As part of Project Management in a Certificate IV in IT, our project team was required to create a database that would simplify the work of one of the teachers at the senior college I was attending.
The database consisted of five tables being Students, Student Interests, Interests, Position Interests and Positions. The database was centered on carefully chosen interests. For clarity I will not go into any detail here.
Once the database had been completed, the teacher wished to have a sort of automatic contact available for positions that were available for students to apply for (again by interest).
A query was exported to a file containing the fields relevant to the position including the student name and the details of the position.
Delphi development arose when I needed to read the exported semi-colon-delimited text file and transfer it into a readable e-mail and automatically send each e-mail.
The main code for the Delphi program follows and is available to modify and use by other Delphi developers if they have a database of contacts that they wish to e-mail. …
