SharePoint4RealFolks

Ok, if you have not seen the first entry of this series I recommend you start here . If you have already read part 1 lets get right down into the dirty details. We left of discussing the main time maintenance screen. This screen allows you to add,edit, and delete time entries based on the active week list. Please be aware that you can simply make every week active and it will show all the data throughout time entry. Another quick point. The system will allow you to enter time for somebody else. This was by design in case employees were out and tme had to be entered for vacation, training, or some other reason (a dreadful super glue accident involving a toilett seat for instance). To be safe the main view that lists time will display any entry where you are the designated employee in the Employee list, Created By, or Modified By person. This, of course, is all based on the current logged in user. This will allow you to see all the time you have entered. This will also ensure that ...

As a Manager, Director or Project Manager it is vital to track spending to give upper level execs a true ROI for work. This helps justify expenditures presently and forecast more accurate needs both in resources and material in the future. The only true way to gather this type of data is to measure time spent on projects and work. The caveat is, of course, that the data being entered is accurate. A time tracking tool will allow you to track and cost analyze current work loads and based on that predict future needs. Think Agile methodology and estimation and you get the idea. Developers are expensive and building solutions is even more expensive. I wanted a solution that was easy (read : cheap) to maintain and required little or no downtime in enhancement deployment. Essentially I didn't want to go through code deployment and feature stapling and so many other things that I wouldn't dare list them all here. As a developer I see this as a two-sided coin. I have much more co...