Directmoving® Planner

Georgia Institute of TechnologyMGT 6051 – Database Management Systems

Database Project

Lin Gui - Karim El-Khazen - Philsou LeeXiaoting Niu - Pascal Suria

Directmoving.com: First Worldwide Relocation Portal on the web available to Expatriates and to HR Managers responsible for relocating personnel.

Help them prepare their departure and organize their daily life in a new country.

Provide access to a host of information, services, tools and practical advice covering all aspects of moving abroad.

Directmoving® Planner

Competitors: recent creation of a planner tool, which puts all the moving tasks of a future expatriate into a calendar.

Let the user select his moving date and some options. Give a weekly summary of all the tasks to complete. Restricted to the USA.

Directmoving: willing to implement an extended version:- international oriented- customized countries information- and more options

Directmoving® Planner

Directmoving® Planner

Entity / Relationship explanations

User makes Plans M:N relationship between user and plan. Binary attributes: Car, Pets, Moving_Date, Children, Home,

Nationality and Weekly_Update Combo box selection: Nationality, Country_Origin, and

Country_Destination

Plan checks Tasks M:N relationship between plan and task.

Plan picks Countries M:1 relationship between plan and country Two relations: an Origin Country and a Destination Country

Directmoving® Planner

Directmoving® Planner

Active Server Pages (ASP) 

Definition of ASP:

Server based scripting language Interpreted at run time.  Used to create Server Side logic to handle anything from

Dynamic page creation to data coming from a Client Browser.

Main features of ASP:  Form Logic:  possibility of receiving data from a form,

process it with an If...Then... statement and if conditions are met dynamically write a response HTML page and display it to the Client Browser.

Client Browser Redirection: used to send the Client Browser to another Web Page or Web Site automatically if a condition is met.

Database Access:  ASP is excellent for storing User Data in a database.  Possibility of using a Server side text file, MS Access, or SQL Server.

Directmoving® Planner

ASP implementation examples:

Database Connection:Set objConn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") objConn.Open "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver *.mdb)};

DBQ=" & Server.MapPath("/database/moveplanner.mdb")

SQL query:Req = "SELECT Moving_Date FROM Plan WHERE Plan.Plan_Id="Req = Req & Session("Plan")set affichage=objConn.execute(req)Response.Write affichage("Moving_Date")set affichage=nothing

Directmoving® Planner

Online May 2001

www.directmoving.com