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mlamp89 I hate code! Posts: 4 Reg: Jul 19, 2012 Ohio 1,040	confirm \| cancel 07/21/12 10:10 PM (13 years ago) new to creating So I just got a new job and I came up with the idea to make an app for it. I work on the cell phone towers and I have a excel spread sheet that has all of the towers listed. And when you click one of the items from the sheet it will bring up all current "alarms" for the tower. Which means anything the tower equipment has troubling it. For example, if some piece of equipment is overheating it has an alarm. So we know to go fix it. I would like to make an app so that we can use our phones to type in the tower site name and it searches it and brings up all alarms. Basically I want to make a GUI. we also have another program that we can run codes to log into the tower site and get the alarms. Does this seem like something that somewhat easily doable? I am by no means good at making apps. Never done it before. But I am not a noob to computers or electronics. Any input would be great. Thanks Title Comments So I just got a new job and I came up with the idea to make an app for it. I work on the cell phone towers and I have a excel spread sheet that has all of the towers listed. And when you click one of the items from the sheet it will bring up all current "alarms" for the tower. Which means anything the tower equipment has troubling it. For example, if some piece of equipment is overheating it has an alarm. So we know to go fix it. I would like to make an app so that we can use our phones to type in the tower site name and it searches it and brings up all alarms. Basically I want to make a GUI. we also have another program that we can run codes to log into the tower site and get the alarms. Does this seem like something that somewhat easily doable? I am by no means good at making apps. Never done it before. But I am not a noob to computers or electronics. Any input would be great. Thanks

lsills81 Apple Fan Posts: 469 Reg: Mar 19, 2012 location unknow... 14,090	07/22/12 01:02 AM (13 years ago) Depends how in-depth you want it...seems to me if you want it up in a hurry you could build the entire Excel file and update that to Dropbox....then create simple app that just displays the URL that you get from dropbox. This way you can update it on your desktop and in real time will update to all the other devices that use it. Also this would be easy to do on both Android and Apple. That is a very rough version....like I said, depends on how in depth you want it. Comments Depends how in-depth you want it...seems to me if you want it up in a hurry you could build the entire Excel file and update that to Dropbox....then create simple app that just displays the URL that you get from dropbox. This way you can update it on your desktop and in real time will update to all the other devices that use it. Also this would be easy to do on both Android and Apple. That is a very rough version....like I said, depends on how in depth you want it.

Fred@mySkylla com Android Fan Posts: 5259 Reg: Oct 03, 2011 location unknow... 62,560	07/22/12 06:12 AM (13 years ago) Isillis' solution is excellent. Simple solution is best. You could also take the Excel info and create menu options using an array. Fred Comments Isillis' solution is excellent. Simple solution is best. You could also take the Excel info and create menu options using an array. Fred

lsills81 Apple Fan Posts: 469 Reg: Mar 19, 2012 location unknow... 14,090	07/22/12 07:17 AM (13 years ago) @Fred....thank you. I would also sugest that you watch ALL of the Buzztouch U videos....they helped me!!! Comments @Fred....thank you. I would also sugest that you watch ALL of the Buzztouch U videos....they helped me!!!

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