ABOUT MECA
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The Sapient Team  Eric Liu, Ripple Parikh, Jon Frey, Joon Oh |
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The Sapient Team Eric Liu, Ripple Parikh, Jon Frey, Joon Oh |
Master Event Calendar (MECA) developed by Sapient Corporation TARGET END USERS Employees in medium-to-large size companies. APPLET DESCRIPTION MECA provides a consolidated view of events via their intranet, communicating important event information throughout the enterprise and enabling coordinated team efforts. Any employee with password access and permission can add, delete, and modify events on the calendar. Employees can view events by month or by day, depending on the level of detail they need. MECA allows users to subscribe to "groups" of events. A user may create a group for an individual, a project, an office, an entire corporation, or whatever, and associate events with those groups. Group properties may be altered by the owner of the group. END USER FEATURES * View events by month at a high level or by day at a more detailed level. * Add, delete, and modify events, with new information immediately posted. * Define time zone for each event, thus enabling employees to view tasks without confusion caused by multiple time zones. * Automatically sort events chronologically. * Add, delete, and modify groups owned by the user. * Subscribe to different groups of events.Requirements
* Software Requirements
Netscape LiveWire
Netscape Enterprise Server
Netscape v3.0 or higher
Informix Online Workgroup Server
Windows NT 3.51 with Service Pack 4 or higher
* Installation for Windows NT
Double click on MECA.exe and follow the installation instructions
choosing the default values.
Configuration
* What do I need to run MECA?
1. Make sure that Javascript is enabled on your browser.
Under "Options" and then "Network Preferences", click on "Languages"
and make sure Javascript enabling is turned on.
2. Enable LiveWire on the Enterprise Server.
3. Setup the database
Type in the following sequence of commands (at the DOS prompt)to set
up the database with MECA tables.
c:\>cd \dbms\ifx
c:\>dbaccess - db_create
c:\>dbaccess - base_data
c:\>dbaccess - sample_data (if you need to load some sample data)
The database is now set up for use.
4. Compile the directory.
Using the Site Manager, find the the installed directory. Click on
it once then under "Site", choose "Build Application". Name the application
"meca".
Using build.bat, go to the installed directory in the command line
and type "build".
5. Add MECA application to the LiveWire Application Manager
Web File Path: \meca.web
Initial File : init.htm
Default File : init.htm
Max. DB Connection: 1
External Libraries: None
Client Object Maint. : client-cookie
6. Start a Netscape session. In the Location Field, type:
"http:////"
Getting Started
Groups: Upon logging in for the first time, you will have to set up a new group for yourself. This is done by clicking the "Create Group" button on the init.htm screen. Fill in your group information and hit "OK". The application will send you back to the login screen, where you may log in using your newly created name and password. Note: You may log into the application initially with name='user' and password='user'. To subscribe to groups, enter MECA through the initial login screen and click "Group Subscription" in the "Month View." Then, subscribe to the desired groups you have access to. The user can manage the list of owned groups through the "Administer Groups" button in the "Month View" screen. Events: To add events to the calendar, hit "Add Task" from the "Month View" screen. Fill in the appropriate information in the "Task Information" screen and hit "OK". The main calendar "Month View" shows up to three short descriptions per day for any month entered. If a day contains more than three events, only three will be shown with the forth line being "more...". From the Month View, the user can: 1. go to a specific Day View, 2. add a new event (for any day). If the user clicks on the day number in the calendar, the user will be shown the "Day View". The Day View will show all detailed information for the chosen day, one task at a time. To see a task's information, clicks on the short description, and all the time/date and long description information will be shown. From the Day View, the user has several actions that can be performed: 1. a user can add a new event (for any day), 2. a user can click on an event and modify any information on that event, 3. a user can click on an event and delete that event from the database. Note that the user can only perform steps 2 and 3 if the groupPermission for the group associated with the event is "All" and/or the user is the owner of the group.Definitions
* Group properties.* The following is a list of properties a group
can have.
loginName: (8 chars) The login name for the group. Can not
include spaces, quotes, periods, commas, or slashes.
loginPassword: (4-10 chars) The password for the group.
groupOwner: (8 chars) The login name for the owner of the group.
A group can be owned by someone other than the group
itself. ie. groupA can create groupB with groupA as
the owner. However, now, groupB is not allowed to
create groups itself. Only groups where the groupOwner
is the loginName can create other groups. This rule is
set to insure that unbound nesting of groups does not
occur.
groupDescription: (25 chars) A description that is more
descriptive than the loginName alone.
groupType: ('G' or 'L') Everyone has access to global groups, whereas
the group owner can restrict access to private groups.
groupPermission: ('A' or 'V') "All" access (read, write, delete)
can be set for a group or "View" only (read). A group
with "all" access set gives permission to all groups
with access, the permission to read, write
and delete tasks into the group. "View" access set is
view only for groups with access.
* Note: MECA does not differentiate between groups and users. A group
can own other groups if it is a parent groups. Parent groups
are simply groups where the login name is equal to the group owner.
* Event properties.* An event has the following properties:
eventId: The unique id within the database for this event.
EventId is system generated.
loginName: The loginName of the group that created this event.
eventGMTTime: The time string entered by the user.
eventStartDate: The start date of the event.
eventStopDate: The end date of the event.
shortDescription: The short description of the event. The short
description will appear in the month view.
longDescription: The long description of the event. The long
description will appear in the day view.
Known Bugs
1. When using the Netscape Navigator Beta 3.0 version 6, deleting a
a task causes the screen to blank out. This can be filled in by
pushing the reload button. This bug does not occur in version 5
and below of the Netscape Navigator.
2. The URL is limited to only 4KBytes. Thus a limit exists for the
amount of information that can be passed from one screen to another
through a form. This will limit the number of groups a user can subscribe
to at one time.
3. MECA is not yet a secure application. A user can access a page within MECA
without going through the login screen first if the client cookie has not
expired.
4. MECA only supports four time zones (PST, MST, EST, CST).
5. Events on the month view sometimes get scrambled due to a bug in
Netscape's memory allocation scheme. If this happens, Reload the
screen.
About Sapient
Sapient Corporation (NASDAQ: SAPE), headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leader in design, development and implementation of systems to help organizations rapidly achieve their business objectives. Founded in 1991, Sapient has a proven track record of delivering information technology solutions to the worldıs leading organizations on a fixed-price, fixed-time frame basis. Sapientıs clients include Digital Equipment Corporation, Merrill Lynch, Owens Corning, Pacific Bell Internet Services, PSE&G, and Wells Fargo. Sapient employs approximately 350 people with additional offices in New York and San Francisco.