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The ACC Installation Infrastructure Report Database System was a project I oversaw sometime last year (2008), where we developed a very slick leadership level roll-up report, in-house, with .net coding done by Bob Taylor from HB&A. I gave it a pretty thorough overhaul, polished it up, changed the CSS and icons, and embedded it into the AF Portal, to make it look like it does now — as well as changed some of the rules and categorization for various extensions. It’s very modular, and easily updatable by anyone who knows a bit of VB/.NET.
The framework pulls content from a very loose folder structure, so that the A7OI guys can just drop their sustain team reports in and keep on working. The application automatically sorts powerpoint briefs, word documents, pictures, and 332 Forms among other things. It can filter out project documents based on their text content, or just filter them out by extension. The installation rating itself is controlled by a rating text file for each section. This enables the end user to simply update the rating without knowing any code, or having to touch any sensitive data. The Application also supports archiving by year, so you can see how the installations evolve and fail to make changes and repairs to systems.
It’s a very slick rollup at a glance that the leadership loves since it looks pretty. Works very fast with minimal effort and the end user can just dump whatever they want into the database structure without worrying about formatting. I’m very happy with it, and I know the guys over at HB&A are too.