A friend of mine tries to set up a service plan for a care institution. The issue concerns the duty plans of roughly 20 professionals. The plan should in the ideal case cover all the year, but it would already be an advance to implement a setting that takes care in automatic for all the weekend-services and holidays. An interaction with the personnel would not be obligatory as there would be one person taking care of managing the planning.
The key features (must have):
take care of all weekends and national holidays
be “just” that is attribute a well pondered number of services to each of the team
be perpetual and adjust in case of changes automatically between two members of personal (e.g. if A changes a we with B, this should be in the ideal case an automatic exchange one one value is altered).
Should have:
it would be nice if also the services of all the other days would be contained (full year) but it is not essential.
it would be nice to have weighting: a x-mas would be weight more then a service on a week-end, but also this, not essential.
Now the question is: I am puzzled, how, better with what programme, would I set up this solution? What do you suggest, currently this is set up like a ordinary static table in calc. However, kontact brings a whole calender with it. It is based AFAIK on maria-db. Would one be able to set such a thing up in Maria db? Or what would be your suggestion to use? One could set up 20 different agendas in kontakt, but how would they then cross-check for consistency and equity? Thanks for all ideas.
P.s. This will be a “home made solution” to lower work load to a friend. No funds granted and no commercial solution could be acquired. So it would have to be something I shall put into life using only the repos and some scripting maybe. And all will have to be in Linux (openSUSE).
stakanov wrote:
> P.s. This will be a “home made solution” to lower work load to a
> friend. No funds granted and no commercial solution could be acquired.
> So it would have to be something I shall put into life using only the
> repos and some scripting maybe. And all will have to be in Linux
> (openSUSE).
This sounds like something that you and your friend will come to regret
later. Sorry.
Many years ago I set up and managed a similar application, “home made” and used commercially for a small company i.e. professionals relied on it. I used a Lotus office suite on Windows. It worked, the professionals liked their plans and schedules, but it changed monthly and staff availability varied a lot so quite a tedious exercise back then.
I would be nervous about using any DE specific app, especially wrt KDE. Look at kontact’s track record and KDE’s approach to KDE4 with the almost sudden death of KDE3. Also consider Gnome’s approach to change from 2 to 3. I would use DE independent solutions wherever possible.
Sounds like some fairly standard problem: shift planning/workforce
management
I would be surprised if there are not some out of the box solutions
a quick google showed me a freeware in German which runs on Linux (that
might not help you so I do not link it here)
but use maybe the keywords shift planning and/or workforce planning and
linux with your favorite search engine
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That seems to have a desktop and web frontend http://en.shiftplanning.com/desktop/
(linux links are below the big download buttons for windows and mac)
not really open source but some kind of freeware
Probably someone knows something better from first hand experience.
I agree with consused about not limiting yourself to a certain DE or so
and would look for a web frontend solution.
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Am 04.06.2013 12:50, schrieb Martin Helm:
> That seems to have a desktop and web frontend
> http://en.shiftplanning.com/desktop/
> (linux links are below the big download buttons for windows and mac)
> not really open source but some kind of freeware
> Probably someone knows something better from first hand experience.
> I agree with consused about not limiting yourself to a certain DE or so
> and would look for a web frontend solution.
>
only the desktop software is free (gratis) not the web application for
which there is only a 30 day trial.
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I worked in two such institutions several years ago both of which had the sort of rota you want and staff in both institutions were very happy with it. I subsequently developed a spreadsheet which offers a general approach to working out such a rota.
I can say for a start that, with 20 professionals on duty 16 hours a day, you can only expect to have four on duty at any one time. Also in neither of the institutions did we make allowances for public holidays; we left it up to the chance that one year you would be working Christmas and the next you would not and that actually worked out in practice.
If you want to leave a private message, I’m happy to share my experiences.