RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-18 Thread Carsten Troelsgaard
Another solution could be better, but that's in a realm where I don't excel. The files themselves has and probably can be added attributes/metadata. The scoop of the problem then moves to what attributes to add, where and when. I'll assume that an application program can access a ftp storage

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-18 Thread Carsten Troelsgaard
I forget the obvious.If such a thing as 'explorer' (the visual directory/file-reader that is the core of all the pc's I've ever used) exists, it can be used to add and edit attributes, and sort files by it. .. there you go

[OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-17 Thread Dave Patton
We are doing some brainstorming in order to come up with possible ideas of how to address a problem, so any thoughts, comments, or suggestions are welcome. The problem is outlined below. = Within a corporate environment the users have

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Troelsgaard
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:24:48 -0800 From: da...@confluence.org To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files? We are doing some brainstorming in order to come up with possible ideas of how to address a problem, so any

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-17 Thread Arnie Shore
My take is that the major item not readily available is a notification mechanism, to be triggered when something changes, with users registering themselves with some kind of call-back function. I dunno what's avaiable in desktop software libraries for this, but I see html5 providing such a

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Troelsgaard
My take is that the major item not readily available is a notification mechanism, to be triggered when something changes, with users registering themselves with some kind of call-back function. I dunno what's avaiable in desktop software libraries for this, but I see html5 providing such

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-17 Thread Dave Patton
On 2012/02/17 11:36 AM, Carsten Troelsgaard wrote: It may be possible to add software to the Reviewer's workstation to assist with this process, but it will be less likely to be able to deal with the Workers' workstations, and very unlikely to be able to deal with the servers hosting the file

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-17 Thread Dave Patton
On 2012/02/17 11:51 AM, Arnie Shore wrote: BTW, I believe the OP is looking for handling not a random file (hardly that!) but an 'arbitrary' user-selected one. Arnie is correct - I should have perhaps said 'arbitrary'. The point is that the Reviewer can't necessarily anticipate how the 'files

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Troelsgaard
Dave, If the only common denominator of all involved is the company you work for, you'll need a gophor.Joke aside. If noone in your organisation can build you a .html that everyone involved can access, you do have a problem.To put resonable scripting on the page and on the server it's

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-17 Thread Arnie Shore
Nibbling away: Carsten's quite correct, re server-side work needing to be done. Now I believe an approach based on xmpp might provide a solution; Googling for XMPP and collaboration finds several interesting possibly suitable approaches. Especially interesting, IMO, is

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Troelsgaard
At a quick glimps it looks as what I just accomplished today. The page that is downloaded keeps pinging back to the server to give it a chance to post back information.Next step is to find out how the server-internals works. It's a bit of a nusence that I probably will have to consider it

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] any ideas on how to Monitor and Review 'random' files?

2012-02-17 Thread Carsten Troelsgaard
Dave, There's no pc-lab like the pillow.Writing the complex code may be more conviniently done in an 'ordinary' application .. letting the web stuff be one big gophor. 'That' application can have a file-system watcher and a silent thread running and possibly responde on changes. And lots more