Not a web developer but have a bit of software savy and looking to develop a custom app for use in my business which is consulting engineering. I want to develop application that helps me in documenting inspections I make on a jobsite. Basicly what happens is I would go out with a tablet and use my webapp to collect and document construction progress mainly to document construction deficiencies and monitor progress of construction. From the data collected on the job site I would push this data through a reporting engine to prepare a pdf style site review report which would get emailed to the project architect, all the consultants, owner and contractor - the intent is to have this happen while on the job site. On the office side I want to develop a basic project based document management system where I can document when field reviews were conducted, summarize deficiencies and also ensure that deficiencies are completed and signed off on (as the engineer I take legal responsibility for all the deficiencies). I also want to be able to manage all my projects find projects by client, owner, architect etc.
By the looks of it Django should be able to do all this but the one issue that I am unsure about is an offline mode. The idea is to have a tablet with a data connection but if there is no data connection I still need to complete the forms and cache the data until it can be sync'd later on. From what I have read, data syncing can get a bit knarly, something I don't want to get into myself. I envision a custom android app for the tablet - for this I need access to the GPS and camera (my ultra cool feature will be my tablet automatically pulling up a project page as I drive up to the job site based on the GPS coordinates!). Will this be a web page or will it be an actual app? Guess I am looking for some basic advice on how to architect this with the above issues in mind. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/4ag4SAJmCckJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
