In order for TASKey to take its flagship product TASKey TEAM to a hosted environment, an e-commerce web application was needed to manage the trial signups, credit card processing, and user management.
Background
The TASKey TEAM application utilises technologies such as Borland Delphi, Webbroker, XML, XSLT, SVG, COM+, and ADO to provide a robust and scalable web-based task management application. For the hosted version of the application a very quick development time was requested, and the team member charged with creating the e-commerce application needed a quick and elegant technology to deal with the requirement IntraWeb.
Purpose
The application requirements were:
- provide trial signup,
- provide signup using the trial database or new users,
- credit card processing for the monthly and signup fees,
- account management (adding/removing users, change organisation name, etc),
- must work with IE4+, Netscape4+ on both Windows and Mac.
The web application needs to run in a HTML frame, so that static information and other links are handled by the web server. It needs to communicate to our credit card processing provider, and link in with the TASKey TEAM database.
Implementation
There were two people involved in the application; one Delphi developer, and one web designer/graphic artist. With IntraWeb templates we were able to completely split the presentation with the implementation which accelerated the development and provided a great looking UI. The project took around three or four weeks for the developer, and the best part of a week for the web designer. The project was finalised ready for the launch of TASKey TEAM Online.
During development of the application we also enhanced the standard template processor of IntraWeb to enable WYSIWYG web page design for the web designer this change has since been integrated in the standard IntraWeb controls.
Technology
Number of users: Up to about 10 signups per day
Number of Developers: 1 Delphi Developer, 1 Web Designer
Time to Develop: Delphi developer – about 4 weeks, Web designer 1 week