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my "practical" system like example
Posted: Dec 22, 1999 11:00 PM
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[Originally posted by mich micol]

Well just a "practical" example to see if I understand well.
Description: my system takes care of printing metal labels to a special
printer and it has data stored on a local dB while able to communicate with a
remote dB for updates as well.

The printing happens by the rules programmed in the system,
the set up values the user may edit and format values stored in
the local dB. [CONTROL FRAME]

Some users can change the settings for each label to be printed.
Other users can create new settings for new available labels and save them
.[WORKPIECE]

The user selects the available labels´formats from a local dB installed on the
PC.The user interface shows this info to the user who may edit it.
[INFORMATION]

The user can check if the local dB on his PC is update with a remote DB on a
server: that is if new records are available or if old data has to be
cleaned[INFORMATION]

When needed he downloads available new records or tables
from the remote dB.[INFORMATION]


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Re: my "practical" system like example
Posted: Feb 7, 2000 11:00 PM   in response to: import-bot in response to: import-bot
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[Originally posted by bkovitz]

First, sorry to take so long to reply, Mich! I'm just back from a
long vacation, an illness, and starting a new job.

Sounds like you've got it! Simple, straightforward, and all the
pieces are covered. I'd probably call the last subproblem a
connection problem, but it doesn't matter. These five statement
sound like they capture the requirements.

All that's left is to say what sorts of rules the user can define
and what sorts of info and formatting can go on the labels. It
might not even be necessary to document that, if it's simple.
Or perhaps just write the user's manual or on-line help as the
documentation in this case.

BK



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