Hello at Google, I have been asked (by my employer, a Software House in the UK) to investigate the possibility of designing and coding a Google App to provide a layer on-top of the Google Email inbox for WORKFLOW.
With this, a user (most typically using his/her Gmail account email to field club type emails, e.g. tennis applications, training requests etc. etc.) is able to tag an email automatically and enter it (or a newly created object as a result of a new user email more likely) into a club application workflow of user defined states for that new member object driven by administrator updates, e.g. requesting membership, on hold queue, not paid, now paid, access granted, forms dispatched etc. etc. A context between incoming emails and currently created objects (or potential club members) needs to be maintained by the app. so that a newly arrived email with an existing club conversation in play, can be used to update a currently recorded member object. Each state can be recorded for a given user and emails sent by that user (and replies) should be appended to a file for that user to be brought up any time on request to be viewed to provide a history if you like and his/her current state. This history can be archived also when the member has been accepted into the club. Before I plough loads of effort into this task, does this rough specification (more detail on request) sound like something that could be easily serviced by a newly created Google app. I was previously looking at Android also and have not yet concluded the best way to approach this. Since the requirement is very GMAIL centric, it seemed (though I may be wrong) that a Google App would be a good place to start. Given my need to persist and store data (email trails and states etc.), will this be a problem using a Google App and GAE. Thanks in advance for all your help here... Either way, it's looking like Google but which road to take? Hope to hear from you soon... Best Regards Mark. http://www.insidertech.co.uk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
