In addition to a bouncing off point, I really want to see start.yjusa.com become an aggregator of useful information; a dashboard for the info you need in the company.
The trick to this is RSS. If we can assemble valid RSS feeds from important data sets, it’s easy enough to pump those into the intraweb homepage, and allows uers to turn on & off what they want to see.
As a first step, I am really intersted in integrating the updates RSS feed from yjusa.grouphub.com into start.yjusa.com. I found the Magpie PHP RSS Library which can be used to do this, though there are probably other PHP RSS libraries out there (the tricky thing about that feed is it requires SSL authentication, which Magpie supports).
I am thinking once Compiere is up and in use, we can periodically have a script that taps into it’s database connection, downloads intersting data, and coverts it into RSS feeds. Then users can decide if they want to subscribe to the “Todays Orders” feed or whatever we dream up.
The only trick to this is that we would need one consistent login scheme, with a cookie to remember the user’s login. I guess this is the first step.
Thoughts?
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