I'd consider doing a PowerBI dashboard to deliver the "news" on trailer status.
Doing it in SP is good too, but updating that data source is a lot harder IMO from VFP.
From SQL Server there are hooks built for doing this in an SSIS job. You
could schedule that job to run ever 2-5 min. You could probably pull from VFP data in SSIS as well. Just getting that running is a hurdle to overcome.
What version of SP? On prem or M365?
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:32 PM Tracy Pearson tracy@powerchurch.com wrote:
It was a long time ago I heard a talk about SharePoint. Does the Spreadsheet basically use an Access database, or an MSSql server for the backend data? Wouldn't you just be updating that table and the SharePoint site will take care of the rest?
I haven't done this myself, I only remember bits of the talk and none of the front end implementation.
Tracy
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of James Trogdon Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2022 2:08 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: VFP to SharePoint Spreadsheet Dashboard
Hi All,
The company I work for is eventually going to a new ERP but until that time I still must maintain some VFP (version 6 and 9) apps. I have a trailer assigning project that will allow people to scan orders to a trailer. The orders are then scanned when they begin loading and when they finish loading. After the loading, a query is run to determine if all the orders for that trailer is complete. I had thought to just email the information, but the users are wanting a live dashboard configured as a SharePoint Spreadsheet where everybody in the company can see it. The shipping tower would like to mark when an order has been picked and delivered. I've never done any development accessing SharePoint with VFP so I thought I would ask how you would display a dashboard that would refresh every 5 minutes or so but still allow certain fields to be marked as complete on the spreadsheet. I would assume the program would be setup as scheduled task running every 5 minutes to update the spreads heet. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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