I have developed a web-based solution for scheduling instruments.
I have one for scheduling a walk-on atomic absorption (AA) spectrometer
and have almost finished the one for our NMR spectrometers.
You can check out the one for our AA spectrometer at:
http://www.rrc.uic.edu/FACILITIES/AASL/
The AA schedule is fairly simple. It has NO software enforced signup rules,
all the users are trained to change atomizitation sources (furnace, flame,
atomic vapor accessory) so there are no probe changes to worry about, and
it is password protected for modifing but not for viewing. All the users
have their own "login" names and passwords. They can change their
passwords on-line.
The NMR schedule software is more complicated by having to accommodate
probe changes, signup rules (not implimented), more signup slots,
when to post the schedule, etc... It has a seperate NMR lab manager's web
page for doing these things.
If you want to roll your own... As Alan said you will probably
have to have your own server as most web managers will usally not allow
their server to do CGI scripting. We use a PC running LINUX and the
Apache web server. I have done most the CGI scripting with Perl. You will
need to learn a programming/scripting language if you don't already know one.
You will also need to learn about HTML tags, HTML tables that are created
on the fly, HTML forms, HTML parsing of form input, e.g. POST and GET and
a lot of other things.
Feel free to contact me if you need more info.
--art
At 05:06 PM 9/24/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi anybody,
>
>we want to do our time table for spectrometer time (we have 2 shifts per
>day, which have to been booked 1 week earlier) not longer per "hardware
>calender" (i.e. normal paper) but per network which anybody of us can
>reach from anywhere.
>
>Which solutions are there?? Does anybody solved the problem already??
>
>One of them might be web-site. It is easy to esatblish a fixed table per
>HTML, but: the entries must be changeable be the users !
>This means: everybody must be able to book online a free shift.
>As far as I know, to change a constents of a table (or a formular) and
>then save it is not possible per java.script.
>
>Can anybody help?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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