Shezhu Resource Sharing System 1.18 review

Shezhu Resource Sharing System project is an application for scheduling and booking shared resources such as rooms and equipment.

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 226K Developer: Tim Colles

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Shezhu Resource Sharing System project is an application for scheduling and booking shared resources such as rooms and equipment.

The client only needs a modern Web browser.

It has a user friendly point and click interface, visual filters for making block/repeat bookings, concurrent users and double booking prevention, allows local site customization, and supports configurable academic term/semester blocks.

Here are some key features of "Shezhu Resource Sharing System":
Portable - client only needs a modern web browser
Point and Click - almost no typing required
Intuitive - simple, obvious, consistent and user friendly
Innovative - visual filters for making block/repeat bookings
Powerful - concurrent users and double booking prevention
Configurable - local site customization supported
Useful - built in support for configurable academic term, semester and session blocks
Free!

Requirements

In order to run or build the Shezhu Resource Sharing System you need some third-party software available on your machine.

Client

The client needs a modern web browser and the best browsers for this application are Firefox, Mozilla (including the Netscape branded equivalent and Gecko derivatives such as Galeon) and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The newest versions of all these browsers will work best. This application also works with the Konqueror and Opera browsers but these have some issues which may affect functionality. All browsers need JavaScript enabled. Any of these browsers may not work properly (or at all) depending on the operating system they are running under. Text based browsers (such as Lynx) are not supported.

For a comprehensive list of supported client browsers and operating systems refer to this browser compatibility chart from the most recent release of the application.
Server

The server needs recent versions of the Apache web server and the MySQL database server.

The server has only been tested on Redhat9 and FedoraCore3 Linux/i386 platforms although there is no specific reason why it should not work on other Linux platforms and distributions.

Development

Rebuilding this application from source requires a standard Unix development environment with the sh, make, cc, cpp, sed and awk utilities. Also required are RCS, Perl (5.6+) and the ImageMagick program. Also required is RPM to build a distribution. All these programs would probably come as standard in Linux distributions, other platforms may not have all of them by default.

What's New in This Release:
This release adds support for Apache2 and multi-site installations, internal restructuring, a better installation tree, and improved access control management.