This unique product is designed to provide automatically flowed car lists in the production environment and structured text for export to the web, all from one slick easy to use interface. MotorNet is based on Microsoft's SQLServer database, and Internet Explorer browser front end for car detail input. Using a set of specially designed windows the car text and features can be captured, as well as structure added at the input stage. Each car is held in the database linked to the appropriate dealer and branch.
Configurable fields allow structured searching when published to the web.
A macro language configures the text of car details into an appropriate space in a larger display advert. The second part of the application is a QuarkXPress XTension that controls the flow of cars into the final design. This works seamlessly with the Browser input element and is fully integrated with all the normal Quark functionality. MotorNet includes a powerful graphic handling facility, which allows the user to easily create an association between scanned artwork and vehicles held in the database. The XTension automatically identifies which vehicles have graphics associated with them, and the user can easily place them by dragging a car from the MotorNet palette into a QuarkXPress document.