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23/10: Coming soon to openNTF : eTimesheets
This post is my way of forcing myself to get my act in gear by committing to release a web based Timesheets System to openNTF within a week. It is something I've been meaning to do for over a year now! I had the system developed in India during my spell there and it has been in production at one of my clients for a few years. I also use it to record my time and mileage and then use it to create invoices.
You can see some screen shots already that I have added to the openNTF project. I just need to decide upon a licence and finish setting up some installation documentation and I'll then upload the NSF applications.
Please let me know if you think this might be useful to you. There are enhancements that I have in mind too but I want to wait and see what the feedback is like first.
Here's the link to the project on openNTF: http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/eTimesheets
Author: Rob Wills Categories: Domino Timesheets
1. Kevin Pettitt wrote:
This will be a nice addition to the OpenNTF template roster, and I look forward to playing around with it. One of the features that I suspect would not be TOO hard to add to any such system is the ability to spit out a timesheet in whatever stupid format a given client wants, such as a custom spreadsheet. It would essentially be an exercise in mapping fields to cells of an "empty" sample spreadsheet. It might not be that easy for web-entry systems.
In any case, the convenience of having a Notes-baseed single point of time entry for ALL booked time regardless of client/project has always been on my wish list.
What were you doing in India? My wife is from that part of the world and we've long hoped to live in the region for at least a few years.
2. Rob Wills wrote:
So much for the one week commitment!
The web based interface already has a simplistic reporting facility to Excel. This wasn't used by our primary client because they interfaced the system to a back-end database outside of Notes and the reporting was all done from there. I use that for my invoicing needs but there is certainly scope to improve it. Obviously, you also have the Notes Client interface to export from.
I set up a Notes development company in Pune, India with my partner recruiting and training Indian programmers and graphic designers. We were out there for almost six years.
I hope to get the timesheets ready by this next week-end. If you like it, perhaps you'll plug it on your blog?!
Rob.
3. Alan Ryan wrote:
Hi Rob
Was wondering if the database also does leave rosters as well as that would be perfect for our team?
thanks
4. Rob Wills wrote:
Not currently I'm afraid. I have written a Leave Request System that could easily be interfaced with this but I haven't had direct experience of rostering as such. Once I've released the code, I'll be very open to looking at enhancements perhaps by voting on what people need most. I'd like to try and integrate it with other popular openNTF products that are out there.
Hoping to get the code released tonight!