Re: open source time/expense tracking package?
Thanks for the suggestions. So far....
sillaj: too simple
dotproject: seems like it might be buried in there, but way too complex,
undocumented, the demo is down, ...
opentimetool: looks like it might do the trick - unfortunately, I can't
read German, and both the English documentation and demo are sketchy.
Guido - since you indicated that you're using it in production, you us
it - can you tell me if it provides for timesheet approval by a supervisor?
It really is funny - I've gone through the wikipedia lists, as well as a
lot of other lists of "10 best open source project management tools" and
such --- you'd think that with all the folks who do various kinds of
project-oriented work there's be something out there that does basic
corporate-style time-sheet processing, you know:
- enter your time data by project
- submit at the end of the week
- supervisor approval
- export in a form that can be ingested by quickbooks or some other
accounting/billing package
- keep an audit trail (or at least a basic log)
Fairly simple-minded vis-a-vis project management software, but seems to
be hard (impossible?) to find - except in commercial products or
services. (Plus a few "pretend open-source" things out there - i.e.,
really crippled community versions of commercial products.)
Pieces of this also exist as Drupal and Wordpress plug-ins - but no cigar.
Sigh... might have to write one. Seems like a natural for some form of
forms/workflow engine that provides spreadsheet functionality - any
suggestions there?
Miles
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