[FIXED - The email issue has been resolved as of 13:49 PST - Feb 2nd, 2009]
We’ve just learned that Hotmail and Yahoo are rejecting all email from bluyah.com. We believe this is due to how we have configured the current EC2 instance and are working feverishly to resolve the issue. We’ll let everyone know here and via Twitter as soon as the fix is in.
Thanks for your patience.
One of the tasks we are continually asked to do is to take some application data, format it in a way that gives the data some meaning, and display the results in a chart.
For anyone who has ever had to chart out a trend line, or attempted to calculate the intersection of two disparate data sets in Excel, charting quickly becomes a time-suck. You can very quickly spend more time developing the chart than you spent developing the original application.
With Bluyah, we’re going to make charting easier for you. If you understand your underlying data and can define it in a tabular format, you can go from that data set to a basic chart very easily.
The below example is built against the Bluyah database. The database view looks in the application’s user account table and counts the number of user accounts by week. The report was created off of this view without any modification. Then a chart “Export” was created off of the report.
From “idea” to the implementation you see here took less than 15 minutes.
Tell us what you think. Better yet, give us suggestions for improving Bluyah.
We’ve been putting a ton of work into simplifying Google Maps exports. Phase II should be ready for release within the next two weeks. Besides including a WYSIWYG-esqe editing interface, it will allow users to group, order, and better organize their map data into logical groupings (like colored markers for like-minded data).
Oh - and did we mention that geocoding will be included? You’ll no longer need to include latitude/longitude data in your reports. A geocodable address will be sufficient.
Here’s a preliminary screenshot.
Let us know what you think.
Mockup of Maps 2
What Is It?
A Marquee is a way to take a tabular data set to the next level, creating a list that can be embedded as a “window” within a website.
For example:
Of course, there is no need to embed the data widget within a window. You can simply call the URL directly:
http://admin.bluyah.com/export/marquee/8e9c9f40cd97012b6ee4002241319b39
How Does it Work?
Marquee allows you to designate different roles for each of the elements within your data set. For example, you can take the first column of data and have it act as the “text” part of a link, while a different column of data is designated as the “URL.” An additional data set can be appended as “additional info” and tooltips will be coming soon. If you want, you can turn on / off the display of the report title at the top of the Marquee.
Suggestions? Please Contact Us and let us know what you would like to see.
Version 0.4.1 of the Bluyah application is now live. Changes include:
- Fixed issue where IE7 users were not able to get to appropriate login screen when starting from the wrong sub-domain. [Ticket # 80]
- Fixed another issue with Atom/RSS feeds that was causing application to croak if it was unable to validate the URL of the feed before saving it. [Ticket #49]
- Outbound email notifications are now consistently being sent. If you’re not receiving emails from Bluyah, check your spam folder first. [Ticket # 75]
- Fixed a handful of spelling errors throughout the site (who lost the dictionariy .. err … dictionary ??) [Ticket #81]
- Added the Marquee Data Widget (detailed here).
Here’s the simplest type of export. We’ll take an RSS feed of our “Open” Tickets from our ticket tracking system, rename two of the data fields to “Title” and “Summary”, then spit out the results in tabular format to the screen.
http://admin.bluyah.com/export/screen/8e9c9f40cd97012b6ee4002241319b39
Feel free to bookmark the report link above if you want to keep track of open tickets. Since all Bluyah exports report in real-time, as soon as we add or remove a ticket from our tracking system the report will reflect the change.
