GENERAL INFORMATION =================== Active Agenda is a web-technology-based data management application designed to help employers manage many types of risk and mitigate "loss" in the workplace. Active Agenda helps employers manage risks such as: human injury, environmental releases, employment practices, product safety, property loss...and a long list of other pre and post loss risks. It provides tools for pro-active, pre-incident, risk prevention, as well as post-accident fact gathering, documentation, and claims management. Philosophically, we believe in open collaboration and sharing rather than "command and control." Our design interfaces, and business processes, were built with "accountable openness" in mind. Users can be allowed to find and compare data by themselves - helping themselves and each other do a better job, but all edits are logged, and (in the future) all transactions can be easily reverted. Of course, certain types of data must be kept confidential, and there IS a system for assigning granular permissions to data. In fact, it is possible to run an Active Agenda installation with the polar opposite philosophy, where users only see the specific data they need. Technically, Active Agenda is a web database application that works with PHP and MySQL. Its many sub-applications (called "modules") are defined via an XML format that consolidates metadata from data structure to screen layouts. The PHP layer does a whole lot of SQL generating, and builds the complicated joins between tables automatically. Most of the difficult code is pre-generated beforehand to simpler, static PHP files that are executed on the web server. To that end, there is a command-line utility that munches through all the XML definitions and applies any changes to tables or user interface. Active Agenda is also a work in progress. It was developed by two lone developers with a vision, and supported by wives with looooots of patience, as well as children wearing very old shoes. There are rough edges in the application. We believe the application is actually quite usable already, but it's not finished. If you find this interesting, definitely try downloading Active Agenda, installing it, and send us a bug report :-) Typed by: Mattias Thorslund hide@address.com http://www.activeagenda.net INSTALLATION ============ See the instructions at s2a/install/installation.txt in this package. UPGRADING ========= See the instructions at s2a/install/upgrade.txt in this package. PREREQUISITES ============= Web Server: Any Web server that runs PHP should work in theory. We've used Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x. PHP: Version 4.x, not 5, yet. A migration will be necessary at some point. MySQL: Written for 4.1, testing with 5.0 - seems to work fine.