Welcome to CASK Inventory Database a responsive web application designed to assist distilleries in managing their inventory of maturing whisky casks. A few terms straight from the go. Responsive means that it will adapt to the size of the screen. This allows better use of the same application whether you access it on a mobile phone, a tablet , a laptop or a desktop computer.
This is a browser based application tested in the following browsers Google Chrome / Microsoft Edge / IOS Safari and Internet Explorer. Interruption of connection will never cause corruption in the database although partially input or edited data may need to be re-input.
The application is hosted in Microsoft Azure with and consists principally of an ASP.Net Front end linked to a SQL Azure managed database. It should be available 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. The database being stored in an industrial grade United Kingdom located data facility owned, operated and maintained by Microsoft. SQL Server is Microsoft’s industrial database application that for all practical uses has close to limitless scalability with close to 100% up-time. It is designed from the ground up to store information for the long term reliably with regular backups.
The application itself has no registration screen so you will need to ask your administrator to create a username and password. Along with your username you will be given a role this will determine what privileges to add edit import export or delete and some of the buttons will simply not be visible to you depending on your role. The following instructions use screenshots captured from a system administrator role and you may not have the same menu options available to you. Additionally because of the applications nature even if you have access to the same role the screenshots here may look different to those that you are viewing because your browser window has different proportions or resolution. You can see the responsive nature of the application by altering the size of the browser window.
This wordpress site will be a constantly updated reference for new and existing users alike. Articles will be indexed with a numeric and then a title. 4 digits have been chosen so that I can adjust the order appropriately. There is a powerful search option in the top right topics for new users it is broadly designed to be read in numerical order. WordPress is also responsive and you may wish to keep a link to this site on your mobile.
When you scroll down a black square with a white arrow pointing up will appear in the bottom right of your screen hitting this will take you back to the top and the menu. If you select an individual topic in the index the screen will resolve with just that topic to restore all topics hit home in the menu. This site should have infinite scroll enabled so if you are on home all articles will load as you navigate down.
There is a powerful search facility available by selecting the menu which can be used instead of the index to search for particular words or phrases.