itemArr[15]:null);”
to the EmployeeCSVParser.as file

I then added the following to the EmployeePanelDetail.mxml file:

The Birthday label appears in the app, but the data from the csv file “April 13th” is not getting pulled in. I refreshed db, but it is still not appearing. Am I missing something? Please let me know if there is another file I need to edit to get this to work? If you email me, I can send you a zip file of the application.

Thanks!

Jonathan

By: admin

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:13:31 +0000

Sorry Fernanda, I just updated the URL to the main site.

By: Fernanda

Fernanda — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:58:20 +0000

I clicked the AIR sample application link above but could not find the Employee Directory. Do you know where I can find it? Thanks!

By: Steve Powell

Steve Powell — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:15:34 +0000

I just downloaded this, ran a ton of data out of our HR system, munged a few images with some Photoshop scripts and had a version up and running in less than a day. Admittedly I need to package it and stuff for deployment etc…

The Exchange free busy info doesn’t seem to be wokring. I’ve changed it to use a URL which is working fine in IE though confusingly not being returned as and XML MIME type in IE but the content is definitely XML and looks very like the sample files.

Any ideas?

I’ll install FlexBuilder3 and try running it in debug. See if it tells me something meaningful.

I love this app. Its as cool as a very very cool thing.

many thanks

Steve

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:42:32 +0000

Hi There do you have a link to this source as they have taken it off the examples when air came of the labs site
I had the original one on my puter but accidentally deleted it.

By: Julie Gilliam

Julie Gilliam — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:46:39 +0000

Daniel,
Your application is awesome and very helpful. I was wondering if you would be ok if I reworked the code. I too am new to air and not sure in the slightest on how to update the code and compile it so it will work locally. If you could provide steps by steps I would greatly appreciate it. Take care - Jules

By: Jeff (no, the other one)

Jeff (no, the other one) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:20:37 +0000

Excellent! Can’t wait to try the db refresh. I thought I was completely missing the bus on that one…!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:21:30 +0000

Hi Mark,

The application is designed to locally cache data for 24 hours, so updating the zip doesn’t happen immediately.

We *did* make a hidden way to refresh the data. Click on the ‘?’ icon, and then, click the magnifying icon on the info page. The database should refresh in 3-4 secs.

Finally, stay tuned for a NEW version of the Employee Directory that is much cooler than the current version. I’ll post about it once its up on Adobe Labs.

By: Mark McDonnell

Mark McDonnell — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:59:00 +0000

Hi Daniel, this application is brilliant. But I’m a complete newbie to Flex and AIR and have no idea how to setup the files in Flex Builder 2 or even how to recompile to AIR application.

I thought it would be a case of just updating the .ZIP file in the /sampledata/ folder but that didn’t seem to work?

If you could please help that would be great as this really is a cool application I would love to get working.

Thanks in advanced!

Kind regards,
Mark