Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Hi. We're making a lot of changes.

[Brian Johnson]

Here's a zip file of my modified Timetrack files - I hope it comes out okay, it 
was
my first attempt at making a zip fil ewith the Linux Ark program



Jamie Lawrence (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
>On Thu, 05 Sep 2002, Brian Johnson wrote:
>
>> I made some changes to Timetrack but haven't posted them yet
>>
>> My changes allow the administrator to assign a billout rate for each 
>> employee and a
>> bill-out rate multiplier for each defined task.  Then when time is added, 
>> new fields
>> have been added to track the charges against a project as well as the time 
>> assigned
>> to the project
>
>All good. We've mainly been working on integrating the address book and
>projects app, as well as making some other minor UI changes to make it
>a bit more sane.
>
>> It adds a new admin screen to control which users get to see the current 
>> charges per
>> project on the job status screen
>>
>> I also made a few changes that are flagged by a variable in the new admin 
>> screen
>> (not visible - you have to edit the source code to activate them).  It was 
>> an easy
>> way to test changes without affecting everyone.
>>
>> These changes include changing the timesheet summaries to not summarize the
>> employee's time by project (it lists all the entries for the week showing).  
>> It also
>> changes the project numbering system to not restart the project numbering 
>> for each
>> customer but to match our numbering system that, for each location, we 
>> restart
>> project numbering each year and increment it as projects start regardless of 
>> who the
>> customer is (eg 1020020003 means location 10, year 2002, project 0003)
>>
>> I also grabbed the invoice creation routine from ck-ledger but haven't had 
>> time to
>> modify it to make it work - I can discuss the logic behind that direction if 
>> you like
>
>These are interesting. We've been modifying them to (again) interoperate
>a bit better with the Projects module, and summarize by client/employee,
>to better facillitate billing (the projects billing code simply doesn't
>work for us).
>
>> I have investigated standardizing on a contact system and decided that 
>> currently,
>> addbook is the module to use - but haven't modified Timetrack for that yet. 
>> The
>> reasons for that include the fact that projects should be assigned to a 
>> company (not
>> an individual in the addressbook module since there could easily be more 
>> than one
>> individual per company).  Right now that means the addbook or cdb modules - 
>> but cdb
>> doesn't have any gui set up yet.  A few weeks ago, a method to modify a 
>> module
>> (addbook for example) to have it check that another module wasn't referring 
>> to one
>> of it's records before deleting a record was outlined on this mailing list
>
>I fully agree that client should be a company, not a person. People
>should be assignable, insofar as they are associated with a given
>project, but contracts are with companies, not people (normally).
>
>> Getting a time entry system for our projects (with an invoice creation 
>> routine) is a
>> goal for us right now.  We have an MS Access database for clients and 
>> projects (and
>> related stuff) that I would like to port over to PostgreSQL but would like 
>> to do it
>> in such a way to easily adapt to add the ability for employees to add time to
projects
>>
>> I would like to coordinate changes with you if you don't mind
>>
>
>I'd love to chat more about this. Mail me privately if you'd like a
>login to see what we have done thus far. I'd like to get our code merged
>back in to the main tree, just so that upgrades are easier.
>
>-j
>
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