Before
I start sorry for my English, I'm spanish spoken.
This
is the scenario:
I
just started my own business a few months ago managing corporate
aircraft. I have more than 12 years of experience in the industry.
I
developed a MS Access database for this purpose and is working
really good, the problem is, as everybody knows, sharing and collaboration.
The
application has more than 80 related tables for different tasks
(flight planning, flight scheduling, aircraft and crew logbooks,
passenger information and documents, flight expenses, crew funds for
expenses, maintenance, reports with a lot of queries, ect.). There
are at least 60 access forms and more than 30 reports from more than
90 queries.
After
viewing a lot of Zoho reviews I think it will help me with all this
business tasks and specially for sharing statistical information
with aircraft owners and collaboration with crewmembers and
accounting departments.
This
is the question: Which will be the best approach or workflow to
start designing such app?
One
of the tables that I use for querying purposes is the Airport Table
that has more than 20,000 records with airport codes, coordinates,
city, state, country, etc. Does I have to import all those records?
Or can be fetched as a spreadsheet?
I
know VBA is not supported in Zoho, but I can use Deluge Script and
SQL for queries. What about customs Functions? One of the functions
that I have in my Access App is to calculate distance between
airports (Great Circle distance formula) and flight time depending
on the type of aircraft for that specific leg.
I
need some advice about this project please to see if it is possible
in Zoho and which other Zoho products will be suitable for this.
Thankyou
in Advance.
Jaime Cuellar
Monterrey, Mexico