On 6/3/2017 11:29 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
On Jun 3, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Thierry Nivelet tnivelet@foxincloud.com wrote:
One of our clients, US based, has such an application. Initially the Web version was designed for the external partners -- suppliers and clients -- to interact with the company. Guess what, nowadays **all employees** of the company use the Web
I built something like this in VFP several years ago.
Remember when those "small form" laptops first came out? One of them was EE PC or something like that: running Windows XP and I think a 9 inch screen (nifty little devices: 8 hour battery life easy, quick "suspend/resume" - as in close the lid, open the lid). In this case they were driving around neighborhoods checking houses, etc. The app could use the built-in camera to take pictures, manage notes, get special instruction, blah blah blah. The system would connect to wifi if available, otherwise it would just "buffer up" the info until the wifi was detected. A background app took care of syncing stuff they did or stuff they needed.
We could have done a full-on web-enabled app but the owner did not want to initially spend the money on the cellular cards and service <shrug>. There would have been a lot of other cool things that could have been done with an always-on internet connection. Anyway, it worked great and the users really liked the sub-second response time on the functions in the application.
-Charlie