Archive for the ‘Victoria Accommodation Service’ Category

Flexible Accommodation Options

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Business view: Victoria Accommodation Services help arrange temporary accommodation for students newly arriving in Wellington. As they started to bring new buildings into operation, their administration system needed to cope with the different choices that were now available.  We made adjustments to make make the system a lot more flexible.

Technical view: Dependency analysis, adjustment and testing of newly flexible inputs to a custom-built .NET admin system over an SQL Server database. Included adjustment to system-generated email trails.

International Meeting Service

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Business view: Victoria International and Victoria Accommodation Services required a solution that would allow then to co-ordinate the arrival of international students in Wellington with a meeting service, shuttle services, and with temporary or permanent accommodation.

Technical view: .NET-based web application to receive information about and manage the student’s accommodation needs (including administration). Consists of a workflow between students and multiple University departments, along with outputs to shuttle providers.

Online Reference System

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Business view: Victoria Accommodation Services help students arrange accommodation in Halls of Residence. They needed a facility to manage the process of vetting students with references from students’ high schools, which had to be printable after being submitted in an online form. This private facility also had to manage secure logins for each school.

Technical view: Creation of a secured form and deployment of our .NET-based database administration tool to manage login details for each school. Use of a custom-built .NET-based tag to submit any plain HTML form to a database, with the addition of javascript to recreate the completed form for read-only printing.

References PDF Formatting

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Business view: Victoria Accommodation Services help students arrange accommodation.  To improve efficiency, they wanted to have reference data submitted about the students turned into a PDF document that was pre-formatted to match the common expectations of Halls of Residence.

Technical view: Design and generation of a formatted PDF version of reference data, collected through an online form on a .NET server.