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Re: [ECS] Web Page Questions Scott Reston Fri, 04 Feb 2000 10:17:17 -0500

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don - 

this is actually a little more complicated than it sounds... if you want to get current
status of ECS items, you'll need to find a way to query ECS for item status. 
you're not going to be able to do this with just HTML. you'll need some sort of program
to build the page you want. i imagine you could probably build a page 
template and write an EDM script to update the template with the state of an ECS item
periodically...

i've done this myself in perl, conversing with ECS via DDE. perl needs a special interpreter
to run on windows, but it's syntax is pretty simple. if you're 
interested in seeing what i've done, send me an email directly (i've got a test server
here at work and i can let you see what the interface looks like). you 
can download my code and instructions from http://www.indelible-blue.com/info/ecsweb.zip

i've actually made some usability improvements to my home system that aren't reflected
in that code, but if you are familiar with HTML, you might be able to 
modify my code for your use...



scott reston
ih8gates@concentric.net
http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/


On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 07:03:26 -0800, Don Stephens wrote:

>I'm trying to generate a dynamic web page using Items from ECS. I'm a total
>rookie at this. My plan is to have a html script on the page and update it
>with Items variables only. Can anyone suggest the syntax (html) to do this?

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