Running the SportsPro Sales Advisor

This section contains more information about running the SportsPro Sales Advisor application. It also explains some of the features of the application. SportsPro Sales Advisor is an intranet application that supplies helpful information to sales reps of the fictional SportsPro sporting goods company. The SportsPro Sales Advisor allows sales reps to check inventory and maintain customer account information in the Sports2000 database, directly from their Web browsers.

To run SportsPro Sales Advisor:

1. Complete the setup procedures described in Runningsample applications and make sure that WebSpeed is running in conjunction with a Web server and the Sports2000 sample database.

2. Start a Web browser (usually Netscape or Internet Explorer).

3. Enter a WebSpeed URL where Wservice is set to:

http://host_name/scripts_dir/messenger/WService=wsbroker1/samples/web/
intranet/advisor.r

For example, if you are running a local IIS Web server, using the CGIIP Messenger and the default broker, the URL would look similar to the following:

http://localhost/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/samples/web
/intranet/advisor.r

The SportsPro Sales Advisor application launches in your Web browser and displays an initial frame set that contains three separate Web objects: an application header (SportsPro Sales Advisor), an application index (the Inventory Info. and the Customer Info. links), and a welcome screen (Welcome to SportsPro Sales Advisor). The initial frame set looks similar to the following:

To view the HTML source file of any Web object, select the object and click View Code.