Welcome to Drumbeat 2000 Starting Points


	Welcome to Drumbeat 2000 Starting Points
	Welcome to Drumbeat 2000 Starting Points
	Drumbeat 2000 Starting Points are designed to accelerate your Web application building. Each Drumbeat Starting Point application offers a complete example of a Web solution for a real business need. Feel free to evolve these Starting Points to meet the particular requirements of your organization. These Starting Points can also be used as a set of working examples that illustrate common techniques for building interactive, database-driven Web business solutions with Drumbeat. Before using Drumbeat Starting Points, take a few minutes to work through Getting Started with Drumbeat, which provides a brief introduction to the operation and capabilities of Drumbeat. Consult the overview information and documentation for each Starting Point to learn the browser target, database and server environment for which it was designed. Additional Starting Points are offered to Drumbeat customers through the Drumbeat Element Exchange.
	Asset Management Starting Point
	About This Starting Point
	The Asset Management starting point is an ASP solution designed to build a web front-end to your asset inventory database. Some inventory databases are relatively simple where each asset is keyed in manually. Others are more complex with applications scanning PCs and feeding hardware and software configuration information into the asset database. This Starting Point can work with either type.

	CDO Email Starting Point
	About This Starting Point
	The CDO Email starting point is an ASP solution designed to allow you to send email through your web browser. This application allows you to send email using the NewMail COM object, which is part of the Collaborative Data Objects (CDO) that are part of IIS 4.0 installation package. This can only be installed on Windows NT Server by installing the NT Server Options pack. This COM object has been registered as the CDO EMail SmartElement and can be found on the COM tab of the Drumbeat Element Library. This example is only one way to integrate email and ASP. This means you can create Drumbeat pages that allow users to send an email in a browser or automatically send a custom generated email in response to a user action.

	Employee Directory Starting Point
About This Starting Point
	The Employee Directory starting point allows for searching and maintaining a database that contains employee information. It is designed so that a visitor to the application must first log in before they can use the application. Incorrect logins or attempts to access pages without correctly logging in result in appropriate error responses by the application. There are two different user levels defined; administrator and user. A user can search the entire database but is limited to viewing only certain fields that are appropriate for general viewing. Additionally, the user has the ability to update certain fields in their own record. The administrator has a full suite of capabilities to search, update, delete, and insert records into the database.

	Guest Book Starting Point
	About This Starting Point
	The Guest Book starting point is a traditional 'sign in' guest book application that allows application visitors to enter their name along with any comments they wish. The visitor also has the capability to browse through and view entries that were made by other visitors. Guest Book applications like this are often used to solicit comments about the web application itself, a particular topic or issue that is of common interest to the application visitors, or to get opinions on product or service offerings an organization offers.

			Intranet Starting Point
	About This Starting Point
	The Intranet starting point is simple Intranet solution for a small business. The application uses a combination of HTML and ASP pages. Some of the pages in the application are relatively simple and others demonstrate some of the more advanced database features available in Drumbeat.

		Internet Starting Point
	About This Starting Point
	The Internet starting point can be used to create a quick and comprehensive Internet presence for a medium to large company. The site contains diverse templates to suit a model company's products and divisions. Though this starting point is rather large, it is possible to tune it to a specific company's needs by deleting sections and renaming the navigation text. All page elements are text-based, making it possible to personalize the entire site within Drumbeat. With 150 some pages, this site provides a perfect starting point for a medium to large company to convert a wealth of information quickly. Complex database and Intranet functions are not implemented. For in-house company intranet use, see the Intranet Starting Point.

		Search Engine Starting Point
		About This Starting Point
		The Search Engine starting point is an ASP solution designed to allow you to search a database in a variety of ways. The database used in this example is a database of URLs that contains information that you would typically find on a search engine like yahoo or excite. The special features of this application include the ability to search multiple columns in the database, search for a specific title, or view all matching titles for a specific category. This is only one example of complex searching interface, it is easy to extend or customize the example in this application to best fit your application requirements. This application also has a login front-end, much like the one found in the UserLogin starting point. Depending on your access group, the ability to edit and add titles to this application will be presented in the result list.

	User Registration Starting Point
		About This Starting Point
				The User Registration starting point is an ASP solution designed to build a registration front-end to any web application. This starting point allows existing users to enter a user name and password and enter the secure application. New users can create an account profile, login name and password. Each user registered in the database is assigned to an access group that gives them permission to specific pages in the application. Return visitors can store their user name and password in a cookie file on their local machine and this application will automatically enter their user name and password information when they visit the application.