I am afraid i dont know we're only starting out on a new project but it could be dozens or even hundreds of remote points, scattered all over the place.
So that represents lots of scalability issues in designing the application which i'm giving a lot of thought. But its the remote printing to a whole variety of locations, where there will be no interaction with the system apart from a non-IT trained person picking up the printed out put and executing the job. It's the connectivity to all those devices and how to trigger the printing that gives me cause to ponder. We can have intelligence on that device so it can format printing and all that if i sent it a XML packet or some such. It would be good to be able to require only a power point there if possible - so they plug it into the power, turn it on at the wall and its available to the system by itself. that way there's no need for us to provide keyboards, screens, training etc if that is at all possible. Certainly no specialised staff. I'm sorry if i have to be a bit vague about the actual specifics of the app - its still in progress and once launch i can say more. But since we're only now scoping out the job launch is a while away yet. 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 On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Ryan Letulle<[email protected]> wrote: > > How many daily tickets on average? > -- > Ryan LeTulle > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Mike Kear <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 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:323338 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
