A couple of different work sessions with Bryan. He is working on saving large reports with an asynchronous process to build a CSV file behind the scenes. It gets pretty deep. We have to query all of the data, check record counts, show errors and options if over the limit. If not over the record count limit, we need to show the actual data. If they choose to build the CSV file (comma separated values file) we have to save the settings, build it, show progress, and then let them know when it is all done and ready for downloading. Pretty intense process.

So, on his local box, Bryan has run over 70+ tests and built that many CSV files. While testing, we found a few errors. We ended up removing some of the buttons and options and keeping things really simple. We took off options like refine your search or save report. We got the files ready and pushed them up to data 8 for some live testing. We instantly ran into some errors on the live server. We did a whole session where we just patched things and got it stable again.

We left lots of the new code on the master branch (with patches) and will circle back around. We then tried to get things setup to do more testing on the live server without hurting any of the existing traffic, data, and users. The new test stuff will virtually be built out on a side road of sorts (away from the normal data, pages, and flow). Sent a request to Wayne to let Bryan get access to data 8 for FTP (file transfer protocol - uploading files) privileges.