Re: Booking list system??
Keith Brown (brownk@chem4823.usask.ca)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:04:03 -0600 (CST)
>
> We are currently considering making an "electronic" booking system for our
> NMR spectrometers. Our users are located several places in the Oslo area
> (http://www.uio.no/english/index.html)
> (http://www.uio.no/english/visiting_links.html) and close by small towns
> and an easy access via Netscape (or similar) to the booking lists with
> write perimissions (on empty slots) for people belonging to our nmr-users
> group and write (and erease) permissions for the system operators is on our
> wish list.
>
> We would also have a terminal/monitor close to the entrance of the NMR
> lab(s) displaying all lists simultaneously and the lists should be updated
> in real time when someone does a change to any of the lists.
>
> Certain restrictions would of course apply, minutes and hours and total
> booking time in a certain time interval as well as how far into the future
> you are allowed to book the routine instruments.
>
> Our computing people/programmers wants to know if this task already has
> been accomplished somewhere in the world. They would of course prefer to
> copy of an already existing solution if possible.
>
We have an automated booking system running in our department. Access
is via a web browser. You can access it yourself at
http://chem4823.usask.ca/booking.html. Using the name 'guest' you can look
at the setup but not actually do any booking.
I was thinging of making this program generally available to the nmr
community in the near future but now is as good a time as any. The program
is written in perl and runs as a cgi program through the browser. As far
as I can tell all of the major bugs have been worked out (we have been
using it for almost a year now).
If there is any interest please let me know and I'll make the source
code generally available.
Keith Brown
Department of Chemistry
University of Saskatchewan