Now that I have my little AIR application, I need to follow through to the point where it can be added to my client’s internal toolset.
Here’s a rough shot at how I’ll do that (this is really for my client only but feel free to play along):
- Enable Flex-side login into the application via SOAP (if necessary)
- Add an image browser to allow for easy selection of thumbnail and detail image
- Take the key pieces of activity data and create an activity with an exsiting web service call
- Shoot the user over to the Activity Wizard. (Interesting hurdle here… how do I send the user from my AIR app to a URL inside of a browser?)
- Reset the Scaper to allow for the creation of the next activity
Once that is in place, the following features can be added
- Selection by the user of additional activity fields to scrape off the page
- Full integration of the Activity Wizard. So the user doesn’t actually exit the AIR app, the AIR app contains the ‘Wiz
- Addition of some versioning for the AIR utility (would allow for easy software updaets). This is more as a proof-of-concept since this tool is an internal tool.