Storage Management System

Question

Does anyone know of an app made for keeping track of what items are in boxes in personal storage spaces. I also need it to sync between multiple iPhones, and hopefully to an online account.
Thanks,
John

Answer 1

If you intend using an external server and want to experiment, I would actually advise using a cheap desktop machine (any machine with 512MB RAM with windows 2000 or 2003 server would suffice) and playing with that rather, because most of the issues you are likely to encounter would be around the connectivity of the two machines and making a copy of the internal database configuration is unlikely to resolve this or replicate the problems you will encounter. copying the configuration won't replicate the database, it will just create a different logical storage point in the database and I've encountered problems with setting this up before. Alternatively, use your production server and experiment with it before reinstalling before go live.
At least with the separate server you can test HTTP connections, use secure certificates etc. When you use the database you will find yourself unable to check a lot of these because its not on a different server.
Words of warning on problems you will be likely to encounter if installing on windows 2003 server, make sure you have network admin and local machine admin or the install will seem to be successful but you will never get the system up and running properly until you reinstall with these rights. You will receive a HTTP 401 error if that happens. This type of issue will not happen with the database which is why I suggest you get used to using an external server. You also need to test backup's and restores to ensure they are working properly. I've seen many clients not test this and find out their backup software is not compatible with the SAP DB used on the KPRO server, which is generally about the time you find out you've lost a lot of information.