Custom Timesheet/Ticket Tracking Site
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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.
EDITED TO CORRECT Vendor name!
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@g.jacobse said:
I'm pretty sure you could use Zophos 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.
Is that free?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@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.
Yeah, I see what you mean. Well, if I was able to make a viable thing to help out myself and my co-workers, that would be looked quite well on by many people.
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@handsofqwerty said:
Yeah, I see what you mean. Well, if I was able to make a viable thing to help out myself and my co-workers, that would be looked quite well on by many people.
Would it? I've written VB.NET apps to do stuff custom we needed before at the county. It's usually looked at as can you add this feature or that feature. We want this too now. Oh can you write a program to do this too? Not, Thanks for writing this program it's great.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@handsofqwerty said:
Yeah, I see what you mean. Well, if I was able to make a viable thing to help out myself and my co-workers, that would be looked quite well on by many people.
Would it? I've written VB.NET apps to do stuff custom we needed before at the county. It's usually looked at as can you add this feature or that feature. We want this too now. Oh can you write a program to do this too? Not, Thanks for writing this program it's great.
Yeah, I know that response to stuff all too well too... So maybe just something I can use for me to make it easier would be fine then.
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@handsofqwerty said:
@g.jacobse said:
I'm pretty sure you could use Zophos 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.
Is that free?
Yes. Both on premises and hosted.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@handsofqwerty said:
@g.jacobse said:
I'm pretty sure you could use Zophos 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.
Is that free?
Yes. Both on premises and hosted.
Nice! I will check it out! Thanks!
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@handsofqwerty said:
Yeah, I see what you mean. Well, if I was able to make a viable thing to help out myself and my co-workers, that would be looked quite well on by many people.
Maybe on day one. But if there are support issues, security issues, lack of features - it might become quite the opposite down the road.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@handsofqwerty said:
Yeah, I see what you mean. Well, if I was able to make a viable thing to help out myself and my co-workers, that would be looked quite well on by many people.
Maybe on day one. But if there are support issues, security issues, lack of features - it might become quite the opposite down the road.
Also a fair statement. Because then it becomes "you made this, you need to continue dev and support for it", which to a degree I could do but then it becomes a second full-time job! Ok, scratching the idea to make a mass-produced system for everyone.
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Can someone get me a link for the Zophos product? I want to make sure I'm on the right page...
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He made up that name. It is ZoHo ManageEngine. Very large vendor.
