User permissions is perhaps the most difficult thing to code correctly in either version of ConTrak.  In ConTrak v1, users could have permissions by one or more of four ways: permission for the con, role for the con, permission for the convention type (con type), and role for the con type.  That meant I ended up building many large union tables to get everything working for ConTrak v1.

For ConTrak v2, I will simplify it: A user has permissions for a convention and could also have a permission template for when new conventions are created (which will then be copied into the active permissions for that new convention).  It's a lot simpler.  Or so I would think...

I have no idea why, but I created the template table to refer to individual conventions.  Building on that brain fart, I created queries to join the template and permission tables together and even went so far as to create a complete working model of the ConTrak v2 permission code base!  It was only later I caught the error.  That means I'm going to have to go back (later, but before I do anything else) and re-code the permissions stuff.

If that wasn't bad enough, I have the ConTrak sysadmin, convention owner, and convention admin accounts to worry about.  I began implementing some code, and after a few acceptable errors got that working.  I then created code for the sysadmin account.  That went to pieces!  I wasn't calling the correct object, I confused object names, didn't increment properly, and, well, I just made too many simple mistakes that I should have never made.

Yep, it's time to take a break...

For those of you curious what I'm doing with this version of ConTrak at the moment, I will oblige:

I have created the page template.  Some people want it formatted just a tad differently.  I see the justice, so I will modify it later.

I created the navigation structure.  It is mostly AJAX-based (JavaScript hitting the server when the user doesn't know it).

I have a few things spec'ed out: The sysadmin convention list and the Add/Edit Convention Wizard.  Isn't that fun: ConTrak gets a wizard.  There's a Very Good Reason for it; setting up a convention would be a lot easier with a wizard.

I do not know when I will have an early demo version available of this commercial release of ConTrak.  Try June for an early demo (would that count as my CTP?).