Web Based Calendar or Project Management software
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Does anyone know of any Web Calender or PM software I can run on our server that will provide the following:
I have one major requirement, we want to set different categories depending on which project we are working on. Thus we might have 3 customers with 5 different projects.
I need to set up
Customer 1 can only view information about projects 1 & 2
Customer 2 can only view information about projects 3 & 4
Customer 3 can only view information about project 5
We'd like our customers to be able to see which aspects of the project we are working on at any time, and be able to see milestones etc being recorded.
Any one got any suggestions... A free php/mysql solution would be ideal.
cheers
Ex
I have one major requirement, we want to set different categories depending on which project we are working on. Thus we might have 3 customers with 5 different projects.
I need to set up
Customer 1 can only view information about projects 1 & 2
Customer 2 can only view information about projects 3 & 4
Customer 3 can only view information about project 5
We'd like our customers to be able to see which aspects of the project we are working on at any time, and be able to see milestones etc being recorded.
Any one got any suggestions... A free php/mysql solution would be ideal.
cheers
Ex
I'm interested if you find something free that does this.
We do 100% web based Timesheets software. You could give clients log-in access that allowed them to see a few reports designed for them only. Reasonably straightforward to set up.
But it sounds like you want to display a range of information.
Why not set up some password protected virtual directories on your web server - one for each client - and just shove a web-page in there. You can then put whatever you want on it - including HTML output of Microsoft Project with a lovely Gantt chart etc etc
Project Server might do the job, too.
If you find something free please do post it up.
We do 100% web based Timesheets software. You could give clients log-in access that allowed them to see a few reports designed for them only. Reasonably straightforward to set up.
But it sounds like you want to display a range of information.
Why not set up some password protected virtual directories on your web server - one for each client - and just shove a web-page in there. You can then put whatever you want on it - including HTML output of Microsoft Project with a lovely Gantt chart etc etc
Project Server might do the job, too.
If you find something free please do post it up.
Plotloss said:
Knock it up you lazy bugger... 
Would that be before after or during the 3 hours a night sleep I'm getting due to the new born.
Seriously I'm so tired at the moment, and I've already got way too much work to be frigging about with this. Plus I HATE that's HATE coding anything HTML/Database related, I'd rather have my teeth pulled.
Plotloss said:
Lightweight
Are you spoiling for a fight, or did you just et out of bed on the wrong side... (Luck bastid... at least you got to bed... BTW
PHPProject looks like it might fit the bill nicely...
I wrote quite a nice calendar control for windows a while back. It was intended to allow people to figure out where the "arbitary person" within a large organisation might be on any particular day.
Essentially it was a windows app that connected to a remote SQL database. The app alowed the user to build trees of organisational structure on the database, add in phone numbers, and record the dates and time of absence, in the calendar. The calendar is a central view, like a word document (but the file is information from the database) that you can zoom and scroll around. Supporting information is depicted as trees and lists in docking toolbars. Obviously the database connection was inherently IP based, so the client side application could be anywhere.
The app it's self was not web based, making it faster, and more functionally rich for a given level of performance. I accept that non web based distributed applications arent that popular, so I don't really mind that you're unlikely to be interested.
I'm sure it could be modified to deal with this sort of thing, but I can't do it for free. Having said that these things take far less time to do than you might think.
I've worked in a few big companies, and I know that it is common for these sort of solutions to be not quite as good as they could be. I think that the largest problem is that whilst there are many common requirements between company needs, most have quite particular specifics, but are unwilling to pay for any sort of custom solution. The generic solutions are out there, but they rarely meet a specific need.
If you want any more information, mail me.
Essentially it was a windows app that connected to a remote SQL database. The app alowed the user to build trees of organisational structure on the database, add in phone numbers, and record the dates and time of absence, in the calendar. The calendar is a central view, like a word document (but the file is information from the database) that you can zoom and scroll around. Supporting information is depicted as trees and lists in docking toolbars. Obviously the database connection was inherently IP based, so the client side application could be anywhere.
The app it's self was not web based, making it faster, and more functionally rich for a given level of performance. I accept that non web based distributed applications arent that popular, so I don't really mind that you're unlikely to be interested.
I'm sure it could be modified to deal with this sort of thing, but I can't do it for free. Having said that these things take far less time to do than you might think.
I've worked in a few big companies, and I know that it is common for these sort of solutions to be not quite as good as they could be. I think that the largest problem is that whilst there are many common requirements between company needs, most have quite particular specifics, but are unwilling to pay for any sort of custom solution. The generic solutions are out there, but they rarely meet a specific need.
If you want any more information, mail me.
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