Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:35:45 -0700 
From: Valerie Henderson <Valerie.L.Henderson@jpl.nasa.gov> 
Subject: MER status 7/15/04 
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Status 7/15/05 5:15pm

- Catalog file (dbonlinedev) has been loaded, and all development 
applications are now showing the MER datasets. Tweaks to the catalog 
continue to be made as errors/omissions are discovered.

- GEO has officially announced the start of the Review Period. A copy of 
the Review Announcement/Instructions have been uploaded to 
http://pds/tracking/MER/MERReviewInstructions.txt

- A Lessons Learned file has been started and uploaded to 
http://pds/tracking/MER/Lessons-Learned.pdf

- Elmain has started internal testing. Her initial results are below and 
have been uploaded to: http://pds/tracking/MER/InternalTestResults.txt

Thanks again everyone.

Valerie

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:44:03 -0700 

From: Elmain M Martinez <Elmain.M.Martinez@jpl.nasa.gov> 
Subject: a few fixes needed to MER stardev/PDS 
To: Betty Sword <Betty.J.Sword@jpl.nasa.gov>,  Valerie Henderson 
<Valerie.L.Henderson@jpl.nasa.gov> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) 

Howdy - 

I was poking around http://stardev.jpl.nasa.gov/pds/index.jsp in the 
various datasets and I found a few problems.  Most of these I've already 
mentioned to Betty... 


1) All Pancam and some Ncam, Hazcam, MB (possibly the others too) 
datasets have citations starting w/ the phrase "RIPTION" 

2) All Pancam datasets refer to viewing the data via the Analysts 
Notebook under the link "View Information for".  Coincidently, the 
"Other Resources" column does _not_ have the anything listed.  Betty 
says it should reference the Analysts Notebook. 

   a) The Hazcam anaglyph dataset should reference Analysts Notebook in 
   the "Other Resources" column on the dataset page (the nacam anaglyph 
   dataset looks correct). 


A couple things that will improve the Browser UI: 

3) Cannot refresh the instrument listing on main search page.  Here's 
what I did: Filtered on MER, Pancam.  This redirected me to the dataset 
page.  I hit the browser back button and got back to the main search 
page (showing what I filtered on). I pulled down the instrument menu but 
only 'camera' was selectable. I had to reset the entire page and start 
the filter sequence all over again.  Ideally the UI should allow the 
user to relist all the instruments w/o having to reset. 

4) With the Safari browser, the popup description for each item in the 
Home banner float all over the page; where ever the mouse goes.  Very 
annoying.  Pressing ESC doesn't get rid of them either.  This behavior 
happens 90% of the time.  The Mac has this auto popup feature, but there 
is a delay before the popup is displayed - this delay ensures that 
deliberate action is being taken to view the popup.  Perhaps the PDS 
page should have a delay as well. 


-Elmain 
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Elmain Martinez 
Image Processing Systems, JPL 
(818) 354-4053 






Valerie L. Henderson
Planetary Data Systems
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Dr. MS 168-414
Pasadena, CA  91109-8099
(818) 354-0658  Fax (818) 393-3134
Valerie.L.Henderson@jpl.nasa.gov