I am working on a project where I am going to have to print up a job ticket in a remote location. An event happens on the web site, and it causes this job ticket to print out in one of perhaps thousands of locations unattended. The people who are going to fill the job will have no interaction with teh system except to take the job ticket off the printer and do the task.
We've specced out the whole application except for the part where we connect all these remote locations to the web site. What i want is to be able to push a xml packet to this remote location and get back an ack so i know its been received and executed. Since there will be minimal training of the staff at the remote locations and they wont necessarily have access to IT staff or other specialists, we were hoping to be able to keep it as simple as the EFTPOS terminals they have in retail stores. The main difference is that with a EFTPOS terminal the store clerk starts the transaction - we're going to start this transaction at the other end and push it down to the remote location. Daily running cost is a factor, so we dont want to have the remote devices making calls to our system by modem every few minutes - we want to have it all run from our web site. Any ideas on how this could be done? The environment as far as we have it: We have a CF8 Enterprise/Win2003/SQLServer web site, and think the remote sites will need a small low-cost self-contained Linux box with a little thermal printer or something but exactly how they're connected we havent worked out yet. Anyone have experience with this kind of scenario? Perhaps a factory job ticket or a retail point of sale system maybe? -- Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:323328 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
