[Zope] Good Use for Zope?

[sean.upton@uniontrib.com]

Since barcodes are always unique numbers, you are likely to find that you
would have good luck using keyboard-based barcode readers and a simple web
form.  In Zope, you could set up a BTree Folder that contained all your book
records as some sort of object; the object id for your books would be the
barcode, and you could use ZCatalog to catalog all the info, and enable
barcode searches very easily.

I imagine you could do this in ZClasses if you wanted a quick and easily
solution, and you wouldn't have to mess with using a relational database;
the upside to this setup is that all your data would be web-maintainable...

Also, I think someone hacked some code to decrypt those lame CueCat barcode
scanners to work in Zope; the encrypted text would be input into a text
area, and when submitted, they would return the correct barcode...

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Leland Myrick [mailto:leemyr@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:26 PM
To: Zope@zope.org
Subject: [Zope] Good Use for Zope?


I'm new to Zope but I'm excited by its possibilities. I'm going to be doing
some contract work to setup a database for a high school resource center.
The basic idea is that all the materials available for the teachers to
checkout (book sets, vidoes, math materiels, etc.) would be on the database
and would be set up with a barcode system and wand for quick checkout, much
like any lending library.

The nice part is that every teacher is already connected on an ethernet lan,
so I want to set it up so that they can search the database from their
classrooms without having to trudge across the campus only to find out that
what they were looking for isn't in the system or has been checked out.

The first ideas of the school personnel were filemaker or access. I
definitely am not doing access. The point is, has anyone done a barcode
checkout system on zope? Good idea?

leland myrick 

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