I am quite the beginner on Suite Talk and am trying see if someone might point me in the right direction.  We are trying to a) simply show a saved search on a monitor in a persistent way (doesn't log out, its a schedule)  and b) eventually be able to interact with that saved search via a bar code scanner to set a custom transaction field on work orders. 

I am sure there are a variety of avenues to accomplish this and I have a basic understanding of SuiteScript/JS, but would like to accomplish this using Web Services.  I am getting a crash course on XML, PHP, C#, SOAP, WSDL, etc. but that is going to take some time.  I don't yet have a firm grasp on how all those things interact.  It would be tremendously helpful if someone could lay out what the basic steps might look like to create the solution we need (based on limited information that I have given, I know)?   This is partially to