I've redesigned my school site this year, scratched the Drupal 5 version and started over with Drupal 6, and I'm really pleased with it. I'll try to post a case study in the next month or so. In the meantime though, we're looking for a way to track parent volunteer hours. I've seen Case Tracker and Project, but both look like overkill for me. The other option I suppose it using CCK's Computed Field, although they haven't released a final Drupal 6 version yet.
All I need is a date field, a short text field, and a field for minutes/hours. Then I need a way to total that field. Ideally, I could then run a report across all of the users too, to tally up or dump into a spreadsheet the users and total number of hours.
Is this better suited to something like WebForm?
Any suggestions?
cindyr
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what about webform
What about using Webform? http://drupal.org/project/webform
I haven't used the 6.2 version much but I imagine that it functions much like 5.2 (Which is awesome). This will allow you to keep track of all your records in one location, you could just make a form that people go to to enter their hours. All of them would be automatically thrown into a spreadsheet format and you could also go back and edit records individual if needed. It would probably be a lot simpler then doing a CCK / Views / Computed field setup and you might even be able to teach staff how to make their own forms or modify ones already created.
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I wondered about that...
Thanks! I briefly looked at that for a survey once, and was wondering if it might work. I'll look into that more now and see. I'll get back to you...
STORM
Definately check out the Storm module. My company has been using it since its first release as system for tracking employee time for billing, but it very well could be used to track time for volunteers.
The great thing about STORM is that it outputs beautiful reports which can easily be inputted into excel for tabulation.
Anybody looking for a great timetrack, project management-type module should definitely check out STORM.
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