intranet database capabilities

[lord_icon]

I wish to use my OpenEdge 10 release across the company intranet. I wish to establish a db, then be able to interrigate it using IE 4. How would I achieve this?
There is a workstation next to mine, for which has Progress OpenEdge sat on. I then wish to have a noddy webpage that has a button that will execute Progress OpenEdge procedures. How would I achieve this??
TIA

 

[Casper]

Hi,

Use WebSpeed and make a HTML Interface?
Or you have to write your own php (or some other language) HTML front-end and query the database using SQL. You could write stored procedures which you could call from php. Or maybe think of some mechanism to execute 4GL (ABL )procedures.

Crystal reports for instance can make a call to an appserver, so it is possibble to talk to an apsserver from a different application. But I really don'y have a clue how this is done, except for the fact that they wrote some java wrapper.

HTH (a bit),

Casper.

 

[Lee Curzon]

Here's your webpage - hope it helps you along the track.

http://tinyurl.com/nfs8a

 

[lord_icon]

re: Use WebSpeed and make a HTML Interface?

I am new to WebSpeed. I only know 4GL. I have OpenEdge sat on my box, therefor I have WebSpeed though I do not know how to use it.
Any help would be great.
TIA

 

[Casper]

The fun part of WebSpeed is that you use 4GL. The webspeed transcation server is (same as appserver) a character client which (should) resides at the databaseserver.

Good place to start learning webspeed is going to FFW and look at the stuff they made: http://freeframework.org/what-is.shtml


Scott Auge's wiki: http://amduus.com/4glwiki/index.php?pagename=Learning%20Webspeed

And offcourse Progress documentation: http://www.progress.com/progress_software/products/documentation/openedge10_1a/docs/gswsp/gswsp.pdf

HTH,

Casper.