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still crunching....

I got to work today as soon as I got back from my morning run and was ready to go after a nice power breakfast. As mentioned in the last post I spent yesterday working on the dashboard template. It required addition of a new method for retrieving the extant guest private message requests on the participant_queue table. This new method was made with three attributes, the new site_id column , the conversation_id (used as the guest pm uniqueness specifier) and a boolean attribute that determines if engaged (meaning a User is conversing with the guest) or unengaged rows are returned. The returned rows are extracted as an Object[] of String[] objects. In other classes of the API I've found it useful to return specific sets of data from the db in an object array when there is no formal need for a managing class. In this case, we only use the participant_queue rows to display in the dashboard, all other use of rows (public/private, user/guest conversations) is implicitly performed by the ...