Is this possible in RR?

[Pierre Sahores]

Le 16 août 04, à 03:43, Paul a écrit :

> Dear list,
> As a complete programming newbie, first I should say, that I'm glad to 
> be in a community that actually welcomes us newbies, even try to 
> attract us, thanks!!!.
> I haven't bought a Rev license yet as I'm not (100%) sure the 
> application I'm planning is possible in Revolution, so I have a few 
> questions that I hope someone will help with!!!
> The company I'm looking to design the application for, is a vertically 
> integrated cattle company, meaning they have breeding properties, 
> feedlots and an abattoir (slaughterhouse)
>
> Requirements
>
> 1.What I'm hoping to do is build a system where each of the breeding 
> properties can record enter cattle weight (and other) details,and have 
> the application work out an individual's daily weight gain and 
> forecast future weights.
>
> Question: These records would typically be over 5000 animals with 
> possibly 20 to 30 records each. Would I use a SQL database, XML, 
> Arrays, or cards to store the data? (sorry, I've still a lot to learn, 
> obviously!!!)

Rev binded to Valentina (local DB) and PostgreSQL (remote DB)...
>
> 2.This info needs to be accessable over the web by the feedlot, so 
> that the manager can forecast his feed requirements well in advance of 
> the cattle arriving, similarly the slaughterhouse needs access so they 
> can 'forward sell' the resulting meat. They would also be inputting 
> weight and carcass and price data for feedback to the breeders. (who 
> also need access)
>
> 3. Web access can be flaky in the more remote areas, so I don't want a 
> typical 'web application', rather something more along the lines of 
> the excellent GoRevnet. That is, I would need the program to be able 
> to operate as a local application, then by clicking a button, connect 
> to a server, synchronise with the database, and upload 'new' 
> information and download 'new' information, automatically

See upon..
>
> 4. The info would need to be segregated by password so that indiviual 
> breeders would only have access to their own info, but head office 
> would have access to everything. Similarly the feedlot could access 
> the breeder records but not slaughterhouse records.

Rev Transcript scripting...
>
> 5. It would also need some fairly flexible reporting functionality
>
> I know the first thing ppl will say is to 'try something less 
> complicated first and work up to a project like this', which is what I 
> will do, but although I think this can be done in Rev, I don't want to 
> buy a license, without knowing that it can eventually done.

As Sarah, Dan, Andre and more, i work all the time on such kind of apps 
and i wouldn't want to use an other core dev tool than Revolution to 
build them :D

> Thanks in advance
> Paul
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