Syteview™ - Real-Time Web Interface
   
   
Real-Time

Syteview uses a set of programs called DataLinks to link tables in your Progress database to matching tables in your SQL Server database in real-time.  The moment a record is created, modified or deleted in one of your Progress tables a table trigger executes a small piece of code which writes the changes made out to a small text file which is immediately read by one of the DataLink programs.  The DataLink program then transforms the text file into an SQL Server compatible record format and depending on the type of change made either inserts the record into the SQL Server table, or modifies or deletes the existing record in the SQL Server table.   The impact of this process on your existing Progress database server is minimal.  Thousands of record changes can be exported from your Progress server with less than one second of CPU time and zero disk accesses.

Web Interface

Once Syteview has your data, it is available to anyone or any process with the proper credentials using Microsoft and internet standard methods and interfaces.  User authentication is handled by standard Microsoft Authentication services, while your data is returned to the user by a Microsoft IIS web server in either generic HTML tables or in Microsoft Excel format.   Any device capable of requesting and displaying HTML formatted data or Excel spreadsheets can be used.

Syteview comes with a set of easily customized HTML templates already configured to display much of your Syteline™ data.   These templates include web pages that allow your users to fill in fields describing the data they wish to retrieve, and with the click of a button the requested data is displayed - anywhere, at anytime.

For a more powerful data linking and replication toolset providing multiple data formats and multiple replication destinations please check out our SyteLink Toolset.