Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:51:45 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: new documents notification and approval Message-ID: <20060812165145.GA42789@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <44DE013C.4050702@netfence.it> References: <44DE013C.4050702@netfence.it>
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On 2006-08-12 18:26, Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it> wrote: > Hello. > > I apologize for the OT, but I really wouldn't know where to ask and, > afterall, server side will be FreeBSD. > > A customer of mine has the need to notify all users when a certain type > of new document is written and ask them to sign they have read it. > Right now everything is on plain old paper, with someone running after > everyone personally, but obviously they'd like to move to the electronic > way. > > Right now the best (but surely not the only one) solution I've thought > of is be the following: > _ that same person can write to a SMB share on my server and will put > new documents there; > _ some program in NETLOGON.CMD will check for new entries, pop up a > window with the link and the "Accept" button; acceptance means something > will be written somewhere (possibly on that same share or another, or > connecting to a web script); > _ some PHP web page will collect the result and display who has accepted > and who must be sollicited. Nah! That's a hack and an ugly one too. Just get a full document management system, instead of reimplementing a square wheel in PHP and being happy that it didn't come up with more edges :-)
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