Re: Time Tracking

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'm looking for some software and I wondered if anyone had any thoughts
>on where I could find this, even it it exists would be  nice to know.
>What I'm looking for is a time/project tracking software that would
>interface with a scanner, not a typical scanner, but the kind that would
>use magnetic cards that you would pass through the reader... kinda like
>your credit/atm cards, or the room keys of most hotels, except these
>would be assigned to an individual project.

Most such readers plug into the keyboard port and enter the string of numbers
just as if it had been entered (at least the ones I've used).  So almost any
application should work with these.  Basically you want to do a time in/out?

>Basically, I'm looking for a quick and easy way for a body shop to track
>their time per project.  They don't want to do it on paper, so I thought
>if each project that came through could have a card and a central
>reader, then we could track it that way... they would swipe the card
>when they

Sounds like a good idea.

>started the project and again when they finish.  The main requirements
>would be that its EASY for them to use and they don't really want to
>enter anything on the computer (mainly because they have messy hands and
>that wouldn't be a good thing, and cost is a definite issue)  If anyone
>as heard of what I'm looking for, or has some alternative that I have
>not thought of, I would appreciate it.  They go from job to job as one
>is drying, they get the next ready etc... and it makes it very difficult
>to cost out product/projects.

Seems like you just want to accumulate a list of card# and timestamp? Then, say,
at the end of the day some processes sucks it up and posts it to a work ticket?

Systems and Network Administrator
Morrison Industries
1825 Monroe Ave NW.
Grand Rapids, MI. 49505