Hi all, First day here and hoping to be able to pick the collective brain, if I can. But before I ask, I do have to say that I am absolutely enjoying my experience with web2py, and think that it is without a doubt an outstanding platform! - being a python junky, does make me bias, but regardless, thank you mr. Di Pierro and contributors!
Ok, so here's the context: I'm a release manager(managing a team of 1, me) and I have an automation framework which is distributed across dev sites. it works a little like a community of servers and handles a number of tasks for me (from builds, to perforce tasks, to remote build deliveries, etc.). Upper management (you know the type ;) ) are requesting that I provide access to logs and reports to any and all processes running through the automation framework. Distribution of work and request are achieved through a messaging system between server to server (like "hey server_5, this is server_2, what in your queue? can you do THIS for me?, etc.) and from user to server. Job requests as well as status & reports are done in the same way. So, all that to say that that upper management is requesting access to logs ad reports. Great! so I tell them to open up a terminal, make a connection to any one of the servers and ask!. Well, seems this is too hard, too complicated... So here I am. was thinking of using web2py (something on T3 would be ideal (or cube2py - which I installed and WOW! is what comes to mind). I am thinking of providing the the following items and wanted to see if any one has done anything on it, thought about it or perhaps can point me in the right direction to start la demarche. My hope, is that what gets delivered to our technically challenged upper management be "too easy to handle" :) so, 3 questions: 1. Looking to create (if none exists) a widget that can "fioat from app to app (or web2py DB to web2py DB) and a) would detect the DB and expose its tables to the widget where a user could query that DB and retrieve the required data (this widget would keep alive wile pages are being opened and closed... Thoughts? suggestions? 2. does anybody know how to make data fields auto -update without having to refresh the page being displayed... Seems I once did something along those lines with flex some time ago... 3. well, I'll wait for that one... ;) I realize this may be a little far fetched (then again maybe not...), but any help or reality check o this would be greaty appreciated. Thanks for you time in reading this post, mart :)
