Hi everybody,
I got a lot of answers concerning my question for booking software
(thank you all !!).
In my oppinion this gives me two hints: many labs are interested in such
an solution, and many attempts were made for solution.
That's why I believe to public some answers (sorry, without permissions
of the owners, but address and contents shortened - flames to my
address!) by attachment of a text file.
The first 3 proposals are commercial ones, the other self made
solutions.=20
As far as I understand it is an basic demands for all programmes to have
an own web server (i.e. you should have root permissions on that host).
And: to configure you must something understand of higher level
languages (at least by the non commercial programmes).
My be that one of you develope an easy-to-use software for noncommercial
free use. Let us know.
Greetings !
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Matthias Findeisen
Inst. f=FCr Analytische Chemie
D-04103, Linn=E9str.3
Tel +49-341-9736053 /055 / 050
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It seems like a calendar server (Netscape has a free one) would
be ideal for this.
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I have used claris filemaker pro to do this. version 4 has built in web
support for this.
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Check out the www based calander called ICAL from Brown Bear Software:
http://www.brownbearsw.com/ical/
( !!! very good hint !! M.F.)
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I'm currently tidying up and annotating our web-based NMR spectrometer
scheduling software, and I plan to make it available by Sept 27 or the end
of the month (depending upon how the weekend goes). I've had a fair
number of others ask for a copy of this, but I wanted to make it more
user-friendly before offering it to anyone. If you're interested, I can
send you an email when I get this done.
An older demo version of our scheduling software is available on our web
site at http://nmr.chem.indiana.edu. This version is older, and the new
version has a few extra features and some bugs that are fixed. I also
plan to update the demo version by next week.
Thanks,
Marty Pagel mpagel@indiana.edu
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ask the folks at www.ccrc.uga.edu
thay wrote something like that in java, but I dont know if they are giving it
away for free.
roushan@ccrc.uga.edu is the person you should contact.
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We have a web-based scheduling system that is working reasonably
well; try www.ccrc.uga.edu, go to 'Analytical Services', then 'NMR
scheduling' to take a look . We are working on a more graphical system
using java which will be ready in a few months. If you want to discuss
the methods, contact Saied Roushanzamir at roushan@ccrc.uga.edu.
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You might want to take a look at kshSchedule , located at
http://members.xoom.com/dfrench/kshschedule.html
It's written in Korn shell of all things, but the source code is available and the package is free. It has a few things that would probably have to be modified for your
(or at least my) needs, such as: the passwords are not encrypted, anyone can create a new database, and just basically assumes that everyone is friendly and there's
no need of much security. On the up side it should run on almost any UNIX box and the problems I mentioned are easy to fix if you have a few hours and some
html experience.
-- Karl Vermillion Director, NMR Facility
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If you are using sun computers, you can create an account for each spectometer and permit authorized users to change appointments. This is the system we were using until recently. There is even software for a PC that lets you access the sun's calendars.
We recently started migrating to PC's for all but NMR data processing and have found that Microsoft Outlook is an excellent way for groups to share calendars. Much more convenient than sun's calendar manager.
Email: PeterRinaldi@uakron.edu
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About your request into whether anyone has an HTML system for reserving time on the spectrometer. Here at UC Davis, we have a combination of .cgi and .html files set up to do this job. The program itself is a modified version of a calendar program, but it does the job well. Users can go in and select a day and see all the people who are signed up to use the machine. They can then select an open time slot and reserve a time. I just setup a demonstration page of what the program looks like. You are welcome to reserve times and see how the system works(that's what I set up this page for). The address of the page is
http://www-chem.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/nmr/demo/app.cgi?pass
If you like what you see, let me know and I can send you the .cgi and .html files that run the program. Or if you have any questions feel free to ask. Hope this helps
Ben Palmer UCD Chemistry Help Desk chemweb@chem.ucdavis.edu
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As I promised at the AMMRL meeting in Asilomar, I have prepared a copy of my NMR reservation software for anonymous ftp. This package is now available as ftp.tamu.edu:/pub/Tools/NMR/reserve.tar.gz Steve Silber s-silber@tamu.edu
David Vander Velde (University of Kansas, dave@kunmr.chem.ukans.edu) has a very nice package (KISS) running in his lab. Written in Pascal, requires a DEC-VMS workstation, networking involved VT-100 emulation. The program is freely available. I think this has been rewritten for other platform.
dave scott iowa state university
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I was forwarded your e-mail concerning a reservation system by our NMR manager. We have recently implemented a web-based time table. It was written using C, but users access the program by using forms on a HTML web-page. It has a user database, so you have to have a username and password to add or remove time (this could of course be set-up for groups or individuals). The general use only allows reservations a day in advance, though our manager can make reservations as far ahead as he likes. The program is also set-up to handle multiple machines, with a separate reservations for each NMR.
If you want to take a look at how our system works, you can access it via "http://nmr-central.chem.uh.edu/". Follow either the QE or the AMX links and then the "view reservation times" submit button.
If you like how this works, I can send you a copy of the source code with some documentation. You would have to modify the code to suit your needs, but it might be a useful start, especially the code for parsing the html forms sent to the program.
John Hazelrigg
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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.
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My daughter has worked out a data submission page by which the local Yach Racing Committee's can enter date into a HTML table and then go back and edit this table if mystakes were made or changes need to be done.
These are a collection or PERL scripts that work off of two or three HTML pages with tables.
You can contact here via email at lisa@nitrogen.nmr.hawaii.edu. Her name is Lisa and she would probably be willing to email you those
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