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Testing the Application

You now have a fully functional application. You can enter projects and tasks, and also assign employees to those tasks. Do the following to test the application:

  1. Run Project.Grid Maintenance Suite.Edit Grid User Interface.
  2. Navigate to the grid selector field for Proj01 and enter 5 in the field.
  3. Press Enter to open the Edit Task panel. The Edit Task panel appears:

    PLEX--Testing the Application

  4. Press F6 to open the Add Task panel. The Add Task panel appears. This is the panel scoped to Task.Grid Maintenance Suite.Create User Interface.

    Notice that the Project ID field is already filled.

    PLEX--Testing the Application (2)

  5. Enter the following data for a task:

Value

Enter

Task ID

TASKA

Task Description

Create a data

The third field you need to fill, Employee ID, requires an exact match to the ID for the employee to whom you want to assign the task. However, you may not know to whom you want to assign a task or an employee’s ID, so perform the next step.

  1. Navigate to the Employee ID field and press F4. The List Employee panel appears.

    PLEX--Testing the Application (3)

    Remember, you already changed this panel to hide the Employee Email and Employee URL fields, for more information, see Hiding Fields on Panels in the chapter "Diagramming Entity Relationships."

  2. Navigate to the grid selector field for Martha Kolman and enter 1.
  3. Press Enter. The Add Task panel reappears with the Employee ID filled in:

    PLEX--Testing the Application (4)

  4. Press Enter to accept the task’s settings.
  5. Repeat the preceding steps to add the following tasks:

Value

Enter

Task ID

TASKB

Task Description

Verify model with clients

Employee

Martha Kolman

Value

Enter

Task ID

TASKC

Task Description

Decide which libs. to use

Employee

Martha Kolman

  1. Press F3 to close the Add Tasks panel, and again to close the Edit Task panel.
  2. On the Edit Project panel, type a space to remove the 5 from the grid selector region for PROJ01.
  3. Navigate to the grid selector field for PROJ02 and enter 5.
  4. Press Enter, then enter the following tasks for this project:

Value

Enter

Task ID

T130

Task Description

Architect email module

Employee

David Castro

Value

Enter

Task ID

T131

Task Description

Test email functionality

Employee

David Castro