I'm still not entirely sure what you're looking for, but you might want to
check out Zope and/or ht:dig. I know Zope has a couple hundred different
products out there (though mostly components) that you can use for it; maybe
there's something kicking around in there that you can plug in and go to
town with. 

HTH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rustyc@descomp.com [mailto:rustyc@descomp.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 8:38 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: PIM/Paper tiger replacement 
> 
> 
> 
> My wife found a nifty(*) (microDollar (#)) program for helping keep
> track of stuff, especially paper.  But I've got 2 problems with it:
> 
> 1 - it runs on the dark side
> 2 - it costs $80, and it seems to me that its really just a nice
> 	front end to a database
> 3 (%) - it forces you to decide, ahead of time, the maximum number of
> 	items in each location you will keep (@)
> 
> So, I went to freshmeat and google and looked for stuff, but
> my search heuristics failed me this time and I came up empty.
> 
> 
> 'Requirements' (and wants) are:
> 
> 1 - runs on linux
> 2 - allows searching on any text entered (in the description, 
> 	title, etc fields)
> 3 - would be nice if it (the data) would be accessible using 
> 	secure http, but its not required that I be able to
> 	MODIFY it that way (but it would be very nice)
> 4 - does not need me to spend hours writing code (i.e. saying
> 	"just write your own interface to mySQL" won't cut it ;-)
> 5 - allows specification of at least the following info:
> 	location
> 	ISBN number, if appropriate (can you tell I'm thinking of
> 		books also ;-)
> 	Title
> 	Description
> 	author?
> 	(I probably want most fields to be optional also)
> 6 - probably want password access to the info...
> 7 - can limit search by location.  (May want location broken into
> 	a heirarchy, like 'at home/in office/drawer 3', with 
> 	'wildcarding' allowed for any portion of the heirarchy)
> 8 - does not impose arbitrary fixed limits on things, 
> 	like number of items at a location.
> 
> (I've probably forgotten the most important thing ;-)
> 
> So, does anyone know of anything like this that I could use? (and
> where to get it, of course ;-)
> 
> Does anyone want to write it?  ;-) / 2
> 
> (and its probably not called a PIM, is it?)
> 
> rc
> 
> 
> notes:
> 
> (*) - for some value of 'nifty'
> (#) - aka m$, u$, or Micro$oft
> (%) - yup, you are right - I cannot count.  ;-)
> (@) - for goodness sakes, this is JUST a stupid database app -
> 	why in the world do we need to set a maximum number
> 	of items in a location?????
> 
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