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What is invloved in enabling an Application for the Web?
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05/10/1999 16:38:31
Louis Schwartz
Strategic Investment Partners
Arlington, Virginia, United States
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Internet applications
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00272532
Message ID:
00272924
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36
>Hi
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>I have a potential client who wants an existing application available to people from the Web. The application has schedules for school sports teams etc. He would like parents or students to access it to see games schedules etc. so they do not have to phone the school. These schedules are currently printed as reports. I suppose the reports could be saved in HTML and posted as Web pages.
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>It was written in VFP 3.0. I have not had experience in putting applications on the Web. What steps are involved? Does the application have to be re-written for the Web? What are some issues to watch out for?
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>Any information would be appreciated.
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>Simon White

A simple solution, if all you want to do is put the reports on the web, is Adobe Distiller. You just run the reports to a postscript file - REPORT FORM test noconsole to test.ps

put this file in your adobe "in" directory, and a pdf file will be created in your adobe "out" directory. Your reports will be small, and your users can print them out at home. This is much easier than creating HTML pages and your reports look exactly the same as they do in your application.

Another advantage of this is that you can set up a batch mailer to mail these reports out to your clients as attachments, and anyone with adobe reader can read them.

Good Luck
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