Using Webapp to provide a replacement front-end
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:19 pm
I use a 3rd party club membership app that runs through a browser. Apart from initially uploading a list of existing members, all membership additions/deletions have to be done manually. The membership secretary has to enter the details of each member one-at-a-time even though we can easily pop them into a spreadsheet. The membership forms that have to be entered manually has over 20 fields to be typed in!
My idea is to set up a spreadsheet that contains multiple membership records, 1 per row and then to use an app that sits infront of the membership app. The user would select the membership entry form, then run my app which would type the keys, click the checkboxes, etc as if they were the human membership secretary. My new app would be like a ghost in the machine, phantom-typing the membership details!
For those of us old school Unix coders, we might recall redirecting stdin, stdout, stderr channels through a terminal interface. The app I'm thinking of would redirect the modern equivalent channels (typed text, selecting checkboxes and radio buttons, etc).
Is this possible using the Webapp to build an alternative front-end? I'm already thinking of possible other uses for apps to front-end existing systems!
What do you think?
Peter
My idea is to set up a spreadsheet that contains multiple membership records, 1 per row and then to use an app that sits infront of the membership app. The user would select the membership entry form, then run my app which would type the keys, click the checkboxes, etc as if they were the human membership secretary. My new app would be like a ghost in the machine, phantom-typing the membership details!
For those of us old school Unix coders, we might recall redirecting stdin, stdout, stderr channels through a terminal interface. The app I'm thinking of would redirect the modern equivalent channels (typed text, selecting checkboxes and radio buttons, etc).
Is this possible using the Webapp to build an alternative front-end? I'm already thinking of possible other uses for apps to front-end existing systems!
What do you think?
Peter