The first version of the time tracking software for the company is up and running, well it has been for a while now. The basic structure and functionality of the system is there, but there is still plenty more to do. However, this will have to wait until we have some more time as new projects are just starting which demand my attention.
Having said this the system can perform all the basic operations, which include the following:
- Allow users to add and edit time records
- Allow users to generate reports for any particular month of a year from the current year back to 2006
- Manage and create new system users, projects, clients and activities
I would not call this an alpha release or even pre-alpha as it’s very sketchy in some areas. For example some of the forms controls are not in a human readable format, although all the people that are using know what these magic values mean which is why it has been left for later. Plus I’m still not sure about FormAlchemy, it seems it does the basic stuff really nicely, but when you want to do something more complex then it goes a little mad on the coding front. I think using the old method was better, but as this is my first pass at using it, I will give it another go and see what happens.
Hopefully in a month or so I’ll be able to spend some time with this project and develop it further. Ideally, I need to re-style the layout, which whilst completely functional and user friendly, it wouldn’t wow anyone (also why there are no screen shots of it here 
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