Excellent Neil.
It sounds like "the way" to me, Mate.
I would be happy to hear more about the technicalities of your system (either on here, or via PM, or whatever).
Are you using
Wi-Fi, for instance? Are we talking about internet access here (I'm thinking straight away about satellite clinics)? Are the "stores" (parts stock control) linked in? And have you achieved integration with your Rigel test kit?
Sorry for so many questions, Neil, but (as you know) not all of us on here "get upset" by this stuff! Ha, ha.
But it's the overall system design - the "spec" - that interests me, and whether you've done it as "cost-effectively" (read as:- cheaply) as you could have done, Neil.
And, lastly:- how did you manage the project? Was (is) it a team effort, or do you rely on a single "boffin" (guru, whomever)?
OK ... your system is "home grown" (which is fine by me), but who does it belong to? Are you (they) thinking about marketing it? Or, better still, presenting it to (sharing it with) the World?
@Malcolm: do you have a link for us? And ... am I right in assuming that the Excel spreadsheet needs to be (manually) re-worked (re-arranged) before importing into the database? Else how does the system "know" which column of cells belong in which database fields? Is that what you meant when you mentioned "they"?
