Web-Absence

Web-absence is a CGI application designed to help keep track of people in a group. It is intended to do one thing: allow the user to display the plans of all people in a group in a way that makes it easy to see who's present and who's absent. It is not intended for anything else. The resolution is one day.

You may remember a Tcl (yuck) application with a similar name from some years ago...

It could easily be adapted do handle reservations for any set of objects, as long as a resolution of a day is acceptable.

An example of a possible use is reserving machines/computers in a laboratory.

Web-absence is based on four Perl CGI-scripts that rely on seven back-end Perl modules written specifically for web-absence. For each month, an image (by default, PNG) is generated. The month-image is a link; operations on people in the group are performed by clicking on the image. The coordinates are used to determine the nature of the requested operation. In order to generate the images, Web-absence uses the freely-available Perl module "GD" (with all its dependencies).

kit: web-absence-1.3.tar.gz

kit-readme: Readme.txt

I have set up a demo where you can get a feel for how web-absence works. Please use common-sence when naming people and groups.

demo: demo.html

Robert Urban <urban@unix-wissen.de>