Recently I have been working on an hour keeping system for my work at RPI; we have an old time card system that is running on a Windows 2000 server. The code no longer works, as in the JavaScript is not supported by modern browsers. The old system has been running for over 11 years, and it is time to let it retire.

The new system is at version 0.1 right now, with basic functionality working. The system is split into groups, so while one server runs separate departments can run a “group” and have their employees under there. Once a user is given privileges to one group in the system, when that user logins in, that group will automatically come up.

The old system had a html page that managers could edit, to give announcements to workers. This was a bit of a tedious process to go in and manually edit these pages, now there is a field for the manager of each group to drop html to edit their page. The system has two levels of accounts and privileges, there is the privilege within a group, and the privilege for the entire system. While a user can be administrator of a group and edit their group, they may not have administrative rights over the entire server. By having administrative rights to the entire server, a user can change the splash page before a user is logged on, or create new groups in the system.

The system allows for templates to be made of weeks, so if a student worker works the same hours every week, then they can save it and deploy it easily. I am working on integrating email reminders by using a .Net application that integrates with MySQL. By having the application read who has yet to enter logs this pay period  I can use the students CAS login to get their email.

Below are some photos of the system, and it is all open source at the attached link.

Source: https://github.com/daberkow/RPI_timetracker