Manual for COIN Inventory ready for download

dingodog

The "not-yet-finished-but-soon-to-be" users manual for COIN Inventory
is now ready for download at our ftp site. Please save it to your
desktop (or where-ever). It is in Microsoft WORD so the graphics are
resizable without loss of resolution. Click the following link or
copy it to your browser:
http://www.coinweb.org/public/Coin_Inventory_Manual.doc

As the manual is finished, an "update notice" will be sent to all
users and a message will be posted in this forum.

If you don't have the software and would like a copy, please download
it from: http://download.coinweb.org/

If your web link is too slow, please email me at
janrschwenk@attbi.com with your name and mailing address and I will
mail you a cd-rom at no charge.

Thanks!
Jan Schwenk

airplanenut

Linked You rule!

ClarkOfKent

Jan gave me permission to link a .pdf version for you folks.

Coin_Inventory_Manual.pdf


Clark

LanLord

Jan, thanks, I'll take a look as I get a chance, this is a busy week at work so it may be Saturday before I can get much time. I greatly appreciate the manual.

crito

do you have an entity relationship diagram for database schema? hate to invest a lot of time inputting data only to find out the structure isn't any good. don't know why people design the front-end interface first and the dB later. That's like doing interior design on the 24th floor before finishing the foundation. A good dB design can survive decades and many different front-end apps. A bad database design becomes a maintenance nightmare and never does the job well.

MastaHanky

I noticed that you require mailing address and telephone info to activate the software. Can I ask what you collect these for? They won't be distributed to anybody, will they?

airplanenut

There are also two other issues:

Norton sends a warning with the script used to send our registration info... why?
Explorer crashes on me when I exit and I need to reboot for my computer to function... why?

KoinKollector

I get a malicious script warning from norton also.

dingodog

Citro,

Yes, we have an E.R. diagram and the db is fully normalized. I will have to think about whether or not we want to provide our diagrams to anyone that is not my mother. Hope you understand. I agree with your concern - there must be some way to put your mind at ease without opening the Kimono, so to speak. Old student of Bruce, and admire Halpin (Australia).

Rgds
Dingodog

eminem

norton saved my a$$ from the virus also LOL

dingodog

We will not divulge and personal information without your explicit permission. I believe the software only REQUIRES a first name (and we don't check to see if the name is correctly spelled, or even real, same with telephone. I will have to check to see what the minimums are and will get back to you. The reason we want people to register is two-fold: 1). When we release the "Dot-Net" version, it will be real time web, and 2). We want to build a world-wide community of users that can directly interact with each other (and us).

Rgds
Jan

dingodog

Hi,

Hope to have answers both your questions before much longer.

Rgds
Dingodog

dingodog

Norton posts a warning because we check to see if your emailer is open when you install. Apparently, anytime a message checks to see if your emailer is open, Norton assumes there is a virus or some evil thingy lurking. We are checking to see if we can resolve this without giving anyone indigestion. BTW, other (dast I say better?) anti-virus programs don't choke in this.

dingodog

MastaHanky,

You asked why we want to know with whom we are conversing, if you will kindly look at http://208.254.98.25/coinweblisting/ you will see one of our proto-type webs that will link with COIN Inventory (it does now but we have temporarily removed the links). Please understand we've spent only a few hours putting this thing together, and it currently only lists a few of my own coins, and the prices and even some of the grades are not accurate, but once this web is active, any registered member will be able to list any one or all of his collection on this site. If someone is interested in one of his coins, or all of them, said person can contact the owner of the coin without either knowing who the other is. There will be a set of parameters that you will set up (both ends) that will allow the contactee and the contactor to "negotiate" a reasonable deal before they two parties are directly connected. This way your collection will be automatically anlyzed (with your permission) and a want list created that will be matched up against other collectors' duplicates. We get a match, you both find out who the other is so you can complete the deal. No match, no one knows.

If you look at the web (we know it is very premature and needs a lot of work, and we are doing that) you will be able to search for coins you are interested in, click the "get info" and I receive a "blind" expression of interest that I can either allow my parameterized robot to answer and discuss with your robot, or send a response manually to you (without knowing who you are).

Not trying to be paranoid - just trying to come up with some useful functions that the computer can handle via the web.

BTW anyone that has a PCGS MS67 Roosevelt (or higher) is invited to email me directly post haste. Last (explitive deleted) coin in my Registry Set!

Rgds
Dingodog

MastaHanky

<< If you look at the web (we know it is very premature and needs a lot of work, and we are doing that) you will be able to search for coins you are interested in, click the "get info" and I receive a "blind" expression of interest that I can either allow my parameterized robot to answer and discuss with your robot, or send a response manually to you (without knowing who you are).

Not trying to be paranoid - just trying to come up with some useful functions that the computer can handle via the web. >>

Great idea, thanks for the info. I just want to make sure that this isn't harvesting addresses and selling them to people who want to shampoo my carpets, refinanace my mortgage, and cure my erectile dysfunction problems.