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Innovations in RCRAInfo

Innovations in RCRAInfo. 2005 RCRAInfo National Users Conference August 2 – 5, 2005 Nashville, TN. Agenda. Showcase some of the new features in RCRAInfo Version 3. Explain some of the improvements made in existing RCRAInfo functionality. Get feedback from you!. Basic Information.

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Innovations in RCRAInfo

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  1. Innovations in RCRAInfo 2005 RCRAInfo National Users Conference August 2 – 5, 2005 Nashville, TN

  2. Agenda • Showcase some of the new features in RCRAInfo Version 3. • Explain some of the improvements made in existing RCRAInfo functionality. • Get feedback from you!

  3. Basic Information • J2EE “Java” infrastructure. • Better, stronger, faster. Portable. Easier to program than V1 and V2’s Cool:Gen CASE tool. • Dynamic HTML. • Better data presentation. Adds functionality to ordinary code. • Internet Web Browsers. • Supported: IE 6, Netscape 8. • To Be Tested: Firefox 1.0.6.

  4. Java: what is it? • Programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. • Platform independent. • Will be used for V3 and all subsequent releases and rewrites.

  5. Dynamic HTML: what is it? • Extension of HTML web “tag” language. • Supported by all major browsers. • May notice “quirks” between browsers. • Allows information on a page to be “hidden” until it is required to be revealed. • Calendars. • Dates tied to drop down selections.

  6. Internet Web Browsers • Version 3 will be supporting the following Internet Browsers: • Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6.0.28 • Netscape 8.0 • Additionally, at the requests of some users, we will begin testing the Mozilla Firefox browser. • Browsers must support 128-bit encryption, Java, and JavaScript.

  7. Main Menu Features • News Alerts and Information • Utilities • System Administration • Basic RCRAInfo Reporting Tool

  8. News Alerts and Information • Consists of three categories: news, outages, general information. • Can be added or updated by any authorized user. • Will also contain all RCRAInfo related documentation.

  9. Utilities has… • An improved acknowledgement flag utility. • Improved groups of IDs functionality. • A new lookup search. • Self-contained password maintenance. • New report usage statistics. • Your very own user preferences!

  10. Acknowledgement Flag

  11. Groups of IDs

  12. Lookup Search

  13. Password Maintenance

  14. User Preferences

  15. System Administration contains… • A “dynamic” system administrators list. • An improved user maintenance interface. • The ability to change a user’s agency. • The same old point-and-click IOR software. • Easy-to-use lookup table maintenance.

  16. System Administrators List

  17. User Maintenance

  18. Lookup Table Maintenance

  19. BARRT, the Inaugural Edition • Acronym for the Basic RCRAInfo Reporting Tool. • Purpose of BARRT? • How is it different from our other reporting tools like Oracle Reports and RCRARep? • What can it do? What can’t it do? • What’s next for BARRT?

  20. Purpose of BARRT • BARRT is meant to enhance the reporting capability of RCRAInfo users by allowing users to determine what data they want to see, in what order they want to see, and how they want to see it displayed.

  21. How is it different? • BARRT is developed and maintained in-house by HQ. • Easy to enhance: the knowledge of the developer is the only limitation. • Cheap to maintain because we don’t license anything since it’s written in Java. • Point-and-click data selection instead of being forced to use existing reports.

  22. How is it different? [cont’d] • BARRT is relatively easy to use for both “data people” and casual users. • Provides a simple bridge between RCRAInfo modules: no foreign key knowledge is required and no structure charts are necessary! • Utilizes point-and-click data selection. • Enables simple decisions by taking advantage of “acceptable value” lists.

  23. What can’t BARRT do? • It can’t tell you what data to select. Program knowledge is required! • It can’t provide you with a nice PDF file that you can take to your boss. • It can’t crunch numbers and give you a bunch of totals or sums (yet!). • It can’t make coffee.

  24. What can BARRT do? • It can allow you to select the data that’s important to the questions you’re asking. • It can sort columns and sort results. • It can take a lot of guess work out of choosing the values you need. • It can let you save a query and rerun it. • It can give you screen output or a file for a text editor or Excel import.

  25. Select the views to use…

  26. Select the data you want…

  27. Find the values you want…

  28. Set up your sort criteria…

  29. Get your output…

  30. Run ready-to-go queries…

  31. Questions?

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