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Subscribe to changes in excel spreadsheet
Potentially popular applications: organizing event with attendance confirmation. Flow below demonstrates nurse appointment in Health Clinic:
- Recognition: mandatory steps for Clinic to subscribe to user
- Client performs lookup for the Clinic “NewClientRegistration”, fills up data
- Clinic is subscribed to objects of type “NewClientRegistration”, human verification is likely necessary
- Clinic creates targeted “Welcome” message, with links to various services
- Slots creation
- Publisher (Secretary in the Health Clinic) creates slots document:
- Prepare excel document with empty slots. The slots must have field “State” with possible values “Taken”, “Free” or “Canceled”. A daily template might be used
- The document is uploaded using web interface.
- Publisher receives WebDAV link, so he can edit the file
- Publisher subscribes for targeted objects of “WantToReserveSlot”
- Client discovers “registration” page and creates targeted object “WantToReserveSlot”
- Publisher confirms user's identity and fills up rows in the excel file - probably using WebDAV, to lock the document properly
- Publisher creates targeted object “SlotReservedSuccess” for user with link to the excel file.
- User chooses whether to subscribe to changes in the file. He might filter changes to individual rows, for example using the row data as “Anchor” and field “State” as Needle.
- Human notifications to the document
- The document is then inotify monitored. On change “DocumentChanged” is created.
- User receives the “DocumentChanged”. If Anchor/Needle is specified, additional check is done.
- TBD: InteractiveNotification with Answer Options
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