software/technology question

[Mark Story]

Hi Brad,

I have investigated this for an application here.  I haven't found anything
right off the shelf that will do this.  Anything I have been able to come up
with would require quite a bit of custom programming.  I had found a pretty
nice calendar applet in Java, but it would still need a lot of programming
to make it do anything like you want.  A higher performance approach would
be to use an ActiveX control, but this would limit you to clients with
Windows machines running MS IE browser (for the most part).  Another
approach would be to use all HTML forms with some scripting on the client
side and process everything at the server with CGI or some other server
scripting application, but this is really tough to do unless you have access
to the web server (as I assume you don't).  Some web hosting services permit
user written CGI scripts, but most don't for security reasons.

Mark Story, RPT
Eastern Washington University
mstory@ewu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Smith <bsmith006@sprintmail.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 1997 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: software/technology question


>A customer could log on to a web site with an ID#, see a display of my
>monthly calendar, then  click on days and times to choose an
>appointment. My parameters would already be in the calendar such as:
>No early rush hour appointments in Boston, or late rush hour from
>Boston, etc. (Sounds like I'm prejudiced against Boston, doesn't it?)
>Or, tailored routing of different towns which are adjacent.