Job tracking and publishing question.

[Thomas Whitney]

Hi,

I want to implement a job tracking and database publishing system and hoping
for some assistance.

My company does short run 4 color digital printing.  Because it is short urn
we handle multiple jobs every day.  I developed an online bidding system; it
use Apache, mod_perl, and  mysql.  Now I would like to move to tracking jobs
online; first, for internal purposes -- it would make the workflow much
easier to follow -- and later for customers to view the status of their jobs
on the web.  Each bid has about 38 data fields associated with it and each
job will have a few more fields along with an image file in the form of a
pdf.

Each job needs to be tracked through production with operators at each stage
having being able to update its status or add notes.  After the job is
finished an invoice would be printed to go out with the job.  Web based
applications are good for this because we use Mac's and PC's, and both must
be able to have access to that job.

I was looking at Bricolage, however it appears to be more suited to text
content publishing.  I currently use Template::Toolkit to print out the bids
and I imagine I could do all the programming myself--naturally, it would be
helpful to find some package that suited at least some of my requirements..

I would really appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.

Thanks,
Thomas Whitney

Re: Handler Concept / Question

[Thomas Whitney]

 You were close. It's default-handler.

   http://httpd.apache.org/docs/handler.html

And in mod_perl docs:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/config.html#Overriding_E_lt_LocationE
_gt__Setting_in__Sub_Location_

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Thanks, that was what I was looking for.

Thomas Whitney

Re: Handler Concept / Question

[Thomas Whitney]

 If I do set my script to answer all requests, how do I tell the
 webserver to show the static content that exists under the requested
 url?

You have to make the default handler pick it up.  I forget the exact
syntax, but there were some examples posted to the mailing list a while
back.
- Perrin

Hi,
I was following this thread with interest because I want to do something
like this.  I started searching on list archive for the above mentioned
syntax,  I searched for 'static content', then 'default handler', but with
no luck.  I do not mind doint the the searching, if you would perhaps
suggest a couple other search topics.

Thanks,

Thomas Whitney.