Challenge
Our US customer — ASTD (American Society for Training & Development), the world's
largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance needed a system
of searching books, studying programs etc. Allows saving search results, creating
resulted PDF report, sending a link to the searching results to the friend, save the
results for register user, go to the buying page. Specialists of Softage developed
Virtual Catalog (VC) product.
System Overview
The purpose of the Virtual catalog application is to allow users to create a selection
of resources (books, education programs, etc) that ASTD produces and markets — a
catalog, and to allow them to purchase the resources from that catalog. The data
required to build the catalogs is contained in the TIMMS database.
Main features
 | Searching system |  | Building user's own catalog |  | Support two different presentation types |  | Sharing with friends system |  | Catalog result managing system |  | Creating PDF view of all searching results |  | Integrated with a shopping card |
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Tools and technologies
 | ASP.NET |  | AJAX |  | jQuery |  | iTextSharp |  | MSSQL 2005 |
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