usability enhancement

Thomas Seeling — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:16:41 -0000

I use Timeclock quite successfull for some time now
(thanks for the good work!), but my users complain that
it is complicated to use (my wife is a veterinarian and
the employees are not very skilled
and not very keen to learn more PC usage).

Would it be possible to have a screen with "in" and
"out" buttons for each employee of a group instead of
the dropdown menus for name and type? So the users
would at least have to change the group so that the
screen shows all users, with buttons for each punch
type (in, out, lunch, etc.), so they have only one
button and they can see all possible choices at once.

Additionally I noticed that there is no validation if
in+out are matching for a day.
You can "come" and never go, and the other way round
"go" and never have come.
IMHO the software should complain if you tried to do so.

I know that this means some work.
I guess it should be a lot easier if one "punch record"
could store "in" and corresponding "out" time.
Now it stores only one timestamp and you'd have to do
an additional "select" to find the matching punch
record to verify that it's valid.

I know that the main concept behind timeclock was a
simple "availability" function but I'd like to have a
time reporting application where I see the work time
for employees, together with a monthly report and the
over/under hours, and for version 2.0 I'd love to see
vacation management ;)

I'd be willing to contribute some code, plus i18n for
the messages (my wife's employees only speak german).

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