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Media Facilities Management System (MFms)

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Overview

The Media Facilities Management System (MFms) will provide the functionality to manage inventory of equipment and facilities related to media production.  The system will manage the check-out and check-in of equipment and facilities.  The MFms will manage transactions related to equipment and faculties usage, manage the facility inventory and manage the members or customers.

Features
  • Manage equipment and facilities check-out / check-in.
  • Manage inventory of the media facility.
  • Manage members or customers.
  • Support barcode readers.
  • Provides basic reporting capabilities.
  • Role based security.
  • On-line help with sample database.

Project Status 
 
The MFms System is currently being distributed to selected Beta Sites.  The MFms System is not available for general distribution at this time.  If you are interested in more information about the Beta Program please contact Chris Macgowan at macgowan@pobox.com .
Media Facilities Management System (MFms) - System Requirements and Installation

  
General System Requirements
 
 • Requires Windows95/98/2000/XP or NT 4 with SP5
 • CD ROM drive for program installation
 • Hard disk with 10MB for the program and database
 • CPU and RAM requirements as per the version of Windows installed.
 • ODBC Database Support installed
 • DAO Database Support installed
 • Bar code scanner (recommended)
 
Installation
 
On Windows systems with AutoPlay enabled for CD-ROM drives, the MFms Install program will start automatically when the CD-ROM is inserted into the drive. If the system being installed does not have AutoPlay enabled, run setup.exe from the root directory on the CD-ROM.
 
 • Insert the MFms CD-ROM in the drive.
 • Change your working directory to the CD-ROM directory.
 • Access the root directory on the CD-ROM where the setup program is located.
 • Run the setup program. The MFms InstallShield Wizard will appear.
 • Follow the Install Wizard prompts.
 
Uninstall
 
 • Select the 'Add/Remove Programs' applet from the 'Control Panel.'
 • Select the 'Install/Uninstall' tab.
 • Select 'Media Facilities Management System (MFms)' from the list of installed applications.
 • Select the 'Add/Remove' button to uninstall the Media Facilities Management System.
 
License Key
 
To start the MFms System the user will require a License Key. The License Key can be obtained from MacgowanProductionS by sending email to macgowan@pobox.com or calling 651.225.9743. Currently only Beta Licenses are being issued.
 
When you install the MFms System the following registry key will be created.  Set this value to the License Key that you received from MacgowanProductionS.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MacgowanSoftware\MFms\Settings\LicenseKey
 
User Logon
 
The MFms System uses a local logon system.  This logon is not associated with the Windows logon.  The user and password information is stored in a table called login in the MFms.mdb database.  There are three levels of access to the MFms System; Administrator, User and Guest.  See the online help for more information.
 
You can view the user logon information using Microsoft Access.  In the future the MFms System will provide a user management dialog and encrypted user information.
If you do not have Microsoft Access the following user information can be used to access the MFms System:
USER: user
PASSWORD: password
 
Media Facilities Management System (MFms) - Features

 
Features   (feature content is not currently avialable)
   
Manage equipment and facilities check-out / check-in
Manage inventory of the media facility
Manage members or customers
Manage Media Catalog
Manage Schedule
Support barcode readers
Provides basic reporting capabilities
MFms user level security
On-line help with sample database
 
 

Media Facilities Management System (MFms)  -  Screen Shots
 
Overview
 
The MFms System user interface is comprised of a standard Microsoft Windows menu, toolbar and main window.  The main window is a splitter window that can be sized by the user.  The top of the splitter window contains a list control that contains data that is related in the contents of the lower splitter window.  The lower splitter window contains a property sheet with six property pages. Each property page represents a group of functionality of the MFms System.  As the user selects a different property page the data in the list control above will change.  Each screen shot below will represent a group of functionality of the MFms System.

 
Transaction Page 1
 
The MFms Transaction Page will manage the check-out and check-in of equipment and facilities.  The Transaction Page will also manage the payment process.  The Transaction information is displayed on two property pages.  

Transaction Page 2
 

 
Member Page
 
The MFms Member Page will manage the member or customer information.
 

 
Unit Page 1
 
The MFms Unit Page will manage the inventory.  The unit inventory is shown in potentially four property pages.  There are two Unit Pages and two Component Pages.  A Unit represents the unit of inventory.  Each Unit may have Components associated with it.  For example in the case of a camera package.  The Unit would represent the package and be linked to a barcode on the camera case.  The contents of the case would be included as Components of that Unit.  
 

 
Unit Page 2
 

 
Component Page 1

Once again, each Unit may have Components associated with it.  For example in the case of a camera package.  The Unit would represent the package and be linked to a barcode on the camera case.  The contents of the case would be included as Components of that Unit.  
 

Component Page 1
 

 
 
 


Download
 
The MFms System is currently being distributed to selected Beta Sites and is available for a 90 day trial period.  If you are interested in more information about the Beta Program please contact Chris Macgowan at macgowan@pobox.com .   Information about installing the 90 day trail version and the keys to do so are located in the readme.txt file in the install package. 
 
The full download is a self extracting executable that will deliver the InstallShield files.  After the files have been extracted execute setup.exe to begin the installation using InstallShield.  The update download only includes updated components.  Read the readme.txt in the install package for install instructions.
 

MFms System, Full download, Version 1.0 Beta                        mfms_v1_0_beta.exe
MFms System, Update download, Version 1.0 Beta                   mfms_v1_0_update.exe
 
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