Custom Timesheet/Ticket Tracking Site
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@coliver and an expense that I can't decide on or spend personally, obviously.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Why reinvent the wheel. Pretty sure there are FOSS time clock type web apps.
I'm sure there are projects similar. If I can take one of those and customize it, that's fine. As long as I can get it to do what I need, that'll be fine. That's why I'm asking...to find out if anything I can use to start with or whatever already exists.
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@handsofqwerty said:
@coliver and an expense that I can't decide on or spend personally, obviously.
Expensive? It is free for up to 5 users with unlimited clients. Looks like it will do most of the things you are requesting. It will log your time, I'm sure the date, and you can probably add a custom field for case number. Haven't looked it but I have looked at the features.
It would be a good proof-of-concept at the very least.
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@handsofqwerty said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Why reinvent the wheel. Pretty sure there are FOSS time clock type web apps.
I'm sure there are projects similar. If I can take one of those and customize it, that's fine. As long as I can get it to do what I need, that'll be fine. That's why I'm asking...to find out if anything I can use to start with or whatever already exists.
Customize? That's a LOT more work than making your own.
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What you need is a book to get started.
Why are you looking for things like PHP and Apache though? If you don't know how to do this, why would you make choices about those components?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Why reinvent the wheel. Pretty sure there are FOSS time clock type web apps.
I'm sure there are projects similar. If I can take one of those and customize it, that's fine. As long as I can get it to do what I need, that'll be fine. That's why I'm asking...to find out if anything I can use to start with or whatever already exists.
Customize? That's a LOT more work than making your own.
Yeah, by customize I meant within reason. Same reason why remodels for houses are 10x the work of burning what's there to the ground and starting over. It's cost that drives that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
What you need is a book to get started.
Why are you looking for things like PHP and Apache though? If you don't know how to do this, why would you make choices about those components?
That was just what I thought might work. I'm not fixated on those.
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@handsofqwerty said:
@scottalanmiller said:
What you need is a book to get started.
Why are you looking for things like PHP and Apache though? If you don't know how to do this, why would you make choices about those components?
That was just what I thought might work. I'm not fixated on those.
I'm pretty sure it'll need a database backend of some sort though, to run queries against, etc.
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@coliver said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@coliver and an expense that I can't decide on or spend personally, obviously.
Expensive? It is free for up to 5 users with unlimited clients. Looks like it will do most of the things you are requesting. It will log your time, I'm sure the date, and you can probably add a custom field for case number. Haven't looked it but I have looked at the features.
It would be a good proof-of-concept at the very least.
Free for up to five users you say? o.O I might have to try this...
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@coliver, I'm on AutoTask's website and don't see what you're referring to...
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@handsofqwerty said:
@coliver, I'm on AutoTask's website and don't see what you're referring to...
AutoTask? I never linked to that. I linked to Toggl (https://www.toggl.com).
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@handsofqwerty said:
@coliver, I'm on AutoTask's website and don't see what you're referring to...
Where did that come from?
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@handsofqwerty said:
@coliver said:
This sort of what you are looking for?
That looks like just a timer. We bill everything in 15 minute increments, so not quite what I'm looking for. Honestly, everything I am looking to do I know can be done in AutoTask but that's a ton of extra functionality we also don't need.
@coliver said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@coliver and an expense that I can't decide on or spend personally, obviously.
Expensive? It is free for up to 5 users with unlimited clients. Looks like it will do most of the things you are requesting. It will log your time, I'm sure the date, and you can probably add a custom field for case number. Haven't looked it but I have looked at the features.
It would be a good proof-of-concept at the very least.
I interpreted his response to mean AutoTask. My misunderstanding.
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To be honest, I'd love to develop something from scratch. Partially because I like doing that but also because I like the challenge and want to learn. @scottalanmiller, for what I'm describing, what would you:
- Recommend to use as a solution?
- Recommend as a good resource to use to learn to implement said solution?
Thanks!
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Developing isn't the major task here. maintaining the project would be.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Developing isn't the major task here. maintaining the project would be.
Pretty much always true.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Developing isn't the major task here. maintaining the project would be.
Yeah, but my thinking would be spin up something that is functional to start and probably throw it under GNU/GPL and hand it off to the Dev guys here.
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@handsofqwerty said:
- Recommend to use as a solution?
- Recommend as a good resource to use to learn to implement said solution?
Ruby on Rails is pretty much designed for this. RoR and PostgreSQL would be a really obvious starting point. And you can get completely free hosting for that on OpenShift and a few others.
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@handsofqwerty said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Developing isn't the major task here. maintaining the project would be.
Yeah, but my thinking would be spin up something that is functional to start and probably throw it under GNU/GPL and hand it off to the Dev guys here.
That never actually happens. Just because you GPL something doesn't mean that anyone cares. Unless you make something awesome, it is easier for them to write something fresh than to support your code.
And why would dev guys at the office support your code when they could write this in an hour or two on their own and haven't done so yet? Something doesn't fit. No dev guys wants to maintain someone else's code.
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I'm pretty sure you could use ZoHo ManagedEngine system to do that.. Just customize a few things, and you should be able to get right on things.
At least from what I've read of your requirements.
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