[Zope] creating a file on a client

[Tom Deprez]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Casey Duncan" <cduncan@kaivo.com>
To: "Tom Deprez" <tom.deprez@uz.kuleuven.ac.be>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>; "Tom Deprez (Home)" <Tom.Deprez@village.uunet.be>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] creating a file on a client


> Tom Deprez wrote:
> >
> > > What is you purpose in doing this? perhaps there is a different
> > > approach.
> >
> > It is intended for using it at an intranet. At the moment several
clients
> > search a database and return a file on a certain directory which is then
> > read and used by another pc. This means that on all clients certain
database
> > libraries, perl libraries, etc have to be installed and updated now and
> > then.
> > In a wild idee, we would like to get rid of this system and if possible
use
> > one point on which the database libraries (etc) need to be installed.
The
> > client then asks on that computer for searching the information. The
server
> > returns it back and places a file on the client, so that the other
program
> > can use it, like it does before.
> > I can be that on a later stage, people need a sort of gui to make a
> > selection out of a list of data. Selecting one will create the file. The
gui
> > will probably be the webbrowser.
> > The problem is that it in fact should work automatically, ie in the
first
> > fase (thus no list) the user should not have to click on a button to
> > download the file. This would be too annoying since I guess then they
have
> > to push that button every 5 minutes... Same for the list, clicking on a
row
> > should automatically create the file.
> > The benefits of this central station is off course that we only have to
> > change things on one place...
> > I think Zope would be very helpfull... At the moment we've a perl script
to
> > connect to the database. We could probably just use this one in the
testing
> > fase (Perl scripts or External Perl Methods). If we need to create the
> > gui... Zope would do just fine.
> > But is it possible?
> >
> > Tom.
>
> Does this file have to physically reside on the client PC or could it be
> served from a central file server?

Yes, this file has to reside on the client PC.

> What does this client-side program actually do with this file?

Another program (from a firm) on this computer reads the file and parses the
contents (eg patient data: name, ...) . It uses this information to put it
on a radiographic cassette, the information identifies the patient.

Regards; Tom