Re: How to access Des2000 repository via Intranet ?

Sure,

There are a couple of ways, depending on how comprehensive your knowledge of the Designer repository views is.

1. Simplest way. Try out a product called Intranet Publisher/2000. It's a nice enough product, produced by Solutron in San Mateo CA. They have various pricing arrangements, the most expensive of which (last summer's price) is $25K US. This is an unlimited access licence. They have a series of rulesets which extract the data and diagrams from the repository. I don't know about your environment, but in mine, a picture is worth a thousand words.
2. Option 2 doesn't give you diagrams and can be implemented using ODBC connections to the database. You can use any tool that will pass a query to the database. One particulary nice one for the average user who doesn't want to spend his life creating web pages is Cold Fusion. The Cold Fusion server handles the query very simply and the formatting is a breeze. Shouldn't take more than 15-20 minutes to get a query working with a reasonable result to the screen. If you're really familiar with the API and its packages, you can even create data entry with this tool (haven't tried it, and definitely don't insert directly into the views as this will corrupt the Repository and also probably void your support agreement with Oracle.

Hope this helps.

Joel Racicot
Systems Analyst
Canada Post Corporation

Francesco Dini wrote:

> Yes I know a way: use Netscape Enterprise Server 3,51. There is a good utility
> for connecting to a database from a client via web. You can estabilish a
> connection with a read only granted user to the Designer 2000's owner tables.
> Francesco
>
> Pierre Van Brussel wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Do you know a system (package, Web server pages, ...) to access the content
> > of the repository Designer 2000 - in read only mode- via another way then
> > the CaseTool Designer 2000 v2.0 (less expensive and without limition of
> > licences).
> >
> > Thanks for your advise,
> >
> > Pierre
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 22:34:52 CDT