The system, which I put together in one afternoon, ran happily all day without a hitch. We're considering using it at a number of future events. I worked as a volunteer at the Smithsonian Institution's Naturalist Center. The Naturalist Center is a place where people can bring objects they have found to be identified, where they can develop their own skills at identification using real museum specimens and our library and technical resources, and where they can ultimately learn to read natural ojbects. My background as a geologist and experience in developing Macintosh software was early on put to the task of developing an online database to the Center's mineral collection.
Parents seem to come all at the same time to see the same teacher causing long queues.
The obvious thing to do was to have an appointment system where the interviews could be spread out over the evening. I wrote a HyperCard stack called Aptas to do just that. It takes the staff list and the list of pupils and produces and produces an individual appointment schedule for each teacher and each parent. Without HyperCard this solution would not have been available and its now being used by two other schools. Pupils attending our school can buy tickets to purchase food from the canteen.