> >>8. Booking Forms > >>We need an online form that people can use to book in for > an install. They > >>should fill in the specifications of their computer, and list any > >>peripherals that they want set up. > >>The form will also warn about the danger of partitioning > for dual boot > >>configurations, and contain information about preparing > their hard drive and > >>backing up important data. > >> > > Same as last time. Some discussion of it needs to be done tweaks and > stuff. We will need somewhere to host it. Hopefully Chris H. > can help again.
Last years one is at http://www.linuxnut.co.nz/register.php. Does Chris H still own this? I notice that it was updated on 11 Feb 2004 and is now hosted by www.sclnz.com (Rex Johnston). Can we use it again? How do we get access to update it? > > there should also be the ability to get a nice written > report for the > > day, because people get very annoyed at writing it all out > again for the > > installer. They should be pre-printed, ready to sign, and > taken straight > > from the database. can't be that hard (says Nick the > non-preogrammer :-) > > No worries (says a programmer ;-) > > As we already have the code for the DB itself then adding the report > stuff shouldn't be too hard. We already have some code to > produce a csv > file for import into a spreadsheet etc but I think we need to have a > page per entry. When the person turns up with their computer, they should be assigned an Installer. The Installer will find the report out of the pile of reports. IIRC last time we didn't use the information we collected to its full potential. Later David Kirk
