Could you recommend a good starting place for me to do some reading on cgi?
-Rob
dan wrote:
> I think that you can do this without too much difficulty. just read up
> on cgi a little bit. as long as you dont alter the scripts and just
> mess with the layout and add or remove things you should be alright.
>
> i will look into this a bit also. I think that the best thing to do
> would be to leave the left pane basically as is, other than maybe change
> the script that is run. then make alternates for each of the pages in
> the layout you like.
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Rob Owens
> <rob.owens AT biochemfluidics DOT com <mailto:rob.owens AT biochemfluidics
> DOT com>>
> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to avoid potential issues. I'm considering selling
> pre-configured BackupPC servers to small businesses.
>
> I don't mean to say that the interface is complicated, but there is a
> lot of information there and some people will panic when they see it.
> I'd like to give them just the extreme basics, like:
>
> how full is the disk
> what machines get backed up
> what shares get backed up
> ability to add shares
> warning of any errors
>
> I would take out:
>
> xfer error summary
> file size/count reuse summary
> compression summary
> server backup path
> duration and age of backups
> log files
> admin options
> email summary
> current queues
> almost all of the config options
> etc
>
> I like having all that info available, so I don't want to eliminate it.
> I just want to hide it from certain users. I want customers to not
> feel overwhelmed and feel like they can do a restore without contacting
> me first. I might even take out the option to do a direct restore, just
> so they don't overwrite anything important. We'll see.
>
> So how about it? Can anybody help me get started on figuring out how
> the CGI interface is constructed? I'm willing to spend time on research
> and learning, but I don't know where to start.
>
> -Rob
>
> dan wrote:
> > ?? How is the interface complicated? I have a number of VERY low
> tech
> > users that are capable of using the standard interface to backup
> their
> > computers. I man a fairly simple PDF walk through for them as a
> > refernce and I have virtually zero issues.
> >
> > Are you trying to avoid a potential issue or do you actually have
> people
> > incapable of working the cgi interface?
> >
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Rob Owens
> > <rob.owens AT biochemfluidics DOT com
> <mailto:rob.owens AT biochemfluidics DOT com>
> <mailto:rob.owens AT biochemfluidics DOT com
> <mailto:rob.owens AT biochemfluidics DOT com>>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to make the CGI interface a little less overwhelming
> for my
> > non-technical users. Could somebody give me advice on how to
> edit it?
> > I really know nothing about CGI, but I hope that I can rely
> on my logic
> > to figure out what lines of code do what.
> >
> > I'm hoping I can have both a simple and the standard CGI
> interface
> > available, possibly by using 2 different addresses:
> >
> > http://localhost/backuppc/simple
> > http://localhost/backuppc/standard
> >
> > or something like that.
> >
> > -Rob
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