Solutions: custom applications
Verticals: corporate

Legal Notice Registry (LNR) needed a subscription based application to support its numerous clients and future subscribers in an “easy to use” format. LNR’s client base, thousands of newspapers across the country, needed the ability to post legal notices online. These legal notices were to then be retrieved in a quick and concise manner by the site’s subscribers.

Fig Leaf Software proposed and constructed this custom application that enables a client of LNR to either create and post a legal notice or bulk upload thousands of legal notices at once. Clients of LNR also have the ability to manage their account and all legal notices previously posted. Furthermore, subscribers to the site have the ability to utilize a basic or advanced search mechanism to retrieve and view any legal notice that matches the inputted search criteria. Subscribers can also sign up for email alerts that are sent out via an automated process on a schedule determined by the administrator to notify them of newly posted notices in any categories of interest. Finally, Fig Leaf Software designed the application to be fully maintainable by an administrator inside a secured area. Within the administrative area, a user can manage all automated tasks, generate detailed usage reports, and maintain client and subscriber information.

Due to the potentially large number of legal notices stored, the need for quick page loads, and even more intensive searching requirements, Fig Leaf Software developed the application utilizing both Microsoft’s .Net framework and SQL Server 2000. LNR plans to house an unlimited number of legal notices so special attention was given to the database design and architecture; making heavy use of both stored procedures and the built-in Full Text Search Engine within SQL Server. The full text search capabilities allow users to search this enormous database with instantaneous results each time. LNR also stressed the need for a quick and easy way to create notices, so Fig Leaf Software implemented a wizard approach consisting of several 3rd party software components, such as a WYSIWYG editor, to make this process straight forward with no instruction required. In addition, the use of these components was a much more cost effective solution as compared to the custom development of each component.