9.8. Suggested Exercises

So, if you want to compete with Quicken, there's certainly plenty of opportunity for extending Finance Master, all of which could be excellent learning opportunities. Here are just a few suggestions:

Add a new portlet and allow the ability to remove and add it, along with the portfolio distribution and account history portlets. You'll have to come up with a UI mechanism to list available portlets and allow the user to add them, as well as add some sort of close Button to those portlets (the portfolio overview and account activity portlets probably need to always be present).

Add the ability to delete portfolios. Admittedly, I just got lazy and didn't add that feature! Also, how about being able to change passwords on a portfolio?

Provide the capability to edit existing accounts and activity records. This is trickier than you think because the account name is the key of the accounts table, so you'll first have to modify the database structure to use a unique key for each, as in the activity table. But I know you're up to it!