1. MGS 351 Introduction to Management Information Systems RECITATION 11

2. Agenda Attendance Collect HW #4 Guided Exercise Questions Introduce HW #5: Switchboards and Macros Project Reminders Assign HTML Project Website Project Work Reminders

3. Homework 5 Chapter 7: Switchboards & Macros – Guided Exercise Questions Chapter 7 Due Two Weeks From Today: – Thursday Recitations November 21, 2013 – Friday Recitations November 22, 2013

4. Project Reminders You should officially have your Project Proposal APPROVED by the professor by the end of today. Check: – Project Checklist – Project Overview – PowerPoint on additional ways to earn points posted on my discussion board Only 2 LAB classes remain to work on Projects

5. Project Stage 1: Entity Creation/Data At least 10 records for main tables At least 3 records for periphery tables – (subforms, etc.) Formatting Establish Relationships (from Homework 4)

6. Project Stage 2: Forms & Subforms One form for each table must be created (this includes subforms) At least one subform or linked form in your database – Do not create subforms until you create/ set your relationships Buttons on the forms: – Ex. Add, Delete, Find, Print, Close User-friendly interface – Different & Labeled controls – Aligned & formatted – Tab order – Use techniques learned in homework

7. Project Stage 3: Queries & Reports Start Queries & Reports Remember – Formatting – Business Value – Use Grouping & Sorting – Use Relevant Titles/Control Names/Controls (Do not use all ID #’s) Titles should BRIEFLY describe what the report is displaying

8. Final Project Website (using HTML) See – HTML HELP Powerpoint - explains how to access your website on campus and off campus – HTML Code document - provides code you will need to achieve minimal requirements Both posted on UBlearns on my discussion board Discussed in lecture this week & next week

9. Important to Note Every person has access to their own website For your teams you will only use ONE person’s website to generate it for your company You can all test code in your individual websites, but only one hyperlink should be submitted

10. Getting Started: Activate Your Website To check if your website has been activated: – http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~yourUBITusername/ http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~yourUBITusername/ Mine is: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~nicolech/http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~nicolech/ If you get it means that you have not activated your website

11. Activate your website To activate your website: – https://ubfs.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/ubfs_activatepersonalwebsite.cgi https://ubfs.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/ubfs_activatepersonalwebsite.cgi Click on activate your website Test it again! – http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~yourUBITusername/ http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~yourUBITusername/ This should now display something like :

12. What does that mean? This is saying that you are using the default page that UB creates for you once you activate it. If you right click the page and press “view page source,” it will show you all the code.

13. In Order to Edit the Code On your desktop, click the UBFS drive, then public_html (this folder will contain all your website files such as: code, pictures, database, etc.)

14. To Edit Code The file “index” is where you will store all your code. It is a text file Open your index file with a text editor – Delete all the default code that you have in there. Paste this into the index file:  This will change the background color to green – Color codes can be found online: http://html-color- codes.info/http://html-color- codes.info/ – You can also use pictures as background

15. Editing Code So far we wrote: Add in: anything you write here will be displayed Always need an opening and closing tag In order to center the text: Blah blah blah

16. The file HTML CODE that I posted has all the code you will need to fulfill the minimal requirements.

17. Project Work Finish Stage 1 : Entity Creation Continue/finish Stage 2: Form Creation Start Stage 3: Report Creation (using queries) Work on your Company Website – Look at the HTML CODE file I posted

18. Reminders Homework #5 – Due in two weeks – Homework #5 Help next lab Entity/Table creation should be completed Form/ Subforms should be completed by the end of lab next week Queries and Reports should be started Start/Attempt Project Website

19. Reminders Next Week in Lab: – Homework #5 Help – 2 weeks left to work on your final project website This week’s lecture: On HTML – Please watch