Milestone 5 presentation Harlan Broughton Stephen Link

Web Based management system  Web based management system started as a project last semester.  Intended to actually be used by the marching band to help maintain synchronicity among members.

 Originally informed of the idea of the project, and we started with little instruction  We had a strong idea of what we were dealing with, but the devil was in the details.  We found the project to be a good starting ground but ultimately unfinished program.  It seemed like the perfect project: a great challenge that could actually be used.

 The IMS (Information Management System) is broken down into six sections: ◦ Registration ◦ Login ◦ Data Access ◦ Members-Only ◦ Notification ◦ Pep-band Scheduler

 To gain access to the IMS the end-user must fill out the registration form and submit it.  Once the registration is approved by the band office administration the user will be able to log in and access the rest of the system.

Member Registration  The user is directed to the Members Registration Page if they do not log in to a preexisting user account  Information can be edited later on

 After registration, the user is sent an prompt to confirm registration. This brings the user to a the activation page.

Notification System  The notification subsystem serves as a tool for communication between members of the band.  It works similarly to any standard account, because is in fact the actual mode of communication used behind the scenes.  Administrators choose who may contact who, based on band membership and status.

Media  This table contains five columns which provide information for the user to select content to play.  Administrators have the addition options to delete and add media.  In limited testing it has worked

Pep Band Scheduler  The scheduler helps both pep-band and administrators deal with attendance of pep-band games.  The game page displays data related to a specific game, such as the Game ID, Location, and Opponent, among others.  The attendance area on the lower half of the page will display differently for each user. If you are a member of the pep-band you will see an attendance list of all people attending the game from your section, as well as a button to 'Register' or 'Unregister' which will remove the users name from the attendance sheet.

 Site built using Visual Studio  Database created using SQL Server  Site Hosted using IIS  DNS provided by dyndns.com  Windows Communication Foundation to put database and site together

 WCF wont work, so nothing can converse between site and DB  Therefore, cannot stream media, populate tables, log in, or transfer information for FileMaker.  Solution?

 Internet Information Services ◦ Microsoft’s web server, second in popularity to Apache  Dyndns.com ◦ Free dns hosting

 Microsoft SQL Server 2008  Easy to use, free via MSDN

 Visual Studio 2008 SP2 used for primary development (using C#)  Microsoft Expression Blend 4 for visually editing the xaml pages .Net Reflector to edit the dll’s for specific functionality

Data Access (Above) Edit account (Left) Expression Blend

 Encryption of the data was very important aspect of our project.  If this was to be used at all encryption is a must. Lots of personal information is stored on our databases.  Combination of data encryption and server- based  Our final encryption algorithm is based on a set of multiple keys which XOR their values with the information.  Decryption XORs the information with the keys in reverse order to retrieve the data.

 Our algorithm was not over complex in order to save time when interacting with the database.  Our first problem came when dealing with how the server received the incoming information.  It would parse the information with headers to distinguish different types. This conflicted when we would encrypt the data, and it would then get lost in the database.

 We eventually were crafty with how we encrypted the data, and had to change the way the server managed it, but we got it working.  This problem did set us back slightly.  Also uses IIS-based authentication to confirm usability

 FileMaker Integration step was to implement the FileMaker program into the IMS.  It is a clean way of handling displays for a file system.  It is highly customizable and neat.

 It originally seemed very straightforward and good way to clean up our GUI.  Unfortunately the more we tried to implement it, the more daunting of a task it become.  The problem came with how the IMS was originally designed. It is not designed well for change at all, so full implementation  If we were to directly implement FileMaker we would need to redesign much of the project.  Did start to implement a simple function to output the chosen information for the user to save, but did not have time to complete.

 Good choice for project, since allowed to learn and work with a number of interesting technologies  Design is simple, but setup is complicated  Most parts worked well together, but WCF not working doomed the rest