paul@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Paul Siu) (10/08/90)
I have to develop a room scheduling appliation that will run on a MACINTOSH.
The application will automat a task that was once served by paper forms. I
only have rudimentary experience with databases (FileMaker), and is probably
the wrong person for this job, but I still have to finish it. The specification
for the database is listed below, but what I am interested in is the answers to
the following questions:
1. What database packages should I use? Foxbase? Double Helix?
2. How much will it cost?
3. How hard is this project, task wise and time wise?
Please reply via E-mail since I do not have time to read this group, but I'll
summarize and post results. Thank you.
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Input: - Basically a form entry, equivalent to filling out the paper version of
the form.
- Entry checking to make sure each entry is valid.
- Certain fields will only have to be enter if certain conditions are
met. For example, user will only have to enter types of food, only if
the check box "Food Service" is checked.
- On-line Help, better if one can add context sensitive.
- A way to setup semi-permanent time slot. Example: Managment meets in
room 206 for every tuesday at 8:00am.
- A way to reschedule semi-permanent time slots. Example: VP wants room
206 for on tuesday for only one day. He overides management for that
day, so management is relocated to another room for that day.
Output - Forms for billing and various contract services.
- A form that saids who's got what room on a certain day.
Query - What's in a room between 2 user defined days.
- Who's confirm, and who's not.
Others - Must be expandable, must have some way to add rooms.
- Some method of auto archiving old data.
- Must work from a local talk server.