Honours Project: - Napier University

Gregory Huet
Honours Project
99034735 Dr. William Buchanan
users like the representative of each community to create groups. The design of the groups
table is outlined below:
• num_group: this field is auto-generated by the SQL Server and is recorded as a
unique integer like the num_user field in the users table.
• name_group: this field is used to record the name of the group and is used
dynamically for the registration process. Like this, if a new group is implemented, the
list is updated automatically. This field is recorded as a string of characters (strictly
inferior at twenty).
• desc_group: this field contains the description of the group to help the user to choose
the right one. The information is stocked as a string of characters (strictly inferior at
one hundred and fifty).
• com_group: this field is the direct link to the community table to fix the notion of
branching between the communities and the groups. This information is registered as
an integer relative to the community from which the group belongs to.
5.2.3 The community table
The community can be assimilated as the father and the group as the children to explain
simply this notion. Only the main administrator will be allowed to create a new community
before giving rights to its representative. The different fields into the community table are:
• num_com: this field is auto-generated by the SQL Server and is recorded as a unique
integer like the num_group field in the groups table.
• name_com: this field is used to record the name of the group and is used dynamically
for the registration process. Like this, if a new community is implemented, the list is
updated automatically. This field is recorded as a string of characters (strictly inferior
at twenty).
• desc_com: this field contains the description of the community to help the
representative to create rights groups. The information is stocked as a string of
characters (strictly inferior at one hundred and fifty).
5.2.4 The info table
This table is the most important in the database because it will contain all of the users’ events.
This point must be taken very seriously to provide the best services. The first interesting
feature is the option to set the sharing of the events through a group or a community of users.
Users will set this level of sharing when they create a new event.
The second feature is the level of importance of the events. For example, a meeting with the
Director of the corporation will have the highest level of importance. Think about phoning a
friend will have the lowest level of importance. In fact, this application will manage three
levels of importance and will be interpreted with a code of colours when the information will
be displayed on the screen.
Generally, a title and a day in the calendar will present an event. This title will be set at the
colour in correspondence with the level of importance. In the commercial version of this
application, the level of importance will be also presented with a specific icon. In the current
version, the description and the exact time will be displayed to the user by clicking on the title
of the event. The design of the info table is the following:
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