PDA s for registration

[dezt]

We use pars as well for the PE staff. They are currently running a peer to peer wireless connection between 1 laptop and 3 PDA's. same thing as pete, get someone to start the listening service and the staff just download their registers.

I have a 802.11b access point that i've been testing with my own PDA and we are looking at putting one in the sports hall behind a metal cage so the staff can take their registers and download them without having to go to a certain office to get to the peer to peer network.

When using Pars on the PDA's there is a setup file called pocketpars, this is what you transfer to the PDA and run. You don't need anything else, except maybe .net compact framework 1.1 I think that is only needed if you are running ppc2003.

[pete]

@Chafftech
PARS / PocketPARS is an add-on for SIMS, we use it for electronic registration for all staff (there's more to it than that, but all we currently use). It's _not_ cheap and wouldn't be cost effective just for your PE Dept (£6K initial for a school with ~830 kids, £1K yearly). It is rather good though, _all_ of my staff commented on how easy it is to use - that is unheard of here.

www.tascsoftware.co.uk

@Cybernerd
yeah, didn't think I'd spelt that correctly.

[mark]

bossman,

if you've got a terminal server, then you can use the terminal services client built into windows mobile to connect and use sims, etc.

We've got PE and Drama doing this, works cool.

That's very interesting - so no need to buy the extortionate SIMS Mobile S/W = £200 for each PDA + maintenance + setup (if you don't do it yourself).
I'd like to know more details on that.

[jumpinjamez]

bossman,

if you've got a terminal server, then you can use the terminal services client built into windows mobile to connect and use sims, etc.

We've got PE and Drama doing this, works cool.

That's very interesting - so no need to buy the extortionate SIMS Mobile S/W = £200 for each PDA + maintenance + setup (if you don't do it yourself).
I'd like to know more details on that.

I would also be very intrested in more details on this.