Caspio Bridge provides you with a number of capabilities and services to create location-based applications. These include:
Search by Distance
Map Integration
Automatic Geocoding
With the Search by Distance feature, your search forms can be used to find records based on proximity to a location. For example, your search form could take an address and find all hospitals within 10 miles of that particular address. Creating such search forms is easily accomplished through the Search and Report wizard, provided that the Search by Distance feature is enabled in your account.
When you request Search by Distance, a geocoded database of all U.S. ZIP codes will also be uploaded into your account to utilize as you wish in your location-based applications.
We also have a step-by-step map mashup tutorial and live instructor-led training sessions for integrating your address-centric databases and applications with Google or Yahoo! maps. Using Caspio’s map integration, your search results and record details can easily be plotted on a map.
Additionally, Caspio has the capability to geocode large sets of data either as a batch or in real time. When activated, our geocoding service automatically adds latitude and longitude to your address-centric tables.
To request Distance Search or geocoding services, please contact Caspio Support or your account manager.
Tracking where your data and users are coming from has many benefits and can be easily implemented using the AutoValues feature in Caspio Bridge 6.5.
See How It Works:
Why Track User IP Addresses?
As mentioned in the video, capturing user IP addresses in the database is useful for tracking multiple submissions, preventing malicious activities, and auditing data or users.
Documenting the user IP addresses with each submission can pinpoint double entries when multiple submissions are made by the same user. This might be especially important if the app is for online sweepstakes, surveys, or polls.
In addition to Caspio’s built-in security features such as web user authentication and SSL protection, tracking user IP addresses can provide an extra level of awareness, allowing you to trace where all entries originated from. You can even take it a step further and deter malicious users from accessing your app by displaying a warning message explaining that their IP address is being tracked.
Auditing data or users by user IP is another convenient way to add extra functionality to your applications. For example, have you ever wondered if your competitors are accessing your information? If you know their IP range, you can easily identify them if they ever try to register through your apps.
Why Track Site URLs?
If your application is deployed on multiple websites, tracking the site URL will allow you to pinpoint exactly from which site the information was submitted. This would be highly useful if you are using affiliate or cost per action marketing. Knowing which affiliate generated the lead helps you track the success of that affiliate and award payments accordingly.
By tracking the URL, you can also capture parameters that are being passed from a page that links to the location of the hosted application. This can be helpful to track parameters from widely-distributed online advertisements or links.
Have a question about the AutoValues feature? Contact our support team at http://caspio.com/support.
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Selected as the “Best of the Web” by Forbes magazine, bizjournals operates business news sites with an impressive following of 9 million unique visitors per month. As with our other enterprise-level media clients, bizjournals is widely adopting Caspio’s cloud computing platform to build interactive web applications that will engage online readers, drilling down to the local level and spurring community interaction.
“We’re a national leader when it comes to producing local-business research, but up to now, we haven’t had the right tool to bring our research projects to life on the web. Now, with Caspio, we do,” said Huntley Paton, executive editor of bizjournals.
Caspio has developed unique industry solutions that boost page views and revenues for hundreds of media websites. Today, we power web applications for over 80% of the nation’s top 100 newspaper websites and we’re thrilled to welcome bizjournals into our family.
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The Caspio team is thrilled to announce the release of Caspio Bridge 6.5!
We can’t wait to see how this latest edition will empower and propel our customers to push the envelope and further enhance their web applications.
The new version has over a dozen new features, and below are the top 5 which we believe will immediately improve productivity and ROI when publishing database applications.
1. Enhanced Import/Export Wizards
This wizard not only has a more intuitive interface, but also combines many important options for adjusting tables, fields, and data during the import process. It makes handling various data types and field mapping for replace/append faster and easier. Immediate alerts pinpoint any issues prior to upload and notify you when the data being imported is ready for use.
2. Support for Excel, Fixed-Width and XML Data
For additional data compatibility and integration, the new version supports Microsoft Excel Workbooks, Fixed-Width Text, and XML file formats. Using this feature, customers can upload data from Excel Workbooks and Caspio will automatically import each worksheet within into a new table. This process also works in reverse, tables being exported as multiple worksheets will be compiled into one Excel Workbook.
3. Smart AutoValues
The new AutoValue feature automatically generates frequently-used automatic values and assigns them to hidden fields. Now you can easily generate hidden values for assigning unique IDs, passwords, and numbers, or use the tool to capture user IP addresses and page URLs.
4. Editable Views
Views have been upgraded to support an editable table. The new wizard is streamlined to only three steps and allows a single table in any View to be editable. Using the new Views capabilities, creating complex apps becomes significantly easier and requires fewer DataPages.
5. Search Engine Optimized (SEO) Deployment
Our new Server-Side SEO Deployment is an anxiously-awaited technology that enables search engines to crawl databases, allowing you to reap the benefits of increased organic traffic and visibility for your websites. Refer to the previous post for more details.
If you have data that has the potential to be monetized and you want to bring the largest possible audience to it, you may want to make it visible to major search engines such as Yahoo, Google and Bing. Caspio has developed a groundbreaking SEO deployment model that enables database-stored information to be published and crawled by search engines, allowing you to generate free organic traffic to your website.
In the past, custom hand-crafted code was required to make databases search-engine-friendly. Caspio’s simple point-and-click tools eliminate these complexities. All it takes is a few Caspio DataPages to provide a list of thousands of records for search engines to index. Like all other features of Caspio Bridge, special coding or programming knowledge is not required. All you need is a Caspio Bridge Professional package or higher and access to your web server.
The SEO deployment technology is unique to Caspio and not available on any other cloud platform.
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